The Mindset Mentor - What is Your TRUE Potential?

Episode Date: November 13, 2020

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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 another episode. And if you want more motivation in your life, follow me on Instagram at Rob Dial, Junior R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R, so I can fill your newsfeed with extra motivation. Today, we're going to be talking about how to bring the absolute best, most potential out of yourself at any time. And I was thinking about this because I was reading a status a couple of days ago, and it was actually from, it was a post that was put up by David Goggins. And I don't know if you know who David Goggins is. If you don't, you should read his book. And it is called Can't

Hurt Me. It's amazing. And the way I found out about him was about five years ago, maybe six years ago, I read a book called Living with a Seal, where this guy named Jesse Itzler, who he's a billionaire. His wife is also separately a billionaire. They got married, two billionaires married basically. And he was at an event and he saw this guy and he walked up to him and was like, hey, you're insane. Will you come live with me? And he came and lived with him for 30 days. And that happened to be David Goggins. And the craziest part about David Goggins is number one, seeing his mindset and the way that he works and then seeing where he came from and realizing that he hasn't always been that way. So to give you an idea, the way that Jesse Itzer found this guy

is he was running a hundred mile race and it was basically a one mile lap and him and his friends were doing it together. It was just like a tag, like one person on a mile, then another person on a mile, then one person on two miles. And there was a team running a hundred miles and they had all of the supplies that they needed. They had everything that they needed with them, the water, the food, all of that stuff. And right next to him was a guy who was literally just running around and all he had was water and crackers. And he ran and at 70 miles, he realized that there was a lot of issues that was going on in his body. And so he actually found out that he broke all of the small bones in his feet, both of his feet by mile 70. And he had liver failure where literally he was literally peeing and pooping

blood. And he's like, his wife was like, all right, you got to give up. And he's like, I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. was like, all right, you got to give up. And he's like, I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. And he ended up finishing the next 30 miles after peeing and pooping blood and breaking all of the small bones in his feet. He finished it. And Jesse Itzer saw this and he's like, I don't know what the hell this guy has, but I need to figure out whatever drive he has of how to get it inside of me. And what was actually happening is David Goggins was running his first ever long distance. He had never run a marathon and he decided to run a hundred miles at one point in time. And the reason why was because he wanted to qualify for

something called the Badwater 135, which is 135 miles in the desert. What did he do? This is the reason why he did it was because some of his friends had fallen. He was in the, I think it was a Navy SEAL. He was a Navy SEAL. And some of his friends were inside of a helicopter crash and he wanted to raise money for their children, for them to go to college. And so he had this drive of, he just wanted to finish. And so he Googled the 10 hardest things to do to raise money. And he trained for four days. Four days is how long he trained for, for a 100 mile race. And then what happened was he did the 100 mile race, realized that it wasn't enough to qualify for the Badwater

135. And so the very next weekend, he ran another 100 mile race to actually get into it. And it's just, when you learn about this guy's story, it's so mind blowing. And it's so inspiring to me because it shows you how much a human is actually capable of, but we don't know that we're actually capable. We restrict what we're fully capable of. So, you know, he had only done, you know, he went and did the bad water 135 and then he placed second in a three day, get this, three day, 320 mile race. And he cycled 261 miles in two days on a rented bicycle. It wasn't even his bike.

Like when people will go into these races, like they have like these 10, $20,000 bikes and they train and they train and they train, he rented a bike. And, you know, before training for that race, he had never actually ridden a bike competitively. And, you know, so he's got that that's on his, on his list of things that he did. You know, he also set a course record for the 48-hour national championships, beating the previous record by 20 miles. And he traveled in 48 hours. He ran 203.5 miles.

Just let that sink in for a second. He ran for 48 hours straight, no sleep, and ran for 203.5 miles, earning him a spot in one of the top 20 ultra marathon runners in the world. Like let that sing in for a second. The crazy part about it is that he used to be 300 pounds. He used to be 300 pounds and then something clicked in him and he said, I will not live this life anymore. He's like, I'm going to figure out a way to get out of this space that I'm in. So what did he do?

