849 Stay True To Your Purpose

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

DON’T GET DISTRACTED BY SHINY THINGS. It can be exciting to receive connections to the rich and powerful. Fancy dinners, galas, and White House dinners can be tempting. But if these things are keeping you from accomplishing what you set out to do, you’re better off without them. Money comes with strings. If the people pulling those strings don’t align with your message, that money has too great a cost. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Jacob Lief where he shared what has made his non-profit Ubuntu so successful. Jacob Lief is the Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Education Fund, a non-profit organization that takes vulnerable children living in the townships of Port Elizabeth, South Africa from cradle to career. Ubuntu's programs form an integrated system of medical, health, educational and social services, ensuring that a child who is either orphaned or vulnerable can, after several years, succeed. Jacob has been able to stay focused on one area and one community of people by being consistent about what Ubuntu says yes to. It’s not the most glamorous route, but it’s the most impactful. Learn how to stay disciplined and focused on your goal in Episode 849. In This Episode You Will Learn: The thing that has worked the best for Ubuntu (2:00) Why you sometimes have to say “no” to things (2:30) About the struggle to keep people interested in your cause (3:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes, and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/849 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:05.6	Welcome everyone to today's episode, very special episode with a guy by the name of
0:15.3	Jacob Leif, who has dedicated the last 15 years of his life to serving people and to
0:22.3	serving a specific community to change their entire mindset, their entire process, their
0:27.8	entire way of living to have it all in life, to improve their lifestyle in a place where
0:33.7	poverty is extreme, to improve their education process, to improve the way people feel about
0:39.3	themselves.
0:40.3	So what's really worked for us is by staying focused, right?
0:49.3	I'm wearing one area.
0:52.0	Not shiny balls, like going to the next city or trying to expand or do things but just
0:56.4	diving deep.
0:57.8	Yeah, being prepared and having it disciplined to say no to money, not all, I didn't want
1:02.5	to be able to take us along and learn, but not all money is equal.
1:06.7	Not every dollar is worth the same.
1:09.1	And so, you know, we used to raise 8, 9 million dollars a year, but we were taking a lot
1:13.2	of this huge foundation money and government money that was forcing us to do things we didn't
1:17.4	like.
1:18.4	We called it a drug money, sexy, it was exciting, we get it, it's a big conference, but it's
1:22.8	killing our soul.
1:24.4	You know, we were getting a lot of blood, it was very glamorous, a lot of us attached to
1:27.4	a lot of this money and having the discipline to say no to turn it down if it's not right
1:32.6	for your organization.
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