The Mindset Mentor - If Your Life Was a Test, Would You Pass?

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. Today, we're going to be talking about what would you rate your life if your life was a test and how you've done so far? And so what I'm going to take you through is I did this last year and I wanted to do it again because I think it's so simple and so practical for everyone to do, but also so important and can be massive for people in their lives to figure out how to improve themselves where they currently are and to rate yourself where you currently are. And first off, before we dive into this, this is something that I used to do with my one-on-one

Starting point is 00:00:47 coaching clients all the time, every single week, to try to make sure that they're improving as much as possible. And so we're going to go through a few aspects of your life. And I want you to be as open, honest, and vulnerable with yourself right now. If you have a pen and paper, right now would be the best time to go grab that pen and paper. If you're driving your car, make some mental notes, try to figure it out, grab some pen and paper later. We're going to dive in and actually figure out where you are currently in your life. And, um, you know, if you want to throw away this piece of paper when you're done, throw it away, but that way you can at least be open, honest, and vulnerable with yourself. So we're going to go through a few aspects of your life and I want you to give yourself

Starting point is 00:01:24 a rating on a scale of one to 10. Okay. So the first one we're going to dive into is your career or your business. If you were to look at your career or your business or where you currently are in your career, and you were to look at it and rate yourself on a scale of one to 10, one being like, it is absolutely in shambles. I have no career. I'm homeless. I don't have a job. One is like really, really, really bad. 10 is your career is perfect. It can't get any better. You can't make any more money. You can't have any more impact in the world. You can't get any promotions, any of that stuff. If you were to look at yourself and rate your career on a scale of 1 to 10,

Starting point is 00:02:01 what would you rate yourself? Think about it. Your career, you know, how long you've been there, how long you want to stay. If you're close to an ex-promotion, whatever it is, on a scale of one to 10, what would you rate yourself? Go ahead and write the number down. Okay. Next thing is your relationships. Okay. This can be your romantic relationships. This can be your friendships. This can be your business. This can be your romantic relationships. This can be your friendships. This can be your business. This could be your network. This can be the top five people that you spend the most time with. This can be your mentors. This can be every single other breathing human that you have a relationship with. If you were to look at on a scale of one to 10,

Starting point is 00:02:40 one being like you have no friends, nobody loves you. They never have. You don't have anybody on your phone. You have nobody on your friends list on Facebook. That would be a one. A 10 would be like there is absolutely no way that any of my relationships could ever improve. So on a scale of one to 10, what would you rate your relationships? Go ahead and write that number down. Okay. Next one is your intellectual. So when we're looking at yourself intellectually, this could be the reading that you've been doing lately, all of the learning, the courses that you've been taking, the conferences or events that you've been going to, the podcast that you've been listening to, the YouTube stations

Starting point is 00:03:24 that you've been learning from intellectually, how you've been listening to, the YouTube stations that you've been learning from intellectually, how you've been growing over the past couple months on a scale of one to 10, one being like this podcast that you're listening to right now is the very first one you've ever listened to. You haven't been learning. You haven't been growing. You've been terrible. You've never read a book before. All of those things. 10 being like, there is absolutely no way on God's green earth that I can improve intellectually. I am perfect. I know everything that there ever has been on the entire world. On a scale of 1 to 10, what would you rate yourself intellectually? Okay, write that down. Next one, your physical body. When you look at your physical body, on a scale of 1 to 10, what would you rate yourself?

Starting point is 00:04:00 So this is your body, how you feel, how much you work out, the type of food that you eat, if you're sore throughout the day, if you have any joint issues, how you sleep, all of that stuff is considered your physical body, right? What would you rate yourself on a scale of one to 10 with your physical body? One being like, it's terrible. You, a crane to pick you up and to be able to get you out of the house maybe. And you've never eaten healthy food in your entire life. And maybe you've never worked out. Maybe you don't eat well. Maybe you feel like crap. You sleep like crap, all of that stuff. 10 being you have the most perfect body that anyone has ever seen. You might as well just put it in statues because there will never be a better body than yours. And it's perfect,

Starting point is 00:04:47 right? That would be your physical. So on a scale of one to 10, what would you rate yourself physically? Next one is your emotional state. All right, emotional state. How do you feel throughout the day? Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you anxious? How do you talk to yourself? How do you feel and think? Are you positive? Are you negative? On a scale of one to 10, what would you rate yourself emotionally? One would be like you're a complete, absolute emotional wreck. 10 being you are the most perfect emotional being

Starting point is 00:05:14 that has ever existed on this planet. What would you rate yourself on a scale of one to 10 emotionally? And then last but not least is spiritually. For you, this could be church. This could be religion. This could be spirituality. This could be yoga. This could be meditation, this could be temple, this could be ashram, this could be whatever it is that you believe in. Spiritually is just the growth of