He signed up for the Marines and they told him that he was too fat and he wasn't able to be a Marine. And he's like, all right, well, how much weight do I have to lose? And they said he had to lose literally 105 pounds. And he lost 105 pounds in two and a half months to go from 300 pounds to 195 to qualify to go into the Marines. Then he went into buds, which is considered what's also called hell week. And he did two hell weeks. Actually, I'm sorry. He did three hell weeks. One of the ones, someone actually died inside of it and he

went through it. He also has a world record. And I'm not just talking about David Goggins and going on and going on. I just want to, I want you to just understand how much a human is capable of to show you how much more we're capable of. He is the world record for pull-ups in one day. In 17 hours, he did 4,025 pull-ups. In 17 hours, he did 4,025 pull-ups. Just think about that for a second. He ran 110 miles in 24 hours with pneumonia. He ran 110 miles in 24 hours with pneumonia. And the thing about it that's crazy about it is he does all of these races, and he hates running,

and he hates biking, which is why he does it, and the reason why he does these things is not because he's weird and he wants to torture himself. It's because he wants to see what he's fully capable of, and I want you to think about that for a second. What are you fully capable of? Do we have any idea what you're fully capable of? Or have you not even scratched the surface? Do you want to know the craziest part about this? You might think, well, this David Goggins guy, he's just a freak athlete. He's been blessed with this incredible lung capacity probably and all of that stuff. He also has a heart defect. And he had to get surgery on his heart after being an ultra marathon runner for a long

time. His heart only works at 75% capacity of a normal heart and he has asthma and he has sickle cell. Just let that sink in for a second. There's so many excuses that this guy has as to why he should not be the person that he is, why he should not be an ultra marathon runner, why he should not be someone who's in super incredible shape. He used to be 300 pounds. You know, he comes from a place where his father's an alcoholic and beat him as a kid. He has so many excuses as to why he should not. If he wanted to, he could fall back on why he should not be what he is, but he doesn't allow that to hold him back. Now, I want you to think about this for yourself. How many places in your life are you holding

yourself back because of the BS stories that you keep telling yourself? Oh, I come from this family. This is how I was treated. This runs in my family, so of course I'm going to be this way. Just think about that for a second. How much more could you do if you took away all of the stories that are constricting you and putting you in a box? If you're a business owner, I don't need to tell you that running a business is tough, but you might be making it harder on yourself than necessary. Don't let QuickBooks and spreadsheets slow you down anymore. It's time to upgrade to NetSuite. Stop paying for multiple systems that don't give you the information that you need when you need it. And you can ditch the spreadsheets and all the old software that

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that you're capable of doing, but you're probably telling yourself stories as to why you're not doing it or why you quote unquote can't do it. What if you got rid of all of your bullshit stories? What if you stopped telling yourself, oh yeah, this is the reason why I'm not going to be good. This is the reason why I can't succeed. This is the reason why I'm overweight. This is the reason why I'm poor. This is the reason why I won't succeed. This is the reason why people keep breaking up with me. This is the reason why I'll never succeed. This is the reason why I can't build a successful business. This is the reason why blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's all bullshit. None of it's true and none of it has

ever been true. It's just the stories that we tell ourselves to keep ourselves in the comfort zone to not actually push ourselves to see what we're fully capable of. That's what it is. What could you do if you got off of your own back and just allowed yourself to do something and really do something big? And I mean, dream big and push yourself to be big. something and really do something big. And I mean, dream big and push yourself to be big. Because if this guy's doing all this stuff with a heart defect that only works at 75% capacity of a normal heart, why can't you do it? He's no different. He's just a normal person. But what he says though, is he likes to do things he doesn't want to do because it makes him uncomfortable. And if he can spend his time outside of his

comfort zone, he constantly is growing. And people ask him what supplements he takes. And he says he takes a pill of suck it up and washes it down with a can of go hard. That's it. And one thing that he said that really, I think is the most impactful out of anything he's probably ever said is this. He says, most people live by the 40% rule. He says, when you think you're done, like when you have hit, if you're going to go on a run and you feel like you're at full maximum capacity, like you cannot go any further. You have hit your capacity in your workout, in your run, in whatever it is that you're doing. You cannot go any further. You have hit your capacity in your workout, in your run, in whatever it is that you're doing. You have fully hit 100% is what you think.

This is a guy who clearly knows what he's talking about and knows how to push the boundaries. He says, when you think you're at 100% of your capacity, you're actually only at 40%. He calls it the law of 40%. And what happens, he says, is that your brain has a mechanism. It makes sense. It has a mechanism to keep you safe. It says, hey, Rob, shut it down. You've hit your capacity. Makes sense because our brain doesn't want us to break anything. It doesn't want us to get injured, any of those things. But if you push past the point that your brain says that you can get to, like your full 100, quote unquote, 100%, you find a whole other level of yourself. And you're only 40% of what your full capacity is. And your body has a whole other

level that you can't even comprehend once you get into that point. Now, think about that for a second. When you think you're at 100%, you're only at 40%. How often do you even get to your perceived 100%? Ever? It's probably not once a week, not twice a week, maybe once a month, once a quarter, maybe not even once a year. So if you're not even living at your full capacity, quote unquote, full capacity, which is 40%, what are you normally operating at? When you think you've gone fully as hard as you could possibly go in a workout, is that only 15% of your real true capacity? What is 40% for you? What is 45%? What is 50, 60, 70% of your actual real true capacity? Not your perceived capacity, but your full capacity. What does that look like for you? What does that look like for you? What would it be like if you push yourself past what you think is actually possible? If you went for a run and when you

