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

Step one of this process is to become aware of your default programming. How do you even know

if your mind is holding you back? Well, for years, I thought my anger and the

triggers that just brought this frustration out of me was just who I was. It's just, oh, this is me,

don't try to fix me, don't change me, just accept me. I just get angry sometimes. And I thought

I needed to prove myself to people. And I thought that my need

to prove people wrong was my greatest strength. I mean, in fact, that energy, that drive is what

got me certain results. It's what allowed me to work so hard because I was driven by this energy, this fuel that would just be, I was willing to do whatever it take. I would do as much time, as much hours, as much effort, as much work, sacrifice to accomplish the goal. But I didn't realize it was actually a defense mechanism. Now, hold the phone here. Does this

resonate with you? That one time in your life, you worked so hard to try to prove people wrong,

this energy it drove you. And maybe you got you certain results, but you didn't feel what you

truly wanted to feel. Maybe that's a defense mechanism for you as well, but you didn't feel what you truly wanted to feel.

Maybe that's a defense mechanism for you as well, because I was operating out of a wound,

not out of a positive and empowering vision. Now, this didn't mean I didn't have a good

intention to accomplish good things, to help people, to serve. It doesn't mean I wasn't also

bringing positive energy into the

world. But there was something inside of me that was trying to prove people wrong, that was trying

to fix a wound that I had, rather than coming from a more holistic approach to life, a more

harmonious approach from an alignment, from a vision that inspired me, not from a wound that I was

frustrated or hurt by. And again, most people think that their thoughts are actually facts,

but they're not. They're just patterns. They are copied and pasted from your past. And as weird as that

might sound, if you really took a moment to think

about it, a lot of our thinking comes from our past.

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