The Mindset Mentor - Shoot with Your Eyes Closed

Episode Date: October 17, 2018

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Welcome to today's episode of 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 into who you are today and to who you want to be. There's no fluff here, just life changing content. My name is Rob Dial and the podcast starts now. be more happy while they're at a company that they might not enjoy, freedom to create the life that they want, the family that they want, the relationships they want, the career that they want. And it is considered the Sapa system. That's what I call it. S-A-P-A. So if you want to get that absolutely free as well, get the entire video to learn the Sapa system and how to integrate it into your life, you can go to dialedinmindset.com. Once again, www.dialedinmindset.com, D-I-A-L-E-D

in mindset.com and get the Sapa system for the freedom mindset there. Okay. Today, what I'm going to go over is talking about why planning sometimes is not what you need to do. Sometimes you don't need to plan. Sometimes you need to do less planning and you need to do more executing. If you heard that where I say, if you spend too much time training or studying and not enough time executing, you will go nowhere. And the phrase that I'm gonna give you

that I want you to remember, if you have a pen and paper, write it down. If you're driving in your car, please don't write it down. Write it down some other time. And that is, here's the phrase, ready, fire, aim. And that means do your quick planning, studying, whatever needs to be done. And then just fire, execute, make your decision, go. And then once you're going and once you're moving and everything's going, then you can start to make adjustments. Then you can start to do your aim.

And it's like a gun. People would say, once you, aren't you supposed to ready aim fire? And I think about it this way. If somebody's breaking into my house and I have my gun that's next to my bed, someone breaks into my house and they're about to come after me. I've naturally, I'm probably going to just pull the gun up and just start shooting all over the place, right? Like that's probably what's going to happen. And then I'll start to aim after I get a couple shots in because I just want to try to get that person away. But that's the thing. You need to do the same thing with your business. You need to do the same thing with making changes in your life. You need to just execute and then make adjustments from there. Because most people out there, and I've been this person, Splanned, spend most of your time planning. And planning is just a way for you to feel like you're doing something

when you're really not doing anything sometimes. Planning is great, sure. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But there's over planning. And we all have to realize that you get to the law of diminishing returns where you're planning too much and you just need to be executing. So what I want to tell you for this episode is that you need to do less planning most of the time. Take the amount of planning that you normally do and cut it in half. And some of

you are like, no, no, no, but I'm a planner. I'm a planner. And here's the deal. I get to see this all the time in the podcasting world. I know tons of people who are supposed to launch their podcast last year and still have not launched their podcast because they're planning and trying to make it perfect. And in trying to make it perfect, they're actually making it even worse because they're thinking about it too much. And then they're making their content worse because of the fact that they're thinking about it too much. And then they're not genuine anymore. And that's the way that you have to think about it. You have to realize that sometimes you just need to get up and move. And then you need to make some

adjustments once you've been doing it. So if you're the planner or the over planner, I want you to take a step back today and go, am I spending too much time planning and not enough time executing? Because sometimes, most of the time, you need to do very little planning. At least some planning, of course, is always good, which is the ready part. So you ready, fire, which is execute, and then aim after you fire. You go, you make mistakes, and then you make adjustments. Because most people, let me tell you what it is. Most people want to over plan because they don't want to go out and fail. They don't want to go out and fail. They don't want to go out and fail. They don't want to go out and make mistakes. So they're trying to get away from their fear of failure by over planning.

Let me say that again. You might be, I don't even remember what I just said. It was off the top of my head. You might be over planning and not executing because of your fear of failure. That's usually what it is. It's not that you're just need everything to be perfect. It's that you might be afraid of going out there and actually failing, but you need to fire, which means you need to go execute. You need to fail a couple times and make adjustments so that you can go down the right road. So that's what I have for you today. Ready, fire, aim, stop doing all of the aiming, stop doing all of the planning and start putting the work in, start executing and stop letting

failure hold you back in your fear of failure. You're masking as planning. So that being said, I'm going to leave you guys the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission today to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you. And I hope that you go out there and you have an absolutely 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

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