The Mindset Mentor - Not Enough Time?

Episode Date: October 8, 2018

Episode 491 - Do you feel like you just don't have enough time? Better yet, do you ever use the phrase "I don't have time"? Well in this episode, I break down how that is completely false. We always have time for what matters. Listen to this episode and learn why! 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 MWF Motivation Podcast, one of the top-rated motivational podcasts in the world. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I come out with a short, to-the-point, no-BS podcast designed to transform you from who you are today into who you want to be. There's no fluff here, just life-changing content. 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. never miss another episode. And if you have not yet downloaded my free mini course on how to journal, go to dialedinjournal.com. Once again, dialedinjournal.com and get it for free. In this mini course, I teach you the exact strategy that I have learned and kind of

cultivated over the past 12 years. I've learned it from successful people. I've learned it from doing it on my own and figure out new ways of how to the past 12 years. I've learned it from successful people. I've learned it from doing it on my own and figuring out new ways of how to journal every single morning to become self-aware and to really work on myself and my personal development. Because if you walk into a car dealership and, you know, a mechanic to fix your car, and he goes, okay, you know, I'm going to fix this. Well, he has to look at your car first before he decides what he's going to fix. If you walk into a car dealership okay, you know, I'm going to fix this. Well, he has to look at your car first before he decides what he's going to fix.

If you walk into a car dealership and, you know, you go to the mechanic side and he says, I'm just going to fix this part of the car. You're like, well, wait, you haven't even looked at my car yet. You'd be a little bit concerned if he had not even looked at your car. Well, that's because he needs to figure out what's wrong and diagnose what's wrong in order to fix it. Same with the doctor. It's the exact same thing with yourself and your personal development. You need to work on yourself and journal through what you like about yourself, what you want to change,

so you can become more self-aware and then self-diagnose the things that you want to change, the things that you want to get better. And that happens through journaling. So if you want to learn how to journal, go to dialedinjournal.com, get it absolutely free. There's no catch. There's no upsells. There's nothing else. You just put in your information and you're good to go and to get it. So if you're interested in it, go ahead and get it there. So today, what I'm going to talk about though, I'm going to hope that I can help you change your verbiage or the way you say things. hope that I can help you change your verbiage or the way you say things. I hear this a lot. I hear the phrase, I don't have time, right? I don't have time. I'm sure at one point in time in your life,

you've said that I don't have time. I say it sometimes. I don't have time. I'm so, I'm so busy. I just don't have time to do it. I want to do it. I just don't have time. Saying that you don't have time is the biggest cop-out that I can think of. And once again, guys, I'm also talking to myself here. I say I don't have time sometimes. You say you don't have time sometimes. But saying that you don't have time is the biggest cop-out that I could possibly think of. I get a lot of emails saying stuff like, Rob, I want to be successful. I want to grow personally, but it's so hard. I just don't have the time. I have kids. I have a spouse. My kids have soccer. I have a family. I have a job. I have multiple jobs. I have all of these things that I'm doing.

I want to grow personally. I want to be successful. I want to start my own business. I just don't have time. That's BS. I'm telling you right now. I want to do something this week, but this happened and this happened and this happened. Guess what? Every person, every billionaire and every bum gets 24 hours in their day. It's not that one of them has less work. It's not that one of them has less problems. It's not that one of them has less struggles or less things that come up in the middle of their day or things that knock them off course. It's that they make things that matter a priority. Now, you can use anything for an example here, but I'm going to use personal growth, right?

Just because that's what business I'm in, right? When a plane is going down, who do you give oxygen to first? Yourself. Why? Because if you give oxygen to yourself first, you can then help others. So you can't say, I don't have time. What you say is I am not making it a priority. It's not a priority for me, right? So if personal growth is one of them, it's not that, oh, Rob, I don't have time to, to, you know, listen to the podcast or don't have time to journal or to meditate or to watch videos or any of those things. It's not that I don't have time,

it's that I don't make it a priority because we all know there's things that we do in our days that are stupid, that do nothing for us, but we still do them, right? We still waste our time doing them. We give those a priority over other things like personal growth or whatever it might be. Now, going back to personal growth, can you agree that the better person you are, the more you grow, the better you become, then the better

everyone else's lives around you are, the better that your kid's life will be, your spouse, your significant other, your parents, your brothers, your sisters. But so many people put other people first and forget about themselves. So it's never that I don't have time for personal growth. It's that I don't make personal growth the priority. It's not that I don't have time for this. It's that this is not a priority to me. It's that this is not a priority to me. I don't have time or I run out of time. It's complete crap. We all know that. It's not that you don't have time.

