The Mindset Mentor - Speak to Yourself This Way and Create The Life You Want

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow about who you are, where you are in the world, what you're trying to create, because if you can get better, you can always improve your life. Also, if you love this podcast, you want some motivational text messages to your cell phone, absolutely free. If you live in the United States or Canada, text me right now, 512-580-9305. Once again, 512-580-9305. Today, we're going to talk about how you speak to yourself in your head. I think that

Starting point is 00:00:45 there are few things in this world that are more important than the way that you speak to yourself, the voice inside of your head and what it is saying to you. And I want you to think about this. I want you to think about what you would think about yourself and what you think other people would think about you if there was a speaker that was on your shoulder that just blasted out all of the dialogue in your head and everybody else could hear it? What would they think? You know, if they could hear and, you know, if I sat down with you and I could hear everything that you say to yourself on a daily basis, I think that it would be really obvious to see why your life is the way that it is. Even for someone who's not been coaching as long as I have,

Starting point is 00:01:29 they could probably be like, well, yeah, it makes sense why you have this life because this is how you talk to yourself. And that person could probably make a very accurate assumption of where your life will be in a few years based off the way that you talk to yourself. And, you know, I can speak from experience off the way that you talk to yourself. And, you know, I can speak from experience of the way that I have shifted over years of the way I used to speak to myself to how I speak to myself now. And before I kind of found, you know, how to speak to myself, I got into self-development when I was 19 years old. I really didn't start thinking about the voice inside of my head until I was about 22 years old. So we're talking about 2008

Starting point is 00:02:05 or so. And for me, like I was a very cautious person. And what I mean by cautious is like, I wouldn't put myself out there. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get out of my comfort zone. I made a whole lot of excuses as to why I didn't have the life that I wanted and, you know, why things weren't working out for me. And I was really good at blaming everybody else but myself and making myself a victim. I was also like the type of person who, even when I played sports, I would always shoot and hope I didn't miss. I never shot to make it, I feel like. When I played basketball, I would shoot and be like, hope it goes in.

Starting point is 00:02:43 And I felt like that was kind of the overall feeling of my entire life was like, Hey, I hope it works out. I hope that I don't get screwed over today. I hope that I make some money. And it's like, hoping is not going to do anything for you. And so I was always like, I'll shoot and hope I don't miss. And then I learned that the way that I spoke to myself was very disempowering. And I relearned from mentors, but also just by trial and error of how I speak to myself. And I can tell you now, after being very, very diligent in the way that I speak to myself over the past 16, 17 years or so, after being very, very diligent in the way that I speak to myself, what I'm going to teach you absolutely works. When I first heard it back in like 2008, when I first started it, I didn't know

Starting point is 00:03:29 if it worked. It sounded true. Like, okay, cool. If I changed the way that I speak to myself, I guess my life would be different. But I can tell you now, after 16 years of doing it, I can tell you with absolute certainty, if you change the way that you speak to yourself, your life will change. And so there's very few things in this world that are more important than changing that voice inside of your head to what you want it to say to you. Because we all have a voice inside of our head that's saying things. If you don't believe me, go meditate for an hour and see if no thoughts come in. Go ahead, give it a try. That's why meditation is so hard for people is because they think like,

Starting point is 00:04:04 oh, I can't turn my brain off. I have so many thoughts. Well, you have a voice inside of your head that's always talking. It's always saying something. And this voice can say things like, oh, I need to get bread today. Or I need to go pick up the kids in 15 minutes. Or it can say stuff like, you're not good enough to be able to do that. You'll never amount to anything, so why even try? I'm too old to start a business, so I might as well just stick to what I'm doing now. I'll never get in the shape that I want to, so why even go to the gym in the first place?

Starting point is 00:04:35 Oh, I'm too shy to go out. People think that I'm awkward. I'm not good with money. I always date the wrong guys. Whatever it is. There's a voice that's inside of your head that you might not even notice. And if you're thinking about this, you need to start becoming aware of it. And I'll talk about that in a few minutes.

