The Mindset Mentor - 1 Year vs 1 Decade

Episode Date: March 17, 2017

Episode 246 -  "People overestimate what they can do in a year but underestimate what they can do in a decade." In this episode I talk about the importance of being patient and building a strong foundation for your life and your success. Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube

Hey, real quick, before we start today, are you struggling with achieving your goals or have you ever set a goal or New Year's resolution and then not achieved it? Well, I have a free ebook for you called Hack Your Goals, the step-by-step guide to achieving success that you can download like thousands and thousands of people already have. Just go to mwfmotivation.com and download it there. Okay, I'll get you to the podcast right now. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast, one of the top rated motivational podcasts in the world. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I come out with a short, to the point, no BS podcast designed

to transform you from who you are today into who you want to be. There's no fluff here, just life-changing content. My name is Rob Dial, and the podcast starts now. Welcome. Today, we're going to be talking about one of my favorite quotes by Tony Robbins, and that quote is this, most people overestimate what they can do in a year, but they underestimate what they can do in a decade. And what that means is this. I have a lot of conversations with people who listen to my podcast and my coaching clients in my one-on-one coaching and my group coaching as well. And this is 100% true. People overestimate what they can do in a year, but they underestimate,

they overestimate what they can do in a year, but they underestimate what they can do in a decade or what they can do in a lifetime. Most people want things to happen right away. They want them to happen right away. Not realizing that if you're going to build something successful, whether that's a successful business or whether that's a successful life, the way that you do it is by putting time in and realizing that you don't have to take one big giant step to success. It's just little teeny tiny steps every single day towards your destination. Most people think that they can start a business today and be making $100,000 by the end of the year. That's a pretty rare case. For you to start a business today and to become profitable by the end of the year is pretty rare in itself. But for you to start a business today and grow it to millions of dollars

within the next decade is definitely possible because people overestimate what they can do in a short period of time, like a year, and they underestimate what they can do in a decade. So the question that I have for you and the thing that I want you to consider is this, are you playing the long game or are you trying to get the immediate gratification? Because in 2017, most people are just shooting for the immediate gratification. And the reason why is because naturally with the way communication works, with technology, with all of these things that are out nowadays, we want instant gratification. If I want to know how far the sun is from the moon, I can immediately

put it in Google and within seconds, I can know what it is. Do you remember what that was like? If you're older, if you're 10, 15, 20 years ago before Google existed, if you wanted to know something like that, you'd have to go to the library. You'd have to look and hope that there was an encyclopedia that had the letters that you needed in order to find out that answer. Otherwise you would just never out that answer. Otherwise, you would just never know that answer. That was the truth of what it actually was. You would never know that answer if it was not in the encyclopedia. Now, Google could give it to you in an instant. So most people, we want instant gratification because we're so used to instant gratification

with how great technology is nowadays. We're used to the instant gratification. In 1980, the average person's attention span was 29 minutes. In 2017, the average person attention span is eight seconds. Eight seconds from 29 minutes. If that doesn't show you right there of how much we want immediate gratification or how much we're at least used to immediate gratification, nothing will. So if you want to build a successful life or you want to build a successful business, what you need to do is you need to ask yourself, am I playing the short game or am I playing the long game? Because you have to think about it.

If you are trying to build a successful business or successful life, it doesn't happen overnight and it definitely doesn't happen in a year. But if it's important to you, if what you're doing, if what you're working for is important to you, you'll be okay with putting three to five to 10 years into building it. Because when you build it that way, when you build a strong foundation, think of it this way. If you're building a house, do you want the guys that are building your house to come in and lay a foundation that they can get done in 10 minutes? Or do you want them to spend a week laying the foundation for your house? You want them to spend a week. You want them to put time and make sure that it's perfect.

Make sure there's no cracks and make sure that it's leveled, right? Because you're going to be building your house on top of it. Well, then ask yourself this question. What type of foundation are you building for your business? What type of foundation are you building for your success? Is it really quick? Is it trying to get, you know, that immediate, that, that, uh, cement to come in and the quick dry cement? Are you just throwing it in there and building that foundation on your life and your business? Or are you taking your time and making sure that you're doing the right things day in and day out so that that foundation is perfect so the house that you build on top of it will end up being safe on that foundation for a hundred years? And that's exactly how you have to think about your life.

Think about your life as if you were building a house. You want the best foundation you can possibly get. And the way to get the best foundation is to spend time on building the foundation. Greatness takes time. A great business takes time. A great life takes time. So people overestimate what they can do in a year, but they underestimate what they can do in a decade. So if you like this episode, please subscribe. And please do me one favor, share this with one person, send it to them in an email today,

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