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

Today's episode is all about unlocking the power of your mind.

Having a growth mindset is one of the most crucial decisions you can make in your life.

Mental toughness can allow you to respond instead of react.

To be in control instead of out of control,

and give you the endurance you need to follow your dreams.

So 2009, I was unemployed. I had had all these career changes and I got into the media business. I was originally going to be hosting a show for Fox where we were making over small businesses.

By the time I get to LA, they've changed the format.

It's now called someone's got to go,

and I'm going to be firing people on national television from real jobs

Horrible

Plus we haven't told the offices that this is what we're doing

So you show up in act one and you've got everybody all like this because they're

going to think they're going to get new a key of furniture and a paint job and this is going to be the best

thing in the world for their small business. Now meanwhile I'm a fourth generation small business

owner so that's like my people grew up at a kitchen

table with farmers and you know my mom at a retail store and my other grandparents

were bakers and so when it comes to like the heart and soul and what's so

important when you launch your own business and how personal it is I mean this was

like gut-wrenching so I show up the first act you kick out the owner of the company who then freaks out

then all the employees freak out act number two we announce that somebody's

getting fired and then that's that's the the bad news the good news is that I'm

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