Starting point is 00:05:33 feeling like you're growing as a human outside of just your intellectual knowledge, right? Your well-being, all of that stuff is in there. On a scale of one to ten, what would you rate yourself spiritually? Now, what we just went through is a super simple process and I call it CRIPS. I've made this up. It's C-R-I-P-E-S. CRIPS. C-R-I-P-E-S. Now, you can do this with yourself every single week. It takes maybe four minutes, you know, like four minutes to go through this entire thing. And what you're doing is you're getting a pretty good lay of the land as to how you've been over the past week. And here's what you want to do. You want to take all of those numbers. And for those guys that wrote all this down, you take all of those numbers and you add them up, get your phone, get your calculator,

Starting point is 00:06:17 whatever it is, what number do you come to, right? You add it up and then you divide it by six. You add it up and then you divide it by six. And that's going to show you your average score because you might come up with like a 6.35, right? If you come up with a 6.35, all you have to do is move that decimal over to the right one spot. So if it's a 6.35, you'd move it over one spot and that would be a 63.5. That is the score that you've given yourself on your life. And you've been honest with yourself. But here's the first thing. Before you go any further, I'm going to preface this and say this. Don't look at this number or look at any of these numbers or where you are currently in your life and start to get emotional about it. You have to look at it very objectively as if you're just looking at a grade and you're grading a test from somebody else.

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Starting point is 00:08:39 is 59 and lower than that is an F, right? So if we go back to my score of 6.35, if that was what I had, and I move the decimal to the right one place, that would give me a 63.5%. So if I'm looking as to if I were to give myself a grade on how my life has been, right there, I gave myself a D. Now I might look at that and be like, oh my God, my life is in shambles. It's a D, all of this stuff. No, no, no. Once again, look at it objectively and say, okay, now let me figure out how I can improve this. I'm looking at it objectively as if it's just a test grade that somebody else that I'm scoring. And I'm going to look at it as objectively as possible. And I'm going to see how I can improve it. Now, immediately when people see these numbers,

Starting point is 00:09:23 the first time I usually take somebody through this process, they're like, oh my gosh, how do I get to an A? I need to get to an A as soon as possible. I'm not worried about you getting to an A. I'm literally just worried about you going one test grade up. That's all I'm worried about. So in this case, if I were to have a D, how do I get myself to a C? I'm going to look at every single one of these things that I just went over and I'm going to see how I can improve myself over the next 30 days in each category by one point right so this is super simple follow with me now we're gonna look at every single one of these categories and we're gonna figure out how we can improve each of them by one point right so my career I'm gonna ask

Starting point is 00:10:01 myself a simple question how could I raise this score, whatever it is that I wrote down over to the side, by one point? Let's say I rated myself a seven in my career. What would I need to do over the next 30 days to raise this number to an eight? There's certain people I can connect with. Is there a couple of deals that I need to close? Do I need to make myself more valuable to the company? Do I need to go close another sale? Do I need to close? Do I need to make myself more valuable to the company? Do I need to go close another sale? Do I need to start, you know, I have my own business and I need to hire somebody. What would take my career from a seven to an eight? We'll just raise it one point in the next 30 days. Now I've got my hit list of what I need to do to improve my career over the next 30 days. I've got a laser focus

Starting point is 00:10:45 that I've got to get on this now. Okay. I know where I am. I know where I'm going. Now all I've got to do is execute. Perfect. Boom. This is easy, isn't it? Excuse me. Now let's go to relationships. Now we look at relationships, like coughing on my own, choking on my own spit over here. And we're looking at relationships and we're going into relationships, let's say I relate my relationships of six. What do I need to do to raise my relationships from a six to a seven over the next 30 days? All right. Maybe I need to take my girlfriend on a date every single Friday. Maybe I need to connect with my mom more than once a week or FaceTime her every other day. Or maybe I need to hang out with my boys and just do guy stuff. Maybe I need to do whatever it is I need to do.

Starting point is 00:11:32 Maybe I need to change my top five. I've been hanging out to meet negative people, whatever it is. I'm looking at my relationships and I'm asking myself, what do I need to do to improve this score by one point over the next 30 days? And then I just write my answers down. So what are the answers for you? You can pause me if you want to, and you can literally start working through this right now. Now you've got your hit list of exactly what you need to do over the next 30 days. All right, let's go to the next one. Intellectually. When I'm looking at my intellectual, let's say my intellectual is a five. Okay, what do I need to do to raise this intellectual score from a five to a six over the next 30 days? Now, you know what I need to do? I need to do to raise this intellectual score from a five to a six over the next 30 days?

