The Mindset Mentor - How to Get Out of a Rut

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Starting point is 00:00:44 Today, we're going to be talking about seven different tips to get yourself out of a rut. Why is this important? Because we're all going to find ourselves in a rut at some point in time. We're going to find ourselves in a rut where we're like, man, for the past month, I've really been in a complete rut. Or we could be like, man, today I feel like I'm in a rut. And if you can use these seven tips, all of them will help you get yourself out of there so that therefore you can start to take action on what it is you want to create. This is an important thing to understand too. When I talk about creating action and taking action, this is very simple. It's ridiculously simple. To get what you want in life, you're going to have to take action somehow. And you either get what you want in life or you don't get what you want in life. And so if you feel like you have been

Starting point is 00:01:28 in too much inaction, not creating the action that you want to, inaction causes more inaction. It's very easy. The momentum of not doing anything causes more momentum to not do anything. But on the flip side of that, action causes more action. Action causes more action. Now you might be sitting there like, well, shit. So what you're saying is I have to get some sort of action on my side in order to get momentum into action, but I'm not even taking any action at all. I'm completely inactive. Well, yes. One way to take action is to take action. Yes. But you have to realize you don't have to be action. Yes, but you have to realize you don't have to be taking action forever.

Starting point is 00:02:07 You just have to get yourself moving. Like it's kind of crazy to me how much people hold themselves back mentally and that then causes them to hold themselves back physically. But it's very simple. If you've got to pee and you're sitting on the couch, you get off of the couch and go pee eventually. You take action because of some sort of stimulus, which is I have to pee.

Starting point is 00:02:31 If you're hungry, you get your ass up off of the couch and you go get some food, right? You don't have to be inspired to go pee. You don't have to be inspired to go get food. No, you just decide to get up from your inaction and take action towards what it is. If a lion came into your house right now and was in your living room, you wouldn't be like, well, let me see if I can be inspired to move. No, you would get your ass up and you would run away from that lion, right? It's very simple. Just get up and start moving and eventually you'll

Starting point is 00:03:05 start to have momentum on your side. It's all about starting small. A lot of times for me, I don't really feel like I want to go work out. And so what I'll do is I'll make it very easy. I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to go outside. I'm just going to turn on some music. I'll move my body a little bit. I'll stretch a little bit and just see how I feel. Get a little bit of movement. You're like, you know what? I'll do some jumping jacks. I won't even tell myself how many. I'll just do some jumping jacks. And what I try to do is just get myself Get a little bit of movement. You're like, you know what? I'll do some jumping jacks. I won't even tell myself how many. I'll just do some jumping jacks. And what I try to do is just get myself moving a little bit. And what you start to notice is that if I'm sitting on the couch, it's hard to get myself to go and like do a full workout. But if I just get myself from the couch into the garage, which is where we have our gym, I can start moving around a little bit. And that

Starting point is 00:03:43 moving around a little bit is a little bit of momentum into actually moving into getting it going. So the reason why this is important is because there's two things you have to work at. Before I give you these tips, there's two things that you really have to work at and realize at all points in time, they're working together. It's the mind and the body, the mind and the body. The mind, you might just think to yourself, well, I'm not thinking correctly. I need some inspiration. The mind will have the inspiration to get up and move. And you might not have that. The body will just get up and go moving. It will get up and start moving. So you have to ask yourself this question. Okay. Do I feel inspired to go work out? No. Well, can I get my body moving?

Starting point is 00:04:23 I guess I could. Yeah. Cool. Well, then go into the gym, start doing some jumping jacks, do some moving, whatever it is you want to do. And eventually what happens is the inspiration to keep going comes in. And so you've always got to think to yourself, can I use my mind to get myself moving? Maybe, maybe not. Can I get my body to get myself moving? Maybe, maybe not. And when one of those starts moving in the right direction, the other one will soon start to follow. That's the important thing to realize about getting yourself moving, getting yourself out of a rut. Sometimes you have to hear something or see something that inspires us and it makes us want to create action. Sometimes

Starting point is 00:05:00 if I'm sitting there and I'm like, man, I don't want to work out. I'll go find somebody that's super inspiring, an athlete that I find inspirational. I'll put on a YouTube video of theirs. I'll watch like 10 minutes of it. I'm like, you know what? I feel like a lazy ass. I want to go do something now, right? So maybe you can watch something, listen to something that gives you some information,

Starting point is 00:05:18 some inspiration. Sometimes you just have to take action even when you feel like shit and your body will catch up and your mind will catch up and you'll eventually get where both of them are working together. So motivation can come from the body or it can come from the mind. You just have to try to use both of them to get yourself moving in the right direction. So that gets us into our tips, right? Number one, I just said it, but get your body moving in some sort of way. Just get it moving. I don't care what it is that you do. Sometimes you just have to get, you know, usually when you're laying on the couch is when it's hard to get yourself up and moving and motivated. But if you get yourself

