The Mindset Mentor - Don't Be Wasted Potential

Episode Date: September 22, 2021

Do you feel like you have more potential that you could bring out to the world? Well in this episode, I am going to try to push your mindset on what you think is possible for a human and for yourself. Follow me on IG for more inspiration here: https://www.instagram.com/robdialjr/ If you live in the US/Canada and you want to receive motivational texts from me, text me now at 1-512-580-9305 or click here https://my.community.com/robdial Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube

Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dillon. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode. And if you're out there and you want to receive motivational text messages from me, text me right now. If you live in the United States and Canada, 1-512-580-9305. Once again, 1-512-580-9305. Today, we're going to be talking about how much potential is inside of you that doesn't get brought out. And I'm going to talk about somebody who I think is probably one of the most influential people that's alive nowadays. And I remember when I first did a podcast episode on him about five years ago, nobody knew who he was. And as of recently, the past couple of years,

he's just massively blown up. And this guy's name is David Goggins. And I remember when I first started listening to people talk about David Goggins and reading about him. And he was in a book where it was called Living with a Seal. Great book by Jesse Itzler. And I remember reading about this guy and I was like, how is this guy a human? How is it physically possible for this guy to do all these things? I started researching him through the ultra magazines and all the stuff that he did. And I was like, I didn't even know that people could do the things that this human is doing. And I think it's important to talk about him and to listen to these things because it starts to open up your mindset to like,

damn, maybe I'm not doing anywhere near as much as I thought I could do. Like nowhere near. And so, you know, the funniest thing is, is as you start to, I want to just give you a list of this guy's accomplishments. And as I'm saying these accomplishments, I want you to think to yourself, am I playing small? Like, do I have more inside of me that I haven't been bringing to the surface? Do I have more inside of me that I can bring the world? Do I have more potential that I could bring out? Because I don't know about you. I don't want to live the whole, my whole life and not live up to my full potential. I don't want to die with potential inside of me. And so the way that David Goggins got into pushing himself is he Googled, once he realized that

he was extremely overweight and he wasn't where he wanted to be, he Googled the 10 hardest things that you could do to raise money. And he wanted to raise money for fallen soldiers because he was a Navy SEAL and he had some fallen soldiers that he had and wanted to take care of their kids. And so what he did was he found out that there was something called Badwater 135. And he didn't know much about it. He just knows 135 mile race. The guy's never run a marathon in his life. And he's like, you know what? I'll give it a shot. I'll try it out. So he calls up Badwater 135 and they say, no, you know, you can't just jump into Badwater 135. You have to, you know, complete a hundred mile race in

under 24 hours. So he's like, okay, I'll go for it. I'll try it out. So he trained for four days. So he's like, okay, I'll go for it. I'll try it out. So he trained for four days. Yes, you heard me correctly. He trained for four days to run a 100-mile race. And he ran this 100-mile race, and it was basically a one-mile track that you had to run around 100 times. And when he was running it, he noticed that there was something that felt a little bit

wrong around mile 70. So mile 70, he realized that he was only drinking water and crackers. And that was basically all that he was doing for his nutrition over the course of this race. And mile 70, he sits down and realizes that all of the small bones in his feet are broken, all of them. And he also has liver failure because the only thing he's been having is water and crackers. And then he starts peeing blood. Now, at this point, some of you guys are like, this guy sounds insane. I don't want to be anything like him. I get it. It makes sense. But just listen to what I'm about to say.

He has liver failure at mile 70 and all of his small bones in his feet are broken. And his wife comes up to me and says, honey, you're not going to make it because he's never run a marathon before. So what did he do? He stood up and he walked the remainder of the 70 miles. So that was a remainder of the 30 miles, which is a hundred miles total with broken feet and liver failure. Now you take a second, you're like, how is it even possible? How is it possible for a human to be able to do that? And the answer to that is we're able to do much more than we think. Now I don't want you to push yourself that much, but just gives you an idea of where we're going with this. Okay. Two weeks after he ran that marathon, the a hundred mile marathon,

he ran another hundred mile race with his feet tapped, taped up. And the reason why he had to run another race was because the person who ran bad water, one 35 said that that wasn't enough for them to just run that race. So two weeks after liver failure and all the small bones in his feet broken, he ran another hundred mile race with his feet taped up. Then he got into bad water, And he got into Badwater 135 in 2006, having never run 135 miles before. And he placed fifth place as a novice runner, like novice, he never done it before. He ran 135 miles in 120 degree weather in Death Valley. Now, as I'm telling you these things, I realize physically it sounds insane, but mentally to be able to push yourself, that's what I want you to start thinking of with this as well.

