The Mindset Mentor - Be Humble

Episode Date: August 6, 2018

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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 subscribe to us, however you listen to us. What we're going to be talking about today is humbling yourself. When was the last time that you humbled yourself?

And you might be asking, what do I mean by that? I mean by taking yourself out of your head, out of your day-to-day process, out of the same crap that you do, usually probably routines, and completely humbling yourself. I mean completely taking the legs out from under yourself and putting them into a humbling experience. You know, when people always talk about going onto your knees, that's a humbling experience. Well, if you were to take your legs out from under yourself and humble yourself, what would you need to do to do that? And think about

this. Most of the world's problems and most of your problems, I'm sorry to say it, it's you as well, it's all of us, but most of the world's problems comes from selfishness. Most of your problems come from selfishness. You are most likely a selfish person. We are all selfish people unless we push ourselves to be selfless. We are naturally selfish. And that's probably why if you're not happy with where you are, why you always want more, or why you're complaining or worrying about where you currently are, worrying about the future, the reason why is because you're focusing on yourself. You're focusing on yourself too much. And the problem is that we're so caught up in the day-to-day BS that we have that we don't take any time to get outside of ourselves,

to get outside of our heads, and to really look at how great our lives actually are. And I love getting people... I love getting emails from people who listen to the show. I honestly, honestly love emails. So please don't stop emailing me. But I get so many emails and most of them are just complaining or venting to me about how they're not happy with where their life is or they're not happy with where they are. They want more. And I'm going to give you a warning right now. I'm going to give you a hard moment. This is going to be a gut shot to you. If you're not happy with where you are right now, the reason why is because you are selfish. You're selfish. If you're not happy with where you are, if you're not happy with your current

life, if you're worrying about where you are, if you're worrying about your future, if you're worrying about anything else, if you're constantly thinking about those things, you are selfish. Eesh, sorry, I had to say it. Why do I say that though? Because if you are not happy with where you are and you want to be further along than you are, then who are you focusing on? If you noticed, there's a lot of you's in there. Because most of the time, we're not happy when we're not excited about where we are, when we're not excited about the future., when we're not excited about the future, when we're thinking about ourselves the entire time, you're focusing on yourself most of the time. You see what I mean? When you are not happy with where you are and you want to be further along than you are, who are you focusing on?

You're focusing on yourself. So when you're so busy concentrating on yourself, it makes it hard to help others. When you take a step back and you help other people that need help more than you do, it is a humbling experience because it makes you go, holy crap, what am I really complaining about? What am I really focusing on? You realize that you're complaining all the time in your head or worrying all the time in your head. And there's so many more people in the world who need more money, who need more help, more resources, more happiness, much more than you do. And that's where the humbling comes into play. You are humbled when you see someone else's

problems compared to yours, and then you get your legs kicked in. That's the humbling experience. When was the last time that you visited or helped out at a hospice or a nursing home, or you worked at a soup kitchen, or you stopped judging people who are homeless and panhandling on the side of the road and just gave them some food? When was the last time that you did that? And some of you might be listening to saying, holy crap, it's been years or holy crap, I've never done that. That's the humbling experience. You know, when you read something about somebody who is 35 years old and dying, 20 years old and dying, and you're like, holy crap, I have a lot more than I need. When you see stuff happening over in the Middle East and countries like Syria and the city of

Aleppo, and you see all of the bombing and the kids getting bombed. And you're like, you can't watch that type of stuff and think that my life personally sucks. It's a humbling experience. And then you go, I actually need to really concentrate on what I do have and realize how grateful I should be and how blessed I actually am. And in my group coaching, every once in a while, we do something called a 10-day challenge. We've done a 10-day meditation challenge. We've done a 10-day habit challenge. Currently, we're on the 10-day do good challenge. And what we're doing for these 10 days is we're all putting up videos of the good things that we're doing for other people, being completely selfless. We're trying to focus on being selfless instead of selfish.

