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

A lot of us have been conditioned or some of us grew up with wealth or grew up with comfort.

Right.

So we're conditioned that way and we're grew up expecting now that things should come a lot easier. Right. That's a damn shame. We get frustrated when we don't get it right away. That's right. Quickly. Yes. Yeah. And I'm always talking about delayed gratification. The longer I can wait to receive gratification, the more fulfilled I am.

So when I got sick like I did, I actually had to quit this race called Badwater.

Yeah, 135 miles down.

Yep, through Death Valley.

It was 2014, I got real, real bad.

I pulled out of the race at mile 50.

I went to the emergency room and the docs were like, you know, we can't find this.

You can't find that. We know what's wrong with you. So this is a crazy thing about gratification.

Long term. I sat there. Couldn't run a half, a quarter mile. Couldn't get out bed. The only thought

I had in my mind, I pulled out of that race, I told myself, I'm going to go back

to Badwater one day and ready. I'm going to win the race. Having been back since, haven't been back

since 2019, I'm not saying I'm going to win it, I'm just now in the shape to go back. Wow. I haven't won a 100 mile race since 2014. Wow. Because I've been that sick. Imagine the gratification I'm going to get by getting to start line that race. And what if I can win it? Pretty sweet. Pretty sweet. Four or five years, yeah. Imagine that. of having that kind of deal self-discipline that every day wake up and having these setbacks where I can't even run a mile. Wow. But I'm thinking about running 135. And with that process, guess what happens? Sooner or later, you can run 10 miles. It may take a year, but it gives you more and more hope that's possible. And I'm at the

point now where guess what? It's right around the corner. Wow. Most people in that time frame

in that in that mindset, I can't run anymore. It's over. No. It's just going to take a little

bit longer. You have to turn the negative into a positive.

Because at the end of it all, if you can sit back and wait, if you can wait, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 years,

when you get to that point when you finish, that's what keeps you going, is you get a feel,

I want, I'm doing it for one second years of

pain for one second one second think about you cross the finish line it's over one

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