And only three months after completing Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, 135 miles, in 2006, he completed the Ultramarathon World Championship Triathlon in Hawaii and placed second in the world in a three-day, it's a three-day, 320-mile race, cycling 261 miles in two days on a rented bicycle before training for the race that day. He had never ridden a bike competitively. Now, you hear this and you're like, what in the actual fuck? How is this even possible, right? He set a course record for the 48-hour national championships, running 48 hours straight, beating the previous record by 20 miles. He ran 203.5 miles in 48 hours, earning himself as one of the top 20 ultramarathon runners in the entire world.

He signed up for a 48 hour race where he was going to run for 48 hours, completely different from this one. I was just telling you about center for 48 mile race, 48 hour race, excuse me. And at hour 23, he tore his quad. So he walked up to the race officials and said, Hey, you know, we're about to be at our 24. There's, there's such thing as 24 hour races. Can you just clock me in at a 24 hour race? Cause I just tore my quad. They said, sorry, David, we can't do that. He said, Roger that. He taped up his quad and he ran for another 24 hours with a torn quad. Just think about that for a second. And you think think how is it even possible for someone to physically do

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the next year and wins that 150 mile race in 33 hours. Sets a course record. And the thing is funny about it is he says he hates to run and bike, which is why he does it every single day. He does it because he hates doing it. He's trying to prepare his mind for what the world might give him that could be much tougher. So you ask yourself, why does somebody do this? Why would somebody do all this crazy stuff? Well, there's a reason why he runs for the fallen soldiers, kids to go to college. That's why he does it. So you ask yourself, why would somebody put themselves through so much pain? First off, he's trying to see what he can put himself through and what he can overcome. And number two, he's doing it for something outside of him. He's doing it for something outside of him. He's raised over $2 million for fallen

soldiers' kids to go to college. He's doing it for people outside of him. That's why he's been doing it the way he's been doing it for so long. He's consistently disciplined. And I look at him and be like, man, yeah, it sounds nice, all the stuff that he does. He must be physically gifted, right? And let me know, is anybody out there listening going, oh yeah, well, it must be nice. It must be physically gifted. No, he's getting third place. He's getting fifth place. He must be physically gifted. Well, what crazy part about is he was actually born with a heart defect. About five years into his professional career of running and biking and ultra marathons, he realized that he has a heart defect where he has a hole in his heart and it only works at 75, the capacity of a normal person's heart. He also has asthma and sickle cell. Let me just

take a step back real quick. This guy has asthma, sickle cell, and his heart works at 75% of the capacity of a normal person. And he's still able to do all of these things. If this guy can do this, what can you do? I don't know. I've never had my heart tested, but I'm pretty sure I have a normal heart. This guy's heart works 75% of the capacity of mine does. It's crazy. He goes to bed every night at midnight and then wakes up at three o'clock in the morning. Yes. Three hours of sleep so that he can run for 20 miles, man. Anybody else feeling like, what am I doing with my life? Like, I feel like I'm doing a lot with my life. And then I hear this. I'm like, this guy makes me realize that there's a,

there's a whole other level of human potential that we don't even get to ever see. And this guy is showing it to us. Now I realize it sounds kind of sadistic for some people. Why would somebody ever do that? Why would somebody push themselves that much? What's the point of it? Right? But when you find out, oh, he's doing it to raise money for fallen soldiers, children, that starts to make a little bit more sense, right? He lives his life by something called the 40% rule. The 40% rule means that when you are at your absolute, like you're done, like you have worked out as hard as you possibly can. And you're like, you know what? I've got nothing left in the tank. When you work

your legs out so hard, you're like wobbling out and you can, you look like a newborn giraffe. He says, whenever you're, you think that you're done a hundred percent done, you're actually only about 40% done because there's a part of your brain. There's a mechanism in your brain that is a safety mechanism that tells you it's time to give up because it doesn't want you to get hurt. And he said, if you can mentally override that safety mechanism, you're going to find that there's whole new levels for you that you never thought was possible. When you think you're done, you're not even close to done. And guys, that's when you think you're 100% done. You feel like you've got nothing left in the tank. How often do you actually even get to that? I don't know. I don't feel like I

personally get to, oh my God, I'm 100% done. And if I don't get to, oh my God, I'm 100% done, I'm not even hitting that 40% mark. So what are we living our lives at? When we fully push ourselves, we think we're fully pushing ourselves? 25%, 30% maybe? And if you don't push yourself at all, what are you living your life at? 5% capacity? 5% potential? Holy crap. How much human potential is wasted simply because people want to be comfortable? They want to sit on the couch in the air conditioning and watch Netflix and scroll on Instagram and TikTok and not get up and actually see what they could do in their life. How do you feel about that? I don't know about you, but it makes me want to get up and go for a

run and I hate running. Holy crap. How much human potential is wasted? I'm obsessed with getting all of my potential out and leaving it out on the table. And when I hear someone like this, I'm like, man, I'm not even close to what I could possibly do. What about you? Are you close to what you could do? How much is left in the tank? How much more could you bring out to the world? And this isn't just physically, guys. This is mentally. This is with all of your relationships. This is with your business. This is with your friendships. This is with all of your relationships. This is with your business. This is with your friendships. This is with your bank account. This is with your company that you work at. How much more do you have to give to the world

