The Mindset Mentor - Problems with Personal Development
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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. And
if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast
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mondayemail.com and I will send it to you every single Monday morning. Today, I'm going to be
talking about one of the biggest problems that I see with self-development. And I have a pretty
good pulse on the industry and people who are in the industry, but also people
who come to the industry to try to develop themselves personally. Now, the thing that I'll
tell you is this. I've been teaching personal development and had a personal development
business now for over seven years. And I've been in personal development and had friends who are
very into personal development for about 16 years now. And the one thing that I see that really
holds a lot of people back in personal
development is I see a lot of people wanting to be at the destination. They are wanting to be
at the place where everything is perfect. They're wondering when all of their problems will finally
go away. When will my problems go away? When will I finally be perfect? When will I finally get quote unquote there,
wherever there is? And people tend to put themselves through a lot of extra stress and
extra worry and anxiety because of the fact that they become aware of things that they need to work
through. They start to work on those things and then they notice when they pop up more often and then they start judging themselves because they're like,
well, man, I knew that this thing was holding me back and now I'm noticing this thing and
I just want it to be done already. I want to be able to just get this in my past and be past all
of this. And I've caught myself here many times. I've caught myself thinking about that. I have an issue.
I've finally become aware of the issue. I'm no longer ignorant to it. And then I find this issue and I work on it for a little while. I read on it. I meditate. I try to journal through it. I try to
work through it, whatever this issue might be. And I work on it for a little while and I start
to feel better. And then a month down the road, two months down the road, six months down the road, I fall into the issue again.
And I do what I thought I was done with. I do that thing that I thought I was done with.
And I'm like, damn it, what's wrong with me? I thought I was done with this.
Have you ever caught yourself in this situation? Found yourself there where you thought you were
past something. You thought you had grown past something. You thought you had grown
past something. You thought you had grown out of something only to realize that you still got it,
right? Only to realize that you're still in it. And personal development, self-development,
and spiritual development, I don't actually believe, and this is 16 years, almost 17 years of working on myself
now. I don't believe that there's a destination. I don't know if you'll fully ever 100% get past
something. I don't know. I don't think that I've ever fully gotten past anything. Now I can tell
you if something was an issue and it was like a level nine before in my life, and it was just like
Now, I can tell you if something was an issue and it was like a level nine before in my life,
and it was just like nine out of 10, and if the volume was at a nine out of 10, it was like screaming in my ears. Most of the issues now are like a one or a two, but they're not a zero.
They're not completely gone. And all I can say is not just from my own experience, but also my
experience of people who I've seen that are spiritual teachers or people that are way, way, way further ahead, in my opinion, than me and
their self-development, their spiritual development, is they still deal with the human things,
right? I've been in this industry for a while and I see people who are
personal development teachers and spiritual teachers who are way further along in this
journey than I am. And they admit they still have these things. When you hear about Ram Dass, who is, you know,
a spiritual teacher for, what, 50 years, basically? And at the end, towards the end of his life,
he's like, I still have things that I'm working through. And you talk to his friends and they're
like, yeah, he was still a human, right? He still had his human issues. And they're way past me, in my opinion. And I don't
know if I'll ever get to where they were, but they admit falling into old human traits from
the past version of himself. And so, I don't know about you, but it makes me feel a lot better
knowing that I'll never actually be there. Now, for some people that might bring up the issue of
like, oh my God, I'm so anxious. I'm going to have this forever. I'm never going to get past this shit. I thought there was at least
some sort of destination I was going to get to. I don't think there's ever a destination for me
personally, where I will just be quote unquote done. What I think it's about though, is it's
instead of being, you know, it's stuff will happen in our life and we become triggered,
whatever that is. And wherever you're triggered, you're not free.
If somebody says something to you and it triggers you, it's not their fault. It is the way that we receive the information and what we give value about what they said, right? What we deem valuable
or not. You know, if somebody were to come up to you and say something to you and it were to piss
you off, it's not their fault that it pisses you off. It to you and it were to piss you off,
it's not their fault that it pisses you off. It's your fault that it pisses you off. It's your reaction to them. You know, it's like Eleanor Roosevelt says, no one can make you feel inferior
without your consent. You're consenting to feeling that way. Because if that person were to come up
and say the exact same thing that they said to you before, but say it in a language that you didn't speak, there would be no reaction on your side. So therefore, it's
not the actual words that's the issue. It's our reaction to the words and how we feel about them.
