Lewis Howes (27:07)
Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation. That's the formula. You can't just only think about what you want and have clarity on what you want and then not act to go create the skill set, go create the momentum, go build the relationships. You have got to have courage on a daily basis. And it takes bold action every single day. It takes putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to be rejected by people. People are going to say no to you, and that's okay. It's you showing up consistently, and the universe is going to reward you the more you show up. But if you can't deal with rejection or you can't deal with embarrassment by other people judging you, then it's going to be hard for you to create what you want because that's the entry price for creating and attracting all the things in your life. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to put yourself out there. You have to be willing to be misunderstood by people. And unfortunately, sometimes the people closest to you, your spouse, your partner, your parents, your siblings, your friends, teachers, people may misunderstand your vision, but your vision is not their life. And you have to be willing to focus on what you want. And their opinions of you are not your business. So don't allow them to hold you back from going with what you want. Now, story for me to share with you right now is that the day my life changed, it wasn't the day that I had a clear vision, because I wrote down my vision for different things I wanted. I would frame the vision. I would put it on the wall. I would actually put the date of when I wanted to accomplish these visions by, and I would have those on my wall, and I would look at them every day. Now, that was part of the action step, was getting clear on what I wanted. But it's not just going to happen if I don't take bold action. The day my life changed was the day that I started to take massive, massive, courageous, bold, imperfect action, messy action. I mean this is like sloppy messy, you know, embarrassing action over and over again. But when you take action with courage and you put yourself out there and some people, they want to help, they want to feel useful, they want to give, they want, whether it's advice or give you an opportunity. And so many people have given me opportunities throughout my seasons of life at different stages. Dave said, yeah, I'll give you a shot. Yeah, I'll take 10 minutes. Yeah, I'll do the interview with you. Even though I was small time, whatever it was, people gave me opportunities because I shot my shot. I reached out to mentors, I went to events, I showed up uncomfortable. I would go on Greyhound buses around the country, I would stay in hostels, I would just find a way to meet people and put myself out there. I would make uncomfortable calls, I would post cringe worthy videos online. But I showed up before I felt ready. If I didn't show up before I felt ready, I wouldn't have never have gotten anything because I still don't feel fully ready. And that's the secret is showing up before you feel ready. When you do that, you become more ready over time. An imperfect action creates momentum and momentum creates opportunities. That's the game changer. So I got a challenge for you. I want you to ask yourself, what is one courageous step my future self would take today? If you had all the courage in the world, if you are you five, ten years away with all the infinite wisdom that you're going to gain over the next five to 10 years in your life. If you could step into the future and tap into this memory bank as an artifact that you create over the next five to ten years of memories and new skills and new wisdom. And you said, what would my 5 to 10 year future year self do? What actions would they take? What calls would they make? How would they show up? What skills would they learn to get me to my future self? Ask yourself, what is that one courageous step that my future self would take today? And you've got to do that every single day. You can't just do it once, you've got to do it consistently. I want you to send the message to whoever you need to send it to right now. I want you to apply for the job, I want you to start the project, sign up for the program, have the conversation, whatever it is that you need to do. I want you to have that bold action right now. Do it right now. Text the person, call the person, start the thing, write the email. Whatever it is, do it right now. Because bold action is the bridge between intention and manifestation. And man, this is a game changer. Take one bold, imperfect action today. Now, this next section is the blocks that sabotage manifestation. Now that you know the first three steps, here's the number one block that kills manifestation. Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? I don't know if you are, but here's the number one block that kills manifestation. You can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Oh, man, this is a good one. You cannot receive what you keep sabotaging in your life. And if you have been someone who has sabotaged anything in your life, then let me know in the comments or send me a message on social media and let me know that you have sabotaged yourself. Because I know I have in the past, and it has crippled me. It has held me back. No one else has done this to me. I did this to myself. Because you can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Manifestation is not just about attracting what you want. It's about removing what's blocking you from creating what you want. And here are the biggest blocks. You ready? This is big. I want you to write this down, and I want you to reflect on. 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Because for years I kept people in my life who doubted my dreams or who held me back emotionally and I just kept them. I didn't create the boundaries I needed to create. I didn't have the courageous conversations because I was so afraid of people liking me. I didn't want to offend people. I was an extreme people pleaser. And you know, it wasn't because these people were bad people. It is because I didn't value myself and I lacked the courage to either let go of their approval or let go of them completely. And proximity is power. And the day I started surrounding myself with people who lifted me up, who challenged me in an empowering way, and who supported my vision, my manifestations multiplied like crazy. Proximity is power. If you want to create anything in your life, it is about getting clear on the vision that you have. Clear, crystal clear. And if people around you are not supportive of that vision, then in some Ways you're sabotaging yourself now, it doesn't mean you have to kick everyone out of your life and your family and your friends. That's not what this is about. You know, it's not that black and white, but it is about you being courageous and saying, hey, this is my dream, this is my goal, this is the vision I have for my life. And I would love for you to be on board with this. Just by empowering me, don't limit me. Don't say negative things, don't try to hold me back. But knowing that this is my vision, this is my dream, this is my goal for this season of life. Can you at least support that? Can you at least be behind it and not say negative, critical things? That's my request. Can we create an agreement that we are in alignment on that? And whatever your dreams are, I'm going to be in alignment with what you want me to be supporting you as well. Because your environment is either fueling your future or it's anchoring your past. So you need to choose wisely who is in your life and what is in your environment. Now here is why you become addicted to manifestation in one day. Once you practice clarity, emotional alignment, and bold action, you feel different. You think different, you act different, you become a different person. And you start to see proof all around you. It's like, it's like the Matrix. Like things open up and you're just