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

Where would you be without great coaching in your career and in your life?

No where?

I've been really lucky with my coaches.

Starting off of my parents, my first coaches in my life, they both taught me how to ski.

And like I said, my mom, she's been my coach since I learned how to ski, but she traveled with me my first year in the World Cup,

she still travels with me now and she is like people have a

Misunderstanding people go up to her and be like why are you gonna stop following Michaela around like what do you do all day when she's skiing like she's on the hill. She's setting, she's helping set the courses. She sets them in the courses herself. She videos. She's like pulling fence, setting fence. She's a ski coach. She's just employed by Me, not the US ski team.

So people have a hard time wrapping their heads around it,

and some of her friends even will be like,

come on, come hang out with me more, Michael's fine and they don't realize how much of an

impact she has on my career and like my mental stability and just being able to

exist in Europe for six or seven months at a time without being home.

Like I'm fairly familiar with most of Europe.

We are up now, but you're still not home.

So she's a very important coach. So what's the biggest lesson you're still not home. So she's a very important coach.

So what's the biggest lesson your mom has taught you?

There's a lot, and this might not be the most important lesson,

but pretty early on, she and my dad kind of set this philosophy that it's more fun to do things if you can do them well.

And there's a way to do them well so that it's fun.

And it comes with like a methodical approach and

studying and learning and this could be with school. Math is more fun when you

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