that you're just not giving to the world? I'm obsessed with getting out all my potential. And when I hear about something like this, I'm like, I'm not even close to what I could do. The pain of hard work. The only thing that's worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. Man The only thing that's worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. Man, think about that for a second. I need to push myself more. I need to inspire myself

more so that I can inspire you more so that you can inspire yourself so that you can inspire people around you as well. Because when you think back and you think about a time in your life that changed your life, usually you don't remember the easy times. What do you remember? You remember the times that pushed you. You remember the times that were hard, the times that challenged you, that pushed you past what you thought was possible, that made you go to another level. When you think about the times that changed you, it's never the easy times when you were just sitting around and life was easy. The times when life changes you is when things are hard. How can we create more breakthroughs in our lives? Put ourselves through more things that are hard,

mentally, physically. Instead of taking that warm shower, take the cold shower. Mentally push yourself. Is it fun to take a cold shower? Hell no. Nobody loves taking a cold shower, but what does it do for your mind when you wake up and you take a cold shower every single morning? It strengthens your mind to go, you know what? I woke up this morning and I did something I didn't want to do. All it is, it's super simple. You're getting your physical body inside of something that's cold water. Really not that hard, is it?

Why is it so hard though? It's more of a mental thing than it is a physical thing. So if we can conquer something like that every single day and do stuff we don't want to do, and that's the secret is to do things that you don't want to do, there's so much magic on the other side of it. There's so much magic on the other side of doing what it is that you don't want to do and feeling that mental resistance and pushing past it anyways. Because if you look at your life, you know what you need to do to create the life that you want to, don't you? You know what you need to do to be successful and happy and rich and create the business that you want or have the life that you want. You know what you need to do. The only problem is, are you actually doing it? And that's the funny thing about it is the taking action part

is the hard part. That's the mental side of it. You know, if you want to lose weight, what do you got to do? You got to eat right. You got to show up to the gym. It's not really hard. It's just, you have to be consistent with doing that. The problem is mentally, we don't want to go to the gym. We think, oh, we could do other things. Oh, I'm really tired today. Probably not. But when you push yourself to a point that is not comfortable, that is not fun, that is where you truly live. Most of us are not truly living on a day-to-day basis. We're just getting by. We're just surviving.

We're not bringing our greatness out into the world. It's like Benjamin Franklin says, most people die by 25, but they're not buried until 75. Why? Because they get to a point where they're comfortable and they give the rest of their life away. Ah, I'll just be comfortable. I'll get fat and happy.

And then I'll just hang out. I won't push myself. I won't find my potential. Is there so much more inside of you? Are you bringing it out to the world? How much are you leaving on the table? How much are we wasting our potential? How much of our lives are we wasting when there's so much more? You don't have to go out there and be like David Goggins and be a freak of nature and do 4,000 pull-ups and run 100,000 miles or whatever the fuck he does. You don't have to do all of those things. What you can do is go, you know what? I'm going to do more than I think is possible for myself. I'm going to consistently push myself and not allow myself to come up short. I'm going to push myself and do what I don't want to do. I'm going to push myself and do it as I don't want to do. And if you do

that consistently day in, day out, day in, day out, you're going to have a different body. You're going to have a different mind. You're going to have different relationships. You're going to have a different bank account. You're going to have a different business. You're going to have different everything else around you simply because you did what was hard when other people did what was easy. How do you grow a life that is amazing? You fucking push yourself. That's how you do it. The question is, have you been pushing yourself the way that you truly deserve to push yourself? Not like, oh my God, I have to push myself. No, I deserve to push myself because I deserve to see what this mind can do. I deserve to see what this body can do. And I'm not going to go to my grave with wasted potential. So if you're out there and this inspires you, there's

so much more inside of you that you could bring out to the world. You've got to stop wasting it. You've got to get off of your ass. You've got to get up and do the things that you don't want to do. Mentally train yourself to be harder than you are because if you do this every single day, you'll wake up in a few years and you'll realize that you are so much further than everyone else that's around you. So what do you do? Wake up tomorrow. Do something that you don't want to do. Actually, screw it. Turn off this podcast right now and do something that you don't want to do. Take a cold shower. take a cold bath, ice bath, go for a run longer than you've ever gone. Go work out harder than you've ever worked out. Push yourself and feel that feeling of, I did it. There's very few feelings that are better than that. Oh, I didn't think I was going to be able to do it. And I did it anyways. That is where

you grow is on the edge of your comfort zone, outside of your comfort zone and figuring out what your full potential is and bringing that out to the world. So I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you all, and I hope that you have an amazing day.