The Mindset Mentor - Ep 77 - Burn the Ships

Episode Date: February 15, 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 the MWF Motivation Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. And if you have not yet done so, please subscribe to us, however you, Rob Dial. And if you have not yet done so, please subscribe to us, however you listen to us. And if you like this episode, please share it with a friend. And today we're going to be talking about burning the ships. I had a conversation with one of my coaching clients about burning the ships. And side note, once again, if you are interested in coaching with me, you can email me, Rob at Mwfmotivation. I will give you some information on how there's a possibility that you could come in and we could possibly work together to help you with your goals. But that being said, burning the ships. I don't know if it's a true story.

I just know it's a great story. I'm pretty sure it probably is true. But basically, what it means is this. There was a Spanish conqueror and he was the captain of these ships. And there's a bunch of ships that are going to wherever they were going to go to wage this war, to fight this war. And when they pulled up, they had these old wooden ships. It was a couple hundred years ago. When they pulled up to wherever it was and they were on this beach, the first thing that he had them do was burn all of the ships, light them on fire. Because for him, it was either they were going to go in and they were going to win this war or they were going to die doing it. That was the only option. They were not going to retreat. They were not going to get back on the boats and take

off. So they burnt the boats. What that basically means is this. Winning the war or going into the war was their plan A. And there was no plan B for them. And I noticed this and I had this conversation where someone, the coach client said, Hey, listen, you know, I really want to do this, but then I also want to have this on the side just in case this doesn't work out. And I said, well, actually he said, do you ever have that? Do you have a plan B for other stuff? And I said, honestly, I don't have a plan B because plan B always takes away from plan A. Because if I have 100% capacity inside of my brain to deal with specific stuff, I want to put 100% of my brain, of my capacity, of everything that I possibly have into this one project and into whatever this is that I'm putting into it to make money.

I don't want to have a plan B because if there's plan B, that's taking up some of my brain capacity knowing that it's an opportunity to be there. And if you're an entrepreneur or if you're someone who wants to be an entrepreneur, most just people in general, we get the shiny object syndrome. And what it is, is is this as an entrepreneur I feel that I could do well at anything that I do I'm just have that type of confidence with myself where I know I can learn something I know I can figure it out I know I can find mentors I know I can learn from the best and as an entrepreneur we have shiny object syndrome we see oh hey here's a new opportunity I could probably make a million dollars doing this oh here's another opportunity

I could probably make a million dollars doing this it Oh, here's another opportunity. I could probably make a million dollars doing this. It's hard to stay on plan A and on the track that you're already on when you see all of these other opportunities where you could possibly make money. But here's the thing. You have to have only plan A and no plan B set up. And if you look at the most successful people in the world, they've basically been like this. I'll give you an example. Ed Sheeran, who you've probably heard me speak about before, he's an incredible musician. And most people are like, man, he's just so talented. He's just good. And he's just lucky in that sense. What happened was he actually left his parents' house at 16,

moved out, went to London at 16 years old, dropped out of high school, moved to London because he wanted to be a musician and started playing 300 shows a year. 300 shows a year. Sometimes he said he played up to six shows in one day. That was the most he'd ever done in one day. And what happened was this kid was homeless. He lived at people's houses that were his friends. He lived on their couches. If he did a show, he would ask if he could sleep on people's couches who were there. There were some times where he didn't have a friend's house to stay at. He didn't have somebody who had just listened to him play their place to stay at. And he would sleep outside in the cold in London with his guitar. That was his plan A. There was no plan B for him. He was burning the ships. And if you look at it, he did that for six years. And after six years, he put one album out and exploded and then just put another album out

and got even bigger. So for him, there was no plan B. It was only plan A. Another example of that is Honda, the guy who started Honda. If you want to look at someone who has had 99% failure, look at Honda because his actual quote is 99% of success is failure. And if you look at when he started Honda, it was the craziest stores you could possibly think of. His goal was to be able to make these engines. And I think they were originally made for bikes is what he was originally making them for, motorcycles. And what happened was this. He had so many failures come up along the way. So many problems came up along the way. It was during the war and part of his place got bombed and walls were falling down and he couldn't make concrete

walls because concrete was needed during the war by the Japanese government to build places, all of those things. So what he did, he found another way to make concrete and had his workers make concrete to build the wall so that they could therefore then go and actually build the engines. Now, most people would see the wall get knocked down and go, oh, that's it. It's over. There's nothing else. Well, I need a plan B now. His was like, no, we're making engines. This is what we're going to do. And now you look at how huge of a company Honda is. It's crazy. So you have to have your plan A and only your plan A. And it's exactly the same thing that I heard Will Smith say, where he says he's so focused on something and he knows he has to go for it. He knows he has to win at it.

And he's just that focused on anything that he does. And that's why he's such a successful musician. He's such a successful actor. Everything he does, the guy's super successful because he doesn't have a plan B whenever he goes directly into something. And he says, if you and him were to get on a treadmill, even if you're an experienced runner, you're the best runner in the world. If you get on a treadmill, one of two things is going to happen. Either he's going to be the first one, or excuse me, he's going to be the last one to get off and you're going to get off before him, or he's going to die on that treadmill. And it's really that simple. That is the only thing that he's focused

on is making sure that he conquers whatever his current vision is. And that current vision would be the actual person to win on the treadmill. So let me ask you this. How many times have you gone into something and said, oh, I'm really excited about this, but just in case this doesn't work, I want to make sure I have a plan B. Here's what I would recommend. Don't have a plan B because if you don't have a plan B, well, then you will figure out no matter how many failures you have, how to actually succeed at plan A. Because like Honda said, the guy who started Honda, success is 99% failure. He knew if he failed enough times, he would eventually succeed.

There was nothing that was going to stop him from succeeding. So when you have a plan B, it distracts from that plan A. If you only have plan A, no matter what it is, if you want to be a successful musician, successful business person, entrepreneur, successful employee, successful painter, whatever it is, if that is your passion, if that is the one thing that you want to do, make it your mission that that is the only thing that you do and that you will either do that or you will die trying. And I guarantee you, if you go and go and go and go and no matter how many times you fail, you just keep going, you will eventually succeed.

And that's why you always wanna make sure that you have only plan A. And no matter what it is, if you make your decision and that is what you wanna do, burn the ships and only go for plan A. So with that, I will leave you the same way that I leave you every single day. And this is also in case you want to follow us on Facebook. It's MWF Motivation, no spaces, MWF Motivation Podcast. And I actually put a short clip on the actual

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