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

So why do the dogs run?

They run because they're chasing a mechanical rabbit.

The question is, do they ever catch the rabbit?

No. What if they run really fast? No.

They just speed up the rabbit.

Speed up the rabbit. What if they have a better trainer?

Speed up the rabbit still, yeah.

Sleep in a better kennel?

No, right?

So the reason the dogs don't catch the rabbit is because by design, they can never catch the rabbit.

Now, replace greyhound with entrepreneur or achiever.

Replace rabbit with the goal you think is going to make you happy.

Now, if you look at the dogs at the end of a race, you ever see a greyhound at the end of the race, they're ecstatic. Why? Because they got to run. That's what greyhounds are born to do. Entrepreneurs, we are built and born to build businesses. That's what we do. But if we're linking our success to catching the rabbit, I mean, you just imagine at the end of the race. You know, the Greyhound turns to his friend and says, hey, listen, around three races this week, won two of them, still haven't caught that damn rabbit. I quit. Yeah, yeah. Right? No. They get to run. And so if you're building a business in order to catch the rabbit, your next quarterly goal or your shareholders report or whatever it may be,

and you think when I get there, and of course, have you noticed that the rabbit always just seems

that a little bit ahead, and I'm almost there, right? What happens when you do actually get your

goal? How happy are most people for how long? They're not actually happy. Maybe a day or two,

but then it's like, oh, what next?

100%. That's the curse of the white rabbit.

And why are they relieved at least for a short while?

Why?

Because they're no longer chasing.

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