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

I think in our society especially as for at least to as you get older at least in my family there was a lot of kind of cultural expectations like oh over this age it kind of starts going down or you

know what I mean you're kind of you peak when you're young and that's when all the good

stuff happens and for me I feel like it keeps getting better and I love that the best years are still ahead of me and that all

the stuff that I've been through there's like all of these exciting new

possibilities so that's one of the biggest lessons and I think the other one is that I don't have to stress as hard like as a human being I have a really strong work ethic

but I also tend to put a lot of pressure myself and the other lesson I've learned is that I don't need to do that.

That the work actually gets done more joyfully and more creatively

if I don't add on that additional layer of pressure and stress.

To put this all in context, so I've been doing what I've been doing for 20 years now.

So creating free content via email back starting in like 2000 2001 which seems like crazy

insane then blogging and then I got kuma in 2009 kuma as my dog my toy

Australian Shepherd he's a sweet little pup and here's the thing when we first got him

as a puppy and I was training him along with Josh I didn't have as much time to

write blog post and so I just

started opening my webcam on my Macbook pro and talking right into the

camera. I remember those early videos. Yeah, they're still on the site. And so Murray TV was actually started not because I had some big vision for like a show that I wanted to do. It was actually because I didn't have much time because I had a really cute new puppy and I needed to get consistent

content out and I felt much more comfortable and it was faster to talk into my

webcam than it was to construct a blog post. I worked so hard to get my business off the ground and I was often

working seven days a week you know not just coaching like that was a portion of

what I did but to keep a roof over my head it was bartending it was waiting tables it was like being a personal

assistant cleaning people's toilets whatever I needed to do in order to pay my rent you know put

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