The Mindset Mentor - Ep 100 - 300 Not 299

Episode Date: April 8, 2016

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Before we dive into today's episode, if you would like a free copy of our motivational ebook called Hack Your Goals, the Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Success, go to mwfmotivation.com and download it. It's already been downloaded over a thousand times, so go ahead and get your copy now. All right, I'll get you the podcast right now. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast, which I am proud to say has been rated the number one podcast in iTunes new and noteworthy in six different categories, including self-help and business, and is a podcast designed to help you grow into the best version of yourself in 10 to 20 minutes. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we'll take a life topic, break it down, discuss it, and leave you with thoughts to impact your life and mind. My name is Rob Dial, and

the podcast starts now. Welcome to episode number 100 of the MWF podcast. I am so excited that we have made it to 100. It's crazy to think that we've made it to 100. And we're over 375,000 downloads at this point in time. And I can't thank you guys enough for listening. And if you have not yet done so, please subscribe to us,

however you listen to us on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, whatever it might be. And also like us on Facebook, facebook.com slash MWF motivation for daily motivation multiple times a day inside of your newsfeed. So 100 episodes, which is crazy. And I want you guys to realize this. I'm going to talk about something that is the difference between 300 and 299. So on episode 100, I'm going to talk about the difference between 300 and 299. And before I do that, I want to talk about making a commitment to staying with

something and not giving up because that's what it's going to be about. The average podcast, just so you know, the average person who starts a podcast, a podcast host, gives up after seven episodes. That's how long the average lifespan is of an episode or a podcast before someone gives up. And the reason why is because most people like to give up on stuff. They like to start stuff, but then when stuff gets hard, they like to give up. It's easy to give up. It's always easiest to give up. It's harder to keep going. And when I talk about the difference between 300 and 299, I was listening to a podcast not too long ago. And if you listen to my episode with billionaire Priceline.com founder, Jeff Hoffman, he actually was incredible to have on the podcast, but I was listening to another podcast

that he was on. And he was talking about how he is friends with Evandre Holyfield, who is the ex-heavyweight champion of the world for boxing. And he was friends with him and he was helping him do this crazy exercise that the average person might be able to do one rep, maybe 200. And he would do 300 of these every single day. And what happened was he was going through and Jeff was counting the reps and he was going through, it wasn't just like one rep. It was, you know, in a complete set was what he considered a rep. And he said, it was this crazy inhumane. He was like the only person in the world that could do this because he was considered at that point in time, one of the fittest people to ever live.

And he does 300 reps of it. And he came down and he, Jeff was in person that point in time, one of the fittest people to ever live. And he does 300 reps of it. And he came down and Jeff was in person counting. He said, Jeff, was that 299 or was that 300? After he got done with one of the reps of the sets that he had. And he said, oh, it was, I believe it was 300. And he goes, was it 299 or was it 300? He goes, I think it was 300. He goes, Jeff, was it 299 or was it 300?

He goes, well, it was 300. He goes, Jeff, was it 299 or was it 300? He goes, well, it was 300. And he didn't even look at him. He just went back down, ran down, did another set, another one of the reps. And he came back up to him and he looked at him. He said, I think that was 299. And I think that you were wrong. And Jeff rolled his eyes. And he was like, I don't understand the big difference between 299 and 300. And word for word, what he said is he said, look at me, look at me in the eyes. And he said, the difference between 299 and 300 is the heavyweight champion of the world and every single other boxer out there in the world. So once again, he said the difference between 299 and 300 is that the heavyweight champion

of the world does 300. And that's the difference between every single other boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world does 300. And that's the difference between every single other boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world. And so here's the reason why. The best salespeople in the world are us talking ourselves out of doing something. The best salesperson in the world, the one that's going to close you more than anybody else is you trying to close yourself on why you shouldn't do something, why it's too tough, why it's hard to keep going. So if 299, you know, if your goal is 300 and 299 is enough today, it is acceptable when the goal is 300, then tomorrow 298 will be acceptable when your goal is 299. And then the day after that, 297 will be acceptable when 298 was a goal.

And what happens is it's actually a slippery slope. You start to let yourself come further and further down and your expectations for yourself go further and further down. And if you keep doing that, you keep going on that slippery slope, you're never going to get to be where you want to be. And I know that some people will listen to this and it'll go in one ear and it'll go right out the other ear. But please don't be one of those people. Please understand this. Realize that that little bit,

that tiny little bit extra every single time is what will separate the best in the world from every single other person in the world. And I can actually see right now, I'm looking at it right on my cork board or excuse me, on my whiteboard that's right next to my desk. I have a 299 with a red slash through it. Every day, whenever you do something, ask yourself, was this 299 or was this 300? After every podcast episode I do, I say, was this 299 or was this 300? Did I bring my absolute best this episode or was it just good enough? Because I know I could put stuff out there that's good enough and that people would still be impacted from, but I don't think you want just good enough. I think you want the best. So you need to ask yourself, did I bring my best today? Was today 299 or was today 300?

Because here's what I want you to realize and here's what I want you to take away from this. 299 and 300 is the same thing as the average person starting a podcast and only going for seven episodes versus getting to 100, 200. I have people that I know that are over a thousand episodes of their podcast. Here's what you want to realize. There are no shortcuts to success. 299 will never be acceptable. It might be good enough to get you by, but 300 is going to be what you need to put in and the work that you need to put in and to get to where you really want to be. So that's what I want you to take from this episode. Ask yourself where you're allowing yourself to be short and come up with shortcuts because there are no

shortcuts to success. The difference between 300 and 299 is the heavyweight champion of the world and every single other box in the world. So with that, I want to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. Thank you so much for coming along the 100 episode ride that we've been on. And if you know someone that would like this, they would get something from it. All I ask is that you share this with them and I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every episode, make it your mission 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,

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