You know there's some people that when you hang out with them, you just feel worse. You feel worse about yourself. You feel worse about your life. You hit a lot more negative. Suddenly your hopes and dreams are crushed. You feel like you have to go home and nap or shower or something. You just don't feel yourself. You feel icky, gooey, like, man, why am I so low? There are people who just sap your energy.

And part of being an optimistic person is you wanna pour into others, you know, you want to encourage others, you wanna be the light for them, and at the same time, you have to protect your own peace that you can't only pour in others and have it suck away your energy. And so there are people who, you know, who you're just pouring into pouring into and pouring into and they're just taking, taking, taking, taking, and you feel drained by the end of it. So do an audit. Do an energy audit on the people in your life and the ones that are making you feel amazing and you leave them and, like, time flew and you feel so unstoppable leaving? Cool. Like, find ways. Fight for ways to spend more time with them. Need motivation?

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Hey, it's Evan Carmichael, and I watch these videos every day because I need them for motivation. Being around successful entrepreneurs every morning helps me believe that I can do great things too. It's like your morning coffee, but for your goals, kick starting your day

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And the people who make you feel worse about yourself, that you suck, that you're never gonna make it, that these ideas you have are stupid, spend less time with them or eliminate them. Some of them you can just get rid of. Some of them maybe, you know, people that you went to kindergarten with or high school with, and you've outgrown them. You know, we're in friendships out of convenience, not out of people that you're actually selecting. And so you've outgrown some people, and it's time to move on. It doesn't mean you have to call them and tell them that they suck and that you're better than them now and you're moving on. You just stop spending time with them. Make yourself more inaccessible.

And some of the people are harder to do, and you don't even necessarily want to completely get rid of. Right? Like maybe it's your mom. Maybe your mom is always negative. Maybe your mom was always telling you that that you're doing the wrong thing. And in those situations, you probably don't want to get rid of your mom, although some people have done that and cut their parents or negative family members out of their life. But the my best guidance is you just limit access to the person and to the topics. So maybe you don't have to call your mom every day. And or if you do, then don't talk about work.

Talk about other things. Like, are there enough other things that you can talk about with these family members that doesn't leave you feeling down, feeling blue, feeling like you're not gonna make it? And so limiting access to the person, in terms of number of hours, and or limiting access to the topics that you talk about, and it's just you getting more comfortable setting boundaries. Because as you let people walk over you, they will continue to walk over you. You You set boundaries. You don't have to be rude. You don't have to be mean. You don't have to be controversial. You don't have to raise your voice.

You don't have to get angry. But you can set your boundaries and say, I'm not talking about this with you right now. And you train them. Like, they've trained you that it's okay to talk about this. Now you train them that it's not okay to talk about this.

Rule number 2, identify what motivates you.

When you can identify the thing that makes you come alive, because we've all felt it. Everybody has felt boldness and courage at some point. What led to that? Were you listening to something? Were you reading a book? Was were you listening to Samuel's podcast? Were you dancing? Were you like, what were you doing? And then just put that as part of your daily routine. Right? Like, if if Samuel's podcast is the thing that gets you feeling motivated, cool,

he's got 40 plus more episodes to go and listen to. Start your day with them and then go listen to them back, and he's making new ones all the time.

Right? It's like when you identify those things, it might have been accidental. Like, if you're listening to Samuel's show for the first time, maybe you came across it by accident, and you were searching for me, and you found this tool.

Now don't make

it accidental. Make it intentional. Plan for it so that tomorrow morning when you wake up, you get that same energy burst to give you the motivation, belief, confidence, courage

to go off and have a great day.

Rule number 3. Belief.

I like to say the belief or lack of

belief is the world's biggest problem. I

think everybody has what I call Michael Jordan level genius at something, but we're not doing it because we either

are too afraid to start.

We don't believe in ourselves enough to try, or we don't believe that it will work out. But at the end of the day, you could be great at something, and it's probably not what your parents did, and it's probably not, you know, what you went to school for, what your guidance counselor told you to go off and do. It's something totally different, but you could be the best in the world at something. And you're not because you don't believe in yourself to chase it down.

Rule number 4, play bigger triggers.