Starting point is 00:04:55 But I want you to understand that somehow we learned this narration that's going on in our heads. Either we learned it from someone else, from our parents, from teachers, from brothers, sisters, from society. We inherited it because we saw our parents speaking that way about themselves. And we're like, oh, I guess this is the way that we speak to ourselves. Or you created it based off of your life experiences. Maybe you got cheated on a couple of times and now you've developed this thing of I'm not worthy of love or I always date the wrong guys or every woman is a cheater, whatever it might be that's

Starting point is 00:05:30 inside of your head. So it's either you learned it, you inherited it, or you created it based off of your life experiences. But if that voice doesn't help you and it holds you back in some sort of way, you have to be the one that rewrites the program. And we will be right back. And now back to the show. You have to be the one that changes it. It's like a program inside of a computer. It's basically like a virus inside of your mind. It's a virus inside the computer. What do you need to do? You need to take the virus out. You need to replace it with something that's going to help that computer do what it needs to do to run efficiently. So for you, you need to take that virus out the way that you talk to yourself. You need to replace

Starting point is 00:06:13 it with something that is empowering for you. It's like a song that's stuck in your head. And what you need to do is you need to get a new song stuck in your head. You need to find the new song. And it doesn't mean that this new song is going to go away or the old song is going to go away right away. And the new song is just going to replace it. No, you've been saying this to yourself for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years. It's going to take some time to change it. And so I want you to think about this for a second. And maybe you know it off the top of your head. Maybe you need some journaling. But what is the dominant thought in your mind that's holding you back? What is it?

Starting point is 00:06:49 Is it that I'm not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough? I always date the wrong person. I'm unlovable. I'll never get in shape. What is it? What is the dominant thought that you feel, if you could identify one dominant thought, the main one that's holding you back the most? What is it?

Starting point is 00:07:04 Now, I understand some of you might be very aware of it. Some of you out there have no idea right now, but you know that there's a thought that you have this feeling, there's a thought, there's a feeling, there's an omnipresent vibe that's going on in your head that you just got to identify what it is. And you might not be aware of what it is. It's kind of like the story of like the fish swimming in the water, right? It's like two young fish are swimming in the water and there's an old fish that goes that goes across and passes them. And he says, Hey, water feels great today, huh? And the two young fish look at each other and like, what's water? Because they've, they're young. They've been in the water their entire lives. They don't

Starting point is 00:07:36 even know that the water's there. And so it's like a fish swimming in water where it's like, you might've been saying this to yourself for so long that you're not even really aware of it, but you need to become aware of it. It's been there for so long, it's unnoticeable, but it doesn't mean it's unfindable. You just got to find it. And so what you need to do is you need to identify that dominant thought that you have inside of your head. And then you need to ask yourself, what is a dominant thought that I want that will help me create the life that I want? You need to create one, one dominant thought. That's it. Now, I know, I know this works because I've talked with many of you guys out there. I get messages from you guys on Instagram and we chat back and forth on Instagram and

Starting point is 00:08:15 stuff. And I know that I'll say, hey, do this one thing. And then people will be like, well, if he said do it one, one thing, if I do three of them, then, you know, if I, he said create one habit. So if I create three, it's 300% better. Oh, he said create one dominant thought. If I create three dominant thoughts, it's three times better. No, that's not the way that it works. Okay. I want you to understand it's one thing and one thing only. And then after you feel in six months or a year or two years, whatever it might be, that this is already kind of like your dominant thought that's in your head, then what I want you to do is I want you to create

Starting point is 00:08:48 another one after that. But I don't want you to create another dominant thought until you've literally got that dominant thought in your head. And so my question to you is, if you could create only one dominant thought that would help you change your life, what would it be? Okay. And this is what affirmations are. And I hate corny cliche BS affirmations. Like I hate when I see people say, create affirmations and people will sit there and they'll put their hands out and they'll close their eyes and they'll say, money flows freely to me from all areas of the universe. Money flows freely to me from all areas of the universe. And then you open your eyes and like, that's

Starting point is 00:09:25 bullshit. Why? Because we all have BS meters in our head. And so you, you know, that the planet Pluto is not sending you, I guess it's not a planet anymore, but the planet Jupiter, that's not sending you a thousand dollars in your bank account. So clearly it's not coming from all areas of the universe. Right? And so what I would prefer is that you create a real affirmation. And I have a three-step process, super simple, to create an affirmation. The first thing is it needs to be true. The second thing, it needs to be empowering. And the third thing is it needs to be present tense.

