The Mindset Mentor - Life is Like a Puzzle

Episode Date: October 15, 2018

Episode 494 - In life sometimes we get what we want and sometimes we don't. Either way, we should learn to arrange whatever pieces we get. To sit and complain about the pieces does not change anything. Therefore, we should get good at accepting life and using our skills to make our lives better. In this episode, I teach you how to do that. 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 today's episode. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another episode of this podcast. And also, last but not least, if you have not yet downloaded my free journaling course on how to journal step-by-step from start to finish with a whole list of journaling questions to help you get started. Then go to dialedinjournal.com. Once again, D-I-A-L-E-V, injournal.com, www.dialedinjournal.com. Then go to it, download it. It's free. There's no catches. There's no upsells. It's literally there for you. I believe it is the most important thing that you can do for your personal development. So if you love this podcast, if you love growing, if you love trying to become a better person, if you're trying to become the best version of yourself, then this is made for you. So go to dialedinjournal.com. If it doesn't work when you don't put the www in,

try to put it in for some weird reason. I'm not an expert on websites or any of that stuff. For some reason, you have to put www.dialedinjournal.com. So that's what I'm going to tell you. That's what I think you should do. Let's dive into today's episode. Okay. So what I'm going to be talking to you today about is a quote that I heard, very easy to remember. And the quote is, arrange whatever pieces come your way. So let me say that again. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. So whatever comes to you in your life, whatever comes to you, just work with it. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. We've all heard that one before. So let me give you an example of what I mean by this. No matter what

happens to you, if you're driving home and you get into a car crash, or you go to work and you get fired, or somebody gets sick, or maybe you get sick, or something happens, whatever it might be, whoever becomes president, whatever happened in your past, your present, your future, whatever it might be, whoever becomes president, whatever happened in your past, your present, your future, whatever happens with the stock market, whatever happens with the government, good things, bad things, tough things, hard things, all things, stressful things, everything, whatever happens, arrange whatever pieces come your way. And so what that means is that things are going to happen no matter what. Good stuff, bad stuff, tough stuff, hard stuff, whatever it is. People are going to become president, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Who

cares what happens because you're on this journey and no matter what happens, whether it's good, whether it's bad, whether the person you want to become president becomes president or not, happens, whether it's good, whether it's bad, whether the person you want to become president becomes president or not, whatever happens, who gives a crap? And I don't mean that in the wrong way. I mean, who gives a crap is in those things should not derail you from what you want in your life. So if things have happened in your past, don't worry about them. Forget about them. There's nothing. There's no reason why stuff that happened in your past or something that might happen today should derail you because of your vision. If your path is strong enough, if your why is strong enough, then it shouldn't matter what happens today, tomorrow.

It shouldn't matter who becomes president because in my mind, whoever becomes president, it's not going to change anything with me. I know what my path is. I know what that needs to do. And therefore, it doesn't matter. I don't give a damn, honestly, who becomes president because honestly, I don't trust any of them, number one. But number two, I don't think that it matters what happens. Whoever becomes president is not going to get in the way of what I know I truly have to do with my life. And it should be the same for you. So we all know that good things are going to happen to us. We all know that bad things are going to happen to us. So when they happen, the bad things happen, why do we let them derail us from where we want to go?

The people who are able, the distinction between people who are able to live a fully functional life that attract fullness and money and wealth and happiness. And the difference between them and other people is the people who attract all of those great things, they have a burning desire, not wishes, a burning desire that no matter what happens in their life, the candle will not flicker no matter what happens. So it doesn't matter to them if good stuff happens, if bad stuff happens, if the person that they want doesn't become president or if the stock market fails or whatever it is. They know what they need to do and they don't let all of the other crap that happens around them deter them from their ultimate goal because the only thing that matters to them is that they have their actual route and their way

