The Mindset Mentor - The Law of 100

Starting point is 00:00:00 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 a podcast episode. And if you're out there, you love this podcast, you want some extra tips and tricks to become better, go to mondayemail.com right now. Once again, mondayemail.com. Every Monday morning, I send out an email with what I'm working on to improve myself, to get better, an extra mindset, tips and tricks to help you as well. It's absolutely free. So if you want to be a part of that and get the emails from me, go to mondayemail.com right now and go ahead and sign up. Today, I'm going to share a very, very simple secret to success with you.

Starting point is 00:00:46 The funny thing about success is this, is success, whatever success means to you first off, because for some people, success means becoming worth $100 million. For some people, it's becoming the best parent they could possibly be. For some people, it's being able to travel the world and be able to pay their bills. It's different for everybody else. But the thing about success is it is very, very simple. We make it way harder than it needs to be. And I can tell you from, let's see, what am I at? 17 years in business that I've been in business now, trying different businesses, having them do well, having them fail. And then ultimately having one that has been the biggest success is the one that we have now. It's very, very simple. And I used to make it way, way harder myself than I

Starting point is 00:01:32 needed to. And today I'm going to teach you how to become what you want to become, how to use this thing called the law of 100, and how Jerry Seinfeld used this exact technique to become one of the greatest and probably the wealthiest comedians in the entire world. So I call it the law of 100. It's very simple. You decide what you need to do. So whatever habit is that you need to create, if I were to say, hey, and me and you were talking, I would say, hey, what is the number one habit that if you were to be able to create this habit would change all other parts of your life? like change massive, like the biggest lever that you could pull in your life. That's the way I try to think of things that I'm doing in life, right? We had a business meeting

Starting point is 00:02:12 yesterday and I was like, what's the biggest lever we could pull? And I was like, no, that lever is too small. No, that lever is too small. Like what's the biggest one I can pull? In your life, if you're looking at a habit as a lever that you could pull, what is the biggest lever that you could pull in your life as a habit that if you had this habit right here, it would change so many other areas of your life? What is it? Think about that for a second. What's that one action, that habit you can create that would change everything for you or most things for you? can create that would change everything for you or most things for you. So here's what you do. You just do that thing every single day for 100 days. So let me go through the step-by-step process of how to actually have this work for you and why this will work for you as well.

Starting point is 00:02:59 Number one, you've got to decide what the action is, what the habit is. That's what we're working on together, right? Decide what the actual habit is. Get very clear on what it is and the benefit that you will receive. Because if you can understand the why behind it, the benefit that you will receive from programming this into yourself, it will make it so much easier for you to be motivated to program it into yourself. So the first thing is decide exactly. I mean, very, very clearly what it is. Decide with that action, what that habit is. So number two, do it every single day, no matter what, for a hundred days. Don't allow yourself to make up your stupid excuses and the BS excuses that we all come up with because they will come up. Don't self-sabotage. Do that thing every single day for a hundred days. And let me tell you a few reasons why this

Starting point is 00:03:46 is extremely, extremely important. First thing, successful people, whatever success means to you, they're not the most motivated. They're not the best. They're not the most skilled. They're not the smartest. Do you know what they are? They're the most consistent. Think about that for a second. They're not the most motivated. They're not the smartest. They're not the prettiest. They're the most consistent. Think about that for a second. They're not the most motivated. They're not the smartest. They're not the prettiest. They're not the whatever it is, fill in the blank. They are the most consistent. That's what makes somebody the most successful. When you see someone who is, let's say wealthy, for instance, they've worked really hard for a long time and they didn't give up. And eventually they got to quote unquote, a mountaintop that people see as wealth. When you see someone who is in

Starting point is 00:04:32 incredible shape, well, when you see someone in incredible shape, they were consistent for a very, very long time. I love when I see people and they're like, well, you know, I follow these influencers on Instagram and I'm just not in as good a shape of them. And they think that like, there's like a part of them that thinks like, oh, I can get in that good a shape in three months. But then if you were to reach out to that influencer, you're like, hey, how long have you been consistently working out? They're like seven years, right? So people are like, oh, I want it now. I want it now. I want it now. But you talk to that person, you realize, oh, that person got that body from seven years of consistent taking care of themselves, working out the right way, eating the right food.

