The Mindset Mentor - Just Work

Episode Date: March 20, 2019

Episode 560 - We all know what we need to do to create the life we want, the issue that we have is how do we just make ourselves do it? That is the only thing holding us back from creating the life of our dreams. In this episode, I will talk about how to turn your brain off and just do the work. 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 Mindset and Motivation Podcast, one of the top motivational podcasts in the world. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we come out with a short, to the point, no BS episode to help make massive changes in your mind and transform you from who you are now to who you want to be. My name is Rob Dial, and the podcast starts now. Welcome to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another episode. And obviously you guys have heard me talk about the past few episodes,

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mental barriers. And to more than anything else, be someone that gives you the tough love and that accountability that you need to be successful, then send an email over to Patrick. He'll help you with all of that. This is someone that I have known for 11 years now. He's a good friend of mine. I've trained him and he's actually worked with thousands of people over the past decade. So if you're interested in getting someone who will hold you accountable and help you to your goals, send an email patrick at robd.com, and we'll see if it is right for you. Okay. Today, what we're going to be talking about is to stop thinking and to turn off your brain and just do work. And this is something that came to me about a month ago or so when I really did

not want to go to the gym. I have a goal of going to the gym five times a week. And on my mirror, I have a dry erase marker and I write down workout 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And when I go my first day, I check off the five. So I know there's four days left. When I go the second day, I check off the four. So I know there's three days left. And this is a process that I go through where I just have it up on my mirror. So every time I go to the bathroom, I see how many more times I have to personally go to the gym in order to hit my goal of five times per week. And about a month ago, I hit a wall and I was like, I do not want to go to the gym today. There's just something about it. I don't want to go to the gym. And inside of my head, I said, demand greatness. This is your goal.

You have to do it. You set the goal. So now you must go for it and not give any excuses. When you set a goal and your goal is to do something and you want to demand greatness from yourself, you have to get rid of all of the possible excuses. And when excuses pop up, you have to say, I don't care about these excuses. I'm going to go anyways. You look them in the eye and you say, yep, I see you excuse. I see you, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to do it anyways. And sometimes you just have to show up and put in the work, show up and put in the work. We can all agree that most of the time when you hold yourself back, one of the main reasons why you hold yourself back is because you're too in your head.

You're thinking too much. You're giving excuses. You're thinking about ways you could fail. You're thinking about ways that you could possibly be rejected. That is when you end up not being as great as you can. That is when you end up giving excuses of why you shouldn't do things. is when you end up giving excuses of why you shouldn't do things. What you should do is learn how to get yourself to the point that when you feel like you don't want to do it, you've built up the mental training. This podcast, my group coaching, everything that I do, my one-on-one

coaching is all about mental training. How can you train your brain like it's a muscle every single day to do things that you don't want to do so when you see obstacles coming your way, it's just an experience where you go, nope, I'm going to plow through this thing because I've seen something like this before. It's all mental training. And this is why journaling and goal setting and knowing what you want is so important. 2017 is coming up. want is so important. 2017 is coming up. And in 2017, we're going to talk about how you need to have your goals completely set up and completely done. My group coaching, we're going to go over our New Year's resolutions. We're going to go over everything. We're going to do a full resolution planning and how to set goals, how to journal them,

how to plan them, and how to accomplish them. This is why setting goals is so important. It's because if you set goals and you know exactly where you're going and you're clear on exactly where it is that you're going and you work backwards and you make a plan, it makes it very easy. Because all you have to do at that point in time is to click off your brain, not think, and just do the work that needs to be done. You know what you want, you make a plan, and you just put in work. Just put in work. That is how things get done.

Things don't get done from thinking about doing things or thinking about if you should do things or thinking about reasons why you shouldn't do things or coming up with excuses of why you shouldn't do things. That's not how things get done. That's not how greatness do things. That's not how things get done. That's not how greatness is made. That's not how greatness comes from your life by making excuses or by thinking too much.

So a habit that I want to give you through this podcast, a habit that I want you to think about today or jot down in your journal on your phone is how can I learn to develop willpower to just do work, to just get things done, and to stop thinking about it. If you heard my episode a few months ago where I talked about things are either black and white. Either you do something or you don't do something, and that is it. Either you do something or you don't do something. There's no in-between. There's no gray area.

You might say, well, what if I'm thinking about it? What if I'm going over all the possibilities? What if I'm thinking about all of the different things that could happen? If you're thinking, that means that you are not doing. So you either do something or you don't. And by thinking too much, you are absolutely defaulting to not doing it. And that is the important thing to do. Mental training.

What I mean by mental training is getting yourself to the point. If you've noticed, I talk a lot about mental training. Getting yourself to the point of doing things that you don't want to do. You've heard me harp on it a lot lately. And the reason why, if you can do things that you don't want to do, it makes it very easy to do the things that you should do or the things that need to be done. All of those things are easier.

The reason why I wake up in the morning and jump into a cold bath, it was 40 degrees this morning and I was in it for six minutes. Why? Because I don't want to do it. If I can eat that frog first thing in the morning, if I could do something that I don't want to do first thing in the morning, then the rest of the day is easy. The rest of the day is easy. The rest of the day is easy. Mark Twain says, if you can wake up every single morning and eat a live frog, then the rest of your day is going to be good. If you can conquer your one

thing that has to be done, your one most important thing that you keep procrastinating on and that you keep putting off, you could get it done right away first thing in the morning. The rest of your day feels amazing and it's already productive because the most important thing is already done. So the one thing that I want you to ask yourself right now listening to this episode is, do I think too much? And is that holding me back? Do I think too much and is that holding me back? And if you could become extremely self-aware of the fact that you're thinking too much, the next time when you think too much, guess what's going to happen?

You're going to go, oh, I'm thinking too much. I need to just stop and put in the work. Because by thinking too much, once again, you either do something or you don't do something. If you're thinking about it, you are not doing it. So that is very important for you to know. And with that, I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day. Well, that's it for today's

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