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The Daily Motivation

Why Focusing On Becoming Successful Won’t Work | Carrie-Anne Moss EP 827

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Carrie-Anne Moss, Actor and Film Producer talks about how focusing on the process and not just your end goal of being successful is how to find fulfillment in your work.   Check out the full episode: http://www.lewishowes.com/329   Sign up for the Greatness newsletter:http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

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0:00.0

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

0:11.0

As an actress, often you're unemployed.

0:14.2

So I remember feeling like if I needed to know that I was enough, regardless of whether

0:19.2

I had a job or not.

0:20.8

So I worked hard at that. That was an ongoing... of whether I had a job or not. So I worked hard at

0:21.7

that. Yeah. That was an ongoing... Because it might be a year or two. We don't have something,

0:25.7

right? You can be. I mean, if you were to look at, I have every journal I've ever written in since I was 10 years

0:30.4

old. I have journals and journals and journals from that apartment on Melrose and Sweets.

0:35.0

They were saying, I am enough. Wow. I am enough. I deserve success. I

0:39.7

work through all of that really vigorously. I would wake up in the morning and do my morning

0:46.1

pages from the artist's way, Julia Cameron's artist's way, and I would write and get it out,

0:51.1

and I would apply that and go into an audition. My mom was just saying the other

0:55.5

day what she was so impressed with when I was younger and auditioning a lot was that I was able to do

1:00.8

it and let it go and move on. And I remember with an audition. Yeah, like not caring on to it.

1:07.2

I got to get this role. I always applied to auditions that if it was meant for me,

1:12.7

then I would get it. But if I did the work, if I did the preparation, that if it was meant for me,

1:18.9

not like I got to get it. I never had that attitude. It was if it was meant for me. And if it was

1:24.3

part of my journey. And if someone else got it, it was part of their journey.

1:29.0

And I trusted that completely and totally.

1:31.8

It's a great way of looking at it.

1:33.3

How many times did I almost get a job and feel like I wanted it and it not happened?

1:39.8

It's down to you in the last two, right?

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