The Mindset Mentor - 3 Questions to a Happier Life

Episode Date: April 26, 2019

Episode 577 - There is so much resistance in your life that you don't even realize is there. The problem is that you also don't realize how much it slows you down on a daily basis. If you were able to remove that resistance, you would finally be able to run at full speed. We are talking about the most efficient version of yourself. In this episode, I will teach you how to identify the places of most resistance in your life and how to get rid of them. 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

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So today we're going to be talking about is removing your resistance. So this is something I've never talked about on the podcast. This is something that is a huge integral part of my life. And I usually teach this to most, if not all of my one-on-one clients, if it's necessary. I was having a conversation with my best friend, Dean, a couple weeks ago, and he was talking about resistance. And he wasn't realizing that he was talking about resistance. But what I've come to realize is that there's things that I love to do in my life.

There's things that I hate doing in my life. I hate sending emails. If you've ever sent me an email, I apologize. There's a pretty good chance you've never gotten a response to me because number one, I hate sending emails, period. But I get hundreds of emails. So I just don't have any time to respond to them. So the thing about removing resistance is I don't like doing emails. So guess what I don't do? Emails. And so what I've come to do of building my own business,

and even before I had my own business and I was working for other companies, I would remove resistance. I would outsource the things that I didn't want to do. The great thing about living in the day and age that we live in right now is that to be completely honest with you, we can hire a virtual assistant to do the things that we don't want to do for $5 an hour in the Philippines that will be able to do a much better job than us, or at least as good. They'll get paid a lot of money in their money over in the Philippines or wherever it is they might be, and you have more free time to focus on the things that will make you more money. So when I say remove resistance, what I mean is this. I try to remove resistance from my life. So people think that it's crazy that I'm able to run a

successful business and only work about three to four hours a day. And this is something that I've worked really, really hard at doing. And what I come to realize is this. In most companies, in most people's, if you're a salesperson, if you own your own company, if you're a CEO, whatever it is, you have $10 an hour jobs and you have $1,000 an hour jobs. Anything that's a $10 an hour job, I don't do and I pay somebody else to do. Anything that's a $1,000 an hour job, I do on my own. And it's usually about three to four hours of work for $1,000 an hour per job. $1,000 an hour job, I do on my own. And it's usually about three to four hours of work for a thousand dollar an hour per job. A thousand dollar per hour job is what I would call it. So there's things that I don't like to do. Emails I don't like doing, research I don't like doing, Excel spreadsheets I don't like doing, any of those things I don't like doing. I don't do

any of them. I hire people under me to do the things that I don't want to do. Now you might be listening to this and say, Rob, that sounds great, but you know, I only make $40,000 a year. And you know, I'm like, for instance, I'll give you an example. I'm $40,000 per year. And you know, I'm a base level salary as a salesperson. And you're like, I don't have enough money to hire somebody. What I would say is still find a way to hire somebody, even if it's just five hours per week, right? You pay them $5 per hour, whatever it is that you end up paying a virtual assistant. That's $25 per week. Let's say it's 10. Let's say 10. Let's say 10 hours per week, paying five bucks per hour. That's $50, right? Now you have 10 more hours. You have 25% more time as a sales rep, 10 more hours, 25% more time to make sales calls. That $10, excuse me, that $50 that you're spending, because five times 10,

is going to be paid back exponentially because you're not doing the research on your customers. So you could say with this virtual assistant, they could go on LinkedIn and they could find the email addresses and the phone numbers for your prospects, right? Maybe you spend your time doing that. So now what you're going to do is you're going to have them do all of that. That's the resistance side of it. That's the things that you didn't like doing. And now you can make the sales calls and make way more money. So what I want you to think about when you hear about removing resistance is I want you to take out a pen and paper. And if you're not driving, if you're sitting down at your desk right now and you're listening to me because you don't want to be working in the first place,

maybe take out a pen and paper and put on one side of the sheet or on one piece of paper, put things that I love doing. And on the next sheet, put things that I hate doing. And you make a massive list of the things that you love doing. And you make a massive list of the things that you hate doing. And you figure out how can you outsource the things that you don't want to do and spend more time doing the things that you do want to do. A book that I would recommend that really changed my life and my perspective on all of this is The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Some of you guys knew I was gonna say that. The four-hour work week by Tim Ferriss is incredible for changing your perspective

of what you should be doing and what you shouldn't be doing. There's resistance in all areas of our lives. So there's resistance in your relationships. What's your resistance and how can you get past that resistance so you don't feel it anymore? There's resistance in your work.

