252 The Killer of Dreams

"Fear is one of the biggest killers of hope and dreams." - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/252 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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  La mayoría de nosotros nunca vivimos nuestro potencial máximo. Nunca vivimos nuestros sueños al máximo debido a dos cosas: Miedos y sentimientos. Nosotros permitimos que nuestros miedos y nuestros sentimientos nos consumen y controlen y nos mantienen fuera de la creación de las vidas más poderosas, hermosas, magnéticas. Miedos y sentimientos. Tienes que tener fe en que estás exactamente donde necesitas estar en este momento para aprender las lecciones necesarias para seguir tu corazón, incluso cuando has sido tomado del camino. Tienes que vivir tu vida si quieres ser grande. Tienes que vivir tu vida al máximo. Y no puedes permitir que alguien te diga cómo vivirlo.

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  Tienes que vivirlo de la manera que deseas y que sueñas. La única manera de vivir una vida grande y de ser realmente satisfecho, de realmente amar tu vida, es hacer lo que crees que es un gran trabajo. Y la única manera de hacer un gran trabajo es hacer lo que amas. Tienes que tener el coraje de seguir tu corazón con todo tu poder, toda tu fe, y dejar ir tus miedos y tus sentimientos que te mantienen. Es fácil tener fe cuando todo en tu vida está bien, cuando tu salud está en punto, cuando tus relaciones son increíbles, cuando tu negocio está prosperando, cuando tu familia es increíble y saludable y bien. Es fácil tener fe cuando todo va bien en tu vida.

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  Cualquiera puede tener fe en esas situaciones, cualquiera puede hacer eso. El verdadero desafío del crecimiento viene cuando te golpean, cuando has sido derrotado, cuando has sido tirado del camino que querías seguir en tus sueños, cuando has intentado algo y has fallado una y otra vez, cuando tu ego ha estado en el camino de tu grandeza. El verdadero desafío del crecimiento sucede en este momento. Y todos se golpean. Todos pasan por adversidad a lo largo del viaje, pero necesita coraje volver a levantarse y hacer una diferencia en tu vida y perseguir tus sueños con pasión y con un corazón completo. Tienes que saber de qué te enfrentas. Tienes que saber de qué te enfrentas.

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  You've got to dream it, declare it, and deliver it. If you don't stand for anything, you're going to continue to be unsatisfied in your life. You're going to be continued to be a victim in your life. You're going to continue to not achieve what you want because you don't know what you stand for. Fear is one of the biggest killers of hope and dreams. We allow our fears to consume our feelings and it holds us back from doing great work. And that holds us back from living the life we were born to live. You aren't achieving your dream right now because you are allowing your fears and feelings to hold you back. And don't allow these emotions to control you.

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  Yes, we are so emotional, we are emotional beings. We were born to feel and to express emotion. That's why we are created. But you must discipline your emotions and your feelings and have the awareness to use them instead of allowing them to use you. It's not easy to achieve your dreams. If it was, we'd all be living the most incredible lives every single day. And it takes you going all out to make your dreams happen. It takes you having the courage to say, "No, I'm not going to choose this safe path. I'm not going to choose this safe career. I'm not going to choose this job that my parents or my spouse wants me to have because it's comfortable and it's going to keep us safe."

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  That is not serving you. That's not raising you to the highest potential you were born with. We were born to do great work and live our dreams. And it takes you pursuing with 100% courage what it is you love to do every single day. That's the only way to do the best work is to do something you fully love with all your heart. That's the only way to have great relationships is to be around the people you love with all your heart. That's the only way to have a great life when you fully express how much you love what you're doing every single day, living in gratitude, being grateful for where you're at and where you're headed.

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  When we decide that we are in control, we don't allow emotions to control us anymore.

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  It's time to rise up and become stronger in the challenges. Allow the challenges to embrace you. Embrace the challenges. And in the challenge, in the struggle, in the adversity, that's when you say, "This is what I stand for. And I take full responsibility of my life for where it's at in this moment. And I stand for this. And moving forward, I'm committed to creating this." Accept where you are and look within yourself to see where you want to go.

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  What would your life look like if every single day, you lived it as if it was your last? And you decided to go all out 100% with all your heart in that day? What would it look like?

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  It doesn't matter what happened to you in the past. It doesn't matter how much you struggled, how much you messed up, what you said, how bad you were. It doesn't matter. What matters is what you're committed to creating today and what you're committed to creating for your vision and your dream and what you're committed to standing for right now, moving forward, to step into your greatness. That's what matters.

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  Fears and feelings will hold you back from pursuing great work.

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  If you want to have an incredible life, you must follow what you love and do great work in what you love.

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  Thank you guys for listening today. This is episode number 252. And last week, we had an incredible journey. We had an incredible journey together. For those that are new here,

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  we hit the New York Times Bestseller List. We've hit a number of other lists for the book, The School of Greatness. So many people have been reading it, have been tagging me online. Online on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook talking about what they're getting out of this. And one of the most powerful sections that I'm hearing from people so far is Chapter 1, when people declare what they stand for, and they write it down, and they start living from a place of their truth and from what their heart stands for. And I want you guys to write down what you stand for. It can be one sentence. It can be one word. I want you to write it down. "And I stand for love. I stand for love moving forward. I stand for letting go of my feelings and my emotions that control me and using

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  my feelings and emotions to move me forward and move forward in love and with passion and with all my heart in what I do." And I want to know what you guys stand for. Write it down on a piece of paper. Take a photo of it. Tag me on Instagram @lewishouse. #IStandFor. And post it online. And let others know what you're declaring that you stand for right now. In my book, at the end of the chapter, in the first chapter, I have a number of different exercises that support this principle as well, in what you stand for. And also allow you to get clear on your vision and your dreams. And so if you're stuck in your life right now, if you're stuck, or you're feeling like you're just living a good life, but

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  you know there's something more for you, then make sure to pick up a copy of my book. You can go to Amazon, or go directly to lewishouse.com/book, and go through that first chapter. If you're not satisfied with the first chapter, and you're not happy with the exercises, and what you create for yourself, the awareness you create in that process of the first 30 pages, then I will give you a full refund back if you're not happy with it. That's how powerful this is. It's so important to get clear on what we want and what we stand for, and what we're committed to creating in the future. "I stand for love. What do you stand for?" My name's Lewis Howes. Thank you so much for joining me today. This is The School of

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  Greatness, and I'm so excited for what's to come. If you enjoyed this, if you felt inspired by this, make sure to share it with your friends. LewisHowes.com/252. And share it out online on social media, and let them know that you're excited to see what they create in their life, and that their dreams matter because they matter, because they're worth it. I love you guys. It's been an incredible journey to come full circle, eight years to make one of my dreams come true of becoming a New York Times bestseller and getting my book out there in the hands of millions of people around the world. We're just getting started. I need your support to help with this movement of greatness to inspire people to get to that next level. This book is not about me, it's about the people I've interviewed and their lessons.

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  And the exercises that we put together to support each person reading the book, to help them get to that next level, to help them discover what it is they truly love and to pursue it with 100% passion and achieve their dreams. You guys have been incredible. This podcast is ranked in the top 30 in the world right now because of you guys sharing it out and leaving comments online and leaving reviews over on iTunes. So if you've yet to leave a review on iTunes, please do that and continue to get the podcast out there because together we are changing lives and it's all because of you spreading the word of greatness to the world. Thank you all so very much. I hope you have an incredible day and you know what time it is.

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  It's time to go out there and do something great.