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

What shifted for you to believe you were capable of making money?

I made money.

I'm not kidding.

So like, I, until I, I'm actually for me, it started with sales, which was like, until I made a sale myself, like my first part is a personal training sale.

I made a personal training sale and it was a $1,300 package.

And I was like, I'm 21 and I just like, I just got got $1,300 from the words that came out of my mouth to somebody. And I was like, oh, my God. And then I was like, I don't need to worry about money again. I know how to make money. And it was such an empowering feeling. But I think that continued at each level, right? And so it's like, okay, I know how to make $1,300. Do I know how to make $20,000? Do I know how to make $50,000? Do I know? And so at each time, I didn't believe that I was able to until I did. But I think that I took the action. There's a term that, I think Stephen Hay's point, which is like acting the opposite.

It's like, if you want to be the opposite of what you are today, act the opposite first, right? And so I have just continued to use that time and time again, which is like if I want to be something, I don't need to believe that I am first and I don't need to think it because that I have a very hard time doing,

but I can act as though I am the thing and then work my way into it.

And so, you know, when we first started really making a lot of money, I kept feeling like,

when is, like, where's the like, where's the like, gotcha? You know what I mean?cha you know what I mean like when's it all going

away or stopping yeah I remember thinking that was like next like okay I figured I do it like but now

it's definitely going to stop right like when's when am I going to look I probably don't know how to

use the money I probably don't know where to put the money I probably don't know how to you know

make sure the money doesn't like disappear because I didn't understand anything about getting returns. And so, um, for me, it was

very much, I didn't believe it until it occurred. So you needed to see it in order to believe it.

I needed to do it. Yeah. Do it and then see the results of doing it. Yeah, because I think it's like,

it's a skill. And so do you have confidence before you have the skill? I don't usually feel

confident until I'm competent. And so until I was competent, which I verify by like, I learned to be competent at making money and the measuring stick is I make more money.

So it's like now I'm competent.

Now I see it made more money.

Confidence comes.

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