The Mindset Mentor - Ep 52 - I Got Layed Off

Episode Date: December 18, 2015

I was layed off from my job a couple weeks ago. In this episode I wanted to talk about my thought process as it was happening so you can see that I practice what I preach and also what I learned from the process that you can too. There is always a silver lining in every situation, you just have to look for it. 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

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 the MWF Motivation Podcast. This is Rob Dial. And if you have not yet subscribed to us, please subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Sound Dial. And if you have not yet subscribed to us, please subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud. And if you like this episode, just please share it with someone that you know that you think would benefit from it. And today what I'm going to talk about is actually a real life experience. I wanted to kind of take you through my life, tell you a little bit more about things on my day toto-day basis and show you that I actually do practice what I preach. And let me explain what I mean. So a few weeks ago, I was actually laid off from my job and it was kind of expected, kind of not expected. They decided just to

downsize some of the Salesforce, actually pretty much most of the sales force. And I happen to be one of those people where they said, we don't want to lose you as an employee, but if we switch you to another position, you're going to have to actually take a pay cut. And so they said, we could either do that or we could give you a severance and we could go separate ways. And so I want you to realize this is exactly what happened. And of course, this was somewhat unexpected, especially because I love some of the people that I work with. They were awesome. They're really good people. I found myself as, you know, I felt like we were friends. And it kind of at first felt like I was a little

bit backstabbed. But what I want you to realize is I took five minutes and it wasn't even five minutes. I use something called the five minute rule, which is whenever something happens, you get into a car crash, whenever anything happens to you in your life, you have five minutes to be completely pissed off as mad as you could possibly be. Whatever you have to do to scream, to cry, to throw things, I guess, if that's what you need to do, whatever it is that you have to do, you get five minutes to be as mad as you possibly can. And then it's over. After those five minutes, grow up, get over it. Let's move on and keep moving on with our life. And so I had the five minutes where I was kind of pissed off. I immediately text two people. I text my girlfriend and I text Dean, who you guys have all heard on this podcast before and said, Hey, I just

was let go from my position. Here's the explanation on this podcast before and said, Hey, I just was let go from my position. Here's the explanation. And both of them said, well, how do you feel? And I said, I think this is actually something that's really good. This happened for a reason. I've come to realize after starting at 19 in sales, being my own boss for a long time, having a lot of things as an entrepreneur that I've done on my own, and then going and being employed that I'm not a good employee. I'm just, it just, it gets, it doesn't work as well. And the reason why is because I personally just have an entrepreneur mindset. That's just kind of the way that I work. And this worked out perfectly because I was already looking into starting a business on the

side. I also have a podcast as well that I work with. And so this allowed me to dedicate more time into the things that I truly, really want to do. Music, podcasting, running my own business. So after those five minutes, I reconvened, got together and said, okay, this is it. This is going to happen. Where am I going to go from here? So what I started doing was I started networking like crazy. And it's funny because when you start to work in a certain way and go, okay, this is it. I'm going to, this chapter of my life is closed. I'm going to move on to another one. Things start to work your work towards your way. And in two days after this whole thing happened, I went to a networking event, met some of the best people I could possibly meet at this networking event who changed my perspective on what I wanted to do and completely set me up for the new venture

that I'm going on now, which is starting a fitness company, which I'll tell you guys more about as the time comes and some of the products come out because we're going to run a promotion where you can get our first product for a dollar, I think is what it's going to be, as long as you just give us a review. So it's going to be, I think like 20 bucks off of the first product. If that's something that you want to take part of. So I'll tell you more about the, the, the fitness and the products that we have coming out as they actually come out. So what happened though, is since I've made the decision to get over it, to start networking, to meet people and put myself in place, uh, things have started to work out for me. And it's been very serendipitous. People

who have come into my life, the people who I've started meeting, and people who, no joke, in a sense have said, can I hire you to do certain things? And it's more or less been to the point where I have to tell people I don't want to work for them or I can't work for them because I have other things that I'm working at. So I think that when most people have something like this happen, whether it be getting fired, whether it be anything, anything that could possibly tragically happen is some people, they have two different ways that they can look at it. They can look at it and they can see themselves as the victim. And this happened, why did this happen to me? Why did I get fired? Why did this person leave my life? Whatever it might've been, or they can take the victor where they say, okay, this happened and I'm going to figure out how to overcome this and how to become

better at it because we can't connect the dots looking forward. We can only connect the dots looking backwards. And now that it's been a month since this happened, the dots have been completely connecting. And it's incredible how serendipitous these people that are coming into my life, all of these people I'm starting to network with, these people that are becoming my mentors or friends or whatever it might be of just ways that the world is showing me that this is the right direction. Starting your own company in this company is the right direction. People are supporting me, people that I'm finding that are just the exact people that I would need to network with that want to help me out along the way and help me launch my business as well. So things to take away from this, I wanted to share this with you so you realize

that I'm a real person. Stuff like this happens to everybody, but I wanted you to see the way that my mind works and the way I practice what I preach and things to take away from this. Number one is there's always a silver lining to anything. If something bad happens or something tragic happens, whatever happens, it's happening for a reason. Don't see yourself as the victim. Find out how you can become the victor, overcome it, and how you can take that and use it as a learning experience for you. The second thing I would take away is the five-minute rule that I just told you where you have five minutes to do whatever you need to do and then put it in your

past. You can never be mad about it again. Move on and keep on going on with your life. And those are the two things that I would say more than anything else. I would take away from the experience and I'll keep you guys updated on everything that's happening, products as they come out. But I will absolutely tell you this. I am 100% certain that this is where I'm supposed to be going right now. And I'm going the correct route to be able to have a successful business, which will in then turn give me time to travel, to buy freedom, to do all of the things that I want to do by owning my own business because I don't have to be in town specifically for this event or have to be around the phone for this event.

I get to make my own schedule. I get to make money when I want to, whether I'm awake or whether I'm asleep, as long as this business is running with or without me running in it. And I wanted to share that with you guys because if you have something come up, if you have recently had something come up, or if you have something coming up that or something that might come up in the next few weeks or few months, remember this. Remember the five minute rule. Remember everything happens for a reason.

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