like a manifesting machine. You see proof, you see evidence of how you can believe in yourself rather than doubt yourself. You see doors opening, people start emailing you opportunities. You just feel like, oh, life is happening in my favor. Like I'm just luckier. You just feel luckier. You feel like things are just falling in your lap. But it's because you've done these three things to get you there. You've gotten clear on your vision. You're really taking the actions in a different way. And you're feeling the emotion of that future that you're looking to draw into you. And again, you start to see proof. You start to see micro wins, new connections, creative ideas, aligned opportunities. And the more you see proof, the more your confidence grows, it becomes addictive, like you're becoming a new identity. You're literally shedding the old skin of the old identity, which is your thinking and your emotions around thoughts, around beliefs. You're starting to shed those beliefs, shed that thinking, shed those feelings that are familiar but are not supporting you. Just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's good. Just because you feel stress and anxiety doesn't mean it's helpful. Manifestation becomes addictive because you realize you. You are not powerless, you are not stuck, you are not waiting for permission from anyone. You realize it because you are the creator, you are the catalyst. You are the author of what comes next in your life. And that is powerful, my friend. That is freedom. It doesn't mean you're going to get everything you want. It doesn't mean it's always going to be easy. It doesn't mean everything's going to be perfect. It might be some messy seasons, but man, you have incredible power when you realize you are the author of what comes next. And so I want to give you a 24 hour manifestation challenge that if you could repeat this over and over again, I'm telling you, it is going to unlock everything for you. So here's your 24 hour manifestation challenge. I want you to step one, write a clear vision. And if you're not sure how to do this, the greatest mindset, unlock the power of your mind and live your best life. Today is the New York Times bestseller that this is the book that I Wish I had 10 years ago, 20 years ago to help me get clear on writing that clear vision and how to follow these steps step by step. This is the book. Go get this book. It's got tons of exercises and examples. It's like a workbook for your dreams coming true. Get the greatness mindset right now and it'll show you a step by step process of how to step one, create this clear vision for yourself. Step two, feel the future with gratitude. Fuel your soul with gratitude. The more fuel of gratitude you have in your body and your heart and your mind. I'm telling you, you are going to be. You're just going to feel better. Even if nothing better happens to you. Even if you don't manifest what you want, you don't create what you want. You're just going to feel better and people aren't going to want to be around you. And it's a better life when you feel better. And step three is to take one bold, imperfect action today on the thing that you've been ruminating on. Fearful of, afraid of, thinking about, dreaming about for years. Because I know if you're watching this, I just have a sneaky feeling if you're watching this, you've had something inside of you not for a few weeks, but for a few years that you wanted to take action on. Am I right? Maybe you've wanted to write a book you've had like this little dream, this little, like, crazy dream. I want to write a book. Maybe you've wanted to speak on stage. Maybe you wanted to launch a side hustle. Maybe you've wanted to ask the person out that you've always had a crush on. Whatever it is you have chills or goosebumps around something that excites you. That's your future self screaming at you through the goosebumps, saying, please take action today. Please take that step. Because you're meant to become that thing. If you're feeling it and thinking about it and desiring it, you might just mean to become it. But the longer you wait, the longer time you hesitate, you sabotage, you delay, the more resentment you're going to build up for not the world but yourself, the more you're going to not trust yourself because you've been afraid of taking bold, courageous actions over and over again. Or maybe you tried to take an action and you got humiliated or you got embarrassed, or you failed. But I'm telling you, failure is the key to success. You must fail. You must embrace failure and say, I want to fail more because I know failure is feedback. It doesn't mean I'm a failure. It just means there's information, skills, tools, knowledge that I need to learn so that I can be successful. The more you take one bold, imperfect action every single day in this 24 hour challenge, you do it over and over again every 24 hours, the more you're going to learn. And it's going to be painful when you make a mistake and you say, oh, now I have wisdom on what not to do, I'm going to do something different and I'm going to keep doing that new thing over and over again until I get the results I want. Do this challenge and watch how fast things shift in your life. Because manifestation isn't about obsessing over what you want. It's about becoming the person who naturally attracts it. That's power, that's freedom, that's calm, that's peaceful. And I want that for you. I want you to feel emotionally free. I want you to feel light in the way you think. I want you to attract what you want. But it's going to take you taking these three steps over and over again and expanding your mind with a level of thinking that is grateful for what you have, even if you have nothing, even if you feel like you've been beaten down emotionally, physically, financially, relationally, whatever has gone in your life. I remember the time on my sister's couch for a year and a half. It was not fun. It was a struggle. I felt depressed, I felt worried. I had no clarity of how I was going to make any money or get off my sister's couch. It suffocated me psychologically and it was so hard to think about anything I was grateful for. And it felt so much like I just had to hit rock bottom every day over and over again and feel feel this pain. Until one day I made a decision. I said, louis, no longer I'm going to sit here in suffering. I don't like this situation. I don't enjoy this. This is not the situation I want to be in. But I need to find something I'm grateful for. And that was when everything started to shift. Once I started with gratitude and I started appreciating what I had, appreciating the experiences, even appreciating the pain and saying there must be a greater lesson. Thank you for giving me this lesson. I don't know what it is yet, but I'm grateful for this experience because one day it's going to make sense. Appreciating the Unknown when you start to live your life in gratitude and generosity, that becomes the gateway to abundance. Again. When you start to live your life with gratitude and generosity, that is the gateway to abundance. I want you to apply this, take action on this, and become the person who naturally starts to attract what you want in your life. My name is Lewis Houze and I want to remind you if no one has told you lately that you are loved, you are worthy and you matter. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links and if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally as well as ad free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our greatness+channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well. Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode in that review. I really love hearing feedback from you and it helps us figure out how we can support and serve you moving forward. And I want to remind you if no one has told you lately that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And now it's time to go out there and do something great. 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