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

How do you think people could deal with that mindset, the mentality of, I give my whole life to something, whether it's a relationship, a career, a project, whatever, business, and it doesn't work out. How do we bounce back from that? I mean, it's hard. I think everyone has their own process. I always felt like if I worked hard enough, things would turn around. Like, whenever I had in a really bad moment, I said, you know, the good guy is not going to finish last. You know, I'm going to come back. I just have to double down,

you know, reinvest everything in myself and come back. You know, sometimes you just need a little bit of a reset. Sometimes, you know, you need to take a break and come back to it. Sometimes, you know, it's more of just a mind over matter. There's just a lot of different ways to get from point in to point be but I think the biggest thing is just believing in yourself which can be very

difficult to do obviously matter. There's just a lot of different ways to get from point to point B. But I think the biggest

thing is just believing in yourself, which can be very difficult to do, obviously, especially

if you have like multiple setbacks in a row. But that's why I always journal. You know, I did a lot

of journaling from like a general day to day to when I was racing and training I would write everything down.

Really? Especially when things are going well. Hmm. Because everyone thinks when things are going

well, like this is great. It's so easy and they forget about what they're doing and then all of

a sudden one day things aren't going well. Like how do I get back? You know, so it's good to keep,

like I always kept notes of everything, like what runs felt good, what skis felt good, what foods felt good. And then I always had a reference point to go back to. Was that daily or is that just most days? No, daily. Every day. I have, like, I have stacks of books, yeah. When did you start? Probably 2005. So you were, what, like 21 or 23 or something?

Yeah.

Okay.

So for 13, 14 years, yeah.

14 years you were like journaling consistently.

Oh, yeah.

And I also, on and off, I journaled my workouts, because that got a little bit excessive.

It was like, there's only so much journaling one can do, but I occasionally did do my workouts as well. Was it more like, here's what I did, here's the feeling I had, here's what worked, what didn't work, though? Yeah, like every run, you know, I would write down, you know, I tried a different line, it didn't work, I felt good, like this boot felt good, you know, this setup felt good. Um, you know, this felt bad. I tried to do, you know, this line. I didn't work. I just, as the, as much details I can give myself, I felt like the better because it's only helping me. Where do you think you would have been if you never journaled? I think I would have lost my way a couple times because, you know,

looking back definitely gave me confidence and thinking about, you know, remembering, you know,

like how it felt to have a good run and what I was doing in that moment, you know, my own words

helped me visualize that, which then translated into me finding my way again. So, you know, I don't know, I feel like. So you would read back your journals? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. You talked about believing yourself. How did you learn to believe in yourself consistently with all the setbacks though? How do you stay in belief when it's like, okay, crash, failure, didn't make the Olympics here, whatever.

I'm going through personal struggles in my life, whatever it might be.

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