450 The 5 G's for Your Greatest Year Ever

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• 0:02Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday, episode number 450, and I'm giving you the five G's to your greatest year ever. What's up everyone? At my event here in Los Angeles at Wanderlust, I shared the five G's, not the five keys, but the five G's to making 2017 your greatest year ever. Now, these five G's relate to any week, any month, and any year. It doesn't matter if you're in a new year or a new month. It matters right now. So, I wanted to share them with you for this Five Minute Friday, so I hope you can enjoy them as well. Now, let's dive in. The first G, not the first key, the first G of your greatest year ever, and that is growth.

• 0:48Lewis Howes?

  If we are not growing, I can guarantee you, you're not going to have your greatest year ever. Whenever we reflect on the things that weren't working, we reflect on the lessons that we learned from the previous year. Every year I do this, I reflect, what was working? What wasn't working? Where was I trudging? What was I eating a shit sandwich in? You know, all these different things. When I reflect on what's working, what's not working, and I think about how am I going to grow this year? It's about creating a commitment to growth. And every year, I think about what am I going to do that's going to get me out of my comfort zone? What's the new thing I'm going to learn? And usually, it's a multiple things.

• 1:29Lewis Howes?

  It could be guitar, to salsa dancing, to learning a language, to taking on a new challenge in my business, to trying something new, to doing a big event this year, to doing a book launch this year. It's like always challenging myself to learn and grow. So, the first G is growth. If we're not growing, I can guarantee you're not going to have the greatest year ever, if you just stay the same. If you're constantly staying the same. So, growth. The most fulfilled people in the world, the happiest people in the world, they're constantly in growth mindset. They're not fixed. That's number one. The G, first G. The second G.

• 2:07Lewis Howes?

  Is gratitude. Now, this is something, you know, people can create amazing results. But if you're completely ungrateful and never satisfied, you don't have to be completely satisfied. But if you're ungrateful all the time, you're not going to feel like you're having the greatest year ever. You're going to feel very unfulfilled. And those that live in gratitude are some of the happiest people I know. So it's going to be creating a constant daily practice of gratitude. The third G is game plan. Game plan. When we don't know what we want to start and why we want it. We are aimlessly walking through life frustrated that we're not achieving anything because we don't know what it is.

• 2:51Lewis Howes?

  And it may not, it doesn't have to be this lifelong vision of I'm going to cure cancer. I'm going to change the world. I'm going to impact billions of people. It can be what do I want to do this year and why? Or what do I want to do for the next three months and why? And how is this going to build for a fulfilled life? And a life full of growth, joy and happiness and love, the things we want the most. So we need to create a game plan. If you don't have a game plan, I'm telling you, as an athlete, I learned this early on from sports. All, you know, my, my college football teammates are here, other people are athletes. You understand the importance of goal setting and getting very clear on how you want to create the vision for yourself.

• 3:32Lewis Howes?

  So I've translated that from sports into business and every other area of my life and it works. So we got to get clear and have somewhere we're going, somewhere we're heading. We've got to be on a journey every single year, otherwise it's going to be an unfulfilled journey. Now, this doesn't mean the journey is going to be easy. But sometimes a challenging journey is the most rewarding and the most fulfilling. So that's the third thing, game plan. The fourth thing, it's extremely important, guys. The group, the fourth G to the greatest year ever is the group that you surround yourself with. The mentors that you seek out, right? The mentors that support you in having the greatest year of your life.

• 4:11Lewis Howes?

  And the people that you are in your family, your friends, who you're hanging out with. The people that are going to support you along your journey. If you don't have a powerful group with you, if you have a group that tears you down, it's not going to be the greatest year ever. When you have the relationship you've been stuck in for years that's been tearing you down, right? When you have those relationships that bring you down constantly, it's not going to be a rewarding, fulfilled life or year. It's going to feel like 10 years of the worst year ever, over and over again, because you're stuck in this negativity. So we've got to surround ourselves with inspiring people. What's the last G? Giving.

• 4:51Lewis Howes?

  Giving is the fifth, not key, but G to the greatest year ever, giving. But whatever, I'm around people who are the biggest givers. It's like they have the most fun, they are the most rewarding, they're the most fulfilled, and they receive so much. They make the most money, they attract the best people, they're around all the influencers. Like, things just fall in their lap. The people that I know who are the most giving of their time, of their energy, of their resources, of their money, whatever it may be, what they can give, it just seems like things fall in their lap. Now, there is a time and a place, and we get to be discerning on how we give sometimes. You don't want to just give aimlessly, it wants to be purposefully, to something that means something to you.

• 5:36Lewis Howes?

  But every year, I come up with a game plan on how we're going to give, as a company, personally, as a friend. I set an intention of how much money do I want to give this year? And why? Why am I setting this much money to give? Whether that's charities, or some of you in churches, you know, it all depends on what you want to give it to and why. So it's getting clear. It's not just like, "Well, Lewis said we got to give, so I'm going to give all my time and all my money." No. It's like, get clear. And some of you, maybe it's giving a little to start. And maybe it's not money at all, and maybe it's, you know, you give what you can give. But I think coming from a place of giving and service is the intention. And being in that energy is important.

• 6:20Lewis Howes?

  So, the five Gs. We've got...

• 6:25Lewis Howes?

  Growth, gratitude, game plan, group, and giving. And I want you guys to think about those five things today, but then how you're going to incorporate that for the rest of this year, and building upon that for the rest of your lives.

• 6:43Lewis Howes?

  That's right, the five G's, my friends. I hope you use these five G's this week, month, and year, and create magic in your life. I love you guys very much, and you know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.