The Mindset Mentor - How Successful People Think

Episode Date: May 25, 2018

Episode 433 - There is no background, sex, parental requirement, or ethnicity required for success, success starts in the mind and ends in the physical world. Therefore, in this episode I teach the 3 things that successful people think about differently and how you can change your mind to match theirs. 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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and I will send you the links needed to join in on that group. Okay. Today I want to be talking about is how successful people think. Now, the thing that you have to think about, kind of realizing, and I don't know if a lot of people really understand this or really even think about it, there's no actual trait that's needed for a successful person. There's no background that a successful person comes from. It's not like, oh, if they're born in this city or if they have this type of parent or if they have this or this. There's people from all walks of life, whether they were homeless, whether they're born in this city or if they have this type of parent or if they have this or this.

There's people from all walks of life, whether they were homeless, whether they had terrible childhood, whether they were raised by rich people. It doesn't really matter. Success does not require any sort of background in order to be successful. Success starts in the mind in the way someone thinks. And also, just so you know, I don't just mean success as far as making money. I also mean success as far as like, I would consider a person that's extremely happy. I would consider that a success. I would consider someone who has a great marriage. I would see that as a success. I would see someone who does make money as a success. There's lots of forms of success, but successful people all seem to think the exact same way.

And I'm going to tell you the three things that I've noticed among successful people of what makes them successful and the way that they look at things. I've just noticed that the way a successful person looks at something is completely opposite the way this unsuccessful person looks at something is completely opposite the way this unsuccessful person looks at something.

So the first thing that I noticed that they think differently about is the unknown, right? An unsuccessful person sees the unknown as something that is scary. They look at it and they go, I don't know what's going to happen. And they're like, I don't know what's, I don't know. I'm not, I'm too scared to go after that because I don't know what's going to happen. And that unknown is scary to me. Successful people tend to see the unknown as exciting because they're so excited knowing that something great is going to come from that. They're going to create something great, right? So the first thing is the unknown. Unsuccessful people think it's scary.

Successful people see the unknown as exciting. The second thing that I notice that they look at differently is challenges, right? Challenges. An unsuccessful person sees a challenge as an opportunity to fail. An opportunity or, you know, a possible time where they might be embarrassed. They might be rejected, right? They see challenges as something that is negative. A successful person sees a challenge as a place to grow. The only way that you can grow is to challenge yourself. The only way that you can grow is to challenge yourself. The only way that you can get your muscle to grow, if you want your bicep to grow, the only way it'll grow is if you challenge it with a weight that it cannot lift or it can just barely lift. It has to struggle. It has to go through the challenge in order to grow. So unsuccessful people see it as a challenge as a possible

opportunity for them to be embarrassed or an opportunity for failure. A successful person sees it as a opportunity for growth, an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to get better because they know on the other side of a challenge is a better version of themselves. Because if you think about it, if you think about the biggest challenge that you've been through in your entire life, it sucks going through it. We all know it sucks going through it. But if you think about the time in your life when you had the most growth, where you learned the most about yourself, it's usually that exact same time when the challenges were so hard and you didn't know if you make it through it, but you made it through it and you came out strong on the other end. So challenges, successful people and unsuccessful people look at challenges differently.

And the third thing that I noticed that successful people look at differently is themselves. Themselves. Unsuccessful people see themselves and they think of all of their personal limitations. They think of their weaknesses. They think of all the times that they failed. They think of the times they've been rejected. They see their personal limitations, right? And they see those limitations as a weakness. Now, a successful person, they see those personal limitations, but they see those as an opportunity to get better. They put that personal limitation on their to-do list and say, yes, I will get better at this. Not I'm bad at this and I will be this way forever. They look at it and say, I need to improve at this and I will not stop until I improve at this.

And that's the thing you have to realize is successful people, they believe in themselves. And the reason why successful people believe in themselves, here's the thing that's the interesting thing. They weren't born believing in themselves. It's not a trait that they just had. What happened is they started pushing themselves and pushing themselves and pushing themselves when they didn't believe in themselves. And eventually they started getting results and they started getting more results. And with each result that became better, they, each result that was better than they thought it was going to be. And they became better in the process. Their confidence grew little by little, by little, by little, by little, by little, until we all know

when you see a successful person walk in the room, sometimes some people just have like a, just an aura. Like they walk in the room and you're like, holy crap, someone just arrived. Right? They haven't always been that way. They become that way. Why? Because they've taken their personal limitations, they've worked on it, and they've gotten great results. So those are the three things of how successful people think. So what I want you to do and what I think you should do is say, okay, number one, the unknown. Number two, challenges. Number three, myself. How do I look at the unknown? What do I think of when I think of the unknown? Does it scare me? Does it excite me? What can I do to improve at it? The next thing, challenges. How do I look at challenges?

Do they scare me? Do they excite me? Do I look at them as an opportunity to fail or an opportunity to grow? How can I improve at that? Number three, myself. How do I look at myself? How do I look at my personal limitations? Do I see them as a weakness?

Or do I see them as an opportunity to grow and to get better, to improve? Because I know that on the other side of these challenges and these weaknesses is me being the better version of myself. I know that the most growth comes from the hardest things in life. So that's what you should ask yourself. And then you ask yourself, how can I get better at each one of these? How can I get better at the unknown? How can I get better at the unknown? How can I get better at challenges? And how can I get better at the way I view myself? So if you liked this episode, please do me a favor, share with someone that you know and love. If you want to join in on the free five-day challenge, you only got a few more days to do it. Go to coachwithrob.com, enter your information. You can sign up for free there. And I'm going to leave you the same way, leave you every single

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