The Mindset Mentor - Adversity is Your Friend

Episode Date: August 10, 2017

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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 to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, please hit the subscribe button.

And also, if you have not yet signed up to put yourself into the drawing for the free month of one-on-one coaching with me, today is the last day. So you have to go to 9spokes.com slash Rob Dial. So once again, the number 9spokes, like spokes on a bike tire.com slash Rob Dial to sign up. And I'll be pulling the winner from a hat at random. And I'll be letting you guys know who that winner is as well. So go ahead and sign up. Today's the last day, ninespokes.com slash robdial. So, but what I'm going to talk about today is adversity and how adversity is actually what makes you. It's what defines you. And I wanted to do an episode solely based on adversity. And the reason why is because I want to help you if you're going

through crap, or I want to help you when you eventually do go through crap, because here's the thing about life. You will go through adversity at some point again, before you die, you will, I will, we all will. That is life. Adversity will hit every single one of us. People will die. Businesses will fail. People will let us down. We will run out of money. We will get hit by a car. We will get into car accidents. We will, you know, whatever. Things will be going really well. And then they're going to hit rock bottom and fall out. And the economy is going to take a dump, which just so you know, if you haven't planned ahead, do some research. The

economy is going to drop in the next six to nine months at the latest. So it's not going to stay great and peachy and amazing forever. Just so you guys know, do research on that. Not going to talk about it anymore, but I'm calling it. It's going to happen. It's a fact. It has to happen based on the way that the cycles work. So adversity is a given. It's going to happen no matter what. We all have a choice to do what we will do when that adversity hits though. If we expect that someday it will eventually happen, then we can deal with it the correct way when it does. Because here's the deal. What you do and what you become when adversity hits is where your story is written. Imagine that your life story is just one big book. This is how I imagine my story. It's one

big book or one big movie because I eventually will write a book one day and that adversity gives me a better plot twist. It gives me the like phoenix coming out of the fire story of how I overcame it. And so I look at these adversities that I get and I'm like, hell yes, I have some adversity because this is how awesome my story is going to be when I overcome this crap. And that's the thing that I see. I see nothing and I mean nothing ever that will hold me back from what I want to do and what I want to become. Nothing. If I get hit by a... I was about to cuss. Sorry, guys. If I get hit by a freaking truck, this is how passionate I am. If I get hit by a mother effing truck when I wake up in the morning

and I'm in the hospital for the next three years, it will not stop me from getting to where I want to be. And that's how you should be as well. It's just part of my success story. Whatever happens, the adversity that happens to you is part of your success story. I recommend that you think of things the exact same way. If you screwed up your whole life and you're 45 years old and it's all been crap and bad mistakes and everybody hates you and you've got absolutely nothing. Imagine that it's a movie starting right now and it just started and you're the one guy who's in the absolute terrible position that's addicted to

heroin, that's got all those crazy things. Your story, that movie starts right now and it's going to have a great ending if you work towards making it a great ending. Know that adversity will eventually hit you. And when it does, react to it the right way as if it's just a game. Because that's how I see my whole life. It's just a game. These things are trying me to build my character. Those moments of trying times, that's what will build your character. Show me a successful person and I guarantee you that you will be showing me someone who's been scraped through crap that has had their body just drug across the coals for a long time. I guarantee you they haven't had an easy path. Don't make

excuses as to why you're not successful and they are. Oh, they had a better life than I did. Oh, they had a better upbringing. My parents hated me. They told me all of these things and I was beaten as a kid. And listen, that's terrible if that happened. But that doesn't need to define what somebody else did to you doesn't need to define what the rest of your life is going to be. What you've done in the past doesn't need to define what you're going to be. Don't tell me somebody had it easy. Nobody ever has it easy. There's a good chance that somebody may have had it harder than you, but they just don't look at it because it's the tip of the iceberg. You see the tip of the iceberg, which is a success. You don't see the miles and miles under all the crap they had to go through to get there. They always say

that an overnight success takes 10 years to get there because you just see the success. You don't see it. Like I told you, a few episodes ago when I told you about how there was a few months where I was literally living off just pasta, 88 cents box of pasta from Walmart and $1.88 for the pasta sauce. That's what I lived off for, for a few months. And people don't look at that part and go, oh yeah, well this probably person was successful and they have all of this stuff, whatever it might be. They must've had it easy. Nobody's ever really had it easy. Sure. They might've had it easier than you and they might be successful, but that shouldn't be your excuse because I guarantee there's been somebody that's had it harder than you that has been successful. It's adversity. Adversity is fun.

It's a game and it's fun if you make it that way. And that's what I try to do in my head. I have it be part of my story. And here's the thing. Don't wish for less adversity. Don't wish for less problems. Wish for more skills. If you're hoping for a world with less problems and waiting for that to come to you, then you will be waiting the rest of your life. Develop your skills. Become better. Because here's the deal. We are all just pretty insignificant beings floating on a tiny rock through an infinite amount of space. Our problems in reality are pretty much nothing.

They mean nothing. And you're going to die some way. I'm going to die some, you're going to die someday. I'm going to die someday. Someday might be soon. And I don't know about you, but I want to be remembered in a thousand years. What drives me every single day is the fact that I know I'm going to die. And I want to have a legacy so strong that people are talking about me in a thousand years. What drives me every single day is the fact that I know I'm going to die.

And I want to have a legacy so strong that people are talking about me in a thousand years, not for my own dead man ego, but for me to know when I leave that I did so much good in the world that I'm still going to be talked about in a thousand years. So no matter what your life is at this point, no matter how good or how bad it is, whenever the adversity hits, if you're going through adversity now, it's your freaking story. And the movie starts right now. What are you going to do to overcome it? If your life was a story, if your life was a book, if it was a movie, would it be some boring story that nobody wants to watch and no movie that somebody wants to go and pay money to go see? Or would it be something awesome? Because here's the deal. Adversity is going to hit. How we react to it is going to define what our life is going to be. So change your mindset about adversity and realize that it's going to happen no matter what.

I just got fired up. Went off on a tangent there for a second. I want to be remembered in a thousand years for doing really good stuff in this world. And like I said, not for my old dead ego in a thousand years because I'll be dead in a thousand years, sadly. But because of the fact that that's what I want to be doing. So you should know that you're going to die at one day and your adversity will happen. And how you work with that adversity will define what your story is going to be.

See it as a game. See it as a story. See it as a movie. And realize that when it hits, that's just the plot twist and you need to figure out how to overcome it. So with that, if you know somebody that's going through a lot of crap right now, send them this episode, please. And let them know that there is something to work for all the time and they will get through it eventually because it's ebbs and flows, ups and downs. It's all cycles. That's how your life is

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