The Mindset Mentor - Ep 104 - Succeed or Die Trying

Episode Date: April 18, 2016

If you really want to be successful you should never have a Plan B - it only distracts you from Plan A. In this episode I talk about two animals that have been inspired by lately - a dog and a sparrow- and the life lessons that we can learn from them. 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

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on there. Get some of the daily motivation that we put up. Now, today what I'm going to be talking about is succeed or die. And I understand that the title itself might sound a little bit dramatic, but in reality, the real question that I want you to ask yourself is, are you here on this planet just to get by or are you here to thrive? And I'm a weird individual. I'll admit it. I'm very observant. And from everything that I see, I always try to look at it and deeply think about it and try to learn as much as I possibly can from anything and everything that I see. And lately, oddly enough, I've been gaining a lot of inspiration from animals. And the reason why is because I've realized that as humans,

we are just animals that have evolved. We have an evolved conscious compared to these animals and an evolved brain as well, obviously. And now that evolved brain is great for most things. And it's great in most cases, actually. But in some cases, that evolved brain can actually hinder us. That brain of ours that we have that's evolved over the past 5,000, 10,000 years actually has the ability to turn off our 10,000 years actually has the ability to turn off our natural animalistic drives that we normally would have. Let me explain what I mean. Lately, this is going to be interesting for me to give you a lesson on this from this, but lately I've been seeing a lot of three-legged dogs and that's not the funny part. I don't know why I've been seeing so many of them. Maybe they're just out this time of year. But here's what I noticed about those dogs. For those dogs, for some reason, I've seen so many of them lately. For them, every day is just business as usual.

Either number one, they don't know that they only have three legs. Or number two, they don't give a crap that they only have three legs. A three-legged dog acts no differently than a normal four-legged dog. See, in their minds, these dogs, these three-legged dogs, they are nothing less than a normal dog. Because of the fact that they have three legs and other dogs have four, that means absolutely nothing to them. They act exactly the same. They play exactly the same. They put as much energy and as much love into everything that they do. And I understand that dogs don't have the same capability that we do to think of themselves outside of their bodies

like we do and compare themselves to other dogs. Dogs don't look at other dogs and compare themselves to other dogs. But we do that. And so in that case, we might be the more quote unquote evolved species, but they might actually have the advantage of they don't look at themselves and compare themselves to the other dogs. How often does something happen to somebody in this world, just anything, whatever it might be. And it completely changes the course of their life or it changes the way they feel about themselves forever. So this example, a dog could lose a leg, but it's business as usual. Nothing changes. Some people they get cheated on or some people something happens and their parents don't tell them that they don't love them or something happens to them. Something happens, anything. This happens so many different ways. I don't need to give you a million examples, but something happens to somebody and it changes the way they view

themselves forever. Usually negative if they get cheated on or if something like that happens. And what happens is we view ourselves in that case. These people view themselves and feel about themselves differently because of something that happened to them. The dogs don't view themselves differently because of something that happened to them. So the inspiration that I've gained from these three-legged dogs is that no matter what happens to them, it will never change their self-confidence. It will never change the self-confidence. It will never change the way they look at themselves. And to them, no matter what happens, it's always business as usual.

They're still a dog and they might have one less leg, but they don't let that at all get in the way of them running around, of them being happy and jumping and playing and acting exactly the same. So even though they have one less leg and something happened bad to them, nothing changes. Their future doesn't change because of what happened in their past. So take inspiration from that. The second animal that's been giving me a lot of inspiration and it's been bugging me a lot lately is a sparrow that's actually building a nest on my back porch. And if you know anything about me, if you listen to other episodes, or if you've seen on my Instagram or my Snapchat,

basically the thing about it, if you want to follow my Snapchat, it's at Rob Dial, no spaces, R-O-B-D-I-A-L. But what I'm saying though is that I have my morning coffee on my back porch every single morning. And now there's a sparrow that's been building in the back porch. And it's been giving me a lot of inspiration because I've been watching the sparrow, this tiny little bird. It's like six inches tall. Every single morning, take these little teeny tiny pieces of grass. And I don't even mean full piece of grass.

