The Mindset Mentor - Comfort KILLS Ambition

Starting point is 00:00:00 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. Also, if you missed the webinar last week and you want to join in this week, I have another webinar where I'm going to be teaching you how to hack your brain,

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Starting point is 00:01:12 because it has not been exactly what you wanted or you're behind on your news resolutions, go to mwfmotivation.com slash schedule and you can book time to have a quick chat with us there. So once again, mwfmotivation.com slash schedule and you can book time to have a quick chat with us there. So once again, mwfmotivation.com slash schedule to book time in my schedule for us to have a chat. Today, what I'm going to talk about is being comfortable and how your comfort, if you are in a comfortable spot, absolutely 100% kills your ambition. And I want to ask you a question. Are you a comfortable right now?

Starting point is 00:01:45 Have you been in the exact same spot or very close to the same spot for six months or for a year or for years or five years or 10 years? Have you been stuck in the same spot for years? You are in a comfort zone if so. And comfort kills ambition. I know that some people listening, you're out there and you're struggling right now. But I would say the majority of you that are listening are listening because of the fact that you are in a comfort zone and you can't figure out how to get out of it. You're comfortable and it's not like you're struggling. It's not like you're too far behind in the rent or any of those things. You're comfortable. You're making okay money. You might actually have a little bit of money to pay the bills and maybe a little bit to save after. And you're at that point where you're not, you don't have to make more money.

Starting point is 00:02:35 You don't have to be more successful because maybe you go on one family vacation per year and you're able to pay the bills, you're able to do things, but you have this feeling, you're listening because you have this feeling deep down inside of you that there is more that you have to give the world. So if you're listening to me, go ahead and raise your hand if that's you. I can't see it obviously, but if that's you, think about that. Is that you? Am I comfortable? And you have to think about this. In order to get out of a comfort zone, you need to make yourself un-freaking-comfortable. In order, I'll give you a perfect example. In order to lose weight, what do you have to do? You have to become uncomfortable.

Starting point is 00:03:15 In order to build muscle, what do you have to do? You have to become extremely uncomfortable. You have to be sore. You have to push yourself towards pain if you're trying to lose weight or if you're trying to build muscle. That's exactly how your brain works. It's still part of your body. You need to become uncomfortable if you want more from yourself. And if you listened to a while ago, Jesse Itzler, who wrote the book, if you haven't read the book, Living With a Seal, I would 100% recommend buying the book, Living With a Seal. And what he talks about is that he has what is considered the toughest man in the world live with him. And Jesse and his wife are both separately billionaires. They both separately became billionaires. And he has this guy live with

Starting point is 00:03:57 him because he feels like he's in a rut. And he says, the Navy SEAL, his name is David Goggins, says that when you feel like you're at your maximum, like you have nothing left to give, like you've hit a wall, you're only at about 40%. And you may have heard me say this before, but you've never heard me talk about just strictly getting uncomfortable. And you have to think about that. If you're at a wall where you feel like you got nothing more to give, you're only at 40% of what you can actually do. So therefore, what do you live your life at? If you never get to that point, you rarely get to that point, and that's only 40%, what do you live your life at? 10% of your capacity? 20%? 30%? Is that what you want

Starting point is 00:04:36 your life to be? Do you want to live at the capacity that is not your true potential? And I'm guessing if you're listening to this podcast episode, if you're listening to my podcast, you are not listening because you're comfortable. I'm sorry, because the fact that you're satisfied with where you're at, you want more from yourself. And so you have to push yourself past that. And the reason why you feel like you're at your breaking point when you're only at 40% is because your brain has a mechanism that says, hey, turn it off because your brain wants to keep you safe. It doesn't want you to get injured, doesn't want you to die, all of those things. But usually what you find out is when you hit that breaking point and you mentally do not allow yourself to give up, you keep pushing even when you get to that breaking point. You go and you work out and you

