The School of Greatness - 837 Set Yourself Up For Success

Episode Date: August 16, 2019

NOTHING HAPPENS EASILY. If you want to make real change in your life, you have to know it’s going to be uncomfortable. Everything has its process. You’re going to feel scared. You’re going to have growing pains. That’s part of being a human. But your ability to make mistakes and still stay true to your goals will determine whether or not you make it. You have to take it one step at a time. You have to surround yourself with people who share your belief system. And you have to be honest with yourself. Little by little, your self-confidence will grow, and you’ll be miles away from where you started. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Gabrielle Reece where she shared strategies to increase your belief in yourself. Gabby is a world-renowned athlete, New York Times bestselling author, wife, and mother. Together with her husband, surfing legend Laird Hamilton, Gabby is an avid proponent of empowering people to take responsibility for their health and a truly authentic example of healthy living. Gabby has become a role model for women worldwide regarding how to achieve peak fitness, good health, and overall well-being for themselves and their entire family. Gabby says that you need to create the infrastructure around yourself to be successful. Learn how baby steps will help you reach your goals in Episode 837. “When it can be easy, allow it to be easy.” - @GabbyReece In This Episode You Will Learn: How to create an infrastructure around yourself to be successful (1:30) Why baby steps are the most impactful (2:00) Why you have to surround yourself with people who have similar messaging (3:00) How to make a safe space for you to fail (4:50) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/837 amd follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

This is 5-Minute Friday! We have one of the greatest women's beach volleyball players of all time, Gabby Reese, here, and she's also a successful model, actress, writer, and fitness expert. fitness expert. This is the thing is how do you create infrastructure around you to be successful? Know your weaknesses. If you don't want to eat it, don't buy it at the grocery store and have it in the house, right? Say, okay, that's a go out to get thing, right? So I always say on the nutrition side, take out your worst thing. So if you're a smoker, what I say to you, stop smoking. No, I'd say, could you smoke less just today? could you smoke less, right? If you eat Twinkies, could you take that out of your diet? And just substitute, like the three sodas, could you have one and drink water? It's finding

ways, baby steps, to kind of deal with the pillars. I got to move consistently and eat and eat well to support my belief system because I can't get through here get there through here and through here if I feel miserable yeah I just think it's very difficult so I think that that's one thing I think having the understanding that everything sort of has its process and so nothing happens. I have not had one thing in my career, in my relationships, parenting or otherwise, just happen easily. Now they happen and they're pretty good. They've never happened easily. Right? So it's going into things when you're integrating your belief system, know that it's going to be a little bit of work. It doesn't mean you have to beat yourself up.

That's the other side, though. When it can be easy, allow it to be easy. And who you surround yourself with. Your belief system is still a reflection on the people around you. So, I'll give you another example. Laird will have people around him, if they're his same age or younger, and they'll go, Oh, well, yeah, because now I'm 48 and I don't do that. They've got to go.

They're in the way. that they got to go they're gonna they're in the way they got to go because for laird and his belief system and what he's trying to accomplish he can't be around those kind of people so if you are trying to create a situation where you feel good about yourself you have to have people around you that their messaging is similar nagging you or talking talking about what do you think you can do that or that's going to be really hard. They can say it's completely doable. What's your plan of action? It's going to be tough but you can do it. You cannot have people go like, why do you think you can do that?

Questioning you. Correct. They got to go. So I think it's all of these things and seeing this but then understanding that and I'm not a particularly religious person but there's a verse in the Bible that says that God knows each hair on each of our heads, right? Is it understanding each of us is special and has a special voice and a special mission, but we have to just believe in that and understand what that is, but be honest with ourselves. Not, hey, I'm going to do X to make this dollar. Or if you are,

be honest about that. Right. Cool. Or, hey, I'm going to do X to make this dollar. Or if you are, be honest about that. Right. Cool. Or, hey, I'm going to do X so I can get this attention. Like, it's just about understanding why you're doing things. And sometimes, like, for example, I do photo shoots that I know why I'm doing it. It's to get attention. And certain jobs, it's to get money.

Right. Right. But be clear and be honest. Because if you're not, then you lose control and you don't really know why you're doing things. And then you lose yourself. Right. But be clear and be honest, because if you're not, then you don't you lose control and you don't really know why you're doing things. And then you don't you lose yourself. You got to be straight up. So I think it's it's that, too. But creating a really good environment. And when you feel scared and you doubt, know that that's part of being a human and having a safe place. No, have a safe place. It's like people are trying to eat better and they blow it one day.

Get over it. It's okay. Tomorrow's another day. That's the great thing. Yeah. You know, it's like, we don't need to wait to New Year's to start over. New Year.

You can start tomorrow. You can start over. Yeah, I love that approach. Hey guys, if you enjoyed this inspirational clip from a past episode of the show, then you'll love the free book I'm giving away right now. It's called The Millionaire Morning. It includes some of my best tips for starting off your day with a millionaire mindset. Get your free copy at themillionairemorning.com and just pay shipping. Again, check it out right now, themillionairemorning.com and just pay shipping. Again, check it out right now, themillionairemorning.com.