The Mindset Mentor - Don't Fear Death

Episode Date: May 22, 2017

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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.

I got a quick question for you. Do you feel like you're self-sabotaging? Do you feel like you have self-sabotage, whether that's with relationships or with success or with your goals or with your family or whatever it might be? Do you feel like there's times when you have self-sabotage? If the answer is yes, and you haven't joined one of my free webinars yet, I'm holding a webinar this week. I'm going to be leaving for Italy because I'm moving there in a couple of weeks. So I'm not sure how many more of these I'm going to do. So if you have not yet joined, go to mwfmotivation.com slash webinar. I'm going to teach you how your brain works and

I'm going to teach you how to rewire your brain so that you can become successful and stop holding yourself back. So once again, mwfmotivation.com slash webinar to sign up for free. Today, what I'm going to be talking about is dying. Ooh, we're going to dive into it. And we're going to talk about death. And the reason why is this. You fear death because all you know is life. The knowledge that I am going to die personally, me speaking about myself, Knowledge that I am going to die personally, me speaking about myself, brings the focus that I need to being alive. The urgency, the passion, the purpose to my life. If we were to live forever, why would you even get out of bed in the morning?

Because you always have tomorrow. And so here's what I want you to think about. A lot of people fear death. Don't fear death. Fear living a life that is unlived. Fear living a life that is unfulfilled. Fear being a waste of space and oxygen. Don't let the fear of death hold you back.

Let the actual feeling of death push you forward and bring urgency to do what needs to be done in your life. Think about this. And I love to think about this. I've told you before, if you've listened to my podcast, I'm very aware that death is approaching at some point in time. The only thing that we can absolutely 100% guarantee in our lives from the second you're born is that you are going to die one day, right? And some of you right now, you're listening to me and you're like, Ooh, this is uncomfortable. I'm getting this pit feeling in my, the feeling in the pit of my stomach. That's just, it's driving me crazy listening to this because I'm so afraid of death.

Don't fear dying because it's going to happen no matter what. Fear living a life unlived, fear living an unfulfilled life, a waste of space, a waste of potential. Fear that because that's the only thing that you're actually in control of. You're not in control of death. That's coming no matter what. What you're in control of is how great your life actually is. Make the fear of death push you. Make it make you work harder. Make it make you love harder. Make it make you appreciate your life more. This perfectly reminds me, whenever I talk about this, of a movie, Troy, if you've ever seen Troy with Brad Pitt, he says a quote that I absolutely 100% love. And he said, the gods envy us. They envy us

because we're mortal. Because at any moment, it may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. And so you have to think about it that way. You have to think about the fact that what makes our lives so amazing is the fact that eventually it's going to die. And that should, eventually you're going to die. That should, the anticipation of death should be a motivation for you, right? Because most people, I talk to them and they're like, I just, I don't want to, I don't want to live the rest of my life being unfulfilled potential. I don't want to live the rest of my life feeling like I'm just a waste of space. If you want some motivation for working harder

or loving harder or appreciating more or any of those things, if you want more gratitude and you want to be motivated just in life to be better, work harder, or just appreciate more, go to a hospice. When was the last time you ever been to a hospice? When was the last time you're, have you ever been to a hospice? When was the last time you were in one? See, because if you don't get motivated to get your butt in gear, to push yourself harder and to have more appreciation, if you can't do that, go in there and watch people who are on their deathbeds and realize that they're not leaving. They're alive, right? That will give you motivation of, holy crap, this is real. Most of the time we try to pretend that's not happening. Most of the time we try to pretend like we get a second at bat.

You don't get a second at bat. I'm here to tell you that. And I've told you before, my father passed away when I was 15. That was the very first thing where I was like, holy crap, this is going to end. And I need to get every single bit of potential out of myself in that time. Right? Don't wait for someone else to die. That's the way it always works. We have someone that we know die or something.

Someone becomes terminally ill or something happens or they get cancer or they go into near-death experience or whatever it might be. And then we're like, holy crap, I should get my butt in gear. I should do something. They're not here anymore. I am. And it sticks with you for like a week or two. You should have that feeling every freaking day. Don't be scared of death. Realize it is coming. There's nothing you can do about it, but make it use them. You

can actually use it to make you get the most out of this life and the most out of every single moment. So don't fear death. Fear a life unlived. The gods envy us because we're mortal, because at any moment it could be our last. And because of the fact that we're doomed, everything is more beautiful. So if you liked this episode, do me a favor, please share it with a friend. If you want to join in on the webinar, go to mwfmotivation.com slash webinar. And 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.

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