The Mindset Mentor - Being Lucky vs Being Intentional

Episode Date: June 26, 2017

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send me an email, rob at mwfmotivation.com, and I can send you the information on the trial period for the group coaching. All right, today what I'm going to be talking about is intention. Okay, I'm going to talk about intention. I'm also going to talk about luck. And I want to bring this up because I think it's important. And this is, I hope that it doesn't come across this way when I keep bringing up that I'm living

in Rome and we're traveling Europe and those things. I don't want to come off as though I'm bragging. I want to come off as though I am a normal person, just a normal guy. And I decided to do this. You can do this as well. This was my dream. I'm nobody special. You can do this as well if that's what your dream is. But whatever your dream is, you can do it. And, uh, what I'm going to talk about is luck versus intention. And I had some, I had a couple of people, I've been posting stuff, pictures on Facebook, on the group, um, you know, just, just different videos on MWF motivation, uh, which is facebook.com slash MWF motivation. I've been posting videos and pictures around Rome. And, uh, and I've had a couple of people say, oh my gosh, it's so beautiful. You're so lucky. You're so lucky. You're so lucky. And I understand their intention was not to say, hey, the luck of the

draw, I happened to just win the lottery to be able to move here. But I think it's important to think about it in a certain way because whenever you tell someone they're lucky, even though you don't mean it in this way, it also comes off as like, hey, you didn't do the work to get there. And I don't see me living in Rome as being lucky. I see it as intention. That's really what it was. And most people, they have a little bit of an idea of what they want in life, but they

never are extremely clear on what it is that they want. They never get completely clear on what it is that they want. And they never get completely clear on what it is and give themselves a deadline and work every freaking day towards it. And so I want to use myself as an example to allow you to listen to this and go, how can I take this lesson and do it on my own? So last year, my girlfriend and I, we came out to Rome. We came, you know, a bunch of different places. We were here for two weeks and we were traveling around. This was last September. Around probably, you know, October, right when we got back, we talked about, hey man, it would be really great to move out there. Is it possible? How can we make sure that's done? I own a house in Austin. I'd have to get it rented out.

I'd have to do all of these different things, right? And then so we're like, all right, let's make it happen. Let's figure out a way to make it happen. And this was, you know, right around November, December, we decided, yep, we're definitely 100% going to be moving. And so what I did was I set my intention and I worked every single day at it. And so here's what I did just to give you an idea. I made the decision with her. We both made the decision. We're going to be moving out to Rome. Okay. When are we going to be doing it by? Okay. We're going to be doing it by July 1st, 2017. Perfect. Now we got to work towards that every single day. And what I did was I had my number one, my number two, and my number three goals

for this year, 2017, my number one goal for 2017. And I had it everywhere you could possibly see it. I had it next to my work desk on my whiteboard. I had it in my bathroom. Whenever I went and washed my hands, I could see it because I wrote it on the mirror. And it said, goal number one for 2017, live in Italy by July 1st, 2017. I put the date down. I was very intentional. And then every single morning when I did my meditation, every single morning when I did my meditation, that's part of my morning routine. I visualize my top three goals and I would visualize living in Rome every single

morning. And when you visualize what it is that you want every single morning and get excited about it. And I would see myself, I would see myself living here. I would see myself eating the pasta and eating the pizza because honestly, that's one of the things I was most excited about it. And I would see myself, I would see myself living here. I would see myself eating the pasta and eating the pizza, because honestly, that's one of the things I was most excited about. But eating the pasta, eating the pizza, walking through the beautiful streets, talking with these people, trying to learn the language, you know, traveling around Europe, all of these things. When you see that every single morning in your mind's eye, when you're visualizing it, it's hard not to become excited to work your freaking tail off every single day if that's how you start your day. And so I want you to realize there was a lot of

planning. There was a lot of intention. There was a lot of goal setting in actually writing out what is the roadmap to get there by July 1st, 2017. That's the important thing to understand. And so it looks from the outside looking in that I'm lucky that I live here. And I do think I'm blessed to be here. I am incredibly happy that I live here. But I don't think luck plays in it at all. It's not like I won the lottery. That's luck.

If you look at Michael Jordan, you don't go, oh yeah, he was just lucky. No, he figured out what he wanted and he worked every day to get to it. And that's what you have to realize. Whatever you want to do, whether if you want to move somewhere or if you want to have a happy family or if you want to buy a house or if you want to be able to take your kids on vacation or you want to be able to put your kids through college or whatever it is that you want to do. There's not luck involved in those. It's intention. What it is, is being extremely clear on exactly what it is that you want. Extremely clear what it is that you want. Know in detail. You give yourself a date of when you're going to hit it. You visualize it every single morning and you make a plan to get that goal hit before that date comes up

Because you might be listening to this episode and say well wait, it's not if your goal is to be there by july 1st It's not july 1st That's right. We got out here on june 1st because I was so freaking excited because I visualized it every single morning That I was like, I don't want to wait till july 1st Can we get there sooner and then we looked at plane tickets and I was like wait june't want to wait till July 1st. Can we get there sooner? And then we looked at plane tickets and I was like, wait, June 1st has really cheap plane tickets. It's only like 450 bucks for a one-way ticket. Let's buy it. Boom. All right. Now June 1st is the date. Let's figure out a way to get that done. And then we made a plan because it takes, I'll tell you what,

to move to a country, a completely different country, to get rid of a lot of your stuff, to downsize from a four-bedroom house to what will be what's in our storage unit is a 10 by 10. It's probably the equivalent of a one-bedroom house. There's a lot of planning. There's a lot of work. There's a lot of packing. There's a lot of selling. There's a lot of all of these different things that need to be done. I had to get someone to rent my house because I own it. So I have someone that's living in my house now. And so it's all of these different things. None of that is luck. You don't listen to that story and say, oh yeah, this guy's lucky after you hear it. What you realize is there's a lot of intention

put into it. And I want you to realize that whatever it is that you want, you have to figure out what it is, become extremely clear. You give yourself a date of when you're going to hit it by, and then you work your freaking tail off to get it done. There is no luck in the equation. It's only intention. And I am not some different type of person. I am a normal guy that does everything that you do. I eat food. I drink water.

I have to breathe the same air that you do. There's nothing special about me or any other human that's on this planet at all. We're all the same. The same type of person. The same people. We're all the same, the same type of person, the same people. We do the exact same thing. We have the same bodily functions. Guys, I still go to the bathroom just like you do. There's nothing special about me. There's nothing special about Michael Jordan or Oprah or Steve Jobs or any of those people, Elon Musk that you see. It's just that some people have figured out you have to be very intentional and make a plan. So if you know what you want, number one, if So if you know what you want,

number one, if you don't know what you want, figure out what it is. Number two, once you do, make a plan and then visualize. And if you visualize it every morning, it's hard not to get excited about it. So that was my ramble that I wanted to go on for you guys. Luck does not exist in these equations of success. Intention, intention, intention is what exists in the equation of success. So if you liked this episode, once again, like I said at the beginning, please share this with someone that you know, someone that this would impact as well. Please, please, please. It would be this. These all are free. All of these podcasts are free. Please do me a favor and share this with someone that you love so they can impact them as well

because that's my only goal as a human is to impact as many people as possible with this message to have as many people be happy and successful and have great, amazing lives as well because the luck card is not going to help them get to wherever they want to go. Intention is going to help them get to where they want to go. So I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have a beautiful, beautiful day. Well, that's it for today's podcast. If you want the show notes for this episode,

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