Most People Believe Their Past More Than Their Future

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Previously titled “How To Overcome Your Past To Manifest Your Ideal Future” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026

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Who are the guests and what is the episode about?

Lewis Howes 0:00
I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you are looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier, you want to make it flow, you want to feel abundant, then make sure to go to MakeMoneyEasyBook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going to help you transform your relationship with money This moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode on the School of Greatness. Why do you think so many people lack the energy to create the vision, the dream that they want? Is it something they're missing?
Lewis Howes 0:51
Is it something they don't have access to? Or they lack that energy that heals and draws to them their dreams?

Why do people struggle to believe in their future over their past?

I think that, you know, we live in chronic disbelief. What if the truth was that you're greater than you think? more powerful than you know, more unlimited than you could ever dream. If that was the truth, that you are the creator of your life, you have to start, if you believe that to be the truth, then you have to believe in yourself. And your belief in yourself must be earned.

How do emotions influence our ability to manifest the future?

It must be earned. And the only way that we can believe in a future is when we feel the emotion associated with it. Because if you feel the emotion associated with it, your body is your unconscious mind. It's so objective, it does not know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone. And so you're giving your body a taste emotionally of the future. And the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember that future. And you literally are embossing the circuitry for you to believe in it more. So if we default and become the victim of our life, and we say that some person or some circumstance or some condition is causing me to feel this way and to think this way,
The moment we become angry or frustrated or guilty or unworthy or afraid or anxious, we can't believe in that future any longer. Those emotions are associated with past memories. And those emotions cause us to behave as if we were in our past, make choices that are equal to our past and believe in our past. And more people believe in their past than they believe in their future. And it's so much easier to forget your vision of the future than to remember it. And so if that's the truth then, if you understood that this emotion that you're feeling is really a creative emotion, living in fear and living in anger and living in hostility and hatred and judgment and resentment, that has nothing to do with your future. It has everything to do with the past.
And so the problem is, is that we get addicted to those emotions that keep us connected to the past. And there's a story that goes with that past. And so many people believe in that story. And why not believe in a different story? And it usually takes crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis or loss for people to finally make up their mind to change. But that default that takes place so seamlessly when we feel the emotions of our past causes us to think the same way, to act the same way, and to feel the same way. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it. That's it. So the present personality who's sitting here today called you has created the present personal reality called your life. That's the truth. So if you wanted to create a new personal reality, a new life, you would have to change your personality.
And the first step in that is becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts, those thoughts that say, I can't, it's too hard, I'll never change, it's my ex's fault, it's a, you know, whatever, you know. It's all your ex. Or if you really truly wanted to be a happy person, you would have to stop complaining. You would have to stop blaming and have to stop allowing your environment to control how you're feeling and thinking. And if you truly wanted to become a new personality, you would have to decide that the emotion of lack cannot belong in an abundant person. This is where the rubber hits the road now. Because how could you believe in a future that you haven't seen yet?

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