that they want to go. And I was on somebody else's podcast the other day and I shared this with them. And it was kind of a light bulb that came up in my head. And I was like, man, if entrepreneurship didn't work for me, if my business has failed, or if I ended up losing a lot of money, or if I ended up going bankrupt and losing my house and the mortgage and all of that stuff, I came to the realization that it really doesn't matter. And the reason why is because they can take my money from me. They could take my house from me. They could take everything from me. But the one thing they can't take from me is the mindset that I've built up over the past 10 years that I can do anything that I want. So if I become a bum and live on the streets in two years from now, they can take all of the materialistic things,

but they'll never take my mind and what I actually want to do for me. So that was a big light bulb in my head that I wanted to share with you guys is no matter what happens, you have to have the determination that you're going to succeed and that this is a path you're going to go down. A few years ago, I can remember 2008, there was a recession and everyone was freaking out. It's horrible. Guess what? It's now eight years down the road. You're still alive, aren't you? Still breathing? Do you remember the recession in 2001? I remember the recession in 2001 when everything happened with 9-11. Well, guess what? You're still alive, aren't you? So when big things happen, even things that extreme where it's that extreme, you're still alive and you're still making progress in your

life. So when those things happen, don't let them derail you from where you're trying to go. You need to shrug it off. You need to expect the unexpected. You have to expect to fail sometimes. You have to expect to be rejected for things. You have to expect bad stuff to happen. So when it does, all you do is you just keep trucking. You ever been fired before? Guess what? You're still alive. You're still breathing. You're somehow listening to my voice over the internet. So probably have a computer or a phone, which means you're probably doing okay. So what you have to realize is this, no matter what happens, arrange whatever pieces come your way. And Wayne Dyer says there's two different ways. He actually says there's three different

ways to enlightenment, but I want to talk about two of them. For enlightenment, he says some people, they get enlightenment through suffering because they have to go through things. They go through deaths. They go through deaths of people that they know, illnesses, bankruptcy, getting fired. And you go through all of these things. And as you go through them of people that they know, illnesses, bankruptcy, getting fired. And you go through all of these things. And as you go through them, 10 years later, you look back and you can't figure out at the time, but 10 years later, you look back and go, oh, that's why that happened to me. That's why I went through this thing. That's why that person had to break up with me and they had to lose this relationship

so that I could therefore get into another one, whatever it might be. Sometimes things have to happen to you good or even bad in order for you to grow in order to be, for you to become a better person. You know, if you get into an accident, a car accident, you might have to go through that suffering in your time to go 10 years down the road. Hey, I'm really glad I got into that car accident because I wouldn't appreciate my life as much as I do now. I might not appreciate the people around me as much as I do now. The people around me might not have appreciated me as much until that car accident happened, whatever it might be. And some people get in accidents and they lose limbs or they get in wheelchairs and they're like, that is the best thing that ever happened to me because my life

was going down this path. This woke me up and now I'm going down an even better path. So that's the first thing is enlightenment through suffering. The second one is enlightenment through being in the present moment. And we know that all of these things could possibly happen. People might die. Bankruptcy might happen. We might get fired. So when those things happen or an illness happens or you get into a crash, when you're in the moment and you start getting past the, I'm just going to suffer through all of these things, you get past it and you're in that moment when you just get into a car accident or something and you say to yourself, you stop the suffering and you say, what can I learn from this?

At this moment, put anger all to the side. What can I be grateful for? My car might be totaled, but hey, at least I have insurance. Or hey, at least I still have a house or family or people that love me. There's a lot of things to be grateful for. Most people like to think about the bad things and focus on the bad things and focus on how they can suffer versus focusing on all of the good things that are still going on presently in their life. So that's the podcast for today. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Stuff will happen. Good stuff, bad stuff, tough stuff, hard stuff, stressful stuff. It's going to happen. That's part of being alive and being conscious and understanding that life happens to you. But you're in control of how you deal with it,

wherever it comes from, whatever it is, whether it's good or bad. So with that, I want you to remember, arrange whatever pieces come your way. And also with that, I wanna leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission today to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you.

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