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

We've all heard the sayings, you know, Journey of a Thousand Mile starts with a single step,

or how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time?

Or, you know, there are all these sayings and it goes back to the Bible in earlier, right?

I mean, this is not new, these are not new sayings, but they're showing up in different forms.

What's lost in those short descriptions, however, is that every step is not equivalent.

If it were just at a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, everyone would pursue their goals.

Everyone would push back against adversity.

Everyone, I mean, you can read the inspirational stories as many times as one needs, and I do think inspirational stories are very high value.

In fact, I think they're vicarious dopamine.

I think they give us the sense that we could, which then

orients, hope, which then orientes us to the world again.

To start, yeah, yeah. Maybe it's possible for me.

That's right. The thing to remember is that dopamine is this incredibly powerful molecule

that allows us to buffer the effort process. It allows us to be an effort longer and it allows us to actually eventually

enjoy the process of effort. And not think about the reward, but just say, oh, I'm enjoying the

process. Right. Well, you just described the first step. The first step in learning to attach

dopamine to the effort process, which is the key operation in order to succeed, is to be very careful

about how much you focus on the end goal.

Keeping the goal in mind is important for like a proper orientation.

You have to know the ultimate destination.

But if at any point we were to evaluate our progress relative to that end goal or if we don't know

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