The Daily Motivation

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://lewishowes.com/podcast/john-assaraf/

John Assaraf shares practical techniques for rewiring the brain for success. He discusses the power of visualization and affirmations, explaining how consistently visualizing our desired outcomes and reinforcing positive beliefs can reprogram our subconscious mind to support our goals.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1593

"You got to always be smiling, you got to always be happy, you got to always be that. And that is hard." - Gabriel Iglesias

Gabriel Iglesias walks through the world as Fluffy. Not sometimes. Not on stage. Always. When people see him on the street, they don't call out his actual name. They see the character, the persona, the guy who's supposed to make them smile. And here's what that actually means: he avoids going out in public when he's dealing with personal problems because he's terrified of running into someone when he's not in the right headspace. He can't vent on stage about things that anger him. He can't talk politics. He can't be fully himself in the work that made him successful. The identity that launched his career now limits it. But here's where it gets interesting. When fans recognize him, they don't treat him like a celebrity. They treat him like family they haven't seen in years. The warmth is real; the connection is deep. People tell him his comedy saved them during their darkest moments, and when he hears that, it snaps him out of whatever mood he's in. It puts his private struggles into perspective.

After years of hiding the hard parts, Gabriel is finally incorporating them into his work. The plane crash that almost killed him and made the news. The home invasion where someone went through his things. The awkward reunion with the father he hadn't seen in 15 years. He's learning to transform those experiences into comedy, finding ways to make near-death funny, and sharing the not-so-pleasant parts of life while maintaining the core of what people love about Fluffy. The sacrifice is real. The pressure is constant. But he's made peace with it because the impact matters more than the freedom to vent. Sometimes success means choosing what serves others over what feels good in the moment, and that choice, that conscious sacrifice, is what separates people who sustain their impact from those who burn out fighting for complete authenticity in a world that needs them to be something specific.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1862

"You get to choose how you behave. The heck with your thinking. Let's say your thinking is what it is, and it's riddled with doubt. You still get to choose how you behave." - Price Pritchett

Price Pritchett asks the question that stops most people in their tracks: when you're ravaged with doubt, how do you act like success is certain? His answer flips everything you thought you knew about confidence. You don't wait for your thinking to change. You choose how you behave despite what's happening in your head. He calls it managing your remembering, this practice of deciding which memories get your attention. You can pull up every embarrassment, every humiliation, every time you dropped the ball. Or you can pull up the times you surprised yourself, the moments you did it right, and the wins that proved you had what it takes. We all have two voices competing for airtime inside our heads. The hero voice focuses on your strengths and accomplishments. And the villain voice, the con artist that pretends to protect you while actually keeping you small. That villain voice sounds so reasonable, so concerned. But Pritchett exposes it for what it really is: the critic that raises doubts and focuses on your weak points.

Here's where it gets fascinating. Most people think the answer is more positive thinking. But research shows something different. Less negative thinking is where the real power lives. And the kicker? About 70% of your negative thinking goes completely unperceived. It's so embedded in how you move through the world that you don't even notice it operating. Pritchett explains that positive and negative thinking aren't opposite ends of one scale. They're two separate scales entirely. Which means you can keep positive thinking high while systematically cutting down the negative thoughts that sabotage you. It takes practice. It takes discipline to catch that villain voice and shut it up. But every time you choose which internal coach gets the microphone, every time you manage what you remember, and every time you act despite the doubt, you're training yourself in a different way of being. Because the coach closest to you isn't out there somewhere. It's the voice inside your head, and you decide who's talking.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1117

Sadhguru shares wisdom on developing a positive and receptive mindset. He discusses the significance of self-love and self-acceptance as foundational elements in attracting love from others. He encourages listeners to focus on nurturing their own inner well-being and radiating positive energy to effortlessly attract loving relationships.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1861

"You cannot build wealth with a mindset that was designed to keep you small." - Lewis Howes

Lewis grew up in a small town in Ohio where money meant one thing: stress. His parents loved him, but they argued about finances, and his nervous system learned to associate money with fights, uncertainty, and fear. At 5, 8, 12 years old, he didn't understand what was happening, but his body was recording every moment. That programming followed him into adulthood. No matter what strategies he tried, no matter how much he earned, the anxiety stayed. He kept sabotaging himself without even realizing it. Then came the breaking point where he said, "No more. I need to learn." He started interviewing experts, not just about making money, but about managing it emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. What he discovered became his New York Times bestseller "Make Money Easy," and it starts with a truth most people miss: your financial problems aren't about dollars, they're about wounds.