And the reason why is because it takes your scarcity away. It puts you into an abundance mindset. You either have one of two mindsets, abundance or scarcity. 99% of people in the world are constantly in a scarcity mindset that they don't have enough money. They don't have enough of anything. They don't have a nice enough house. They need a bigger house or a nicer car. That's scarcity. Thinking that you're going to run out of money. When you have money problems, usually the problems are inside of your head. You have a scarcity problem with money. And some people, it's funny because in the 10-day challenge, I love all of the different ideas. People putting like 10 bucks in a red box and saying, enjoy some treats on us and then putting

it back into the machine so the next person gets it gets that. Things like putting notes inside of people's mailboxes that are in your neighborhood, just saying something nice. Buying something for somebody behind you in the drive-thru, all of these different things. And it's funny because some people did not want to do anything monetary. You could start to notice this. And what I said is try to do at least half of them in a monetary sense. And the reason why is because if you focus on giving away money at some point in time and doing something. I'll give you an example. Today, I put up in the group coaching in the 10-day challenge.

I gave 50 bucks to an acquaintance who got into an ATV accident. And there was one of those GoFundMe pages. That's giving my money away, which I'm not trying to give myself a pat on the back. What I'm trying to actually teach you is psychologically what this does to you when you give your money away. When you give your money away to somebody else and then realize that you still have money to survive, enough to survive in your bank account, that starts to take your scarcity away because your mind starts to make the connection of, wait, hold on. I can give some of this away and I can still survive. That gets rid of scarcity, just so you know.

And so what I always say is like, why don't you give a couple bucks to somebody? Why don't you buy the person behind you in Starbucks their coffee? Why don't you do these types of things? If you do it, it will release the problems that you have with money, the mindset that you have with money, the scarcity and the psychology problems that you have with money or scarcity of anything else. The crazy part is when you humble yourself and help others, two things will happen. Number one, you will really realize how much you do have and how blessed you really are.

You will realize that you have more than you need. And your scarcity mindset will start to disappear. The more that you give away, the more that you will actually start to get your scarcity mindset to disappear as well. I'm just going to say this too, as cliche as it sounds, the more that you give away, I promise you this too, the more that you will get back. It's funny that the more that I give away, I've been giving away in this 10-day challenge,

the more money has actually come into my bank account. It's the way the universe works. I can't explain it. I just know the more I give away, the more you give, the more you get. I just know that that cliche phrase is not a bunch of BS. That's what I can 100% factually say that it works for me all the time. So that's the first thing. When you give a lot away, you realize how much you really have and how blessed you really are. And number two, the second thing that happens

when you humble yourself is you'll actually become happier. is you'll actually become happier. All of that, doing something for somebody else will make you happier. You know, I had so much fun last week when I had this idea to do the 10-day challenge. I had so much fun that it was the very first day and when I was like, all right, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna buy a huge packet of water.

I'm gonna buy a huge packet of crackers. And then I'm going to go out and buy a bunch of burgers. I went to Wendy's, bought a bunch of burgers. And then I bought the meal for the person behind me in the drive-thru. And then I gave out all of these burgers to these people who were on the side of the streets. I gave them waters. I gave them crackers, gave them all these things. And it made me so happy to do something that had nothing to do with me. That's the crazy thing about it. It made me happier by making these other people happy. And it's a humbling experience. One of the guys could not speak. He was completely mute. And he was so appreciative. I could see him trying to say thank you.

But he was so appreciative that I gave him burgers and then I wasn't able to give him water. And he looked like he was really hot because I was literally... The light was green and I was driving. I had to slow down super quick, hand it to him and then go. I went around the block and came back and gave the guy water. And when I came back, you could see how appreciative he was that somebody came back and actually cared about him. That's a humbling experience, number one. And number two, it made me happy to see him happy as well. So the thing that I want you to do, the mission that I have for you,

the assignment that I have for you is do something today that doesn't do anything for you. It does something for somebody else. And I guarantee you, you will get rid of your scarcity mindset. You will be happy and you'll realize how much you actually have. So with that, I'm you, you will get rid of your scarcity mindset. You will be happy and you'll realize how much you actually have. So with that, I'm going to leave you the same way I've leave you

every single episode so far. Make it your mission today to make somebody else's day better. Now it really means a lot. So make it your mission day to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you all. I hope you go out and do something good for somebody and I hope that you have an amazing day. Well, that's it for today's podcast. If you want the show notes for this episode, they can be found at mwfmotivation.com. Also, if you liked this episode, please spread the love and share it with a friend because it's our mission to help as many people as we can. And to keep in touch, you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Both handles are at MWFMotivation with no spaces. Now you know what time it is. So go out and make your dreams a reality. Outro Music