The Mindset Mentor - What Do You Want?!?!

Episode Date: August 9, 2017

Episode 308 - What is it that you want? Do you know? After you know exactly what it is that you want, do you have a roadmap to get there? Well, you will never hit a target that you cannot see! In this episode, I talk about how to get clear on what you want in your life and make a plan to achieve it. 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, please hit the subscribe button.

Also, there's only a few more days to put yourself into the drawing for the free month of one-on-one coaching with me, which ends in the drawing will be done on August 12th. That is the very last day you can put yourself in the drawing. So if you want to put yourself in the drawing, go to 9spokes.com slash Rob Dial. So that's the number nine spokes like spokes on a bike tire dot com slash Rob Dial. Enter yourself in and the winner will be chosen soon. So today I want to be talking about is clarity. I realized that most people don't have a hundred percent clarity in their life. And this is why most people will never hit their goals. The reason why you'll never hit your goals is because you don't know what

your goals are. Specifically, you don't know what your goals are. You don't know in the detail what they are. So most people have a general idea of what they want, but it's never clear. And then they get frustrated when they don't feel like they're hitting their goal or moving towards their goals, which makes no sense because they don't even know what their goals are. So you're going to feel frustrated when you feel like you're not moving towards your goal if you don't know what your goal is because you're never actually moving towards it if you don't know what it is. So in reality, these people, they don't even know where they're going, but they have a pretty good idea. And this topic is, like I said, I decided to use it because I've

been speaking to a lot of people. It's been in my notes for a long time. Like I need to do an episode on clarity. I need to do an episode on the power of clarity, why it is so good to be clear and why you need to know exactly what you want in this world because the world, the universe cannot give you something that you don't know how to ask for. You know, if you think about it this way, if your mom says, what do you want for Christmas? And you give her a general idea and she doesn't give you something that you don't know how to ask for. You know, if you think about it this way, if your mom says, what do you want for Christmas? And you give her a general idea and she doesn't give you exactly what you wanted, it is not her fault. It is your fault for not being 100% clear on exactly what you wanted. The universe works exactly the same way. It will not give you what

you want unless you tell it exactly in detail what you want. So this weekend, I put up a video in my group coaching and I talked about clarity and I realized that this was an episode that I needed to do through talking with them about clarity, talking to them about their goals, talking to them about how I can help hit their goals. And I realized that the power of your goals, more than anything else, is in the clarity of knowing exactly what your goal is, because you can never hit a target that you can't see. And you may have heard me give this analogy before, but if you have the world's greatest archer, person with a bow and an arrow, the best one in the world, like the Olympics are coming up. Let's say the person that wins the Olympics

for archery this summer. If you were to take them and then take yourself, put them side by side, and you're both looking at the target, who has a better chance of hitting it? Obviously, the archer has a better chance of hitting the target. But if you were to take that archer, blindfold them, and have them spin around and not know which direction they're facing, And then you get a shot and they get a shot. Who has a better chance then at hitting that target? And that is obviously going to be you. You have a better chance of hitting that target. And the reason why is not because you're more skilled, not because you're better, not because you've been doing it longer. The reason why is because you can see it in clear

HD through your eyes. You can see exactly what it is. And that's exactly how it is for your goals. Same thing as a GPS. If you think about a GPS, oh, that's cool. I just got like little hearts and likes that just went across in my Facebook live that I saw. But it's the same thing with the GPS. A GPS, you have to give it the exact directions of where you want to go, the exact address of exactly where you want to go if you want to get to that destination. You can never hit a target that you can't see. So why is clarity so good? There's a couple of reasons why clarity is so amazing to have. Number one, clarity is really good for visualization. If you are 100% specific and clear on exactly what it is that you want in your life, and you're like 100%,

you're like, yep, this is it. This is exactly what I want. This is how much money I want in the bank. This is the house that I'm going to have. This is why visualization boards are sometimes so powerful. This is the car that I'm going to be driving. This is the wife that I'm going to have. This is the husband that I'm going to have. This is the husband that I'm going to have. These are how many kids I'm going to have. This is everything. This is how much money I'll have in the bank. I think I said that. This is what time of year it's going to be. This is going to be the exact date. This is what the sun and the weather is going to look like. And you have this detail. It allows you to visualize it in clear detail. And when you do visualization techniques, I'm not going to teach