Starting point is 00:05:52 up and you're like, I'm just going to do 10 jumping jacks. And you do those 10, you're like, I'm going to do 10 more. I'm going to do 10 more. I'm going to do 10 more. And you just get your body moving and you put on your favorite song. Usually it makes it a little bit easier. It makes it a lot easier too. If you go and get some caffeine, you just chug a cup of coffee, you chug some tea or some yerba mate, and you get some caffeine in your body. Now your heart's moving because you got some caffeine, and your body's moving, which is also getting your heart moving, and then you actually have a little bit of momentum. That's all I'm searching for, just a little bit of momentum into the right direction. Because the way I like to think of

Starting point is 00:06:24 momentum, you've probably heard me say it before, is if you've ever pushed a car, when a car is at a complete standstill, it's quite hard to get it moving. But once it starts moving, it makes it easier to go a little bit faster and get it moving a little bit faster. And eventually, once a car is moving, maybe you're going three or four miles an hour, you're not sitting there going, well, you know, I got to sit here and, oh, you know what I should do? I should stop this car for a few minutes. No, no, no. It's like, once the car is moving, you want to keep it moving. That's the point of it. So how can you get yourself from a car that is not moving at all to a car just moving a little bit, and then it's moving a little bit more, and then it's moving a little bit more,

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Starting point is 00:09:33 Number two, take the small steps. Don't think about if you're, you know, let's just roll with this workout example, right? Don't think about the entire workout you have to do. Don't think about all of the stuff that you have to do to work out. Start thinking about the one thing you have to do. Don't think about all of the stuff that you have to do to work out. Start thinking about the one thing you need to do right now.

Starting point is 00:09:51 Just go in and pick up the first weight and do your first curl. That's it. Don't worry about the entire workout and the bicep workout and the chest workout and all the stuff you have to do. Just go in and curl the freaking weight once. And then once you're done with that one, then curl it a second time. Once you're done with that one, then curl it a second time. Once you're done with that one, just curl it the third time, right? So number one is get your body moving. Number two is just take the small steps, like just get a little bit of that momentum on your side, okay? And then something that really helps this is number three is to celebrate your small wins. So once you get

Starting point is 00:10:22 done with your first set, celebrate yourself. Hell yeah, man, I didn't want to be here. But you know what? I'm here. That's a micro celebration for micro wins. You know, if you're in your house and you're working out, dance after you get your first set done. Put on some music. Make yourself feel good. The best part about motivation and serotonin and dopamine release inside of your brain, those are the feel-good molecules. Dopamine is the molecule of motivation. All of those are completely subjective. You can make yourself celebrate something that is not really that big and celebratable, and your brain and body will want to do it again. That's what's crazy about it. So you could be like, you know what? I just, you know, so what do we do? Number one, start small. Number one is to move your body. Just

Starting point is 00:11:09 get your body moving a little bit. All right. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go up to this and I'm going to curl this thing one time. Take small steps. Okay. One curl. Got that curl done. Okay. Next curl. Got that curl done. Next curl. And you do it 10 times. Then you go to number three, celebrate your small wins. Get yourself excited. Fuck yeah, I showed up for myself. I didn't want to show up for myself. How amazing is it that I'm here, that I decided to do this? I didn't have any motivation. I've worked out in three weeks, but I'm showing up for myself and I'm amazing because of it. And your brain, when you start to celebrate yourself, will release dopamine, the molecule of motivation. It will make you feel good and your brain and body will want to do it more. So celebrate the small wins. That's what makes it exciting. So that's number three.

Starting point is 00:11:48 Step number four, God, just put your phone away. Like just get rid of it. I keep saying this because I've been doing it a lot recently. Just put your phone completely in a different room. Like I just started this podcast episode and I realized my phone's next to me and I'm like, fuck, I didn't mean to have it next to me. Like I'm kind of pissed at myself because it's literally next to me right now. It was on the floor away from me where I couldn't see it. And now it's like when a phone is next to you and you can see it and it's in your brain, it's literally that piece of you that your brain kind of goes to that. So turn your phone off, put it somewhere else. I've been saying this a lot recently, but I literally have a dedicated spot inside of my kitchen, the drawer in my kitchen where my phone goes. I pick it up when I need it. And when I

Starting point is 00:12:28 get done with it, I put it back right away so I don't get stuck in that electronic spiral down. Turn off all of your electronics. Most likely you'll be bored and you'll need something to do. That's what's crazy about it. You want to get out of a rut quickly and start taking action? Turn off all of your electronics, turn off your phone, turn off your TV, turn off the music. You'll get really bored and you'll need something to do. Well, why don't you just then start taking action towards the life that you want and creating that one thing? Okay, so that's number four. So turn off your phone, turn off your electronics, turn off all the things that distract you. Number five is to focus on the next 60 seconds. That's it. Once again, small steps. What can you do in the next 60 seconds? And don't

Starting point is 00:13:12 dedicate yourself to just, okay, the next hour I'll do this. No, no, no. I don't want 60 minutes. I want 60 seconds. What can you do in the next 60 seconds to make sure that you just move the needle a little bit? If we're going for this workout, this workout example I've been using for a while. Okay. What can I do to work out for the next 60 seconds? That's it. I'm just going to work out for the next 60 seconds.

