The Mindset Mentor - Now is the Time To Purge

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

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Today, I want to talk to you about going through a massive purge in your life. This is something I recommend that you do at least twice a year, if not four times a year. So basically what that means is every three to six months, you should do something like this. First thing I want you to do is I want you to look around your life. I want you to think of your life. I want you to think about where you live. I want you to think about where you work. I want you to think about the people that you surround yourself with. I want you to think about the mindset that you have. I want you to think about where you live. I want you to think about where you work. I want you to think about the people that you surround yourself with. I want you to think about the mindset that you have. I want you to think about your bank account. I want you to think about as many aspects of your life as possible. I want you to look around your life and what I want you to do two to four times

a year is to purge anything that is not serving you anymore. Anything that is hindering you or slowing you down from creating the life that you want to. Anything that feels like it's dragging you or that you have to drag it in order to continue to keep moving. Because all too often, I don't know why this is, we just tend to hang on to things just to have them, right? Some people listening, I would not even say some, a lot of people listening have clothes inside of your

closet that you've had forever. You've got some stuff inside of some boxes in your house. And mind you, this, I'm not just talking about cleaning out your house. This isn't a spring cleaning episode. There's going to be much more than this, but this is just a good example. episode. There's going to be much more than this, but this is just a good example. Some of you have boxes of shit that you haven't used in 15 years, but you keep them just in case you ever need them, right? And you see them every single time you move and you're like, oh, I completely forgot we even had this, right? And we just hang on to things just to have them. We hang on to things. to have them. We hang on to things. We hang on to thoughts. We hang on to habits. We hang on to people. We hang on to beliefs because we think one day I might need them. And I want to tell you this, if it's not propelling you forward in your life, if something, anything, a thought, a person,

a belief, a mindset, whatever it is, if it's not propelling you forward in life, it's weighing you down. There is no in between. You're either green and growing or you're brown and dying. Are these things helping you become more green and grow more? Are they helping you brown and die more? And when you purge things that you don't need, and when you purge things that you don't need you move faster you move and feel lighter life becomes more effortless this isn't a podcast episode about being a minimalist and just deciding to have a couch and a bed and that's it this is an episode about being a mental minimalist about being a physical possibly if you want to. I'm not saying don't make your house look nice and all that stuff. This might be a relationship minimalist. Whatever it is for you

that hits home with you is what's supposed to hit home. And some of you have never done this. You've never done a purge, which means when you do, you're going to feel like a completely different person. And I mean completely different person. And I like to call it the great purge. You take one day and you do nothing for the entire day. Let me say this again. You take one day and you do nothing the entire day but purge. You get rid of whatever is not serving you in your life. And I going to teach you we're going to go through different categories And if you want to you can run and grab a pen and paper and you can pause me You can start to jot down things if you want to

Or if you're driving your car, you can just listen to me and actually start to think about these things as I go through it This isn't just spring cleaning. This is a mental And emotional cleaning as well, you know first thing we'll talk about it We'll go through physical objects and then we're going to go into some really deep cleaning as well. You know, first thing we'll talk about it, we'll go through physical objects and then we're going to go into some really deep stuff as well. And so what I want you to think about is think about every room of the place that you live. Think about every single room that you spend a decent amount of time in and purge anything that you have.

Imagine that every single thing that you have, even if you have a junk drawer and there's a couple of sticky notes in there that are kind of dirty and you'll probably never use, right? We've all had that before. Every single thing that you have takes a little bit of mental energy from you. Even if you don't actually consciously think about it all the time, imagine that every single thing has a little bit of emotional energy that it holds to it and you're kind of processing it in the background. Well, the less that you have, the more that you don't have around you, the more that you're able to process and let go of those things. So think of every room in your house. Think of your garage. Think of your office. Think of your car. Think of

everywhere and purge anything that does not serve you in some sort of way. Stop hoarding. Stop holding on to things. Everything that you own takes a tiny piece of real estate in your subconscious. What is it that you want to let go of? And design your environment. Design your house. Design every room in your house. Design the space in your car, your office to support you in your goals.

Maybe, I think about a friend of mine who will be a perfect example once I explain this. Maybe what you want to do is build a great relationship with your family. How can your environment in your house help you make that happen? You know, are the kids spending too much time playing video games? There might need to be a purge on that, right? At least for a little while. Will there be some resistance? Probably. But think about this for a second.

One of my friends who's, you know, he literally since he had kids years and years ago, I remember like 10 years ago when they had their first kid, he became obsessed with how he can become the best father he possibly can be. And one of the things that's really cool that I love is that every single morning, him, his wife, and his children sit down and they journal a little bit about what they want to create for the day. And they have, you know, specific questions that they go through. And they have a little area in their house where they go and everybody sits cross-legged and they have their journals over there and they journal

for about 10 minutes every single morning. Then they go on about their lives. And then at the end of the day, they literally go through and they journal for about 10 minutes again and actually start to figure out how the day went, what they did that they wanted to do, what they didn't do, what they wanted to do. And they start to create that. So for him, when I say help you towards your goals, I don't just mean like help you make money or help you build a business or anything like that. How can your environment, if your goal is to build a stronger family, how can you create an environment in your house that helps you do that? One of the other things that I really like is on one of the walls that they have, they have that paint that you can use as kind of like a chalkboard. And they literally put their goals up

and they review their goals every single day. How cool is that to do with their kids? How cool is that for him to do and to be able to talk about his family, his wife and his two sons? That's an awesome practice. So how can you design your environment to support you and your family and your goals? What do you need to purge? What do you need to keep? Okay. Hey, today's program is brought to you by Athletic Greens, the health and wellness company that makes comprehensive daily nutrition really, really simple. AG1 by Athletic Greens is the category leading superfood product that brings comprehensive and convenient daily nutrition to everybody. Because keeping up with the research and knowing what to do and taking a bunch of pills and capsules is harder than stomach and hard to keep up with. To help each of us be at