Here's what Lewis wants you to understand. Most of us are carrying the financial beliefs and burdens we learned as kids. Beliefs like "money is hard to make," "money makes people fight," "we can't afford that." These aren't just thoughts, they're identities. And if your identity says money is scary or you're not good with it, no strategy today will save you. Lewis shares the two shifts that changed everything for him. First, getting the right systems in place. Second, and more importantly, healing your early money wounds. He walks you through how to identify your earliest memory around money, whether that's parents digging through couch cushions for change or being told you can't have ice cream because there's no money. Once you start healing those wounds, you stop repeating them. You stop living with that constant knot in your stomach. Money becomes something light, even fun, instead of the heavy burden that's been taxing your life. This isn't about positive thinking, it's about understanding why you are the way you are with money, and then doing the real work to change it.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1435

Javier "Chicharito" Hernández begins by discussing the importance of self-belief and how it has played a significant role in his own journey. He shares personal stories of overcoming challenges, setbacks, and self-doubt, emphasizing the power of maintaining a positive mindset and unwavering confidence in the face of adversity.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1860

"Happiness is a moral obligation. There was nowhere in my childhood that happiness was a moral obligation. It was more about long suffering." - Dr. Daniel Amen

Dr. Daniel Amen grew up Catholic, an altar boy taught that faith meant long suffering, not happiness. He was scared of God more than he was connected to Him. Then a cute Army company clerk asked him to take her to church, which turned out to be a wild Pentecostal healing service with speaking in tongues and dancing. That unexpected detour led him to Teen Challenge, working with drug addicts who found staggering success rates when they stopped making recovery about themselves and started making it about their relationship with God. Years later, after becoming one of the world's leading brain scientists, he walked into his own church past tables of donuts being sold to fund ministry. He got angry. Really angry. So he prayed what felt like the stupidest prayer of his life: that God would use him to change the food culture at churches. Two weeks later, Rick Warren, pastor of one of the largest churches in the world, called him out of nowhere and said, "I'm fat. My church is fat. Will you help me?" Fifteen thousand people signed up the first week. They lost a quarter of a million pounds the first year.

The conversation reveals something most people don't know: there's hard science behind why faith works. Researchers at Duke have documented that people who attend religious services regularly get better faster when they're sick. They have lower rates of mental health issues. It's not just the community, though that helps. It's the belief itself. Believing you're here for a purpose, that your body is sacred, that you're wonderfully made. Those beliefs create actual neurotransmitter benefits in your brain. Dr. Amen's purpose is to make a dent in the universe by getting people to love and care for their brains, and he's discovered that faith and brain health aren't separate paths. Your health will reflect the health of your ten closest friends. You get better together or you get sick together. This is a conversation about finding purpose in what you thought was your dumbest moment, about how anger at church donuts can become a movement, and about why happiness isn't just a nice idea but a moral obligation.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1058

Rich Diviney emphasizes the significance of setting clear goals and establishing a routine that aligns with those objectives. He emphasizes the power of small, incremental steps in overcoming laziness and building momentum towards success. By breaking down tasks into manageable chunks and consistently taking action, individuals can develop a habit of discipline and productivity.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1529

"I think the biggest psychological crime is people fear running outta money instead of fear of wasting their life." - Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins watched busloads of senior citizens arrive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Not a single person climbed the 115 steps to see the breathtaking view from the church balcony. They had the money for the trip, the time to travel, but their bodies wouldn't cooperate anymore. That moment crystallized everything he'd been thinking about how we get life backwards. We treat money like it's the goal when it's actually just a tool, one that loses effectiveness as our bodies and minds decline. Your body peaks at 33. After that, it's plateau and decline. Those hiking trips, those physical adventures, those experiences that require energy and health—they have expiration dates we refuse to acknowledge. We tell ourselves we'll do them later, when we're more financially secure, but later means weaker knees, less stamina, different limitations.

Perkins talks about life in buckets, periods you'll never get back. Your twenties happen once. The years with small children happen once. Each phase has experiences designed for it, and if you miss them, they interfere with each other or disappear entirely. He uses a Tetris metaphor: imagine standing in heaven with God, throwing every experience you want into a bucket. Hiking, building businesses, raising kids, traveling to places that require climbing, all of it. God says you can have everything, you just have to get the order right. That's the game. That's what most people get catastrophically wrong. They're so afraid of judgment, so terrified of running out of money that they waste the periods of life when those experiences would mean the most, when their bodies could actually do them. This isn't about reckless spending. It's about understanding that your ability to convert money into fulfilling experiences decays over time, and no amount of savings can buy back the body you had at 33.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!

Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1859

"The number one question I get at my talks is, what do you do when the people closest to you don't support your growth? The main reason they don't support it is because you're killing off the person they love." - Jen Sincero

Jen Sincero sat in the driver's seat of an Audi she couldn't imagine owning, convinced the salesman would recognize her as an imposter and kick her out. She said "I can't afford it" so automatically it became a reflex, spoken a hundred times a day like a prayer to poverty. But those three words weren't just describing her reality—they were building it, brick by brick. Every time she said them, she pulled in more proof: the terrible car, the alley apartment, the bank account that never grew. She was trapped at what she calls the "kid table financially," watching real adults with real money from a distance, like they belonged to a different species. The shift didn't come from budgeting tips or side hustles. It came from understanding something most people never grasp: comfort zones aren't comfortable at all. They're familiarity zones, and breaking out of them requires something violent and necessary—killing off your old identity completely.

This conversation cuts through every sugar-coated personal development cliché about money mindset. Jen talks about the WASP household where money was dirty, the rock-and-roller identity where wanting wealth meant selling out, and the brutal realization that to make real money, you have to obliterate the version of yourself that can't. Lewis and Jen dig into why this transformation is so lonely, why the people who love you often resist your growth hardest (you're literally killing off the person they know), and what it actually takes to shift from someone who can't afford things to someone who can. If you've ever felt stuck financially while watching others succeed, if "I can't afford it" comes out of your mouth more than you'd like, or if you're trying to grow and finding your closest relationships straining under the weight, this one will shake something loose.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.