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

I firmly believe that taking charge of your mindset allows you to be in the driver's seat of your life and unlock your potential.

And that's why I'm thrilled to share that my new book is out right now.

It's called The Greatness Mindset. In it you'll learn how to build a plan for greatness through powerful exercises and toolkits designed to propel your life forward. This is the book that I wish I had 20 years ago.

It's everything I've learned in the last decade with the research and the science to

help you unlock your mind. Make sure to go to Lewishouse.com slash 2023 mindset to pick up your copy of my book The Greatness Mindset today. You know, I'm a big believer in visualization. This is something I practice as an athlete to visualize my results before the game would happen to see myself scoring the touchdown in the track meeting I'm sure you did a lot of similar things.

How important is visualization in abundance but then also how important is taking action.

Visualization is a gift to your heart in your soul. It's a gift because

if the idea is the seed, visualization is the fertilizer. It's the fertilizer because when your thoughts

are connected with an emotion, see you would visualize yourself winning and you would

fill all the emotion that came with that and all you're

doing now is you're not chasing a foreign emotion you know the feeling and now you're

just doing what's necessary to get back to that feeling in real time.

Exactly.

And it's really important in the visualization, you can't see it over there.

You have to see it right here.

You gotta feel it right here, like I am, it's all I am. am I am I am I am in my dream home I am in my dream relationship

and then unpack what that looks like but most importantly unpack what it feels like

and when you have that emotion in this moment

all of a sudden you stir up something that I don't think we'll ever go back to sleep.

It'll go okay let's go get that and what it really does is it sets up a state of cognitive dissonance.

And cognitive dissonance is when you see something in your mind and you see yourself in a way that your behaviors are not currently leading to us so your

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