The Mindset Mentor - How to Change Your Life Today

Episode Date: December 15, 2017

Episode 363 - If your life is not where you want it to be, it is time to change it. It is time for you to act like you are in a movie and you are the hero of your own story. Today is the day and in this episode I teach you how to make today the first day of the rest of your life. 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

Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast, one of the top-rated motivational podcasts in the world. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I come out with a short, to-the-point, no-BS podcast designed to transform you from who you are today into who you want to be. There's no fluff here, just life-changing content. My name is Rob Dial, and the podcast starts now. Welcome to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, please hit the subscribe button so that you never miss another

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So if you're interested, once again, send me an email, rob at mwfmotivation.com. Okay. Today, we're going to be talking about how to change your life right now. So when we're talking about this, I want you to realize that the past does not matter. Now the past made you who you are, but your past does not matter in this equation of changing your life right now. In fact, the present doesn't even actually matter in this equation as well. The only thing that matters is what you do from here on out to change your future. See,

to continuously and continually focus on the past and wanting the past to be different is like looking at the sky and saying you know what I wish the sky was green I wish the sky was green I wish the sky was green because the sky will never be green so to look at the past and say I wish that it would have been this way I wish that it would have been this way it's just as crazy because you can't change the past just like you can't change the color of the sky. So you have to forget the past and you have to focus on the present and not worry about where you are in this present moment but what

you're going to do with this present moment. I want you to think about it this way. I want you to be the hero of your own story. You to be the hero of your own story. You to be the hero of your own movie. Imagine right now is when your movie starts. We all love the movies of the underdogs. We all love the comeback story, like the pursuit of happiness, right? The pursuit of happiness. We love that because we can see him hit rock bottom.

We can see him with the sun, crying inside of a bathroom in a train station. That's his rock bottom. We can see him with the sun crying inside of a bathroom in a train station. That's his rock bottom. And you can see that mindset change of this is not going to be this way forever. I will do something in this exact moment to make sure that my future is different than my present moment is right now. I want you to act like your story is exactly the same. No matter where you are, no matter where you've been, no matter all of your screw-ups and everything that you've done wrong, I want you to pretend that right now your story has flipped on and you have an audience watching you. They're on your side. They want you to win. They want you to succeed.

on your side. They want you to win. They want you to succeed. Imagine that every day walking around that there's just a documentary, a documentary, the group of just, I don't know, completely messing up the word, right? A group of people that are doing a documentary on your life and everybody's watching. Are you going to make the right decisions? Are you going to just think about how much different your life would be if every moment of your life, there was a crew videotaping your every single moment, everything that you did. Wouldn't you make different decisions? Wouldn't you do things that would be a lot different? Wouldn't you not skip all of the different things that you, you know, cut corners and skipping different things that you know that you should do and waking up late? If there was a crew following you around, wouldn't you do things different?

Be the hero of your own story. Your past doesn't matter. Your present doesn't matter. If you're listening to my voice and you're sitting there and you're addicted to drugs, you're addicted to alcohol, you can make the change at this very second. You can be the hero of your own story. You can act like you're the person that's in that movie. Pretend that that movie is you. You are that person in that movie. Pretend that everyone's watching you and everyone's rooting you on. And then you ask yourself this question, if my life were a movie, if it was that rock bottom point, if it was that rock bottom point, if it was that turning point in the movie,

what would that star of the show do? What would Will Smith do at this moment? Just like he did in The Pursuit of Happiness. What would the star of my movie do? Figure that out. Get a pen and paper. Write it down. And do that.

Do whatever that thing is. That's what you need to think about. That's what you need to think about. That's what you need to focus on. You take a pen and paper and you say, how did I make mistakes? How did I screw up? And what you do is you figure out all of your mistakes, all of your screw ups, and you don't dwell on them.

You don't think, man, there's so many ways that I screwed up. The reason why you're writing down your screw ups and every mistake that you've made is so you don't do them again. It's so you can now make change and go a completely different direction. That's what you have to think of. What would Will Smith do is what you have to think about, right? What would he do in this situation? If he was the star of my movie, what would he do? You figure that out and all you have to do is do that. See, too many times people like to play the victim. Oh, well,

this happened to me in my past and my mom treated me this way. My dad treated me this way and all of these different things. And I wasn't raised with the right influence. The best part about being alive in these day and age with podcasts and YouTube and the internet and everything that we have is that information is readily available. No matter what it is that you want to do, you can find the information to get you to improve at whatever it is, whether it's self-improvement or whether it's improving at anything that you want to get better at. There is a master out there that is willing to teach you. The thing about that is you can either play the hero in this story and go

and find that information and go out and actually start changing your life, or you can continue to play the victim, right? There's only two things that you could be in this situation. Either you're the victim, you're complaining about all of the things that have happened to you, you're complaining about the past, you're complaining about and worrying about all of the things that have happened to you, you're complaining about the past, you're complaining about and worrying about all of the things that you've done and people judging you, you could be the victim or you could be the hero. The best part about it is that you are the one that makes the choice. Either you're going to be the victim and you're going to continue down this path that you've been on, or you're going to be the hero. You make the choice of which one it is. And then if you go out and you look at that pen

and paper and everything you wrote down, you see all the mistakes. You learn from your mistakes. And if you go out and you happen to make more mistakes, you learn from those mistakes and you write them down. Because here's the deal. No matter what age you are, no matter where you are in your life, no matter all of the mistakes that you've made in the past, all of the mistakes, all of the people that you may have screwed over, and all of the things that you've done wrong, you can make the decision in this present moment to be the hero of your own story,

to write down your mistakes, to learn from your mistakes, to improve, and to make the decision that I am going to spend the rest of my life getting me to where I want. If your children were watching your movie, your documentary, would they be proud of their father or their mother? That's what you have to think about. If your mother or father was watching, if your brother, sister, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, cousins were watching this, would they be proud of you and the decisions that you make?

You're in control of the decisions. Either you can be the victim of your story and play the victim card, or you can be the hero. I hope that you choose to be the hero. Well, that's it for today's podcast. If you want the show notes for this episode, they can be found at mwfmotivation.com. Also, if you liked this episode, please spread the love and share it with a friend because it's our mission to help as many people as we can.

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