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of your health and give AG1 a try. Now let's talk about purging some mental stuff. What are some of the mental thoughts that you have that you're ready to release? What are some of the things that you say to yourself about yourself? What are some of the stuff that you say to yourself about other people? What are the thoughts that you are ready to purge? Are you ready to let go of them? Write them down, pen and paper. I'm ready to stop saying self-deprecating things about how I look in the mirror. I'm ready to stop saying things about how I'm not good enough. I'm ready to stop saying things about how I'm stupid, how I'm not smart enough. Whatever it might be, I'm ready to stop saying those things. So how can you actually start

to think about all of the mental things that you're ready to purge and write every single one of them down? Okay. What about all the habits that you have? Think about all the habits that you have. Which ones do you want to keep that are helping you get to where you want to go? Which ones do you have that are hindering you from getting to where you want to go? What actions do you take that are helping you get to where you want to go? What actions do you take that are holding you back from getting to where you want to go? What are some of the standards that you hold for yourself that you want to let go of? What are some of the standards you hold for your family, for your friends, for your business that you're ready to let go of? Those

are all things that you want to write down and start to purge. All right. This one's going to be tough, but this one's important. People. What people are you ready to purge? What people are in your life that you're ready to purge? These can be people that are friends that you've been friends with for years. These can be family members. And Al, if I'm being honest with you, it can even be parents. And for some of you guys, it could be children as well. I've gotten messages. I put up something on Instagram and TikTok not too long ago about kind of the same thing about purging people who are, you know, really more than anything else, toxic for you. And I got so many messages from people that are like, I had to cut my dad off because he was just the most toxic person ever. And he was holding me back from, you know, he would talk trash to me and

he made me feel bad about myself. And he would just berate me with problems and issues. And people have purged their parents. For some of you, that might seem foreign. For some people, it's a step that they had to take. I've had people send me messages last week about having to literally purge from their children because some of their children had so many things that they're just going down a toxic way. And so that's a tough decision, super tough decision. But you are the designer of your life. You're the person that's in charge of the purge. So you make the decision of what is right or wrong for you. So are there people that you need to purge? Are there friends that maybe, maybe they're super toxic.

Maybe you've been friends with them since you were two years old. But as you're looking at the future that you want to create, you're realizing that person's probably not going to play a part in it. Well, if that's the case, it might be time to purge that person. It might be time to let them go. It might be time to spend at least less time with them. When I say purge them, it doesn't mean that you have to let go of them completely and throw them in the trash. What I mean by that is it could be, hey, right now I'm going to spend like one-tenth of the amount of time that I normally

spend with them. Maybe it's family members. Maybe it's brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, whatever it might be. What are some of the people that might be needing to be purged? Here's an important one. What about people that you follow on Instagram? What about people that you follow on TikTok? I remember about six months ago, I was looking back, I was really going through my stories and I noticed there were certain people that I followed. And this is like, you know, six, seven months ago, eight months ago, whatever it was.

Nine months ago, it might've been a year ago. I don't even remember. Time doesn't even make sense to me anymore since the pandemic. But it was toxic. And I noticed there were some people that I was following. And I noticed that after seeing their stories, I felt worse just period not just

about my life not about the state of the world I just felt worse I will watch a 15 second story of theirs and then a few minutes later I'd be like man I kind of feel like shit and I would see their stories in the morning and we kind of and I like had this toxic emotional residue that it left on me through us today and the day. And I was like, you know what I need to do? I'm going to go through and I'm going to purge and stop following people who don't make me feel better by going and seeing their stuff. I literally unfollowed like 200 people in one day. And I was like, man, I should have done that a long time ago. And so are there people that you follow on Instagram that make you feel worse about yourself?

Are there people that you follow on Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever it is that you might spend the most of your social media time on that make you feel worse about the state of the world? Are there quote unquote news stations or people that are acting like they're putting the news out, but in reality, when you watch those things on your Instagram and all that stuff, out. But in reality, when you watch those things on your Instagram and all that stuff, you feel worse about yourself or state of the world. Maybe it's time that you actually looked at your Instagram as a place to help you get to your goals versus just following people just to follow people. And this is the thing. I see a lot of people are like, oh, I hate social media. No, you hate the social media that you started, that you decided to follow, that you decided. If you're out there and you're like, I just want to be more motivated, you could literally follow only motivational accounts on Instagram. That's all you're going

to see. How is that going to make you feel? Probably better. Would you hate social media at that point? Probably not. What if you're a mother and you're like, you know what? I want to become the best mom that I possibly can. I'm going to follow as many mother education Instagrams as I possibly can so that I could get better at it. And that's it. You don't follow anybody else. You didn't follow your mom. Do you think that social media is going to be negative at that point in time? No, because you have built this thing. And that's just a small example of building one thing, being intentional about one thing to help you get to where you want to go in life.

So clear anything out in your life that does not serve you from becoming somebody who's stepping into their full potential. Because everything that you have has some form of energy behind it, good energy or bad energy. It's either propelling you into your future or it's weighing you down and holding you back. What your job is to do is to figure out

who's who, what's what, what's helping you, what's hurting you, what's hindering you, and what's pushing you forward and start to make moves and adjustments from there. Keep the things that are serving you. Design the environment that will serve you and purge anything or anyone that is going to be holding you back from doing that. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me in it, Rob Dial Jr. R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And with that, I'm going to leave you 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.