The Mindset Mentor - How to Learn From Chaos

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

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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 that you never, ever miss another episode of this podcast. Today we're going to be talking about, well, what else are we going to talk about? We're going to be talking about the coronavirus, but we're going to be talking about what you can learn from it. And here's the thing. I feel like there's so many lessons that we can learn from this, this coronavirus and the way that people are acting and just currently with the way that the world is and what you're thinking about. There's so many lessons. I feel like I could literally do a coronavirus month if I really wanted to. And the reason why is because what it's really showing us is holes in the human

psyche is really what I think that it's showing us. Now, let me preface it because I always feel bad talking about it and downplaying it in some sort of way because I'm not trying to downplay people who have died from it. I'm not trying to downplay people who have gotten sick from it, all that stuff. What I'm trying to do is teach you how you can learn from it and uh so my girlfriend and i were in sedona right now uh we've been here for about five weeks we're probably gonna stay here for even longer because it looks like austin basically got completely shut down it looks like until uh the next six weeks until may 1st that they're actually going to not allow people to be in restaurants or bars they have to actually shut down

um, not allow people to be in restaurants or bars. They have to actually shut down. So there's not a whole lot to do. So we'd rather be outside in nature. And so today we were out hiking, we were watching the clouds pass and it was amazing. We were just sitting up and we were on, you know, a giant rock. We had hiked up to it with our dog, Toby. We're sitting there and we're just talking about, you know, what we're noticing from the coronavirus. And what I asked her and what I said to her was, what do you think the lesson that humans are supposed to learn from this is? And we had this really great conversation of like, what do you actually think? You know, if there's a lesson that you're supposed to learn from everything in your life, if you look at your life as everything is a lesson, good, bad, every single thing that happens to you as a lesson, what's the lesson that single thing that happens to you is a lesson.

What's the lesson that people are supposed to learn from this? And one of the things that we were both able to, not one of the things, these are the things that we were both able to kind of figure out. And during this conversation, I literally pull out, you know, my notebook and my phone and I start taking notes of all of these things that we start talking about. And the first thing that we noticed is the thing that I think that most people really need to get good at is slowing down. Like we live in societies where we're supposed to be go, go, go, go, go, go, go all the time. We're supposed to always be going. And I think that during this time, it kind of shows you how addicted you are to moving all of the time. So we're sitting there.

We're on top of a rock. We're looking at the clouds that are passing over us. And I was like, man, I wonder how many people actually slow down this much. Like they force themselves to slow down. Because one thing that I do know is that when people tend to quote unquote slow down or they don't have something to do instead of watching the clouds pass and have a conversation with someone that they love, a lot of time what people tend to do is they tend to take out their cell phone and they tend to keep themselves busy. And so one thing, one lesson that I think we're supposed to all learn, humankind should learn from the coronavirus is slow down. Like you don't have to be at work right now. For a lot of people, you don't have to be at work. You're supposed to be working from home, whatever

it is. Slow down. You don't have to be going all of the time. And one of the things that you may have heard me said before is I take a lot of inspiration from nature. We are nature. We come from nature. We are not separate from nature. We just happen to have built houses that are made from things outside of nature, wood and concrete and things that we make. Everything is from nature. We're from nature. Everything that we eat, consume is from nature. Everything that we drink is from nature. So I like to take inspiration from nature. And so if you sit around and you look at it

and you look at, we're looking at the entire, I mean, we can see miles from this place. Nothing in nature hurries, but everything gets done in time. And that's one of the beautiful things about nature is nothing hurries, but everything gets done in time. And no animal, but humans hurries like we do. If you think about the fastest land animal in the world, that's the cheetah. The cheetah will run 60 miles an hour for like 45 seconds. And then it'll eat if it ends up getting its prey. And then what does it do?

It ends up sitting under a tree in the shade for the rest of the day. So even the fastest land animal in the world is not go, go, go, go, go, go, go. But humans, we're go, go, go, go, go all the time, nonstop. We don't stop. So one thing that I think that it's actually showing us is that we need to slow down. We need to appreciate more and we need to have more gratitude. And this is the interesting thing that we were talking about is the gratitude that you can actually get from this virus is quite incredible if you think about it. Because when you go back to work, if you're not at work,

you might appreciate your relationships at work a little bit you go back to work, if you're not at work, you might appreciate your relationships at work a little bit more. Maybe you aren't going to get a paycheck for the next couple of weeks. You're going to really have a lot of gratitude for that paycheck in the next couple of weeks. If you are quarantined and you have to be inside of your house, guess what? You're going to have a lot of gratitude for being out and getting that sunshine on your body, for the warm air, for the spring that's about to happen and the leaves that are coming up. You're going to start to have more gratitude for things in your life than you probably ever have once all of this passes. The little tiny things, gratitude for the weather, gratitude for nature, gratitude for the sun, Gratitude for nature. Gratitude for the sun. Gratitude for your paycheck.

