The School of Greatness - 804 The Power of Why

Episode Date: May 31, 2019

START WITH YOUR WHY. You have to believe in your vision. We all get caught up in limiting beliefs. The sooner you understand what holds you back and why the sooner you can achieve flow. Find your purpose and chase it. Once you zero in on what it is you’re trying to accomplish, it will be easier to keep your ego from getting in the way. It all comes back to your “why.” For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Lisa Messenger where she shared how she connects to her purpose in order to stay focused on the bigger picture. Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. She is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub. Lisa says that once you know what you’re working towards, you need to have insatiable self-belief that you will receive everything you need. Learn how to hustle hard for the right reasons in Episode 804. In this episode, you will learn: The importance of having a “why” (2:00) How to thrive when you’re an introvert (2:30) Why you need to fail fast (3:20) The reason you need to tell people about your vision (4:15) Plus much more... Follow me on: Instagram @LewisHowes Twitter @LewisHowes Facebook @LewisHowes

This is 5-Minute Friday! I have a very special guest today. Her name is Lisa Messenger. And I found out about Lisa on Instagram probably like, I don't know, 6 to 7 months ago, maybe even a year ago. Because I was doing research for a magazine that I was doing. a year ago because I was doing research for a magazine that I was doing and I saw how incredibly talented she was and how beautiful her design was for a magazine that she has called The Collective. And I'm so impressed with what she's created.

She's going to tell you all the numbers she's created, how she's got distribution throughout these airports and Barnes and Noble and bookstores and she's got global distribution, how she's crushing it, both print magazine and digital distribution, how she's crushing it, both print magazine and digital magazine, and how she built a business as an entrepreneur in Australia to bring it to the big dogs here in the US. Her whole story or journey of building this from scratch with just an idea and a dream,

having zero clue of what she was doing. I think you guys are going to get really inspired by this. So make sure to share this with your friends. I think for me, it's all about really feeling deeply into what your purpose is or what your why is, you know? And I think that's the best place to start because, you know, once you understand that, everything, the sort of serendipity and the synchronicity, it all starts to kind of fall into place.

And then the other thing is, you know, you've got to have an insatiable self-belief because if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. You know, because as you keep, I love that you're a hustler as well because I'm a serious hustler. You've got to be out there. And, you know, I'm probably, it's so weird, pardon me, for anyone who knows me, they would say I'm an extra. Well, from an external perspective, they'd say I'm an extrovert. I'm actually quite introverted. Like I love being home on my couch or going for a run or, you know, or being in the outdoors and kind of just being with a really close group of friends.

That's kind of me. And yet now my life is, you know, being on the speaking circuit three or four times a week and like being out there and being really vocal about everything and kind of putting my life on a platter. And that is not my natural state. But I've learned that, well, I'm not going to make a difference or do anything great in this world by not putting myself out there. And so I do that. And then the other thing is to fail fast.

I mean, as we were talking about before, I think people get so caught up in limiting beliefs. And I think, I mean, I've done years of, you know, therapy and reading and all sorts of things. So I kind of can talk a lot about that. But, you know, we all have these limiting beliefs that are, you know, handed from generation to generation or things that have happened in our childhood and whatever else.

And so I think the sooner people get comfortable and have a true understanding of what holds them back and why and all of that kind of thing, then all that sort of starts to fall away and life becomes much more seamless and in flow. So I think, you know, it's all about then, you know, once you realize what your purpose is or what you're wanting to do, don't worry so much about the money. Actually just go out and pre-sell and there's plenty of money and there's so much abundance out there and start to tell people about your vision. And people will start to come to you and provide you with money and think, what's your currency and what tangible, saleable assets have you got? You know, is it your intellectual property or is it, you know, whatever it happens to be.

I mean, there are things that you can sell before you actually have to make them. I mean, I fail at least 20 times a day now, like quite seriously. And I love it because what I mean by that is they're just small, quick failures. And it's because I'm well-networked now. I've got some great contacts. I've been building that up over many, many years that I can ping an email off to someone in HR or a marketing director at a big corporate. And I can say, hey, I've got this idea. It might be for an event or it might be for a new product or it might be for all sorts of other things.

And they can quickly come back to me and say no that's not going to work or you know or i can then i can iterate or pivot or change or whatever but i'm going to pre-sell the idea and before i actually make it essentially so i think they're kind of some of the tips um and the one question i ask myself every single day without fail is why why am i doing this because i think as well once you start to have a level of success and you know if my life were a book and it is now turning into several very good books but i mean i would say i'm on you know chapter one page one paragraph one really like i have so much more to do and so um so there's that fine line all the time of not letting your ego get in the way of you know the bigger picture and so

whilst extraordinary things are happening and an amazing opportunities are opening up for me every single day i go why am i doing this and the reason i'm doing this is to help other people and empower them so i go that's what i'm doing and And does everything I'm doing fall into line with that? And do the people that I'm doing deals with share similar values and beliefs? And if so, then, yep, let's move forward.