u/ImtheHBIC

“These 3 words came to me in 2014.

I was fresh out of a divorce, I had lost millions when the real estate market took a dump, I was depressed and lost. I had “played by the rules” had the family and house and business, I was making millions but I was lost.

By all definition i was “successful” but I didn’t know who the hell I was, why I was here, or why I was doing everything I was doing other than that’s how other were doing it, so I burned it all down, and asked God “now what?”

One day I was thumbing through a magazine and these 3 words popped into my mind: LIONS NOT SHEEP.

it didn’t mean anything to me at the time but it wouldn’t leave my brain and I kept thinking about it over and over. Eventually, I wrote it on my bathroom mirror and looked at it every day. It became a mantra, then I got it

A lion does whatever it wants.
A sheep does what everyone else is doing.

It was so simple, yet it changed me.

I realized I had been doing, and saying, and living, and praying, and following what I had been programmed was “normal” and what everyone else did. I did it how I had been shown, and I followed the plan.

But I felt diffent things.
I wanted different things.

I didn’t want to work for 50 years and get a gold watch then start traveling the world.

I didn’t want to not question because it made others uncomfortable, I wanted answers to questions that were uncomfortable.

I didn’t want to keep a muzzle on my mouth because it might get me in trouble, I wanted to test the edges and feel more.

I wanted to do it how I wanted to do it.

I wanted to live a life in my terms and build it my way.

These 3 words were never a coaching company or tee shirt brand.

They were a mantra and instructions for a guy who went on a journey to discover what’s possible. To explore the edges of reality, and to live every second of every day as a lion, roaming and hunting and building and living as the king of his own world, vs hiding in the masses doing what everyone else was doing.

people often ask me “Lions Not Sheep, what does it mean?” my answer is the same every time. “WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS” they will respond… “to be a lion not a sheep?” All I do is smile”

She never did get into the Den, and had to dispute the charges with her credit card, since the Lyin’ Den auto-charged her card twice, iirc.