How can you get past that resistance? You know, there's resistance in every aspect of your life. What is the resistance? Where is it? And how can you remove it? So you don't see it anymore. Now I'll give you another example, just a simple example. Okay. So for me, another simple example is I just bought a new computer. And the reason why I bought a new computer, uh, even though I didn't need a new computer, um, and it's, you know, $3,000 MacBook that I got used for cheaper, but it's a $3,000 MacBook I spent money on to buy, even though I didn't need a new computer. But I bought it because every once in a while, a few times a month, I have to edit

4K videos. And so I learned, you know, if I get a souped up MacBook, I'll be able to edit these videos a little bit quicker. Now I know that I hate editing videos. That is my resistance. And so my mindset is this. If I have resistance towards editing a video, then I'm going to have resistance towards shooting the video. And I'm going to have resistance towards planning the video. In the back of my mind, I know if I start planning a video, then I'm going to go, oh, damn, but eventually I have to edit this thing. So what I thought to myself was, do I need a new computer? No.

Would it make it less resistance in my life if I had a new computer? Yes. Okay, so is it worth it? Yes, it is. I'll spend the extra money to make sure I get the things done that I need to get done. Because if I'm trying to make videos to... If you don't know that most of my podcast episodes are also YouTube videos as well. So if I'm trying to make videos and podcast episodes as well, it would make it much easier if I could not have to think about editing it in the long run. If I edit it quicker, then I'll be more likely

to shoot the video. If I'm more likely to shoot the video, then I'm more likely to plan the video. So I'm trying to remove this resistance throughout the whole process of, I know that if I edit and it's going to take a long time, there's going to be resistance for me planning the video and shooting the video in the first place. And I have to shoot and I have to plan it. So I learned I'm going to pay the extra money to remove the resistance because I know in the long run, I will make more money by paying to remove the resistance right now. So the questions I have for you are this. Number one, what are the things that you love to do? And on the other side, number two, what are the things that you hate doing? Make a list of both of those. And then

question number three is how can you pay somebody else or outsource somebody in your company that you currently have to do all of the things that you need to do that you hate doing? If you're a small business owner, you've got a couple of employees. One of the things that one of the places where most business owners fail, if not the number one place they fail is delegation. They can't delegate things. They feel like they have to do everything on their own. Can you delegate all of the things that you hate doing? With me,

I delegate all of the things that I hate doing. When I ran my first business, you know, and I had a couple hundred salespeople that were under me and I was working 110 hours a week, I could not delegate anything. I was terrible at it. Why do you think I burnt out? Well, because I was literally burning myself out by trying to do everything. One of the things I always try to do is can I delegate first? And if I can't, is this something that I need to do? So that's what you need to figure out. Question number one, what are the things that you love to do? Question number two, what are the things that you hate doing? And question number three, the things that you hate doing, how can you pay somebody to do those things for you? So that's

what I've got for you for today's episode. How can you remove the resistance from your life? If you're interested in learning how to start your very first business or to take your business and make it even more successful or to put it online or how to start an online business based on something that you're passionate about, join Tony Robbins thing. I promise you I'm going to be on there as well. I've already seen the course. I'm part of the course. I've seen everything he's gonna be teaching. It's incredible, and I know it's gonna be good for you.

Go to 2019tony.com, so 2019tony.com. Sign up, register. It's on April 30th. It's a one-time only live event he's gonna be hosting. I will be on there. I hope you guys are gonna to be there as well. But I'm going to leave it the same way every single episode.

Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.