The Daily Motivation

Generosity might be the smartest business strategy you are not using yet.
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Chris Anderson, the head of TED, told Lewis he doesn’t believe in some karmic deal where giving makes the universe send you money. What he does see is that generous people attract the best talent, because great minds want to work for a cause.
Tesla gave away its patents to recruit great engineers. Chris would go further and publish Coke’s secret recipe, then offer a $10 million prize for a version with less sugar and launch it as the People’s Coke.
His challenge for any company is a retreat with your most creative people and one question: what is the craziest thing we could give away?
Pick one thing you guard tightly and ask what it could do for you out in the open.
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Your limiting beliefs might be the reason the same wall keeps showing up.
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David Ghiyam, a spiritual teacher who has coached people around the world, told Lewis about a founder whose compa nies all fell apart at $10 million in revenue. Lawsuits hit and employees quit, and David traced it to one hidden belief: he didn’t feel he deserved more.
Then there’s the competing kind. A business owner stuck at $5 million for years hated managing people, so part of her was hoping a million dollar client would say no.
As David put it, it’s like having the parking brake on with your foot on the gas, wondering why the car won’t move.
You’ll want to look at the place where you keep stalling and ask which part of you is pressing the brake.
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Your self-belief got buried under someone else's story, and the gold underneath never went anywhere.
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Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto, told Lewis about a towering Golden Buddha in Thailand that monks covered in layer upon layer of soil to hide it from invaders.
Years later, a passerby saw a glimmer of gold shining through the mud and started digging. Robin says that is us: a kid left off a best friend's party list, or told “you sound terrible” in biology class, carries that wound for a lifetime.
As Robin puts it, “Your daily behavior is always matching your deepest beliefs.” If you don't think you can find love, you will never ask the person out.
So pick the old story you are still rehearsing, and scrape off the first layer.
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Three shared meals a week can protect your kids’ health more than any diet plan you could buy.
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Shawn Stevenson, who has spent over 20 years in the health field, told Lewis that family meals work like a shield. In the research he shares, kids who ate with a parent just three times a week had lower rates of obesity and eating disorders.
Shawn grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, without ever seeing what health looked like. He spent years trying to change the wider culture before he found that change works best when it starts at his own table.
He also points to IBM workers whose stress climbed once their jobs started eating into dinner at home.
You will want to open your calendar tonight and block off three meals with the people you love.
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What if every rejection was just someone telling you exactly what to fix?
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Comedian Katt Williams, who once sold door to door, told Lewis that sales taught him to collect nos on purpose. Knock on 900 doors, he figured, and 90 yeses will come.
The shift came when Katt decided a no only meant he hadn’t done a good enough job. Maybe it was how he stood, or the look on his face when the door opened.
He carries that into comedy. “The audience is never wrong,” he says, so he rehearses a joke 35 times in the mirror and tests it in 100 cities before it ever reaches a special.
The next time you hear no, ask what it says about how you showed up. Then go knock again.
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