The Daily Motivation

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Lewis Howes was in his early 20s making a couple hundred bucks a week when he begged a guy earning multiple six figures to sit down with him at a Starbucks in Columbus, Ohio.
He asked for the secret to money. The guy asked him what he was most afraid of.
Public speaking. Lewis couldn't get through five people without stuttering and stumbling.
The guy told him that fear was the exact thing blocking his income, and handed him a challenge: one speech a week, every week, for a year.
He signed up at Toastmasters that same week. Two minutes or twenty, he showed up and spoke.
By the end of that year he was making $5,000 a speech. He hadn't made $5,000 in the six months before he started.
For years he was certain his problem was having no money. The problem was every belief about money he'd inherited.
Whatever fear you're routing around, that's the address.
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The Glucose Goddess believes the key to balancing health with enjoying sugary treats is understanding how our physiology interacts with different foods, not extreme restriction, since deprivation inevitably fails. She advises maximizing pleasure while minimizing blood sugar crashes and inflammation by only having sweets after a full meal, never on an empty stomach, as spiking glucose then crashing causes addictive cravings. Knowing how to indulge smartly, like saving sweet breakfast pastries to enjoy later as dessert, provides sanity in our food environment without forcing people to fully cut out their favorite comforts. Ultimately, rediscovering simple, ancestral wisdom about how our bodies work allows for moderation and self-care rather than all-or-nothing, unhealthy relationships with food.
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Karamo Brown grew up in an immigrant house where no A was ever good enough and “what are you doing with your life” was background noise. He went numb to disapproval.
What got in were the words. He was 6'2 by ninth grade with a full beard by tenth, so nobody came at him directly, but he dissected every comment people made about him.
Brown calls them cringe moments. Decades later, in the shower, a memory surfaces of the room where someone made a joke about people like him and he laughed along instead of speaking up.
His granny: you got two ears and one mouth, you’re supposed to be doing one of those double time. It made him a listener who absorbed everything, the good and the corrosive.
Hip hop made him feel invincible. Once nothing could touch him, other people’s words stopped deciding what he was worth.
Asked to rate his self love out of ten, he says nine and a half. He withholds the ten on purpose. There's always room for growth.
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Michael Beckwith says you've never met a racist baby. It's taught, every time, by people still living inside the idea of the other.
Beckwith's frame: the infinite doesn't repeat itself or do do-overs. Different skin, language, culture are variations on a theme. All of it's music.
Imagine staying exactly as you are, forever, no growth. He calls that hell.
Religion means return to the source. It's a boat meant to carry you to the transcendent. Once you arrive, you honor the boat instead of clinging to it.
Which is why there's no such thing as a Christian mystic or a Buddhist mystic. Cross over and the labels fall away.
The test he gives: a fundamentalist believes two plus two is four. He has to convert you because deep down he's scared he's wrong.
Someone who actually knows walks out of that argument. “Peace and blessings. You do your math, and I'll do mine.”
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Lisa Nichols shares how she hit rock bottom on government assistance, unable to afford diapers for her baby. She realized her mindset of scarcity from her upbringing was limiting her, and pledged to change her mental zip code. Nichols advises turning down the volume on your environment and listening to your heart to breakthrough conditioned assumptions of what someone like you can or can't achieve. Though she now earns in the top 1%, she recognizes the cultural habit to quickly give money away and wants to learn how to keep and grow wealth.
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