Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Is there a shadow that you still have to face and how do you overcome it if you do?

I think there's always a shadow.

For me, it's deeply rooted.

I remember what time my wife asked me, could you stop telling people that there's a

hero inside of them waiting to be awakened and I said I can't stop because I'm always

speaking to myself my shadow is that I will never live in my life

the most significant moments that I'm supposed to step into. That I'll never create that

beautiful thing, really? That I'll never create that beautiful thing really that I'll never create that lasting work of art I'll never write that sentence that will be transcendent and will speak in the people's lives for generations.

And I do have this sense inside of me every day

of, I know I'm supposed to do something that matters.

And I don't want to live beneath that.

My inner world is always all these voices in my head going

you're never going to accomplish the things that you're created to accomplish.

You know you're never going to rise up to the full capacity of what you were designed to create.

And so the other day I had this epiphany, this moment.

You know how I used to hear things like,

you need to die without any potential, and all of a sudden I just saw it in a new way and it really

set me free and I said on my tombstone I wanted to say he has so much potential because

when you have potential and you actualize it,

you get more potential.

And when you activate that and actualize it,

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