Lewis Howes Quotes

We only have one rule. You can’t stop. You can go as slow as you need to go, but you cannot stop. You can never drop out.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

What lights you up? Inspires you? Energizes you? When do you find yourself losing track of time because you are so absorbed in an activity and can’t wait to get back to it and do it again? What would you love to do even if you didn’t get paid to do it? Fast-forward to your golden years. What might you wish you had done more of? Now take a moment to compare your lists. What common themes do you see in your answers? What words get repeated? What activities keep getting mentioned? What threads are woven consistently throughout your story? Summarize the patterns you see by circling common words or writing a few summary sentences below both lists.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

When we face our trauma, we are walking a new path. We are walking the way of a hero on the path to greatness.

Who or what has shaped your identity? Did you cultivate it yourself, or did someone else choose to prune you to grow in a particular direction? Often, this pruning happens unintentionally and is the product of the environment in which we live. You have to nurture your own growth in the direction of your own Meaningful Mission, or it will flow wherever other people take it.

So many great people live lives absent of greatness because they live by default and not by design.

A powerful vision emerges when we couple our dreams with a set of clear goals.

ATTENTION
To all who enter here: If you are coming into this room with sorrow or to feel sorry for my wounds, go elsewhere. The wounds I received, I got in a job I love, doing it for people I love, supporting the freedom of a country I deeply love. I am incredibly tough and will make a full recovery. What is full? That is the absolute utmost physically my body has the ability to recover. Then I will push that about 20 percent further through sheer mental tenacity. This room you are about to enter is a room of fun, optimism, and intense, rapid regrowth. If you are not prepared for that, go elsewhere. From: The Management

When adversity arises, you have two choices: (1) Do nothing, let it overwhelm you, and fall victim to your circumstances, or (2) embrace the challenge and move toward the adversity, making it part of your success story. Prepare yourself for these moments, because they are going to happen in all areas of your life whether you like it or not.

HABITS MANIFESTO What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while. Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong. Focus on actions, not outcomes. By giving something up, we may gain. Things often get harder before they get easier. When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more from ourselves. We’re not very different from other people, but those differences are very important. It’s easier to change our surroundings than ourselves. We can’t make people change, but when we change, others may change. We should make sure the things we do to feel better don’t make us feel worse. We manage what we monitor. Once we’re ready to begin, begin now.

Life is just too short to waste any of our emotional energy on things that don’t matter.

There is a big difference between wanting to someday run a race and actually being a runner. The wannabe runner doesn’t have a plan for training. Whether they run or not today depends on how they are feeling. But if the runner has already decided, I am a runner, they then do what runners do — run. They don’t have to think about it. They don’t have to feel like it. They do it.

The easiest way to live a short unimportant life is to consume the world around you rather than contribute to it. Meanwhile, the people who keep on contributing tend to be the ones who keep on living. The message was clear. People who contribute to their community live longer.

chasing greatness may mean you’ll stumble and fall a few times along the way.