The Mindset Mentor - Destroy Your Stress

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Starting point is 00:02:09 But besides that, today what we're going to talk about, it's going to be a short episode, and I'm going to talk about how to deal with stress, how to handle stress. And I saw this video not too long ago with a rabbi and he talks about stress and he talks about lobsters. And you might not think that the two of those would make any sense to talk about in the same sentence. But a lot of people think that stress is a bad thing. They think that stress is something that really just messes up their whole day. But stress, they don't realize stress can actually be a tool for growth. And then he talks about lobsters and says, do you know how

Starting point is 00:02:45 lobsters grow? So if you don't know how lobsters grow, lobsters are actually a soft animal that lives inside of a hard shell that doesn't expand. So the shell itself does not expand. It grows the shell. And then what happens is after a while, once it grows too large for the shell, it'll be uncomfortable. It'd be really hard for it to move around. And the lobster is still growing inside of the shell, but it's not. So it starts to get to a point where there's too much stress and it has to get out of the shell. And so what does the lobster do? It goes into the rocks to protect itself and it grows a new shell. And that shell, it grows into it and it's a larger shell so the soft animal can move around for a little while. But then after a while, that shell becomes too confining. And it becomes so

Starting point is 00:03:32 confining that it has to do the exact same process. Again, it has to go back into the rocks and it has to break the shell and get out of the shell and regrow another one. And on average, an average lobster, I did my research within its first five to seven years of life, will go through this process of breaking out of its shell, being under immense stress and breaking into actually literally breaking these shells 25 times on average in the first five to seven years. And what you have to realize as a human, the same thing happens to us as well. And also just so you know, the same thing happens to a hermit crab as well. If you don't know about a hermit crab, it's just a little tiny crab that it grows continually

Starting point is 00:04:11 and it has to go into a shell. And once they grow out of their shell and they get too large for it, they have to find another shell. They have to move out of that shell and go into it because the other one, it's too stressful. It's too confining and it becomes uncomfortable. the other one, it's too stressful. It's too confining and it becomes uncomfortable. So the stimulus for a lobster to grow is actually stress and being uncomfortable. So what can you take from the story of stress and a lobster's growth? What you can take from it is that in our times of stress, if you're going through a whole bunch of crap right now,

Starting point is 00:04:41 that's actually our biggest time for the most growth that we have as humans. If you think about it, whenever someone has something super stressful go on, if you think about how stressful times you've had in your life, times that might not be great, it's usually not good when you're going through it. It usually sucks when you're going through it. But then when you look back six months or a year down the road, 10 years down the road, that's usually our biggest growth period in life is those stressful moments, the uncomfortable moments, the moments that we either have to push ourselves out of our comfort zones, or it's just really stressful. That's our biggest growth period.

Starting point is 00:05:17 And we usually learn the most in that time, which translates into the biggest growth in our lives. So know that your most stressful moments end up being some of the biggest growth in our lives. So know that your most stressful moments end up being some of the biggest blessings in your life and end up being your biggest breakthroughs that you'll have in our biggest learning periods as well. So here's the thing that I want you to think about. Once that lobster, once it moves into a new shell and then it moves into a new shell and it moves into a new shell, once it does, it can never fit back inside of the old one because it has grown too

Starting point is 00:05:45 much. The same goes for us. Once we've been through a lot, once we've been through a lot of stress, once we've put ourselves out of our comfort zones and we've learned a lot, we'll never be the same person again. We're a completely different person. We've grown so much more. It's just like the plastic bag analogy that I told you about in the last episode. So once we're expanded, we can never be exactly the same again. We've only become better So once we're expanded, we can never be exactly the same again. We've only become better. We've only become, we've learned more, we've grown more through all of these things. And so if you think about it with the last episode where I talk about how to create a breakthrough, sometimes your breakthrough comes when there's a lot of stress

Starting point is 00:06:20 and that's something that you can't really deal with. It's just stress comes up. You can't not have stress be around. It just happens sometimes. So for some of you though, you might have a very easy, comfortable life. Things are going well. And maybe you've been in your shell for too long. How long have you been staying in the exact same shell? And is it time for you to put yourself into an uncomfortable situation and force yourself to grow? Force yourself to grow and to become better and maybe get some type of breakthrough through that. See, most people, they find whatever feels comfortable and they stay there as long as they possibly can. And some just stay there forever and they never grow themselves and they never quote unquote, get a new shell just like the lobster would. So some people say, why is, you know,

Starting point is 00:07:06 my life is so boring. There's nothing that's really fun that happens. Nothing changes. Everything stays the same. And they get the same thing every single week and every year and every single day is the exact same thing. And the reason why is because they're not pushing themselves. They're not going through any stress. They're not making themselves uncomfortable. They're not pushing themselves outside of their comfort zone to force growth. So sometimes, even if stressful things aren't happening, like I said in the last episode with creating breakthroughs, sometimes we have to force ourselves into uncomfortable situations in order to force ourselves to grow. So what I want to leave you with is I want you to think

Starting point is 00:07:42 about this. Is this something that you have to deal with if you're going through stress right now? Maybe you can look at it and say, you know what? What am I learning right now? What am I actually getting from this stress that's going to make me a better person five or 10 years down the road? And if you're not going through stress, but maybe you feel stuck and maybe you feel like life is the same and it's just the same thing every single day, maybe you should take yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to grow and make yourself uncomfortable just like the lobster would when he has to grow as well. So with that, I want you guys to think about that. And I want to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission today to make somebody else's day better.

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The Mindset Mentor - Destroy Your Stress

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