Lewis Howes

But I realize that you will trap your life if you're not delegating.

You can't self-actualize your life very easily without delegation.

unless you completely simplify your life and do like the cynic diogenes that live in a barrel with a dog and have nothing, no attachment or a Gandhi approach.

So I basically learned at age 27, the importance of prioritization.

Because if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, your day is gonna fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

And the distractions that don't are gonna be unfulfilling and distracting to create a frustration

to go back to priority, to get you back to yourself.

Because these are not you.

This highest value is the ontological identity that revolves around is your highest value.

Whatever your highest value is, if you ask anybody, who are they?

They're going to tell you whatever's highest on their value.

That's going to be their answer.

Mine's teacher.

if you're raising children and your highest value is being a mother, if you ask her, who are you?

She'll say, I'm a mother.

If you go to a person who's a serial entrepreneur and ask him, even though he's got three or four kids, you ask him, who are you?

He's not going to say, I'm a father.

He's going to say, I'm an entrepreneur.

Because whatever's highest on one's value, their ontological identity revolves around, their teleological purpose revolves around, and their epistemological area of expertise excels there.

So that's where they're most powerful.