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

Everybody's dreams are lies because they don't exist. They're just making that up. That's why

their dreams. And so the difference, though, between people who are successful or not is how they choose to pursue those dreams.

So let's just say I had a dream to become an Olympian.

I always in my mind picture that dream on the top of a staircase.

And I have these series of steps that go down.

And every step represents a quantifiable smart goal that I'm going to put on.

I'm going to get out of bed every day and exercise for 30 minutes. I'm going to get out of bed five.

That's step one.

Exactly. What's step two? I'm going to get out of bed every day, right? And I'm going to find myself a coach. Step number three. I'm going to

find the best person in my field, and I'm going to be relentless and pursue them and train with them.

If that means I got to pick up their shoes, if that means I got to clean their toilet, whatever that is.

And that is you start putting those steps in there. Now, when you put those steps in, be like, oh, guys, success came.

No, you're going to say no, hell no.

But now you got to say, stop.

Don't let that come in.

That's where you use the power of affirmations.

Stop.

We talk in psychology about this thing called centering.

Physical actions that you'll see athletes do.

Like a trigger, like some like a snap of a rubber band,

stop the negative stop.

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