think you're done, you're like, I'm going to keep going. Right? I know when I was training for a run one time and I'm not a runner in any sort of way. I actually hate running, but I decided I'm going to go for, I'm going to literally start to train myself to go for a run. And I remember I was going for a run and I find there was a point where it clicked. And that point clicked in me where I, it was like the runner's high. And I wasn't even thinking, I was just in a zone and my body was moving. And it was like, what happened was I was at capacity, perceived capacity for me. And I was like, I'm going to keep going. I need to get better.

I'm going to keep going. I need to get better. I'm going to keep going. I need to get better. And then about 10 minutes later, I was still running, but I didn't feel anything. And I didn't even feel my legs moving. And I was just going and going and going. And I was so blown away. I was like trying to, I was trying to run two miles. You know, I'd never run a mile in my entire life. I was trying to run two miles. And I looked down when I was like done and it was six. And I was like, oh my God,

I don't feel like I was even fully in my body for most of that time. I think that's what he's talking about. When you get past the point that you can think you could get past. What if you were to go to the gym today and you think you're done at 45 minutes and you worked out for two hours, what would that look like? Not two hours with part of it, looking at your phone and then talking to your friends and then, you know, going into the steam room. But I'm talking about full two hours straight. If you normally go for 45, what would the next level for you look like in your workout? What would the next level look like for you in your business? What would the next level look like for you in your friendships, in your relationships? What would the next level look like for you in

your bank account? What if you were to just fully push yourself past your perceived 100% and see what else is out there. Because we all limit ourselves by thinking that we can't do as much as we can. And then we make it even worse by telling ourselves stories as to why it's not possible to get to that 100% or 100% or 10% or past that. And one of my favorite things that I always think about when I'm in that, and I used to say it to myself all of the time, when I was brand new and I wasn't the best And I used to say it to myself all of the time when I was brand new and I wasn't the best sales manager, but I just wanted to run the number one office in the United States. I used to tell myself, the person that outworks you beats you. The person

that outworks you beats you. The person that outworks you beats you. And I was like, I'm going to work harder and harder and harder and harder and harder than everybody. And I wasn't the most disciplined person before. I wasn't a hard worker. I had no work ethic before I get into it, but I was able to build that muscle. Willpower is a muscle that you can build. Maybe you just happen to have a really weak muscle at this point in time. Think about that for a second. Maybe you need to work at that muscle and try to get it better every single day and push yourself to see what the next level for you is. Like for me, I know that I want to try to figure out every single way that I can get to my full capacity and bring out everything that I can in myself. But if you think about if most people

are not even operating at 40%, how much wasted human potential is out there? Right? The only thing worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. What would it look like for you if you got to the end of your life and you're like, man, I could have done more. I could have seen more potential for myself. And in this full potential, I could have helped more people. Imagine if 7.5 billion people on this planet just fully decided to live up to their potential. There would be no issues in this world. We wouldn't have to try to figure out a way to go to Mars and try to colonize it because we would fix all of the problems with all of the brain power and all of the capacity that people are really truly able to try to figure out a way to go to Mars and try to colonize it because we would fix all of the problems with all of the brainpower and all of the capacity

that people are really truly able to get to. The problem is comfort. Comfort is not only killing everybody that's around us, it's also killing the planet because we're not growing to our full capacity. We're not going to our full potential. And we're also not helping everyone else around us in that true potential as well. There's a few people that are really going at it and trying to become the best they can. And Elon Musk is one of them. He's able to do all of these crazy things. How many more Elon Musks are out there that are just not

doing what they need to do to fully grow into the Elon Musk they could be? And they're just sitting on the couch or sitting on Instagram and they're just wasting their life away at that. How much wasted human potential is out there? And then we have to reflect it back at ourselves and say, how much wasted human potential is in me that I'm not bringing out? So what I want you to do is think about this today. And I want you to try to find either today or tomorrow. My mission for you is to try to find 100% capacity for you. What that looks like, what that feels like, when you know your brain is like, all right, it's time to stop. And I want you

to see what the next level looks like. I want you to push yourself past what you think you can do. And I guarantee you'll find a whole other level of yourself that you never even knew existed. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it with someone that you know and love. And please take a screenshot or a video of you listening to it and put it up on your Instagram and tag me on it. On your Instagram stories, RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And I'll start to reshare some of them that are out there.

And I'm gonna leave you the same way that I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.