Starting point is 00:05:18 throw up and then you go, you know what? I'm not done. I'm going to keep going. When you get that, that's where you start to see the real results. That's where you also start to get the real mindset shifts. And this is something I do with some of my one-on-one coaching clients where they're too freaking comfortable. They might be making $50,000 a year. They might be making $100,000. They might be making a few hundred thousand or sometimes even way more than that per year. And they're comfortable. How do you get out of that? You have to make yourself uncomfortable. You have to see where you're at right now is absolute ground zero. Ground zero, where you're at right now is absolutely 100% unacceptable. And you have to make yourself completely

Starting point is 00:05:55 uncomfortable in order to make changes. And I'll do this sometimes with one-on-one coach class where I'm like, hey, for the next 10 days straight, I want you to push yourself so hard that you get to the breaking point where you feel like you're whatever, either one of two things happen. Either you start crying because of the fact that you're pushing yourself so freaking hard or you throw up all over the sidewalk as you're going for a run and you keep going. This is a challenge that I have coming up. So if you're in my group coaching, you're about to learn about this, but we are going to do a 10 day challenge in group coaching on making ourself uncomfortable, pushing ourself 10 days straight every single day to the point

Starting point is 00:06:29 where we don't think is possible and then pushing further past that. Because our brains, one of my favorite phrases I've been saying for years, our brains are like plastic bags. They're not like rubber bands. A rubber band, you pull it and it goes back. Our brains are like plastic bags. If you pull a plastic bag, it will never go back to the same size. So once you push yourself to a certain capacity, you will never go back to where you were before because you now know what you can do. Your comfort zone is where your dreams are going to die.

Starting point is 00:06:56 Get the freak out of it. Sorry, I almost dropped an F-bomb right there. Get out of the comfort zone. Get out of the comfort zone. Some of you guys listening have been in the same spot for years and you are not happy with it. You have to make yourself uncomfortable. If you're happy and you don't want to be anywhere else,

Starting point is 00:07:14 then that's fine. You're where most people want to be. You don't have to push yourself out of your comfort zone if you're not where you want to be. But if you're listening to my voice and you need change and you want more from your life, you need to to my voice and you need change and you want more from your life, you need to make yourself uncomfortable. You need to get yourself uncomfortable. You need to push yourself to the absolute extreme and push yourself past what you feel is possible.

Starting point is 00:07:34 And so if you're listening to this, I'm going to ask you this question. When was the last time you pushed yourself way past the point of what you feel is comfortable, what you actually thought that you could do? Has it been years? Because you have to think about that. Has it been years since you've gotten the most from yourself? Have you ever gotten the most from yourself? And so if you're sitting here listening to it, what I would recommend is this, commit to yourself. If you're trying to lose weight or whatever it is, if you're trying to gain muscle, or if you're just trying to save more money, any of these things, push yourself for the next seven days, as hard as you possibly can. Go to the gym every single

Starting point is 00:08:09 day for the next seven days until you, and I mean, push yourself. Like you're going to wake up one morning, you'll be so freaking sore that you can't move. Go to the gym anyways. I loved going to the gym and not because of all of the health aspects, but because of the mental aspect of going to the gym. If you can make yourself go to the gym when you're so freaking sore and you can barely move and you can still continue to work out, well then guess what? You are pushing yourself out of that comfort zone. So push yourself for the next few days. Push yourself for the next week. Push yourself past the point of where you are comfortable pushing yourself. If you've

Starting point is 00:08:45 plateaued in your life, you plateaued in the gym, you plateaued in anything. The reason why is because you're in a comfort zone and comfort is where you go. Your comfort is where your dreams go to die. Comfort absolutely 100% kills ambition. So if you liked this episode, please do me a favor, share it with a friend. If you want to join in on the webinar that's coming up, go to mwfmotivation.com slash webinar to sign up for free. And I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.

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The Mindset Mentor - Comfort KILLS Ambition

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