The Mindset Mentor - How to Be Impeccable with Everything You Do

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. And if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you want to follow along with these podcasts through video, then you can go to my YouTube. Just type in YouTube, type my name in, Rob Dial, R-O-B-D-I-A-L, and you can follow along with all of these podcasts through video. Today, we're going to talk about how to be impeccable with every single thing that you do. We're going to talk about how to be impeccable with your words and what you say to others. And then to follow it up, we're going to talk about how to be impeccable with every action

Starting point is 00:00:44 that you take. And all of it starts with one thing, following through. When I used to run an office, I had thousands of sales reps that I trained over years. The one thing that I noticed from people who were the most successful sales reps that I had compared to the least successful sales reps or pretty much everybody else was their follow through. Was that the ones that were the most successful would say they were going to do something and then they would actually do it. And the ones that were not successful, they had big lofty goals, but then they would never actually follow up or follow through on any of those goals. It was so important for me

Starting point is 00:01:19 to teach follow through to my reps. And these are people that were 17 to 24 years old. It was so important for me to teach this to them that I printed out a massive sign that went above the door. So when you walked out of the office, it said follow-through. And I taught about how to follow through, why to follow through, why it's important to be impeccable

Starting point is 00:01:38 with everything that you say and to be impeccable with every single thing that you do and why it's important for the rest of your life to be that way and why it's important for the rest of your life to be that way and why it's important to hold yourself accountable more than anything else. Even, actually, I wanna say even, especially when someone's not looking.

Starting point is 00:01:55 When others are not looking, that's when it's the most important for you to be accountable with yourself. That's also the time when most people slip, right? I'll give you a good example. Perfect example of following through and holding yourself to an impeccable standard is are you on time with everything that you do, right?

Starting point is 00:02:14 When you say I'll show up at noon to go get lunch with a friend, are you there at 12.02 or are you there at 11.55? Are you early or are you late? Because here's the thing that you start to realize. People will start to change their perception of you based off of if you're showing up on time or not. I have a friend, I'm not going to name him. He's 15 minutes late to every single thing that we do. We plan for him to be late. Now, do you think he wants that perception? No, but he has to learn to be impeccable with every single thing that he does.

Starting point is 00:02:51 The other day he showed up on time and everyone was like, holy crap, what's going on? You don't want people to have that reaction when you show up on time to something. So are you on time? Think about that. This is the one thing that I'll say about that is time is a non-renewable resource. Things happen. I understand that things happen, but you have to realize majority of the time you should be leaving way early than you need to leave to go to wherever it is. Even if you just end up there before everybody else, you just wait in your car for a little while and scroll on Instagram or do some work on your phone or whatever it is you need to do. Things happen and people get that. But you have to realize people don't want to hang out with people and be around people that

Starting point is 00:03:33 they can't trust. And when you say you're going to do something and you don't do it, what does that show? It shows a break in trust. And we all know how hard it is to regain someone's trust after you lose it. So never be late. Hold yourself to that standard. Plan to leave as if traffic is going to be horrible. Traffic is not an excuse. Traffic is an excuse that you use for not holding yourself to the highest standard, for not being impeccable with everything that you do. So showing up late is one of the biggest punches in the face to the people around you. Why? Because time is a non-renewable resource, right? Time is one of the only non-renewable resources. Money is renewable, right? You can make money. If somebody goes and takes money from me, I can always make more of it. But if someone takes time from me, I can't make more time.

Starting point is 00:04:19 I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Hopefully one day I could, right? I would rather have someone steal money from me than steal time from me because I'm never going to get that back. And you have to think about this. If showing up on time makes you reliable, what does showing up late make you? It makes you unreliable. And people don't normally think of it that way, but you have to think of it that way is when I show up late to things that I do, is it giving other people the perception of me that I want or that I don't want? You have to be impeccable with every single thing that you do. And it starts, one of the things I see with most people is not being on time. Just something super simple. Okay. Next thing. How about just doing what you say you're

Starting point is 00:05:04 going to do? So many people are afraid to say no to people because they don't want to let them down. But what I would say is it's better to say no to somebody or to say, I don't know yet before saying yes. And what I mean by that is like backing out of plans. We all know if you've ever taken a trip with any of your friends before, when there's the idea to take the trip and everyone's like, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. And then people start backing out and people start backing out and people start backing out. It's better to be the type of person that doesn't say yes right away, but then eventually makes plans and makes

