707 How Champions Win

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Inspiration, Mindset, Business, Success, Celebrity, Education, Greatness, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Mental Health, Health, Celebrity Interview, Self-improvement, Fitness, Self Care, Money

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🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

FIND THE WINNING BALANCE. You hear so often that people get to the top of the mountain and realize that the summit isn’t the answer. To be a champion, you have to know that there is so much more to success than a final outcome. If you focus on the goal without being connected to your joy and larger purpose, you will get burnt out. But when you’re coming from a place of passion, the results will fall into place. To explore this topic further, I gathered parts of conversations with four world-class champions who’ve visited The School of Greatness in the past: Julianne Hough, Ray Lewis, Shawn Johnson, and Novak Djokovic. Julianne Hough is a two-time winner of ABC’s Dancing with Stars and now sits as a judge on the show. She’s one an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography and has appeared in many movies and TV productions like Footloose (2011) and Grease Live on Fox. Ray Lewis is a former NFL linebacker. He is a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, Super Bowl MVP and played his entire 17-year career with the Baltimore Ravens. Shawn Johnson is a gymnast who won a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics for balance beam and a silver medal in floor exercise and all-around. She’s also a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist. Novak Djokovic is a Serbian tennis player is currently ranked third in men’s singles. He’s won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and four Wimbledon titles among many more. These athletes have achieved the immense success in their fields and have all realized that being the best is not enough of an end goal to give them purpose. So learn how these champions get in the mindset to win on Episode 707. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why being content won’t ruin your drive (10:30) What Ray Lewis learned from joining ESPN (13:40) Why Ray Lewis thinks he was able to play football for so long (14:10) What people can do to win even if they get second (14:56) What helped Novac Djokovic get through a breakdown (21:04)

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0:00.0	This is episode number seven, zero, seven on how champions win.
0:06.4	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete
0:11.9	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:17.4	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:23.3	Now let the class begin.
0:30.6	Sammy Davis Jr said you always have two choices. Your commitment versus your fear.
0:38.8	And I want to ask you this question. Are you allowing your fears to control and consume your life
0:43.3	on a daily basis? Does your fear of success, failure, or your fear of judgment hold you back
0:50.2	in a major way of taking the actions you need every single day to build that momentum,
0:55.9	to build that belief, that confidence in yourself to get out there and achieve what you want in
1:00.8	your life? If your fears are holding you back, it's time to eliminate those fears. It's time to actually
1:07.5	embrace them, move into them, and say, you know what? It's okay if I fail because that's where I'm
1:14.9	going to learn. That's where I'm going to get the lessons to improve things. That's where I'm going
1:19.1	to get the feedback I need to take a different action towards success. And it's okay if I do succeed
1:25.2	because some of us are afraid of success, the weight, the pressure, the responsibility that success
1:30.6	comes with. It's okay because you were born to succeed. You were born to achieve. You know,
1:35.7	when you just live a mediocre life, that's saying that you don't believe you're here for a reason
1:41.7	and you are here for a reason. And the fear of judgment, if that's holding you back, if you're
1:46.7	afraid of what other people are going to say about you, that they're going to say, I told you so,
1:51.5	that they're going to make fun of you or you're going to be embarrassed. That judgment,
1:56.1	you're focused on your ego more than on impact. So you've got to stop focusing on the fears and
2:02.8	start focusing out. Focus on how can I make the biggest impact on the people around me? And when
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