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The Daily Motivation

Gabriel Iglesias Opens Up About MENTAL HEALTH, Moving On From RELATIONSHIPS, & Why He Almost RETIRED

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias opens up about his journey towards self-love and inner peace. The beloved entertainer admits to struggling with people-pleasing tendencies, often sacrificing his own well-being to make others happy. Iglesias reflects on his childhood, acknowledging the love and protection his mother provided, yet still grappling with the roots of his people-pleasing behavior. As he continues to navigate this challenge, Iglesias emphasizes the importance of self-care and setting healthy boundaries, even when it's difficult to do so with those closest to him.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

On a scale of one to ten, I call it the inner peace and self love scale, where would you say that you're currently at this season of life.

0:23.0

From one being you have zero self-love and zero inner peace

0:28.0

to ten being a lot of self-love and all peace inside of you.

0:31.3

Where would you say you're currently on that scale?

0:33.2

1 to 10.

0:34.2

1 to 10, I'm probably at a 6, 5, maybe close to a 7. I feel good, but I know that there are so

0:41.0

many things that I could do to improve my quality of life, so many things that I could do to improve my quality of life,

0:44.0

so many things that I could be doing to make myself happier,

0:47.0

so many things I could be doing to just give myself a better place,

0:52.0

if that makes sense. I know that if I was to wake up every

0:56.8

morning and go just go take a walk that would improve my health. I know that if I

1:01.4

didn't drink that could help you know certain things

1:04.6

with like you know making organs feel better or maybe to give the skin of you know I know

1:09.6

that if I made certain choices it would improve. As far as self-love, like I feel pretty good right now.

1:16.5

Yeah. But you know that the week is young.

1:21.2

When do you feel like when do you feel like you've been on the lowest on that scale if you can reflect back?

1:26.0

Lowest on that scale is when I was trying to make people happy that weren't gonna,

1:32.0

that weren't gonna be happy and definitely weren't gonna be making me happy.

1:36.0

Killing yourself trying to please others is one of those things that I'm guilty of doing so many times and I've given so many of the wrong people my time energy

1:46.2

and love when I should have been giving that to myself I'm guilty of giving

1:50.0

till it hurts and giving till I hurt myself I not going to get that time and all that back.

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