Starting point is 00:13:35 I'm not going to worry about the rest. What can I do for the next 60 seconds to move the needle? And then after those 60 seconds, figure it out. Figure out what you're going to do for the next 60 seconds. So that's step number five to get yourself out of a rut. Just focus on the next 60 seconds. Number six is to ride the momentum. Once you start getting a little bit of momentum, pay attention to that momentum. Celebrate that momentum. Feel the momentum and know that you're going to try to keep this thing going. Like it's very easy to continue to work out when you're at the end of a workout

Starting point is 00:14:06 than it is at the very beginning of a workout. Why? Because you've got the momentum on your side. It's like the example I always give. If we have a bowling ball, we put it on the top of a hill, say it's a 15 pound bowling ball, it's a 200 foot hill all the way down.

Starting point is 00:14:20 And I let go of the bowling ball and you stop it two feet down, no big deal. It's not going to really hurt. But if you try to stop it at the bottom of the hill, when it's got all of that momentum on its side, and you put your hand out, you're breaking a hand. You're probably breaking a lot of different things, bones, hands, all of those, right? So when you start to notice momentum, what you need to do is you need to notice the momentum. Tell yourself, I've got a little bit of momentum on my side. I'm going to keep it rolling.

Starting point is 00:14:50 I'm going to keep it going. I'm going to keep it rolling. I'm going to keep it going. And get a little bit of momentum on your side to start working towards that thing that you want. And so when you notice momentum, ride that momentum. And then tip number seven is to get around other people, right? Get around other people. One of the things that I do is I hold myself to working out with a group of people every single week. And it's every single Wednesday. It's Wednesday workouts. And I didn't want to go the other day. And I was like, well, it's Wednesday. It's happening. I do this every single Wednesday. All right, I guess let's do it. Because I know if I don't show up, they're going to call me and be like, hey, where were you?

Starting point is 00:15:31 You were supposed to be here. You said you're going to be here. You didn't show up. Why are you being a lazy ass? And when you get around other people who are working towards the same thing, it makes you motivated to keep on going to it. So I was like, you know what? I don't really feel like it, but I know I'm probably gonna be called out if I don't. That's why I hang out around other people who have the same mission as me. Worked out for an hour and 21 minutes and burned over a thousand calories.

Starting point is 00:15:51 And I was like, damn, I worked out really hard. I would not have pushed myself that hard if I did it by myself. Absolutely no way would I push myself anywhere near as much. And in fact, I could have actually skipped the workout if I would have just done it by myself. And so it's very important to get around other people because sometimes just the energy that other people have, if they have the right energy and they have the same energy

Starting point is 00:16:13 that they're trying to work towards what you're trying to work towards, usually being around them will get your momentum going, your positive energy going, your internal energy to work towards something, your motivation, your inspiration energy going, your internal energy to work towards something, your motivation, your inspiration. And just being around other people, you might be driving over, like this, for instance, driving over to this work that I was going to. I was like, fuck, I don't want to be here. I'm chugging my coffee, trying to see if I can get myself excited. I'm bumping some music and trying to get myself excited. It's not happening. It's not happening. I'm like, all right. I pull up there. I literally pull up. It's a 20 minute drive. I pull up and I'm like, I should just drive home. I didn't even want to

Starting point is 00:16:50 go. And I was like, nope, I'm going to do it. Force myself to get out. And I show up. And then I started working out a little bit. My body started doing what it does. My mind started doing what it does. I started feeling the positive momentum on my side. And then we just kept going. And we're like, we're four sets in, supposed to be done in about an hour. And then we just kept going. And we're like, we're four sets in, supposed to be done in about an hour. And then some crazy person goes, let's do one more. I'm like, shit. All right, let's do one more. Went for an hour and 21 minutes, burned a thousand calories. But it was only because I decided to get myself in the vicinity of other people who have the same motivation as me, who have the same dreams as me, who have the same goals that they're trying

Starting point is 00:17:22 to work on as me as well. How can you figure out a way to do that for yourself? So that's what I got for you. Once again, number one, to get yourself out of a rut, move your body. Number two, take some small steps. Number three, when you take those small steps, celebrate your small wins. Number four, turn off your phone and all the electronics. Number five, focus on just the next 60 seconds. Number six, ride that momentum. And number seven, get around other people who are trying to do the same thing that you are. 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 Rob Dial Jr. R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And please do me a massive favor. Once again, go on to iTunes or Apple

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The Mindset Mentor - How to Get Out of a Rut

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