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

Would there have been a ritual that you would have added in the last decade?

Knowing what you went through, knowing the ups and the loneliness, the darkness, where there

been like, you know what, every week,

I'm going to talk to the therapist for my 20s, or every week I'm going to get seven hours of sleep at night.

Would there have been anything you would have tried to shift that could have been like,

you know what, I'm going to get off the internet for one day a week and just sit in nature?

Like, what could you have done in a ideal world yeah you just said it you said it all like

that all that would have been amazing but there's just no way you could have told this guy that

yeah like there's just no way i'm gonna get off the internet if i'm off the internet for one day

that's followers i'm in my head like followers that i'm not getting or fans that aren't going to

come to a city or this or da da da dada-da-da-da. And in many ways, it's true. Me, I wanted ultimate success. I wanted the biggest success you could have, and I got it. And the reason I did that is because I sacrificed everything to get it. Now, I don't think that's healthy, but once again, in retrospect, personally, I am glad I did it. But I also somehow, common sense in God, just like when I was a kid, made it out the other side of all of this and realized my self-worth and that I don't need to do this and all these other things. I did. I did need to do that, not for self-worth, but to build a brand and a fan base around the world where I could tour for the rest of my life if I want and be financially, okay, I had to do that. And now I'm just at a place where I'm like, okay, I could continue to do that. I could keep having $30 million years, or I could have a couple million dollars years. Correct. And enjoy your life.

Right. And what is that? Like it doesn't really change my, yeah, my quality of life. And you know what

is even more important is I can do the thing my parents did. I can spend time with my child and I can

be a good dad. And that's what's more important to me now. What was your mindset around money

growing up and how did you shift your mindset at some point

to really start building wealth, manifesting, and attracting money and also not blow it?

I don't even remember ever seeing money in the household. I remember when food stamps

weren't on a card, on an EBT card,

and they were actual food stamps that looked like monopoly money. I knew nothing of money. I knew no concept of saving it, what that meant. I mean, we had just enough to get by, like, literally. Day by day. Yeah. Understanding fundamentally, like, how to use and utilize money and save money, didn't come until I was 17 and I got two jobs.

So I left home at 17.

I got two jobs.

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