Gratitude for your friends. Gratitude for your family. You're hanging out with your family a lot more, most likely, if you're staying inside a lot more. So you're probably finding more things to be grateful for. What else can you do in this time? You can read. Instead of scrolling through Instagram

and looking at memes and pictures of dogs and cats and memes on, you know, the fat Jewish and all of those different Instagram pages and all of that, what you can do is you could take time and read a new book. How can you turn this into a positive? How can you make this a positive? What books can you read if you're staying from home? One of the big things, which I'm going to be talking about in the next few episodes is if you don't have a business that's making money online, this would be a really good time to figure out when, or not figure out when, figure out how to make, figure out how to make money online. My business is completely 100% online. And to be

honest with you, we've actually seen a spike in the past week or two. So it hasn't hurt me. Business is booming. So for some of you guys that are out there, you might be thinking, oh God, yeah, this is the right time. This is the time that I actually need to start focusing on learning that skill that I wanted. Start focusing on building my business. Start focusing on reading more. Start focusing on working out or maybe learning how to cook more healthier meals and do some meal prep so that next time I go to work and that, you know, things start happening now that I've got this free time. Now, when I don't have the free time, I have these specific recipes that are extremely healthy for

me that I love, right? What's another thing that we are having gratitude for? Food, right? If you guys have seen walking into a grocery store, how about the fact that, you know, when you have food, you can actually, imagine if you were to be quarantined for a month and you have to eat beans and you have to eat, you know, canned vegetables and corn and all those things. Imagine how much more you're going to appreciate a really good meal in a month. Another thing that you can find gratitude for is this. How about toilet paper so you can wipe your butt, right? Like, I don't know if you've gone into any of the grocery stores lately, but for some reason you would think food would be the most important

thing. Nah, people don't want food as much as they want toilet paper to wipe their butts. Hey, maybe one thing this is showing you is that you need to get a bidet. You need to get a bum gum, bum gun as they call it in Thailand, right? What's another thing this is showing you is that you need to get a bidet. You need to get a bum gun, bum gun as they call it in Thailand, right? What's another thing this is making you grateful for? Your family. Probably your family is something. That's probably something that you're learning. How to spend more time with your family, how to truly appreciate them. What's another thing that you're probably learning from this? How about financial responsibility? Right? The average American family household, I think it's like 95% of family households, they don't have any,

you know, financial stability. A lot of them live paycheck to paycheck. So maybe what you're learning is that, man, my job isn't as stable as I thought it was because I'm not going to be working for the next three weeks. Maybe I should get better at financial responsibility. Maybe I should learn how to make more money, or maybe I should learn how to save more money. Maybe I should figure out how to make more money and I should figure out how to save more money. Because one of the holes that it's exposing for a lot of people is that a lot of people are realizing that the job that they had, the security they thought actually existed, doesn't exist, number one. And number two, the other thing they've realized is that they don't have good financial responsibility. So maybe that would be something really good to get good at. Like to actually sit

down and go, you know what? I'm going to read a book about fiscal responsibility and actually how to save money, how to budget, how to actually plan for my retirement. You shouldn't be, and I'm sorry if you're in this situation, but you shouldn't be caught where you don't have money. You should have some sort of nest egg. And I'm literally saying this for everybody, no matter if you make a tiny bit of money or if you make a lot of money. I know people that make millions of dollars per year and they still have $0 in the bank account because they spend it on Ferraris and Lamborghinis and going out and all that stuff. It doesn't matter who you are, whether you make a little bit or a lot, how can you get better at saving whatever it is that you have?

So that's another thing that we all should be learning from this, right? The interesting thing that we've come to realize is that what it really does is it makes you really think about the things that matter. It goes back to your primal instincts, to the primal things, slowing down like animals do, reading like animals do. I'm just kidding. Obviously animals are not reading, but the food that you're taking in, appreciating the food that you have, but then also at the same time, how can you start eating healthier food, right? The family, the people that you surround yourself with, whether they're your actual blood family, or maybe they're actually just your friends that you consider family, the group that you surround yourself with. And then also your security,

which should also be known as your financial responsibility, how to get more responsible with this. If anything, what I've been telling people is number one, if you have a business, figure out a way for your business to grow through this. Figure out a way for your business to sustain through this. Because what it does is this is actually shining a light on holes in your business. It's showing you, oh my God, maybe my business has been too face-to-face and I need to add an online component to it. Right? That's something to think about. So it's exposing that side of your business. The other thing it's exposing is parts of you that maybe you should work on. Maybe it's, you should be more grateful for, maybe that you should try to get better at, whether that's the way that you're communicating

with the people around you and tell them that you love you, you love them, or, you know, the reading that you need to them, or the reading that you need to do, or the responsibilities you need to start having with your money. Whatever it's doing, it's starting to expose holes in the system that is your life. Whether that's yourself, whether that's your health, whether that's your relationships, whether that's your career, whether that's your money, whatever it is, it's starting to expose it. So how can you sit down with a pen and paper and say, if this coronavirus was uniquely designed for me, what am I supposed to learn through it? What can I learn from this thing? Is it a tragedy that people have died? Absolutely. I don't want to downplay that. Of course not. But you haven't died yet. You're still alive. So why don't you try to take something from this

as if it was the curriculum built for your life and say, what am I supposed to learn from this? And how can I grow from it as well? So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please, please, please share it with someone that you know, someone that you love and, uh, and you know, put it on your Instagram stories so I can give you a quick shout out and I can see it out there as well. And for those of you guys that want to text me for, I sent out a motivational text message today to everybody. Um, just kind of give them an extra boost with all of the things that are going on. And, uh, if you want to text me, you want to get some motivational text messages from me as well. Text me at 5 1 2 5 8 0 9 3 0 5. So once again, 5 1 2 5 8 0 9 3 05. One thing I can promise you is you will never,

ever, ever get a text message from anybody on my team. These will be from me when I get a burst of inspiration. I want to send it out to you. So send me a text message and I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode, making sure mission makes someone else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.