visualization in this episode, but you could Google it. You could figure it out yourself. But if you are very clear of exactly what it is that you want in your visualization, well, then your subconscious does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. So your subconscious is already thinking that you own these things that you want. They are already thinking that you own these goals that you're already trying to set out for. It's thinking that. So naturally, it's going to be harder not to get to those goals. And let me tell you the reason why. The standard of living that you have now, you are used to. You do not want to go back to the

way it was. Like if you're, I'm 30 now, I don't want to go back. I'm 30. I own my own house. I don't want to go back to the way it was when I lived in college and lived with four other guys. I don't want to go back there. When I was there, it was great. It was awesome. But I don't want to go back because I've already moved up my standard of living, right? So when you visualize these things, when you visualize exactly what it is that you want, then it's hard for you to go back to your normal life because the fact that you're like, well, I was already there. Your subconscious knows I was already there because it doesn't know what was real and what was fake. Your subconscious has already raised the bar for you. Your subconscious has gone,

well, this is my new normal. This is what I have to get to. So it's going to make you personally want to work harder for whatever it is that you are visualizing because of the fact that you were already quote unquote there in your mind. It was already quote unquote yours in your mind. So your standards are going to be raised, which are going to allow you to believe in yourself more, going to allow you to take more action, going to allow you to get more results in that case. So that's the first reason why clarity is so important, why you have to be so very specific on exactly what it is that you want, because you'll never get there if you don't know what it is. And when you have that clarity, it makes it easier to visualize. So you can visualize in detail exactly what you want. But here's the other thing. It's not just visualization

that makes it really good for you. The other thing that you have to realize is besides visualization, I'm really screwing this up today. Besides that is you have to know, like if I say I want X amount of dollars in my bank account by the end of this year, it needs to be like some people say, I want financial freedom. I want to have my bills paid off. I want to have my debt paid off. I want financial freedom. Like, shut up my bills paid off. I want to have my debt paid off. I want financial freedom. Shut up. That's not clear. Give me a number and then what we can do,

if we're clear, is work backwards from there. We can then work back and go, okay, if you want to save $50,000 this year, there's six more months. Well, let's make the math easy. There's five more months left in the year. You have to save $50,000 in five months. That's $10,000 that you have to save every single month, which is $2,500 that you have to save every single week. And you can break it down and reverse engineer your success. So when you're very clear and you have the power of clarity, it's easier to work backwards. This is a step that most people don't do when they write their goals down. They write down their goals, but they don't work backwards from them.

And you need to work backwards to know exactly what it is. So if you say, if you're a sales rep, say you want to save, let's just make it easy because I just used it. You want to save $50,000 from now until the end of the year. And let's say there's five more months left. Well, you can figure out exactly how many sales you need to have in order to get there based on your average order, how many clients you need to call, how many no sales you need to have if you know your numbers the correct way. And all you have to do from there is just wake up every single day and hit those small goals. And the numbers will work themselves

out and you will eventually get to where you want to go. So the power of clarity is one of the things that people just don't realize. So let me reverse it. This is what you need to take from this episode. So if I'm wrapping this up, I'm going to tell you this. You have to have the power of clarity of exactly what it is that you want to get out of your life to the detail, to the T, to what you're going to be wearing on that day when you finally feel that success of, holy crap, I actually finally hit my goal. You have to know it in detail. And you have to know it. And these are the reasons why, because it allows you to visualize it and allows you to get there easier because you can't hit a target that you can't see. But if you could see it in your mind and you can work towards it, then you can figure out a way to

get there. And then the next thing, the other reason why clarity is so important is because it allows you to be able to reverse engineer it and work backwards from there. If you know that your goal is to do X amount of dollars in sales in the next year, you can then reverse engineer it and find out exactly what you have to do based on your numbers, how many people you need to contact, how many customers you have to have, all of those things in order to hit your goal. So you need to know in detail exactly what it is that you want and what you want in this life. Because the fact is this, if I gave you an address and said, go find that address, if you had a GPS,

it'd be a lot easier. And if you have this reverse engineer way of getting there, the GPS is the exact same way of just working it all backwards. So with that, and I'm gonna leave you the same way I leave you every single episode, make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I hope that you guys have an 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. 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 touch, you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Both handles are at MWFMotivation with no spaces. Now you know what time it is. So go out and make your dreams a reality. Outro Music