I'm talking about like slivers of grass, hairs, tiny sticks, whatever it can find to build this nest that it's building right now. And it has to have taken thousands, and I'm not even being sarcastic, thousands of tiny pieces of whatever these things that it's getting and thousands of trips going to get them

and flying all the way back for it to build this nest that is actually built. And I bet never once did the thought cross its mind of, oh, maybe I'm not good enough to build this, or I don't have the skills to do this, or I failed in the past at building nests. Maybe it once tried to build a nest and it doesn't look at itself. And it might have failed then, but it doesn't look at itself now and go, well, I probably can't do it because I tried in the past and I wasn't able to build a nest. So, you know what? I guess I'll just kind of drop my eggs in the grass and see what happens.

Nothing like that happens. Now, you might think it's silly for me to think of birds and dogs this way. And you might say, oh, of course, it doesn't think that way because it's a bird and it's not smart enough. Well, maybe that's its actual advantage is that it's not smart enough to get in the way of itself like we do. We're smart, so we get in the way of ourselves. It has a short-term memory for its failures. If it once went and tried to build a nest and it took forever, or it did really bad, or it broke down, or something happened, or its babies fell out, and it doesn't have that hold it back from the next time it has to build its nest and has to

do what it's supposed to do as an animal. It has a very short-term memory for its failures. It has a very short-term memory for its failures. Now, another thing that I must mention is this tiny sparrow absolutely hates me. And this thing is, I'm not kidding, it probably weighs half a pound and it's like six inches tall and I'm six foot two and this thing tries to intimidate me. No joke, tries to intimidate me. And sometimes if I get too close, if I'm just walking in my backyard or something, it will swoop down and it's never hit me, but it swoops down to try to intimidate me, to get me to leave. So what inspiration I take from that is this little tiny thing never looks at me and says, oh, this thing's too big. I'm afraid I'm not going to do it. No matter how big its challenge is, or me in general, it will never be intimidated

by its challenge. And sometimes it will actually leave when I come around and it will come back with two other friends. So it'll grab its friends to help it try to intimidate me. So I try not to get too close to this thing because it kind of gets annoying, but it's somewhat inspirational in this sense though. So the things that I want you to take from the story, a couple of things, there's actually four things. So number one is a three-legged dog. No matter what happens to you, no matter what happens to you, it needs to be business as usual. If you are driving right now and you get into a car crash on the way to work, I hope this doesn't happen to you. But if something like this were to happen, I'm just using this as an example,

it needs to be business as usual. If your goal is X and something gets in the way today of you going to your goal of X, it shouldn't stop you. It should just be a roadblock or it could just be a speed bump on the way to there. So number one, it needs to be business as usual if you want to be successful. Number two, the bird, it has a short-term memory for its failures. You need to have a short-term memory for your failures. When you fail, realize that it's just part of success. Success is 99% failure. So when you fail, it's never failure if you learn something from it because you always get better at everything that you do. So that's number two. Number three, also from the bird, no matter how big the challenge is, don't ever be intimidated by

the challenge. The bird still goes at me. I'm like 10, 15, 20 times the size of it. It doesn't care. So no matter how big the challenge, don't ever be intimidated. And number four, grab friends when you need help. Whenever you might need help, make sure that you grab friends to help you. For them, for the bird and for the dog, it is succeed or die. That's it. There's no other options. They're going to do exactly what they need to do or they're going to try doing it as well. There's no other options. For you, if you're really committed to your goals, whatever they might be, it needs to be the exact same thing. There cannot be plan B because it just distracts from plan A. So in that case, it needs to be one of two things. Either you succeed at what you're trying to do and what

your goals are, or eventually you die trying to get there. So it's succeed or die, no matter what, there are no other options. Make sure that you go towards your goals and don't let anything get in the way. And if anything gets in the way, it's just a speed bump and you just got to keep on going. So with that, if you like this episode, you think somebody that you know would love it as well, please share with them. We have grown crazy amounts in the past two months. We went from averaging 59,000 downloads each month to this month, we're probably going to be over 105, 110,000. So we almost doubled in two months. So I appreciate it. Please keep sharing because we're trying going to be over 105, 110,000. So we almost doubled in two months. So I appreciate it. Please keep sharing because we're trying to change the world one person at a time.

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