340 Prepare, Focus and Let Go

"The only way you can perform at your best is if you let go and focus in the moment." - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/340 Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:02Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday, episode number 340, and it is time to prepare, focus, and let go. Welcome everyone to this special edition of The School of Greatness. I am in an airport right now, so you're gonna hear some noise behind me, because I'm on the way to Mexico City tonight, and then tomorrow I'll be on the way to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to compete in the Pan American Championships with the USA National Handball Team. And it is an exciting time right now. I've got a big product coming out here in a couple of weeks. I've got a free video series about how to build your online business, and how to be an online entrepreneur, and have the lifestyle of your dreams as well. And I'm competing in my dream.

• 0:45Lewis Howes?

  I'm playing for Team USA, I'm gonna be wearing USA across my chest, playing against some of the top countries in North and South America in the Pan American Championships. For me, so much great things are happening in the next few weeks. And there are times I get from people messaging me saying, "You know what, sometimes I just feel so overwhelmed with everything that's going on in my life." And here's the thing, I could feel that right now, and there have definitely been moments, you know, I'm leaving right now, I'm leaving my team behind to be working on this product and this launch, I'm gonna be focusing on playing with the USA Handball Team, and, you know, getting dirty and getting after it every single day on the courts, playing and competing my heart out. And I could feel like there's a lot going on, and I felt like that at moments.

• 1:29Lewis Howes?

  And then I come back to this simple principle: Prepare, focus, and let go. And when you think about it, and you take a deep breath in, you think about the principle of prepare, focus, and let go, then you can do more, you can create more, you can become more when you live and embody that principle and that philosophy. What I mean by that is, I've been doing the preparation, you know, for the last six months, my team and I have been diving deep into this course that we're launching, into this product, and we've been doing the research, we've been doing tons of video recordings, we've been, you know, doing the design, the technical side, all the things that need to be done, we've done the preparation, and now it's just time to bring it out into the world.

• 2:10Lewis Howes?

  And help as many people as possible build a life of their dreams around being a successful online entrepreneur. So the preparation is there and now my team gets to focus, they get to focus and execute. And while I'm going to be in Argentina playing with the USA handball team, I get to focus and execute there. It's hard to execute when you think about everything you have going on at the same time. It's hard to say, I'm going to give my best right now, but I'm so worried, I'm so distracted, I'm so overwhelmed and stressed at all the things that I have to do. Yeah, you know what? You're not going to be able to execute well if you're overwhelmed and stressed. So you get to focus on one thing at a time, even if you have many things at a time going on. And the last thing is letting go.

• 2:54Lewis Howes?

  Wherever you are at in your life right now, in your business, your career, relationships, you get to let go of any anxiety or stress of the outcome. Listen, I've got big dreams, I've got big goals, I've got big numbers that I want to hit in every area of my business and my life. But if we fixate on it and have this expectation like we have to hit it. Otherwise, I'm not going to be happy, then we're going to be exhausted inside. It's going to be extremely emotionally challenging to be able to be present and focus on the process instead of the prize. You know, we're so often caught up in the prize that we're not able to be present in the moment and really just allow our true essence to come out in all areas of our life.

• 3:37Lewis Howes?

  So you get to fully let go when it's time to focus and execute. So the first thing is preparation. It's hard to launch something or execute something in your life at a high level if you haven't done the work. In handball, I've been training for six years and I've been prepared mentally. I've been visualizing this, physically getting back in shape and ready for it. Even though they called me up a few weeks ago, I wasn't essentially ready for it. I didn't know it was going to happen until a few weeks ago, but it did, and I wanted to seize the opportunity. Luckily enough for me, I've empowered my team, my team is focused, they're prepared, they're ready. And we're able to take on everything at the same time. So you've got to first be prepared, then you've got to be able to say, okay, listen.

• 4:21Lewis Howes?

  I'm gonna focus on one thing at a time and I'm gonna execute this and give my best in this moment. I'm gonna be present, I'm gonna focus. And the third thing is you gotta let go, you gotta be unattached to the result. You gotta say, "All I can do is give my best in this moment and I'm gonna do whatever it takes to achieve my goal, but I'm not gonna be attached to this result and stressed and overwhelmed." So I hope today you got some good wisdom out of this. In Miami Airport before we embark on a journey for the next 10, 12 days. We go to Mexico City tonight, then to Argentina tomorrow. And if anyone in Buenos Aires, please come see the Pan American Championship Games. Come say hello to me, I'd love to say hi to you after a game. We'll be there for eight to 10 days, I believe. So please come say hi.

• 5:04Lewis Howes?

  And if you enjoyed this, if you've ever felt like you've been overwhelmed in your life, if you felt like this resonated with you because you felt overwhelmed, you didn't know how to handle it all, then just remember these three simple things. Prepare, prepare yourself, train yourself, get ready. Learn the skills, learn the tools that you need to have to put into place to do whatever you wanna do at a great level. Then focus, focus on executing it at the best of your abilities in that moment. And the third thing, let go. Surrender to all of the stress or overwhelm or uncertainty and let go. And realize that the only way you can perform at your best is if you let go and focus in the moment.

• 5:46Lewis Howes?

  After you execute, you can evaluate and see where things are at and see how you can improve and get to the next level. But you can't do that if you're in the messiness while you're executing. So make sure to prepare, focus, and let go. I love you guys very much. I'm so grateful that you're a part of the School of Greatness Podcast community. We just reached 18 million downloads and it's all because of you guys. So thank you for spreading the word. All the show notes are back at lewishouse.com/340. And you know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.