The Mindset Mentor - That Little Voice in Your Head

Episode Date: October 3, 2018

Episode 489 - We all have that little voice in our head that holds us back from our dreams. If we listen to that voice, we will never be as great as we could be. In this episode, I talk about how to silence that voice so that you can live to your full potential. 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. 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

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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 here's what I'm going to talk about today. Today, I'm going to talk about the imposter syndrome. And I get a lot of emails from people where they say messages on

Facebook, all of these things of, I really want to do this, but I just don't feel like I'm good enough. I see other people out there who are doing this and they're better than me. And then I have people doubting me and I have people saying that I can't do it. So the imposter syndrome is where you get the feeling that what you want to do, you're not good enough to do at this point, or you're not good enough to ever do it. You want to go do something, but you feel like you're not good enough to do it. And I can only use myself as an example because I felt the imposter syndrome. I still sometimes feel the imposter syndrome. But I remember when I was first about to start this podcast, I almost did not start the podcast. That's crazy for me to think about. And if you listen to the

podcast, you listen to me right now, I almost did not start this podcast because I was doubting myself so much. I was thinking to myself, that's millions of downloads, millions of listens that, you know, people's ears that would not have heard this podcast if I would have listened to the tiny voice inside of my head that I had to shut up, right? You know, I had to shut that voice up at some point and just say, you know what, I'll just put my whole thing was I didn't believe in myself at the point, but I knew that the average podcast only had seven episodes. And then the person who hosted it quit or didn't do it. And I was like, you know what, I'll just make 14 episodes before I release anything. And that'll give me my, basically my first month. And I'll just put

it out there and see what people think. And then I did everything that I could to start promoting it. I put it everywhere. It started to take off. But I was thinking to myself, if people have Tony Robbins out there, if people have Jim Rohn, if people have all of these great speakers that have been around for so long and Brian Tracy and all of these books and all of the people that they can listen to, why the hell would they listen to me? If I look at Tony Robbins, why the hell would somebody listen to me if they have Tony Robbins? that's what was going on in my head. And I heard something from, I don't even remember who it was, but it was somebody that was on, that was on Facebook and it was a short video of a guy and he was talking about, um, how you have

value to give to the world, no matter what it is, no matter how new you are at something. And so he says, if you look at the person who's like the absolute, you know, zero to 10, you know, zero knows nothing about that, whatever it is. So for me, it'd be personal growth and 10 might be whoever it is. So for me, I was just thinking Tony Robbins, right? What, what level are you between zero and 10? And for me, I was like, you know, maybe I'm a six. I've been doing it for 10 years, but I, I don't feel like I'm anywhere near the level that I want to be at. I want to continue to grow and get better throughout my life. And I still have a long time to do so. I've been doing this for 10 years. Tony Robbins has been doing it for 40. So for me, it was like, why would somebody listen to me when they have Tony Robbins? And then what happened was

he said, what level are you? And I was thinking, maybe I'm level six, 6.57 if I'm having a really good day of motivational speaker, of personal growth, of teacher, all of these things. And what he said was, if you think about it, whatever level you're at, so I thought I was at a six, let's say, there's still people that are zero to 5.9 whose lives you could impact. And that's the mass majority of people in the world. There's not a whole lot of people in the world that on the personal growth level, if we're just using my case, that's a seven to a 10. There's not a lot. There's definitely people out there, but there's not as many. And so he said,

think of all of the millions of lives that you could impact. And because you're listening to that small voice inside of your head, millions of people's lives could possibly not be impacted, right? And now that I look back, I can look back and tell you with certainty, don't listen to the little voice inside of your head because it's just your comfort zone talking. It's your paradigm trying to talk you into staying inside of your comfort zone is really what it is, right? I listened to my first episodes and they honestly were not that good. There was good information, but I didn't have any personality. I didn't sound like myself at all. And I edited every single one of them. Now, I don't even edit my episodes. I don't edit out coughs and all of those things. So you have to realize whatever it is that you want to do,

whether you want to be a coach at something or whether you want to be a speaker or whether you want to be even just a great parent or spouse or whatever it is. You know, if you look at something and you say, well, I don't, I don't know if I want to be a parent. I don't know if I'm good enough to be a parent, for instance, right? You can always get better. The best part about this with the imposter syndrome is that you can start, if you know, my favorite line is ready, fire, aim, where you fire first and then figure it out. That's kind of what I did. If you want to do something, if your heart is pulling you to do something, do it.

Don't listen to the little voice inside of your head. Just freaking do it. Go out there and see what happens. You know, you get ready, you fire, and then you aim after you fire. And so if you have a little voice inside of your head that keeps talking down to you, that keeps telling you you're not good enough, that keeps telling you why you shouldn't do something, but your heart is telling you you should do something, don't listen to that little voice inside of your head.

Just listen to your heart. Listen to your gut. That is your spiritual compass of where you should go. And your gut will always tell you where you should go and it's always right. Your head will always try to talk you out of it. So if you're out there and you're wanting to do something, but you don't feel like you're good enough at this point, or you don't feel like you have value to give, or you keep talking down to yourself, that little voice inside of your head keeps saying, you're not enough. You're not good enough.

I almost listened to that little voice inside of my head. I almost listened to that little voice inside of my head. And I wouldn't have this podcast with millions of downloads. I wouldn't have my Facebook with hundreds of thousands of people who follow me in videos. And that's not me bragging. That's just saying those are people's lives that would not have been impacted if I would have just listened to that little voice inside of my head. So if you have a dream, if you have something that's calling you, go for it and don't listen to the little voice inside of your head because the imposter syndrome is absolute BS. The imposter syndrome is absolute BS. So with that, I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Please make sure you share this with someone that you know, someone that you love, and I hope that you go out there and you make it an amazing, amazing day.

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