Starting point is 00:12:06 Now, you know what I need to do? I need to make it a practice to wake up every single morning and to read 10 pages. There's also, you know, somebody that I've been following on YouTube and I need to start watching more of his stuff because I feel like I learn a lot more about whatever it is. Neurobiology, because that's what I've been wanting to learn about, right? What do I need to do over the next 30 days to raise my intellectual score from a five to a six? Write all the answers down. Pause me if you need to. Now you've got a hit list of everything that you need to do. So you know what you need to do over the next 30 days to

Starting point is 00:12:40 improve it. All right, let's go to physical body. Let's say my physical body is at a seven. What do you need to do to raise it from a seven to an eight? What do you need to do as far as your sleep? As far as how you feel? You need to stretch more. Do you need to eat healthier food? Eat more salads? Eat more protein? Work out? Instead of two times a week, I need to work out four times a week. What do you need to do over the next 30 days to improve your physical score from whatever it is you wrote down, from a seven to an eight? Now you've got a hit list of everything that you need to do for your physical body. All right. What about my emotional state? Let's say I rated my emotional state a six. What do I need to do to raise my emotional state from a six to a seven? You know what? I need to spend less time

Starting point is 00:13:28 around my friends who are negative. I need to stop myself in the middle of anxious thoughts so that I can pull myself out of those anxious thoughts and I can start to think about something that I'm grateful for. What do you need to do to raise your emotional score by one point? Pause me if you need to. Write it down. Let's come up with a plan. And last but not least, spiritually. Spiritually, it just feels like I'm growing myself and growing my spirituality, whether that's my religion, whether that's yoga, whether that's meditation, whether that's breath work, being more in tune with my body, just sitting in silence more. I don't know what, whatever it is for you. What does that mean to you? Spirituality. A real good thing that I'll tell you about spirituality

Starting point is 00:14:08 that might actually help a lot of you guys. I did an event not long ago and it was just my team members. And we were talking about spirituality and what they would rate themselves on a scale of one to 10. So we went through this process and one of my team members said, what do you mean by spirituality? I'm really confused. And this is the answer that I gave him. I said, the most spiritual person I've ever met is a guy named Radhanath Swami. And Radhanath Swami is a teacher. He was actually Jay Shetty's guru. Jay Shetty is a friend of mine.

Starting point is 00:14:38 He invited me to an event. And he came up to me after Jay did. And he's like, hey, did you meet Radhanath Swami yet? I was like, no, there's so many people here. Like, I don't wanna, there's this long line of people. He's like, all right, well, you know, once everything ends, just let me know and you can come over and talk to him.

Starting point is 00:14:54 Came over and talked to him and I've never been with another person who was more present. It was like nothing in the entire world existed except for me when he was in this conversation with me. And he was kind and he was loving and he was sweet and he spoke very slow and intentional. And it was just like, you could tell that this person's done more work on himself than any person I've ever met by far. And it wasn't anything that was like a show that was being put on for me. And you could tell there's nothing that I could do that would ever make this guy judge me. He would just see me as

Starting point is 00:15:27 I am, as this being that's behind and trying to improve and trying to get better. So the being behind the Rob Dial, right? And I said, when you think of someone like that, whether you've met someone like that or not, what qualities do they have that you would want in yourself? Kind, love, whatever it is that's in there. That can be spirituality for you. So it can literally be characteristic traits as well in your spirituality of the person that you want to become, right? So when you look at yourself spiritually, what would you rate yourself on a scale of one to 10? And then what would you need to do? So let's say you have a four, right? What would you need to do to raise it from a four to a five?

Starting point is 00:16:03 You know what? I need to meditate for five minutes a day. I need to notice when I start to get angry and I need to start doing some breathing, some slow, intentional breathing to slow myself down. Well, now what you do is if you look at this piece of paper, if you went through this exercise with me, you know your score of where you're at and you now have a game plan for the next 30 days of how to improve yourself in your career, how to improve yourself in your career, how to improve yourself in your relationships, how to improve yourself intellectually, how to improve yourself physically, how to improve yourself emotionally, and how to improve yourself spiritually.

Starting point is 00:16:35 All you need to do every single day is wake up, look at this piece of paper. If you went through this practice with me, look at this piece of paper and then make sure that you're executing on everything that you said that you need to execute with. Set your intention every single day to become the person that you want to be so that then you can create the life that you want to. It's literally this simple. This is something that you should do with yourself every single week to see how you're doing. You look back and see how you did. You look forward to see how you can improve once you need to continue doing. And it's that simple. And if you do this simple practice of cripes, I promise you these six areas of your life,

Starting point is 00:17:08 if you look at them every single day and go through and take time with yourself every single week, you will see massive improvements in your life. There's a phrase that says, what is tracked will improve and what is tracked and written down will improve exponentially. When you track these things, when you write them down, all areas of your life, the career, relationships, the intellectual, the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual, if you're tracking them, you're bringing potential every single day, they will improve exponentially simply because you're tracking yourself

Starting point is 00:17:38 and you've got a game plan of where you're going to go. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode or any episode that I've ever put up, please do me a favor and give us a rating review on Apple Podcasts or however you listen to us. It helps this podcast grow more than you know. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. But I'm gonna leave 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 - If Your Life Was a Test, Would You Pass?

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