The Mindset Mentor - Do What You Don't Want to Do

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. We are going to be talking about how to do what you do not want to do. And this might seem interesting. Why would I want to do something that I don't want to do?

Starting point is 00:00:54 What do I mean by this? Well, lately, the past few months, just so you guys know, I am the type of person that eats my own dog food. I don't ever tell you to do something unless I'm currently doing it myself or it's worked for me in the past or whatever it might be. I'm kind of my own guinea pig. And what I've been doing lately, the past few months is making myself do things that I really do not want to do. And why would I do that? The main reason is because I see everything as mental training. Everything is mental training. People get a gym membership for their bodies, but they never think about a gym membership for their mind. That's kind of what I have my group coaching for is a gym membership for your mind whenever people join it. But I like to treat every single minute of my day as mental training. The most important thing

Starting point is 00:01:36 is to make sure that my mind is right and that my mental training and that I'm growing every single day. Because most people think, well, what about everybody else that's around me? If you become better, everybody else around you becomes better as well. Your children's life, your spouse's wife, the person that you're in a relationship with, all of their lives work better if you focus on yourself as well. Whenever you get into an accident, when you're on a plane, they always say, put the oxygen on yourself first. That's the way it should work. So I treat every minute of my day as mental training. And I'm constantly, constantly, constantly trying to push my mental boundaries in what I want to do and what I am doing and what I'm actually comfortable doing.

Starting point is 00:02:16 So I constantly try to push myself in what I'm doing and what I'm comfortable doing. I'll give you a perfect example. By the time you're listening to this, I will have already been doing this, which is the best part about it. I take ice baths every once in a while. And the reason why is because it's really great for your muscles. They're torturous. They suck. They're so bad. They're seriously one of the worst things ever to get into a 50 degree pool. It's also really good for your body though. Tony Robbins recommends every single person does it in the morning because it's really good to flush out all the toxins in your body, get your blood rushing.

Starting point is 00:02:49 It's better than coffee. It wakes you up really quickly. Well, what I want to start doing was start doing ice baths in the morning. And I was like, well, I don't want to wake up, turn on my bathtub, have to go get ice, put tons and tons of ice into it. And so I thought, well, the winter's coming up. Why don't I just go buy a kiddie pool off of Amazon and then fill it up with water, keep a tarp over it. And it's getting really cold in Austin. And so when it's 40, 50, 30 degrees outside, I'll wake up every single

Starting point is 00:03:14 morning and I'll jump straight into that pool. And when I first started explaining this to people, people thought that I was insane of why would I have a cold pool? Why would I force myself to jump into a pool? Most people have said the exact same thing. Hell no, I would never do that. I do not want to do that. I don't know why you would do that. But the reason why is because I see it as mental training. If I can wake myself up to pick myself out of bed, if I can get out of my warm bed where it's comfortable and it's a nice king size bed and I can wake up at 6 a.m. and I can force myself to get out of my warm bed

Starting point is 00:03:50 and walk downstairs into the cold outside and jump into a 50 degree pool and go completely under it and stay under it for a couple minutes. If I can force myself to do something that I absolutely hate doing first thing in the morning, as soon as I wake up, guess how easy the rest of my day is. You have to think about it that way. It's like

Starting point is 00:04:11 if you start lifting really heavy weight and then you go back to really lightweight, that lightweight is nothing. And that's the exact same way your brain works. If I can force myself to do something that I hate first thing in the morning, if I can get out of a warm bed, go all the way downstairs, go outside in the cold, and I can hop into a freezing cold 50 degree pool water and go completely under it from head to toe, then I can really, if I could do something that I hate doing, then the rest of the day is easy because I can do things that I should do if I woke up and the very first thing I did was something that I absolutely hate doing. Think about that. That's mental training. There was earlier today, I'll give you another example,

Starting point is 00:04:53 something that I hate doing. I hate doing dishes. I hate doing laundry. I hate doing all of those things. I knew I had a bunch of stuff I had to get done and I was about to do some dishes. My girlfriend made banana bread today and I was about to, you know, I saw that there was the dirty bowl that was right there where everything was mixed up and I thought, oh, I'll just clean it later. And then immediately in my head, I went, nope, don't put it off. Do it right now. And I thought about that where it's just like, force yourself to do something that you don't want to do. So I didn't want to do it at that point and I could have pushed it off and it wouldn't have been a big deal. Nobody would

Starting point is 00:05:24 have noticed. It was just between me and myself. This little conversation was going on and I was like, no, you don't want to do it. So do it right now. And it's just something that easy where I just forced myself. There's times where I'm walking by something that's on the floor that I might drop and I'm like, oh, I'll get on my way back when I'm going back upstairs. And I'm like, no, do it now. You don't want to do it now. You're trying to put it off. Don't allow yourself to procrastinate on it. Don't allow yourself to not do it. Do it right now because you don't want to,

Starting point is 00:05:50 and that's what I'm trying to force myself to do. If I can do things, these things that I don't want to do, and everybody can do this. You can do this right now. I figure that if I do things that I don't want to do, then it will be extremely easy to do the things that I should do throughout the day. Not the things that I don't want to do, then it will be extremely easy to do the things that I should do throughout the day. Not the things that I hate doing, but things I'm like, oh man, I really just don't feel

Starting point is 00:06:11 like doing this right now. Or the things that I don't care for doing. It's very easy to make yourself do something, or it's very easy to do something, to make yourself do something that you should do when you force yourself to do something that you absolutely hate doing. This is brain training. This is mental training. This is the gym for your mind all day long. And so the tip that I'll give you is this. When you find something that you don't want to do, when you know there's something that you don't want to do, force yourself to do it. Don't allow yourself to even procrastinate another 10 seconds. It has to be done right now. And you'll notice this. You'll start to notice your patterns and habits and it's going to happen today and you're going to hate me for it. I'm telling you right now. You're going to walk by and something's going to happen. You're going to be like, I'll

Starting point is 00:06:50 just put it off. And then you're going to go, oh man, remember that time earlier today when I was listening to the episode, Rob told me to do something I don't want to do. Ah, that freaking guy. Now I have to do this. And you just start doing, they start pushing yourself to do things you don't want to do. Here's the deal. Successful people do things that other people will not do. If you can force yourself to start doing things that you don't want to do, you can start taking the first steps to being successful or going the direction that you want to. If you can force yourself, if I can force myself to get out of my warm bed at six o'clock in the morning, walk downstairs and hop into a freezing cold freaking pool and stay there for a few minutes when it literally feels like I'm

Starting point is 00:07:27 freezing, you can start doing this stuff as well. So what I'll tell you this, what I'll leave you with is this. Do one thing each day, preferably in the morning, because if you can get it done first in the morning, then it's easier for you to start doing things later on in the day. But do something that you don't want to do every single day. So I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission today to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you 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,

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The Mindset Mentor - Do What You Don't Want to Do

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