So the thing that I think life and personal development and all this is, is something
happens to us when we become triggered, whatever that is. Like think of, for instance, something
that triggers you. Maybe it's someone calling you a certain name. Maybe it's somebody talking down to you.
Maybe it's somebody talking down to somebody else. Maybe it's somebody, whatever it is. I don't know
what it is for you, but it's different for everybody. There's a trigger, right? That trigger
is something that you notice. And what happens is when you're younger, your trigger before you ever
notice and get into personal development, your trigger might be, you know, something happens and then you're
pissed off for like a week.
And you're like, damn it.
You know, you wake up, something happens to you on Monday and then Tuesday you wake up
and you're like, damn it, I can't believe they did that to me.
What an asshole.
And then Wednesday you wake up and you're like, damn it, that freaking person, I can't
believe they did that shit to me.
And you're literally pissed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday for something that
happened to you last Monday. Some people are still pissed off today about something that
happened to them 17 years ago, and they're still not over it, right? But then what happens is you
work on yourself a little bit. And instead of you being pissed off for seven days,
six months down the road, a year down the road, now you're pissed off for five days.
six months down the road, a year down the road, now you're pissed off for five days.
Still not the best thing that you want, but it's less than you were before. It is an improvement.
And then you start to work on yourself another six months, a year, two years, maybe. And now,
instead of being pissed off for five days, you're pissed off for four. And you work on yourself a little bit more and you get a little bit better. And then you get pissed off for three days and
then two days and then one day. And then you're pissed off for half of a day. And then you're pissed off for a few hours and then you're pissed off for an hour. And then you get pissed off for three days and then two days and then one day. And then you're pissed off for half of a day. And then you're pissed off for a few hours. And then you're
pissed off for an hour. And then you're pissed off for 30 minutes. And then you're pissed off
for five minutes. And then you're pissed off for 30 seconds. And then you're pissed off for 10
seconds. And you notice it and you're like, oh, there it is again. But it takes years and years
and years to get to that level. And so the thing that I think personal development is, is not
getting to the destination where nothing bothers you anymore, where you're this perfect being, where nobody can set you off
in any sort of way. Of course, we would all love to get there. And maybe some people listening will
get there. Maybe I'll get there. I don't know. Maybe you'll get there. I don't know. But there's
no forcing myself to have to get to this destination. But the journey of Percival is to notice the trigger, to work on the trigger, and to get
it shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter.
As Viktor Frankl says, who is a psychologist who was a Jewish psychologist who went through
Auschwitz and many of the crazy things that happened during Nazi prison camps, he says,
between stimulus and response lies a space.
And in that space, so between stimulus and response, let me say this and response lies a space. And in that space, so between stimulus and response,
let me say this again, lies a space.
And it could be a super short space,
it could be a tenth of a second.
Between stimulus and response lies a space.
And in that space lies our freedom,
our power to choose a response.
And in our response lies our growth and our happiness. So think about that for a second.
Something happens, you react to in some sort of way. There is a space in between there where you
choose, as he says, you choose to respond. And in our response lies our growth and our happiness.
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whenever we're like, oh, I'm not there yet. Oh man, I'm not done. I'm still working on this thing. And it makes you judge
yourself more. It makes you less happy. I've found, me personally though, that as I have given
up this need to get somewhere or to be done with something, my happiness instead of going down has
actually gone up. Because all too often, we really more than anything else, all too often,
not only do people find themselves
falling back into old triggers
and old patterns,
but then what they do
is they fall back into an old trigger
and old pattern
and then they judge themselves on top of it.
And they're like,
damn it, I thought I was done with this.
You're so stupid.
You screw up stuff all the time.
It's like,
and I've never really understood it
because people judge themselves
and the judging just makes no sense.
It's like finding an old wound
and noticing that this wound has reopened.
And instead of healing the wound,
you're like, ah, fuck it.
Let's pour some salt on top of it, right?
That doesn't make any sense.
That's what judgment is.
It is the salt on top of the old wound.
So instead of being like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm falling back into this. I thought I was done with it.
