Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

If you want your dreams to come true, do THIS!

21 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that truly realizing a dream requires being completely possessed by it—thinking about it constantly and feeling intense excitement. He describes how this energetic focus creates a bodily sense of the future, which fuels daily motivation to make choices that contradict inner doubts. By repeatedly choosing actions aligned with the dream, the negative inner voices diminish, leading to new behaviors and ultimately to achieving the desired outcome, whether in sports, parenting, or any personal goal.

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If a person truly wants to actualize their dream, they got to be possessed by it. I mean, to such a degree. Possessed. Possessed. Possessed. Like it's on their mind all the time. Not like I have to. It's just like, oh my God, I'm so excited about this. And I've seen people in our work create enormous abundance the moment they locked in. They were just like, oh, I knew it. Like, like the body got it right. The body was getting the taste of the future and then all they had to do was keep that feeling going every day. Because it was that energy, that excitement that was driving them to get out of bed and make a different choice, even though they didn't want to. And when we make those choices in spite of those voices over and over again, the voices go away. And whether you're becoming a champion in handball or whether you're being a father or whatever it is that you make up your mind to do, if you really make up your mind to do that, you got to make a different choice, a lot of different choices. And those choices lead to different behaviors, and that's how you change.