Starting point is 00:09:53 So not like, I'll get it in the future. It's like speaking now. So it's true. It's empowering. It's present tense. And so it doesn't mean like if you're broke, you just close your eyes and say, I'm rich. No, that's stupid because it's not true. And also at the same time, it's not really that empowering because you're like, I don't

Starting point is 00:10:10 know about this. This doesn't feel right. And so like examples, let me give you examples of what you could use if you're going through it. Now, don't steal these ones because, you know, these are just ones that I just randomly came up with. I want you to find one that feels true to you, like feels true deep down to your bones. Like, Oh yeah, this shit really gets me going. It really tickles your tots. That's what I'm looking for. Right? So let's say

Starting point is 00:10:33 like you, let's say you fear commitment. And that's the one thing, like you really want to get into a relationship, but you've screwed a lot of relationships up because you, you fear commitment and all this stuff that comes with it. Right? If you fear commitment, maybe you're right. And the first thing is it has to start with, am, okay? I am is super, super important. I am capable of making decisions that align with my values and my goals when getting into a relationship, right? Or if you're fearing commitment of starting a business, right? Whatever it might be, I'm capable of making decisions that align with my values and my goals. If I fear commitment and relationship, it could also be something like, you know, I trust that no matter what happens in all of my relationships,

Starting point is 00:11:11 exactly what's supposed to happen. Whatever it might be that feels right for you. If you have the fear of responsibility, it could be something like, I am prepared to handle increased responsibilities with grace in my life. So that you're like, oh yeah, instead of being afraid of extra responsibility, I am prepared to handle increased responsibilities with grace in my life. If you have a scarcity mindset, it might be something like, I trust that there is enough for everyone, including me and my life, and my life will be abundant in all aspects. I trust. So if you have scarcity, that means there's not enough. So the opposite of that is I trust that there's enough for everyone, including me. Then my life will be abundant in

Starting point is 00:11:51 all aspects. Financial worries. If you sit there and you worry about your finances all the time, I am open to new ways to increase my income. That's a good one. Or I'm worthy of financial abundance and stability. Cool. Great. If you have the fear of failure Or I'm worthy of financial abundance and stability. Cool, great. If you have the fear of failure, I'm resilient and capable of overcoming all challenges. Fear of failure, you can get past it that way. The fear of success,

Starting point is 00:12:18 I'm deserving of all of the success that comes my way. The fear of change, I am excited about the possibilities that change brings in my life. If you have the fear of rejection, I'm proud of myself for taking risks and putting myself out there. And here's the way that I recommend that you do it, okay? I've recommended this to many people. I recommended this literally last week to a group of people in this program that I have called Mindset University. And I was like, hey, just do this for seven days. And they came back yesterday

Starting point is 00:12:43 and were telling me about it. And they're like, oh my God, I can already tell a massive difference in the way that I feel literally for doing this, what I'm about to tell you for seven days. And what it is, is you go and you buy these things called mala beads, M-A-L-A. You can buy them on Amazon for like 15, 20 bucks. And there's 108 beads. And what you do is you wake up in the morning and you use the mala beads in the affirmation to help you reprogram yourself. Okay. So you have a dominant thought that's going on in your head and it's going over and over and over and over and over and over and over again throughout your head. Well, now we want to change it. So what do we do? As soon as we wake up in the morning, we go to the bathroom, we brush our teeth, we drink water, and then you go and you meditate

Starting point is 00:13:18 while your brain is still in theta state, which is basically hypnosis. And what you do is you say your affirmation 108 times. So you close your eyes and you basically touch each bead. So you touch the bead and you say, you know, let's say that you have the fear of change, right? I'm excited about the possibilities that all change brings in my life. And you go to the next bead. I'm excited about the possibilities that all the change brings in my life. Next bead. I'm excited about all the possibilities that change brings in my life.

Starting point is 00:13:53 And you do it over and over and over and over and over again, 108 times. So you go through the whole beads and you'll see there's a way to know when you finally finish all of them. And then you just go out about your day. Because if you have the fear of change and you're fearing change to be that are coming up in your life, but you say, I'm excited about the possibilities that change brings. And you start making that your dominant thought. Then when things start to change, you don't get afraid of them anymore, but you're like, oh my gosh, I'm kind of excited for what could be. And so what you do is you're using these mala beats to actually start to reprogram your dominant thought. You're an adult now. It's time for you to reprogram yourself and not just go off of the programmings of your past. And when you don't even know where they came from most of the time. For me, I speak to myself all the time. I've been

Starting point is 00:14:29 doing this for years and years and years. I speak out loud to myself all the time. Literally, even today, I was doing it when I took the baby from my wife today and he was crying and he was freaking out a little bit and nobody in the house could calm him down. I was like, I'll calm him down. I pick him up and I have this way of calming him back. So I calm him down and I start, you know, he stops crying within like 15 seconds. And then I'm walking up and down the hall with him and I'm saying, we're calm, we're cool, we're collected. We're calm, we're cool, we're collected. And I'm saying out loud, and I don't know if it's influencing him, it's influencing me. And if it's influencing my vibration, he's feeling it, right? Whether it's my vibration

