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

How often is money decisions? Should we go on that trip? I don't know. Should we finally start

our own thing? I don't know, right? Honey, I want to follow my dreams. I want to start that business. I've been drawn crayons on our kids, you know, paper forever of what this logo looks like for my business. Can I do it? What about the money? Right. And when you don't realize that it compresses so much of your decisions, then I just, for me, that I want to fight as hard as I can to get money out of the way.

Right now, let's talk about some ways if you want for how to do that, how to start a business,

how to scale. But there's one thing I think I may have shared this last time, but I think it was

profound. So many people ask me about success. Like what was the biggest byproduct of success?

I get to do cool things with really cool people, right? Maconahan, Matthew McCona and I did cool stuff. And I, like, so many cool things. And I get invited to things. I never would have dreamed. Even though I say no to most of them. I'd rather be my wife and kids. But I don't think I had the same answer as most people when it comes to money. When I got money out of the way, when it wasn't choking me,

and it doesn't happen overnight, and there's no magical money machines, and you don't get rich easy, all the cliches are true, but worth it. But when money got out of the way, and I had no excuse of what I was running away from anymore. What were you running away from?

Some abuse as a child, being really dyslexic.

I mean, my dad, and I love him to death, he's still alive.

He was the youngest of 12, was physically abused really bad,

never got help, old school Italian guy from the East Coast,

rugged, but because he got taken such advantage of, he always felt people were taking advantage

of him, he fought everybody. So my sister, who's four years old than me, hasn't talked to him

in 20 years, his ex-wives don't talk to him. His brothers and sisters didn't talk to him,

and when his parents died, they weren't talking to him. Right. So, and he was a little crazy. At 12 years old, I had a bleeding ulcer because I was so stressed about what this guy would do. Oh, man. No, poor me, I wouldn't change a bit of it. But the whole point is all I did when I got is I got to be successful so I can make my own decisions, make my own choices.

I don't have to listen to this guy. of it. But the whole point is all I did when I got to lose is I got to be successful so I can

make my own decisions, make my own choices. I don't have to listen to this guy. I don't have to move so many times because he got married divorce, married divorce. Couldn't afford to be in this house, couldn't afford to be that one. Move, move. I'm like, I'm going to get successful and I'm just going to go.

I don't need anybody.

I don't need counseling.

I just need to go.

And I went hard.

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