Starting point is 00:05:37 it happen. Then to be the person that says yes and then backs out. You don't want to be known as the person that says yes and backs out, says yes, backs out, says yes, backs out. So a tip that I always give people and people that I've coached is don't confirm yourself to anything before you're sure. I want you to know when you're 100% in on something, okay, we're going to take this trip. Let me make sure that it works. I'm not 100% at this point. And when it works, then you give your 100%. Why? Because then they're like, man, percent at this point. And when it works, then you give your a hundred percent. Why? Because then they're like, man, every single time that Rob says he's going to do this, he does it. Every single time that we say we're going to go on a trip and he confirms himself, he does it. If somebody says, hey, you know, if you're in a conversation with someone like, oh, hey, it'd be really great for

Starting point is 00:06:17 you to connect me with that person. You're at coffee, right? Think about what that would be like to be impeccable with your word in that moment. You say you're going to do something for someone, you're going to hook them up with someone that you know, or a friend that they should go get coffee with. Then as soon as you get to your car, why don't you send the text message connection between those two people, right? How can you be impeccable with every single thing that you do so that you are not only on point, but you surprise everybody that you know? Where they're like, man. They might not consciously be thinking about it, but subconsciously they're like, damn, anytime that I need someone to follow through and I can have someone to have my back, he's always there. She's always there. Can you be that type of person?

Starting point is 00:06:57 It requires you to be impeccable with your word. But what does that mean to be impeccable with your word? You should ask yourself that question. See what comes up. What does it mean to be impeccable with every single action that you take? When you say yes and you continually cancel on people, you start to break people's trust. And we all know what happens when trust is broken. It's hard to build it back. It's like if you were to take a glass vase and drop it on the ground, you can glue it back together, but it's never going to be exactly the same. That's what happens when you break somebody's trust. It's like taking a glass vase, dropping it on the ground, it's shattering, and then putting it back together. It can be put back together, but it will never be the same again. So you got to realize people will stop asking you

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Starting point is 00:09:00 The being impeccable with your words and being impeccable with your actions, the being impeccable with your words and being impeccable with your actions, what it really comes down to and what I think is the most important thing is to be impeccable when no one is watching. People always ask me, how do I get more confidence? And I always say, one of the biggest ways to get confidence is to be impeccable with everything that you do when no one is watching, right? Be impeccable with everything that you do when no one is watching, right? Be impeccable with everything that you do when no one is watching. So you wake up and you go and you start to brush your teeth and you look back at your bed and your bed is not made. Well, nobody in the world would know that you didn't make your bed today. If you live alone and you get out of your bed, nobody in the world is going to know if you didn't make your bed. And it really doesn't matter that much, does it? It doesn't matter, but it does. Why? Because it matters to you because

Starting point is 00:09:48 you know, you know what? I want to do this thing. I didn't show up for myself. And when you don't show up for yourself, do you think it's going to build your confidence or you think it's going to lower your confidence? It's going to lower it. And so people are like, how do I gain confidence? Show up for yourself at the most extreme level, right? Think about the number one person that you look up to in the world. Like if there was a, let's not even say nobody that you look up to, maybe a celebrity,

Starting point is 00:10:10 the one celebrity that you look up to the most, mentor that you wish that you could have. Let's say it's like The Rock or something, like you really love The Rock. And The Rock is like, hey, pick me up at noon. Are you gonna show up at 12.02 to pick The Rock up? Probably not. You're probably gonna be like, okay, there could be traffic. I'm going to show up at 11.30 just in case there's traffic. I'm going to plan ahead. I want to make sure I'm there. I don't want to show up late.