Starting point is 00:05:12 So when you see someone who's in incredible shape, they didn't accidentally get there. They were the most consistent they could possibly be. When you see someone who is extremely calm and centered and like one of those people just doesn't seem like you can rock them. That's someone who's probably consistently meditated every single day for a really long time, or they've worked towards calming themselves, or they've worked towards moving through their triggers consistently day in, day out, day in, day out. Success comes from consistency. That's it. You just have to be consistent. Failure comes from giving up. So many people feel fear, failure. So many people fear it,

Starting point is 00:06:00 but they won't take the action that they need to to create the life they want. They're like, I want to create this business. But then they had the fear of failing in the business. So they didn't take the correct action in the business. And the business ends up failing because they didn't take the correct action in the business. So they actually created the fear that they were so afraid of. Think about that for a second. Success comes from consistency. Failure comes from giving up. Just stop giving up on yourself. Stop stopping. You've been doing it for way too long. You have to just decide what it is that you want. Decide the action. Decide the habit that you need to create. And you do it every freaking

Starting point is 00:06:38 day for a hundred days. And let me explain to you why this is important when you actually look at your brain as a whole and how this will actually change your brain and change you as a person. Right? So let me explain just a little bit. Imagine that you're in a forest, right? And you're looking at this huge, massive forest. We were just in the redwoods last week. So we were these, I mean, these huge freaking trees are just massive, right? Imagine that you're in front of a big forest and just think of what that forest that you're in front of a big forest and just think of what that forest would look like in your mind. And you happen to see a path that you're walking down. Like it's, it's a well-worn path, like dirt path. It's been walked down many,

Starting point is 00:07:15 many, many, many, many times. And because it's been walked down so many times, it is very easy to walk down, right? That's just the way that it works. But if you were to walk, let's say a hundred yards into this path and then look to your right and there's no path, but you're like, you know what? I'm going to start a path. It's not going to be easy to start that path at first. You're going to have to walk down it. Maybe you got to get a machete out and start chopping some branches down and you got to walk down and walk down and walk down it. But if you walk down it over and over and over and over and over again, every single day, a hundred times, 200, 300 times, whatever it is, that's going to start to become a well-worn path. Well, that's how your brain works. We all have these habits, which are just basically like well-worn paths in the forest.

Starting point is 00:07:57 And it's very easy for us to walk down those paths, whether they're good paths or bad paths, good habits or bad habits. It's very easy for us to just go into them. Just be like, hey, yeah, we're good here. And sometimes we wake up in the middle of walking down a path and we're like, what the hell am I doing? I didn't mean to do this. And we're walking down a bad habit. What we need to do is if we start noticing ourself going down a path that we don't want to, we've got to consciously decide what the path is that we want to go through and go, all right, well, I'm walking down this well-worn path, this habit that I'm in the middle of. I'm going to turn right. I'm going to look at the forest and go, damn, it's a lot of forest. I'm going to take out my machete. I'm going to start hacking and I'm

Starting point is 00:08:38 going to start going down that path and creating a new path. So that's why you'll feel a lot of resistance when you start to do something that's new. But if you do it over and over and over and over again, that path that you are starting to create will start to become a little bit more worn out, a little bit more worn, a little bit easier to walk down. And then over time, that path that you're walking down becomes a habit and you're able to do it. And that's why for the next 100 days, it's going to be hard. It's going to be like taking out the machete and just whacking a new way through the forest. But your brain will adapt. Your brain wants to adapt

Starting point is 00:09:16 because what is foreign to your brain is not comfortable at first. And as you start doing it over and over again, it starts to become more comfortable and it starts turning it into a habit. Your brain wants to create as many habits as it possibly can because habits allow the brain to mostly click off. And when the brain is, you know, really focusing on something, it requires a lot of energy. Our brain is only about 2% of our body weight, but it takes up about 20% of our energy throughout the entire day. Hey, do you know what you spend on subscriptions every month? Most of us think we spend around $80 a month on subscriptions, but actually spend closer to $200 a month.

