591 Leave Your Legacy with Ray Lewis

"If the last day of my life came, and people were sitting around me, I would say ‘Smile, because I made it to the other side.’” - Ray Lewis I constantly think about the fact that the only definite thing in this world is what we leave behind. Money comes and goes, belongings eventually break or get thrown out, but what people say about you will never change. This got me thinking about an amazing episode I did with Ray Lewis. Ray has been leaving a legacy not just in football, but to the world. On this 5 Minute Friday, we hear some of the most inspirational words about how anyone can leave a legacy and fulfilled life behind when they go on Episode 591. 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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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:09Lewis Howes?

  We have an incredible interview today with someone who brings greatness out of everyone else. His name is Ray Lewis, and he's widely considered to be one of the most dominant defensive players in NFL history.

• 0:31Speaker 01

  When their legacy is done, a shade one day will close. What will people look back one day and say, "What did you give me?" And that is, I tell my family this all the time. "I know you will, but don't cry when I'm gone.

• 0:48Speaker 01

  Please, because I done it. I ran my race." Right? And now, to one day for me personally to hear those words that I know I will hear. "Well done, my good and faithful servant." Then all I can leave is everything that I've endured, all of my pain that I don't remember, and all of the people that come behind me can one day look back and say, "He did it." So can I.

• 1:19Speaker 01

  It's kind of why I kind of teach my kids that. I tell my kids all the time, as a baby, when they was babies, I used to say, "That's why I chase sunsets." I say, "Look at the sunset." They say, "What is that?" "That's the sun." I say, "But what is it?" "It's heaven. It's heaven. It's just something that prepares for another day." Yeah, but it's, you know, I read this book about heaven being over 40,000-plus sunsets. Streets paved in gold, and you're just, you're at this place where you don't have no memory of pain, or fear, or doubt. And I said that if last day of my life came and people were sitting around me, I would

• 2:03Speaker 01

  say, "Smile, because I made it to the other side." I believe all of us will be held accountable to how that we make people feel.

• 2:13Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 2:14Speaker 01

  Like not, God won't ask one question about a Super Bowl.

• 2:20Speaker 01

  He won't ask how much your bank account had. He will ask a question to each and every person at death judgment. Who did you send towards me? Did you have a, did you, did you change? Did you alter heaven a little bit just by sending a person's life to me? See, because if you change a life, then you alter heaven. And then if you altered heaven, then you will be remembered as doing God's will and not man's will. And that's what I want to be remembered as. I want to be remembered as a man that did God's will. And when you're done with that side of things, I'll see you on the other side. Sit up on the oak tree with a glass of lemonade with God's sugar, not cane.

• 3:06Speaker 01

  But we have a duty, Lewis, that we're supposed to make this world better. Not make it bad, not make it worse. And I think me leaving here, this earth, one day, there would be something said about people in general that you will remember for a lifetime. Because it just carries over to the next life, right? The test is here, right? So a Bible, B-I-B-L-E, Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Simple. But once you read it to understand the life of Jesus and the life of all of the greats

• 3:48Speaker 01

  that spoke about in the Bible, David, Moses, Solomon, Peter, all of them, no matter what their faults were, it was what they did for people. That's why David wrote Psalms. Book of praise to give us just direction. Solomon, Book of Proverbs. That's why he wrote a book of pure wisdom. He says, "Read these things because you will need these things to endure."

• 4:18Speaker 01

  So when you write your story, hopefully your story is remembered ages after you're gone. And so I want to be remembered like David was remembered. A man after God's own heart. A man that truly was okay with persecution.

• 4:39Speaker 01

  Because I knew where the ultimate will end up. And the ultimate for me is when the Lord come back, he says, many are called, few are chosen. And I'm gonna make sure I carry out my life to make sure that I'm one of the chosen ones. And if I do that, shhh.

• 5:02Speaker 01

  He say you live forever. That's called living. Yeah, alright. That's called life. And so that's why I think people like you, right? So I think we can't stop. Yeah. And I think the expansion of the mind is what we all should take time to do. Yeah, absolutely. Even when you think you got your whole world figured out, you can always evolve and go different places. Yeah.