Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

If You Want to Become Abundant...

17 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that achieving abundance and improved emotional well‑being hinges on two key actions: committing to personal growth and deliberately surrounding oneself with people who are also focused on abundance. He illustrates the principle with everyday examples—joining a yoga studio to become better at yoga, attending 12‑step meetings to support sobriety—and points out that while we often consider skill development in community terms, we neglect to apply the same logic to emotional states. The speaker notes the lack of a physical “personal development store,” but highlights the rise of emergent online and offline communities that can serve as supportive ecosystems for personal development.

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If you want to become abundant and you want to start feeling better, you have to hang out with abundant people or people at least focused on abundance and people who are committed to feeling better. Right? So number one is understand, you know, get into personal growth. Two is surround yourself with other, other people who are, who are headed in the same direction. It's, it's really common sense. I think when we look at any other area of our life, it's like, if I want to get good at yoga, I go to the yoga studio and I hang out with yogis. If I want to get good at, you know, recovery, which was part of my story, I want to get sober. You start going to 12-step meetings and you hang out with other people who are trying to get sober. But for the most part, we don't really think about that in terms of our emotional states. And frankly, it's not as easy. It's like, you know, there's no personal development store that you walk into, right? But we are seeing more and more emergent communities. Your communities that you've built, community that I built, right?