Lewis Howes says greatness comes from obsession, not motivation. Pick one goal and treat it like a surgeon treats a patient: explain every step, timeline, and hard part upfront. When you know what's coming, fear becomes manageable phases and you stay focused.
As an individual, you've got to keep your eye on that magnificent obsession that represents your Quantum Leap gold. You've got to live with that thing. You got to make love to that thing. You've got to. So when I am doing keynote with a group of executives, I will tell them, look, consider yourself a doctor. And let's say you're doing heart surgery on somebody tomorrow, okay? So they check in the hospital today. Let's say they're in it for. They check in about 4:00 clock or something like that and you stop by about 5:30. You're the doctor, you're the surgeon, you're the guy that's going to make this magic happen to make them well again. You're going to keep them from dying. So you go in and you sit down with the family and you say, how you doing? Look, we got this. Now I want to tell you how tomorrow is going to go. About 7am Danish, these are just going to come in and they're going to, they'll probably give you something so that you're not noisy when you wake up. And then they're going to give you, you know, they put in the IV and they're going to do this. And you will get to 30 before your sleep. And so you'll go into the operating room and you'll be in there X period of time. When you're every three, you'll go into recovery and I will go and tell you folks how it went. Okay? This is, this should be a lay down. Okay? And then after, I'd say by 10:00 o', clock, 10:30, will have him back in the room and you'll be able to talk to him. Now I want to tell you, we're going to have you out of the bed and on your feet tomorrow afternoon, okay? You won't feel as bad tomorrow afternoon as you're going to feel the second or third day, but you're going to be back home. So and so. And this is where it's going. They tell you what to expect. And it is amazing because here's what happens. The doctor's credibility goes through the roof. The patient that diminishes so much raw terror. What could have happened? Yeah. And the next morning when it just goes to clock, clockwork, just like you said. Okay, Felt better, then I felt worse and then. Yeah, and we need to tell ourselves that kind of thing.
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