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Starting point is 00:12:11 is digestion, but the organ that consumes the most energy in your body is your brain. And so it will take time, but your brain wants to create a habit. Why don't you give your brain the habit that you want it to create? Okay. And this is important give your brain the habit that you want it to create? Okay. And this is important. So I told you, I was going to tell you how Seinfeld uses. Seinfeld used this and he has something that's called the Seinfeld calendar. It wasn't called this before. He just made it up. But what happened was this young comedian came up to him when he was in his heyday and like a really big comedian and still doing a lot of touring. He came up to him and he's like, Hey, I'm a new comedian. What do you recommend that I do to become better as a comedian? And he said, what you need to do is you need to buy a big calendar, big monthly calendar. It's got the entire year on it. And you have to put

Starting point is 00:12:52 it somewhere where you see it every single day, like an obvious place on the backside of the door in your bedroom would be a great place because not everyone's going to see it when the door's open, but when the door's closed, you're going to see it. And before you get out of your bedroom, you're going to see it every single day. And he said, what I want you to do is decide what it is that you want to do. So in this case, it was what he did was he would write jokes every single day, knowing that he would write jokes and a lot of them would just be crap. But he wanted to get into the habit of writing jokes every single day versus waiting for quote unquote inspiration. And so what he did was he started writing jokes every single day, every single day,

Starting point is 00:13:29 every single day. And when he would write jokes, he would take a big red marker and he would put an X through that day. And he says, once you get like three days in, three day chain of like you did it three days in a row, it starts to kind of become addicting and you don't want to break the chain and you want to keep it going. Then when you go 10 days in a row, you definitely don't want to miss day 11. When you're 30 days in a row, you definitely don't want to miss day 31. So what happens is for the next, you have to decide what the habit is you want to do for 100 days. And you've got to put a red X through a calendar for today and then tomorrow and then the next day so that you can, because it kind of becomes addicting to watch that chain grow and become better. Success is not hard. We

Starting point is 00:14:10 make it so hard, but it's so simple. You just have to figure out what it is that you need to do and just do it consistently every single day. It's to wake up and do the right thing every single day, to stay consistent and to not give up on yourself. Most people, they're just not committed. You know, they're not the most committed people in the world. But as I said, some of the most successful people I've ever met are not the smartest people or any of that stuff. They're just the most consistent. You know, most, the crazy thing about it is this, like a lot of people will be like, oh, well, yeah, millionaires, they were gifted, you know, life on a silver platter and all of these things. And I was born

Starting point is 00:14:45 in a bad part of town in my family, divorced, and they can give all the excuses, but most millionaires weren't born millionaires. 80% of millionaires in America, statistically, were actually coming from middle-class and low-class families. So that means four out of five millionaires were raised either in middle class or lower class families. But what did they have? They had hard work and dedication. The thing about it that's crazy is that you right now could fast forward three years from today and your life can be vastly different than it is right now. You could have a completely different life three years from today. If I told you that if you worked really, really hard at something for the next three years, I would give you $5 million guaranteed,

Starting point is 00:15:29 no matter what, would you go for it and not give up? If I was like, Hey, three years from today, if you're very consistent, you work your ass off and you try to become better at it, I will give you $5 million in cash. Would you go for it? Sure. If you were a hundred percent guaranteed $5 million, would you, would you just go and you wouldn't stop? You would. And that's how life kind of works. I'm not going to give you that money. But there are people out here listening to this podcast episode that if you were to find

Starting point is 00:15:55 one thing, most of you, if you were to find one thing and commit to that thing every single day, day in, day out, being the most consistent you could possibly be. You could fast forward five years, three years from today and have way more than $5 million in your bank account. Think about how crazy that is. Success requires commitment. But one of the things that you might be lacking if you're not where you want to be in life is the commitment to create the life that you want. And that's really what's important here is how can you decide no matter what, I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to get whatever it is that I want in my life. I'm going to show up every single day for myself, for my family, for my team, for my business, for my company that I work for, all of those things. Because how many times have you

Starting point is 00:16:38 started something, given up and started something, given up, oh, I'm going to start a new diet. And you gave up. And then you decide that you're going to start a new business and you gave up so many times. How much different would your life be today if you didn't give up on all those things in the past? How much different would your bank account be if you didn't give up on that business six years ago? How much different would your body be if you didn't give up on that diet and workout plan five years ago? How much different would your life be if you didn't give up on all of the things that you've given up on in the past and you decided to stay committed and consistent with everything that you did? You would have a very different life today than you do simply because you decided not to

Starting point is 00:17:14 give up. So when are you going to finally commit to something and following through long-term to create the life that you want? Because when you do that, that's when you create the life that you want. You have the success that you want, whatever success means to you. And it starts with the law of 100. Number one, decide what action or habits you need to create and take what that is. And number two, do it every freaking day for the next 100 days, track it with the Seinfeld calendar and see where you are 100 days from today. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories

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The Mindset Mentor - The Law of 100

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