The Mindset Mentor - Don't Lose Control
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discount as well. So once again, if you're interested in my group coaching, send me an email rob at mwfmotivation.com. What we're going to be talking about today, so you guys know,
is you are in control. This is about you being in control of your life. If you've ever been on
one of my webinars, the first thing I talk about is taking control. No matter who is in your life, no matter
who you're married to or you're in a relationship with, no matter who your friends are, no matter
who the president is, none of these things really matter. What matters is that you decide that I
am going to take control of my life. And you might have seen it. If you follow us on Facebook,
you might have seen this video that went semi-viral.
I got tens of thousands of views that I put up.
But if you don't follow us,
you should follow us on Facebook
so you can see these videos that I'm putting up.
And once again, it's facebook.com slash MWF motivation.
But I want you to realize this,
no matter who gets elected,
no matter who you voted for,
whether you're happy about it, whether you're angry about it, whether you don't have the people
in your life that you want to be surrounded by, no matter what happens, if you want to be happy,
you are in control of that. If you want to be successful, you are in control of that. If you want a great life, you and only you are in control of that.
Therefore, no matter what happens in the outside world, your life should not change that much
because you are the person who is driving the car. You are in the driver's seat.
And the perfect example of this is if you've ever
read the book, I can't think of it, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl was
a psychologist who was in Auschwitz in Germany and held by Nazis for years. Talk about the absolute
worst case scenario that somebody can be in. And he talks about no matter what situation he's in,
the one thing that the Nazis could never take from him was what was going on in his mind.
He was in control of that. They could never break him down enough to change his mindset.
He knew he was going to get out. He knew he was going to be able to teach people
what he learned. And he wrote a book, one of the bestselling books, Man's Search for Meaning. It's an amazing book, but this guy's in the absolute worst condition
that has ever been for humans possibly. And his mindset does not change. Therefore,
no matter what happens in your outside circumstances, your life should not change
that much. And I want you to realize you are in control. If you allow something like this
or anything else that happens to you to dictate the direction of your life, you are giving up
control of your life. You are relinquishing control. You're letting go of the steering wheel
and you are letting somebody else be in control of your life. Nobody, no boyfriend, girlfriend, mother, father, best friend, president, anybody
is going to care about your life and your success more than you. You are in control of that. Nobody
else is in your day-to-day life. Nobody else is going to pick you up when you fail. Nobody cares
about your success, your happiness, and your life
more than you. You are in control of that. So no matter what happens, no matter what happened
last week, no matter what happens today, no matter what happens tomorrow, you can make the decision
right now that you are in control of your life and you can change the direction of where it's going.
and you can change the direction of where it's going.
80% of success, 80% of success in anything in life is psychology and only 20% is mechanics.
Only 20% is mechanics.
That means all of the things that happen to you in your life,
80% of them is what's going on in your head
and how you are seeing it happen.
There's tons of people right now
that are relinquishing control of their lives
because either the presidency, the election went the way they wanted to, or it didn't go the way
that they wanted it to. The president's never going to call you up and be like, hey, what can
we do to make you more successful? That's never going to happen. So you need to realize that you
are in control and you have to decide this. And this is what I would write down from this episode.
This is how it's going to be. And anything less is unacceptable. And what you do is you say,
this is what I'm going to get out of my life. This is how my life is going to be this. And when I say
this is how it's going to be, that's for you to decide. Making X amount of dollars. If you say,
I want to make a hundred thousand dollars this year, making a hundred thousand dollars is how it's going to be this year. And anything less is unacceptable.
You have to think of it that way. You're in control of your mindset. You're in control of
your life. No matter what happens on the outside, no matter how crazy things get,
your goal is that you will stay even keel no matter what. You will hold on to the steering
wheel and you will continue to push your ship
and drive it to where it's supposed to go.
Because we have the decision in our lives
to either take control of our lives,
to grab the steering wheel of the ship,
because that ship that we're on,
it's going to some destination.
And either you hold the steering wheel
and you drive it to the destination that you want to,
or you just sit back and let the tides push you
to wherever it's going to go.
And that's what a lot of people do
is they don't realize that they're in control of their life.
No outside circumstances.
And then they're not happy with where their life is
10, 20, 30, 40 years down the road
because they never took control
because they never knew that they could.
I'm telling you right now that you are in control
and you can take control of
your life at this very moment and say, this is where my life is going. You grab the steering
wheel and you make sure that that ship ends up there and you figure out if the tides push you
one way, you're still going to recalibrate and go to one place where you're trying to go to.
Don't relinquish control and give up control to anybody else, any outside circumstances, except for you,
because you are the only person that's in control of your life, your success, your happiness,
all of those things. You are in control and no one will care about it more than you.
So that is my rant to give you some inspiration, to give you some encouragement in these times when people seem divided. It's not
like that. It's not, guys. And I know there's a lot of people that are listening that are in
other countries. No matter who your leader is, no matter what's going on around you,
know that you are in control of it and act like you're in control of it. And I promise you,
your life will start to go in the direction that you want it to. So with that, once again,
if you are interested in coaching at all, send me an email, rob at mwfmotivation.com. We can see if
it's right for you, but 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 all,
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,
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