Starting point is 00:15:08 that changes, whether it's my, my, my scent that changes, but he smells it on me or whether he just knows that there's a difference. He gets really calm when he's around me. And because I always try to calm myself. So I speak out loud to myself all the time. When I get into the gym and I feel like I'm, I'm weak and I feel like I'm a bitch and I'm not able to lift as much. I say, I'm powerful. I'm powerful. I'm powerful. I changed the music and I talk to myself. And so I speak out loud to myself as much as I possibly can. There's a lot of value in that where, you know, there's definitely good to say affirmations in your head, but when you say I'm allowed to yourself, it's not just in your head. It's also coming out of your mouth. So it's using more of your body. It's creating vibration. Your body feels it inside. You're hearing it. You know, your eardrums are

Starting point is 00:15:48 actually moving from the vibration of it. And so it's more powerful to speak out loud to yourself. When I feel down, when I feel tired, when I feel lost, I use my phrases. It's like a song stuck in my head. I was teaching this the other day. And one of the questions that was asked to me in Mindset University, she's a lady that was in there said, well, what's some of the affirmations that you used to say to yourself? And I remember, uh, I completely forgot about it. And so this question was asked to me. I remember that when I was at my most fearful, when I first started this podcast, when I first started my business and I was like, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm good enough. I wrote down the affirmation, I am here to change

Starting point is 00:16:25 the world. And I was like, holy shit, that feels real. That feels deep within my bones. I love that. That's true. That's empowering. That's present tense. That's the one I'm going for. I am here to change the world. So when I felt the feelings of, I don't know if I can do this, I immediately said, I'm here to change the world. And that affirmation of here to change the world was like, this, I immediately said, I'm here to change the world. And that, that affirmation of here to change the world was like, yeah, fuck you little voice. I'm going to take over. I'm going to take control. And so what I did was I created this audio. I forgot that I did this. I took an audio that I loved. It was like a meditation audio and I created my own breath work for myself. And so it was like, breathe in. And I'm, I'm speaking into my microphone over this audio,

Starting point is 00:17:03 my own voice. I did this for myself. It was about 10 or 15 minutes long. And it was like, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, hold it. And then I breathe in and I'd hold it and it would go for like a minute. And then the next one would go for a minute 30. And the next one would go for, and I would do three rounds of breathing. And then what I would do is when I got myself into a calm state after the breath work is I would repeat to myself the phrase, but here's what's really cool about it is me on the audio that I was hearing was, you are here to change the world. So I'm hearing it as if it's someone else speaking it to me. You are here to change the world. And then I would close, there would be a pause and I would have my eyes closed, be meditating. And I would say out loud, I'm here to change the world. And

Starting point is 00:17:44 then it would say back to me, you are here to change the world. And I would say, I'm here to change the world. And it would say, you are here to change the I would say out loud, I am here to change the world. And then it would say back to me, you are here to change the world. And I would say, I'm here to change the world. And it would say, you are here to change the world. And I'd say, I'm here to change the world. It would say, you are here to change the world. I'm saying, I'm here. And I am fucking reprogramming my mind to not be so worried and so fearful. And I don't know if I can do this because I don't know if I can do this is completely destroyed when I hear somebody, somebody, quote unquote, saying to me in my head, you're here to change the world as if someone's speaking it into my mind. And then I'm saying it to speak it into existence. And so it's this way of just me repatterning myself to believe

Starting point is 00:18:15 the thing that I want to believe. I still say it all the time, especially when I feel like, I don't know if I can do this, man. Like this is going to be a lot like this is, this is a lot of responsibility. This is a lot of work. And then I'm like, I'm here to change the world. I'm like, I don't know if I can do this, man. Like this is going to be a lot like this is, this is a lot of responsibility. This is a lot of work. And then I'm like, I'm here to change the world. I'm like, fuck. Yeah, I am. What am I talking about? This is what I was made for. And so I want you to really start thinking about the one dominant thought that you need in your mind and start programming it into your brain by saying it over and over and over and over again. There's times when I'm driving my car and I'll turn off the music and I'll just say, I'm here to change the world. I'm here to change.

Starting point is 00:18:46 And it just changes everything and influences every aspect of my life. And so find your one dominant thought and start programming it into your mind with as much repetition as you possibly can. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on Instagram stories.

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The Mindset Mentor - Speak to Yourself This Way and Create The Life You Want

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