You Keep Giving Your Power Away in 4 Hidden Ways
episodePreviously titled “How To Transform Your Inner Chaos To Peace & Reclaim Your Power” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026
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What are Lewis Howes' book and podcast tour plans?
There are two big things happening at one time that I've never done before. I'm going on a book tour for my new book, Make Money Easy, and I'm doing a podcast tour at the same time. It is going to be big, and I'm going to seven cities in 10 days. Get your friends, get your family, bring everyone you know to these cities. I'm coming to Austin, Texas, New York, Boston, We're going to Nashville. Then we're going to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Make sure to get your tickets right now. Go to lewishouse.com slash tour. Again, bring everyone you know if you're looking to create more financial freedom and abundance in your life and you want to see a massive guest live on the School of Greatness show. Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there.
What is the number one thing you hear from everyone in the world that only you have a unique perspective on?
What's interesting is that we all think we know what is holding us back. And we describe it, whether it's money or time or I'm exhausted or I'm stuck or it's my past or it's my mindset. And it's not that at all. If you're not happy, if you don't have what you want in life, if you're exhausted, tired, stuck, or overwhelmed, the problem isn't what you think it is. In fact, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you are unknowingly giving to other people. There are... eight key ways that you have turned other people into the biggest obstacle in your life and other people should be one of the greatest sources of inspiration and connection and joy and love and instead they are a constant source of stress and frustration and energy drain and they do not have to be and it is this invisible obstacle
that is in everybody's way, that is stealing your time, is stealing your energy, and you don't even realize it. And there's a totally different way to go through life. Your single most valuable resources are time and energy. Because where you spend your time and what you pour your energy into determines the quality of your life. And what I started to notice very, very, very quickly, like within 24 hours, is that the reason why I didn't have a lot of time is because I was spending it getting worked up about stupid things. The reason why my energy was so drained is because I was allowing other people's behavior or things that were happening around me to actually drain my energy. And saying let them became this lever I could pull any moment where I felt my time and attention.
getting sucked towards something that truly wasn't worth my time and energy or didn't matter or more importantly beyond my control and as you talk about all the time and as lots of people talk about it's not about what's happening it's about how you respond to it and the problem that i've always had with stoicism or letting it go or principles that are about being more peaceful and boundaries is that i never knew how to apply it like let's take the concept of let it go I don't want to let it go. Why don't you? Well, I'll tell you why. It feels like I'm losing. When somebody says to you, Lewis, you just got to let it go, they're basically saying you lose, so stop worrying about it. That person won. You got to let it go.
What if there's an example of like, okay, someone in your company steals $100,000 from you or takes something from you or does something that you're like, do I just let it go?
Well, it's a great question.
Do I just let them take whatever they want? Do I just let them crap all over me all day long?
Because that actually happened to me. So I had two things happen in my company, one where we had a contractor that literally stole our database and lied about a campaign that we thought we were paying for that was going on and it never actually happened and they presented fake data. Now, I have to let them because it happened and I didn't know until I discovered it too late. But there's a second part to this theory. Because, of course, I'm going to get upset and I'm going to be pissed off. But allowing myself to stay in that state of rage, what I know is it doesn't allow me to leverage this part of my brain to then respond. And that's the second part of this theory that I discovered, which is once you say let them, you detach from the thing you can't control.
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