Starting point is 00:10:34 Well, think about that. You're willing to show up for a celebrity at the highest level and be early, but you're not willing to do that for yourself sometimes and be impeccable. You should care more about how you show up for yourself than how you show up for The Rock or Barack Obama or any other celebrity happens to be out there. But you also want to be impeccable with your word with them as well, right? So when you don't follow through for yourself, of course, your confidence is going to lower in yourself. You could wake up, have some coffee, and then take that cup of coffee and put it inside of the sink. Or if you've got an extra 30 seconds, you could wash it off and dry it off and put it back where it was or put it inside the dishwasher. Think about that. Are you impeccable with every single thing that you do? Are you impeccable when no one else is watching? And really it boils down to three things more than anything else. Number one, the first thing

Starting point is 00:11:29 is integrity. This is inner integrity. This is outer integrity, right? You know how much integrity you want. You know that you want to be a person that's full of integrity and that's looked at as someone with integrity, right? You know how much you want. But the question is, do you know how much you actually have? And do you know what other people perceive your integrity to be, right? People around you, people want other people around them that have integrity, right? The ones that are honest, the ones that are good people, the ones that write morals. People know how they want to be treated. They want to be treated well. How do you show up? Saying that you'll be somewhere at a certain time or showing up late or backing out of something

Starting point is 00:12:09 shows a lack of integrity. If you have a really great friend, you probably want someone to be really, have a lot of integrity in your relationship with them, right? So what is your integrity like with other people around you, with the people that you're closest to? And what is your integrity like with yourself? Right? And then take a step back and go, if there was someone like Michael Jordan or The Rock or someone that I really look up to, or Tom Brady, whoever it is for you, if they were there,

Starting point is 00:12:36 how would I show up for them? What type of integrity would I want them to see in me? Right? That's the type of integrity you should hold yourself to for yourself and for other people as well. So that's the first thing it boils down to, integrity. Second thing it boils down to, reliability. People want people around them that are reliable. Like I said before, time, it's a non-renewable resource. People don't want people around them that are just going to show up late or not show up at all, right? I had a friend that put on his Instagram stories earlier today, yesterday actually, that he was in the middle of moving and the people who are the movers just never showed up. Could you imagine that feeling? How pissed you would be? Now imagine if your friends feel the exact same way for you when you don't show up the way that

Starting point is 00:13:19 they want you to. Right? No one ever wants to be known as unreliable. So how reliable are you? The third thing that comes down to is respect. People want to be respected and they want you to respect them. They want you to respect their time. They want you to respect, you know, whatever it is around them. And when you go back on your word, it shows a lack of respect. And once someone's losing respect for you, it's hard to gain, right? It's like that glass vase that's dropped over and over and over again. You know, it's hard to regain the integral structure of that thing.

Starting point is 00:13:53 So once you disrespect someone with their time, with not showing up, with showing up late, it's hard for them to trust you again. And I realized like these are, this is the most surface level stuff I'm talking about with time, with showing up. But what about just cheating on somebody or not being on somebody, not being somebody who shows up for someone else in a significant other relationship? What does that show? What do they, what do they feel from you? And so people all think of how

Starting point is 00:14:21 they would treat somebody who's a celebrity, as somebody who's famous or somebody that they want to have a mentor, right? But they never think of how they show up for themselves. Even if you just take a celebrity out of it, let's say that you have the perfect mentor. Who's that perfect mentor in your area? Maybe you want to be a great business person. There's this guy that's worth $50 million. He wants to be your mentor. How would you show up for him? Do you show up the same way for everyone else around you or do you show up differently? It's really something that you should think about because in all honesty, you have to be impeccable with every single thing that you do.

Starting point is 00:14:54 The most successful, the most incredible people, the most honest people, everyone that I know that is at a high level in everything in life, whether that's just business, relationships, finances, their family, all of that stuff, is they're impeccable with their word. And being impeccable with their word and with their actions is what got them there. And there's very few people that will be on the same level as them. And the reason why is because people won't hold themselves to the highest standards possible. What standards are you holding yourself to? How are you following through with yourself? How are you following through when no one else is looking? And then how are you following through with the people that you love that are around you? This is an important subject to think about, because if you really want to change yourself, you're going to have to think about your standards, your word, and how

Starting point is 00:15:39 impeccable you are with every single action. So if you want to make a change, start to change how impeccable you are with your words, with your actions, with yourself and with other people. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R.

Starting point is 00:15:57 And I'm going to leave it the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you. And I hope that you have an amazing day.

The Mindset Mentor - How to Be Impeccable with Everything You Do

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