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

Once people start to make a little bit of money, why do you think they all of a sudden

stop pushing as hard when they feel more financially safe?

A really great question.

You know, if these sound like just worn out analogies, I'm sorry, but I still live these all the time in my head.

I think we have to figure out our own, like our own operating system.

There's certain things that drive you that may not drive me

and vice versa, right?

Some people are motivated by the stick.

Some people are motivated by the carrot.

Some have both.

What drives you right now?

I probably would love to say

that it's just carrot.

But the stick drives me more than anything.

What does that mean for people? Like the stick is like the whip or the carrot, like dangling the

carrot. So for example, so I'm going to go back and remind me, I want to tell you something

about my dad. But let's talk about that compelling future for a second right what drives you it is purpose it is

the thing that you are so great at it is the reason why you want to get there so i i let's picture

you have a toolbox and you start getting momentum your throat's not being choked right when? I use that analogy because I realize as a child, my mom and dad's entire conversations were around money. It's like, we can't make it to the kids baseball games because we've got to put overtime. We can't go on vacation because of that. We can't do this thing. I was in private school for two years until one day the teachers, my grandmother paid it for two years. And then she said, now it's your turn to my parents to pay for it. And they didn't. In the middle of school, they pulled us out and told us your parents didn't pay. We got a victim. Right. So I watched my parents without them realizing that everything revolved around money. What I always said was it's like they didn't realize they were being choked. They didn't realize how heavy it felt. And I use the analogy like, we don't think about the oxygen in this room. But if somebody choked you, that's all you would think about. When money is choked, you don't realize every decision you make is through that lens. And now people are saying, like, duh, but how get it? Like, but I think once you recognize that, then maybe that starts driving you to create a future that can pull you out of it. And then nothing happens overnight. It takes time. It takes time to get in debt. It takes time to get out of debt. It takes time to get wealthy. But let me just share this, this, let's say this compelling future, right? I use a silly, like I was

thinking of a toolbox. That's why I took me a minute, is I'll reach in that toolbox for whatever

I need to keep me moving forward. So it's not just a compelling future. It's not just if things go

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