It's that it's not a priority. If something is important to you, you will make it a priority. You will make time. So let's, you know, just because I'm on this thing of in this once again personal growth could be used and anything could be used in place of personal growth growing personally i understand that the podcast is very easily consumed while driving if someone's in my group coaching it's very easily consumed you know you could put it up you could pull a video up on your phone you could do it while driving driving a car riding in the Metro on a plane, whatever it is. But if you do that, you're not going to be giving

it 100% attention that it needs. Right. I don't know what that word was. Right. Correct. And right. Put together in one word. Did I just make up a new word? Right. I did. So crikey. But I understand you might be traveling. You might be driving your car and listening to my voice and wanting to grow in this. This will help you for sure. But is it 100% of the attention that it deserves? If you're listening to an audio book, right? I love to use this example. A lot of people listen to audio books because, you know, they say a lot of, you know, other, other excuses. It's hard for me to read. I don't like reading as much. I travel a lot. It's hard for me to do this, right? So they're like, oh, I listen to a lot of audio books. You're not going to be giving it 100%

of attention. What's the best way to consume an audio book? To sit there with a pen and paper and a journal and write down the things that connect with you, push pause, and then journal about what you just wrote about in order to make real legitimate changes. Are you doing that while driving your car? No, probably not. So how do you make time to grow personally? Well, the best way is to wake your freaking self up earlier than you need to be up 30 minutes or an hour before you need to. And you dedicate that time to you. You need you time. The better you become, the better everyone else becomes. And I understand parents, you give so much of yourself to the people around you. And it's selfless to do that. I get it. That's awesome. But you have to think

about if you spend five years giving all of yourself to these other people, in five years, you're still the same person giving to those people. So guess what? That means you are not going to be giving them better, the better version of yourself, right? If you wake up 30 minutes, an hour before, and you work on yourself every single morning, let's say you're a mother, right?

Right now, you're a mother doing whatever it is that you're trying to do. But if you spend 30 minutes or an hour on yourself every single morning, five years from now, you're going to be a much, much better mother, a much, much better person. And guess what that does to your children? Guess what that does to your spouse,

your significant other, to everyone around you? It makes them exponentially better because you are better. So it's not that you don't have time for something. Once again, I'm using personal growth as an example. It's not that you don't have time for personal growth. It's that it's not a priority. You're not giving it the attention that it needs and that it deserves. So you have to think about it that way. You might not be able to squeeze more time out of your day, which we can all agree. Most of us, a lot of the time, we're being busy and not productive. That's why people that are super successful are the most

productive is because they're not wasting their time with busy work, with the admin crap or all of those things, the things that they don't want to do. But let's just take a step back and just say, maybe you are productive your entire day. There is no busy work, right? You're not being busy. You're being productive. Let's just use that as an example. You might not be able to squeeze more time out of your day, but you might be able to get up a little bit earlier and make your day a little bit longer. And the reason why I recommend waking up earlier, it's not that, oh man, I hate waking up. No, you just don't give a crap to get up and make it a priority to change your life, right? That's,

if we're just being completely honest, because you're the only one that's in control of your personal growth. It's not that you don't have enough time, it's that you're not giving it the priority, right? And the reason why I recommend that you wake up early is because if you wake up early and grow, you're now taking that growth from the, if you wake up in the morning and you grow yourself personally, you're now taking that growth with you throughout the rest of the day. And so don't use the phrase, I don't have time. Because what you should think about is I just am not making it a priority. So if you liked this episode, please do me a favor. Please share this with someone that you know and love. Please give us a rating or review on iTunes. And I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every 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 podcast. If you want the show notes for this episode, they can be found at mwfmotivation.com. Also, if you liked this episode, please spread the love and share it with a friend because it's our mission to help as many people as we can. And to keep in touch, you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Both handles are at MWF Motivation with no spaces. Now you know what time it is. So go out and make your dreams a reality.