You're supposed to be better. You've been reading so much. You've been meditating lately. It's like,
oh, here's the old wound. Let's not pour salt on top of it. Let's just go and figure out a way to
continue to keep healing it because that's what the wound really needs is the healing, right?
So what if you were never done? What if this whole human
journey that you're on is about getting lost and then finding yourself and then getting lost
and finding yourself over and over and over again? Because in reality,
you really can't know who you are if you don't know who you're not.
And this is what's interesting. You can't,
you have to have both sides. There's always going to be a yin to the yang. You can't know the color
white if you don't know the color black. You can't, you know, good cannot exist without evil.
Love cannot exist without fear. They are two sides of the exact same coin. So why am I saying
that? It's because in order for us to find ourselves and find out who we are and find out who we
want to be, we must also lose ourselves into situations that we don't want to be.
We must mess up to realize who we, you know, to get us, we have to fall off track to get
back on track.
And we have to realize it over and over
and over again. And so for me, it really takes the pressure off when you go, okay, this is something
that's going to happen probably over and over again. I'm going to work on it. I'm going to try
to make this not as much of a trigger. I'm going to try to not be as triggered by this thing
happening. I'm going to try to make my reaction time less. I'm going to try not to react. But when we work on something and then we get to a point where we're like, man,
I feel like this is pretty good. A lot of times what happens is then you find another thing that
you need to work on that's different than that one thing. And the way that I see it, I remember
having a psychedelic journey and I was thinking about this probably about a year and a half,
two years ago at this point. And I was like, man, being a human is literally like being a rose that
continues to bloom and never stops blooming. It's like something pops up in the middle and it's
something that we need to work on in ourselves. And we work on it, we work on it, work on it.
And eventually that petal after it's, you know, we work on it, work on it, work on it,
we're done with it. It dies. And when a petal dies off of a rose, it falls off and it's gone. You know, it turns into dust and we
never see it again. And so sometimes it's like that for us. But what's interesting is as another
pedal falls off, another pedal grows. And so it's like, as we found one thing that we have done,
you know, gotten ourself past, a lot of times another thing will pop up. So I want to just
have you think about that for a second. Knowing that there is no destination, knowing that this
is all the journey, it's all the process, this is what life is about, you must lose yourself to find
yourself and this is going to continue happening for the rest of your life. How does that feel now?
Knowing that this is just the journey. It allows you, if you really step
back, it allows you to take the pressure off yourself. It allows you to take the pressure
off of having to get it right all of the time. It allows you to take the pressure off, I need to be
done with this. It allows you to take the pressure off of like, why the hell can't I get past this
issue? And what's cool about that, you realize it's just part of the ride.
Some parts of the ride, you know, if you're driving your car are really smooth.
Some parts of the ride are quite bumpy.
But when you realize that this is just the ride of the human experience, you enjoy it
more.
You will never be perfect.
There's no reason to be perfect.
In fact, there's no such thing as perfect. So to strive for being perfect is to strive for something that doesn't exist.
You're going to mess up. You're going to fall. You're going to hit your face. You're going to
break an ankle. You're going to do all the things. But along the journey, you're going to pick
yourself up. You're going to fix it. And you're going to go along. But the more that you work on
yourself and the more that you work on your personal development, you realize that this is just the way that it goes.
And so the problem that I said from the very beginning is that people feel like they should
be somewhere. They feel like they should be done. They feel like they should be perfect. They feel
like, when will I ever get quote unquote there? And I've caught myself there many times. But when
you finally step back and tell yourself, you know what? There is no there. The journey is just the journey. When one pedal
falls off, another one will grow. And my job as being a human is to work through all of the pedals
as they come up the best that I possibly can and to use my actual personal development and me
working on myself as a means to become a better person,
knowing that I will benefit from it, but not only myself will benefit from it,
but everybody else will benefit around me as from it as well. And so when you take the pressure off
yourself, it makes it so much easier. And here's the interesting thing about it. The more that you
leave the pressure, the easier it becomes to start working through those things. Because when they
pop back up again, you're like, here we are again. What did I do last time to get myself out of it? Okay. How can I make
sure I get myself out of it quicker? And when you do this over and over and over again, it's just
like working out. It becomes a muscle. You become really good at getting yourself out of these
situations and being able to improve much, much quicker. So that's what I got for you for today's
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