The Mindset Mentor - You’re Not Obsessed Enough

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

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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. If you're out there and you love this podcast, you'll probably love the live event that I'm doing later on this year. If you want to join the waitlist to be the first to learn about it and to get massive discounts for my in-person event in Austin, Texas later on this year, go to freedom weightless.com. Go to freedom weightless.com. Today, I'm going to show you why some people. people completely transform their lives and other people stay stuck for decades. And it's not a

difference of intelligence or luck or discipline. It's far, far, far deeper than that. And once you like fully understand it, you'll realize why you keep repeating the same fears and the same excuses and the same limitations and you're staying stuck with the same results over and over and over again year after year. Because if you don't understand what's really happening beneath the surface, you'll spend your entire life treating symptoms, but the actual problem will continue running under the surface and ruining your life. And so today's going to be a little bit different of an episode. I want to hopefully change your perspective more than give you tips and tricks. Today I want to lovingly call you the hell out. Not in a mean way, not in a shamy type of way,

not at an internet guru screaming at you from a rented Ferrari or Lamborghini type of way. I mean in a way that a friend that loves you more than anything grabs your shoulders, looks you in the eye, gives you a little fucking shake for just a second, and says like, hey, you're not lacking potential. You're not lacking intelligence. You're not locking signs from the universe. You're not lacking another book or podcast or journal prompt or morning routine or notion board, you're lacking, full-on obsession. And I know the word obsession can feel intense because people

hear the word obsession and think like, oh my God, that sounds unhealthy. And obsession with some things can absolutely be unhealthy when it's pointed in the wrong direction. But if you can point into the right direction, you can point obsession, which means focused energy of your mind, of your body, of your spirit, of your actions in one direction, it's like a heat-seeking missile. You're gonna fucking hit it. And I want to be really honest with yourself. What are you already obsessed with? Because most people are not free from obsession. They're just unconsciously obsessed with the life that they actually want to escape. And they don't realize it. Like they're obsessed with their limiting beliefs. They're obsessed with proving why they can't change. They're obsessed with

with their insecurities, they're obsessed with their old story and fears, they're obsessed with defending an identity that's keeping them stuck. And so then when you say something like, I really do want a new life, it's like, yeah, but do you? Because I'm watching people fight harder for their limitations than fight for the life that they want. Think about that for a second. How many times if you over-explains yourself to somebody as to why you're not good of why you have fears, why you have limiting beliefs, why your trauma is holding you back, why your parents didn't give you what you want, why it's the president's fault or the economy's fault or another nation's fault or Nancy and accounting's fault. It's always somebody else. It's

always a fault of something versus being like, I don't give a shit. I'm going to be obsessed with what I want. I'm going to get it no matter what. I see people unconsciously become lawyers for their fear. Like they build a whole case. A whole case. Well, this is just how I am. I've always been anxious and I've never really been disciplined. I'm not a disciplined person and I am bad with money and I'm just not the kind of person who follows through and I just self-sabotage and I'm all so lazy and I'm like, damn, you have an incredible amount of focus, like an incredible amount of focus, but you don't realize you're just aimed at the wrong thing. Like you're aimed at who you used to be. Like life is like this, at this moment right now. It's like from from this moment

back to the moment you were born is chapter one. From this moment forward can be chapter two. But a lot of people are just like, I want to keep reading chapter one. I want to keep reading chapter one. Most people are aimed and focused, hardcore, consciously and unconsciously on who they used to be versus who they want to be versus the life that they're trying to build. Because obsession is not something that you think about sometimes. Obsession is something that you think about all of the time. It's like this mental. whole orbit. It's always floating around in your head, right? It's the thing that your brain keeps circling back to when you're driving, when you're showering, when you're walking, when you're

lying in bed trying to fall asleep. Think about like this. Like the way, when I always think about obsession, I always think about it because this tends to relate with people, like your first love. Like your real first love, the person that you were obsessed with. Like you weren't, you weren't like casually interested in your first love. Do you remember? You weren't like, yeah, you know, what, like I think about them every other Thursday when I finished doing my emails. Like, no, it was like, you were insane. Like, you were checking your phone. Like, it was a medical device that was trying to keep you alive. Like, you heard their name. Oh, my God. And like your whole nervous system lit up like a Christmas tree. Like you heard anything? Any song with the slightest little hint of a love song

or just even a line inside of a song that sounded lovingly and like, oh my God. Anything. You think of them, right? You drive and you pass like a yield sign and you remember the last time you passed that yield sign and they were sitting next to you, right? Like you were almost unhealthy obsessed and I see this with so many people and I remember seeing it with my friends when I was in high school and I remember being this way in high school, right? What I want to ask you though is what would happen if you brought that level of focus to like who you want to be in the life that you want. And real quick, before I go any further, when I say become obsessed, I don't mean like divorce your wife and not pay attention to your children. I'm talking about

become obsessed because their lives will all become better when you become obsessed with who you're becoming. So like what would it look like if you brought that level of focus to your life? What would it happen to your future? Like your future self if you became the person that you couldn't stop thinking about. Like what would that be like? What would happen if your identity in your vision and your standards and your mission, all just became louder than your fears. And we will be right back. And now, back to the show.

Because whether you realize it or not, your brain is always practicing the future. And so you've got to just ask yourself, which future is it predicting? Is it going into your default mode? Because your default mode is not neutral. You realize that? Like, your default mode,

which is when you look at the way that the brain works, 5% of our cognitive processing is our conscious mind, which is the part of your mind that wants to succeed and want something different. And 95% of it, which is your default mode, is your old patterns, old limiting beliefs, old identities. Those are not neutral. Like your default mode is your current life, your current fears and current excuses and current emotional addictions and your current patterns that you're stuck in, your current way of seeing yourself. And so if you do not become obsessed with who you're becoming and become obsessed with what you're building in your life, then you will always fall back into who you've always been because that is your default mode,

because your brain is extremely efficient. And it loves to fall back to what is familiar. Your brain loves patterns. And we are literally just a bunch of patterns is all that we are. It loves a path that it already knows. There's a thing that they found in psychology called goal shielding. And it shows that when a person becomes like, obsessed and deeply committed to like a focal goal, like just one goal, one north star of where they're moving their life to, their brain can start to reject all other competing goals and distractions. So for people, they're like, oh my gosh, I'm so ADD and I'm so unfocused. I'm so distracted. When you become obsessed with one thing, it allows your brain to start quote unquote goal shielding,

which is what it's called, which it allows it to stop focusing on other things. reject all the competing goals, reject all of the distractions, so that the main goal becomes easier to pursue. The translation of that, when your goal becomes important enough, your brain starts filtering your life through it. This is what I mean by like you have to become obsessed. This is what obsession does. Healthy obsession becomes a filter. It tells your reticular activating system, the filter in your brain, this matters now. This matters. Not all the the other shit I've been focusing on for 40 years, this matters. And this is the number one focus and this is where we're going to. And all of the sudden, it's weird. It's like you start seeing

these synchronicities. You start seeing opportunities and you start having conversations and you notice behaviors and books and people and decisions that align with what you're building. It's the equivalent of when you see, you know, a new car. You want to go drive a car and like you go drive a Ford. and you're like, oh man, I really like that Ford F-150. I've never really thought about owning one before. And you start thinking about owning one. And then all day long, all you're seeing is Ford F-150s. It's not like they weren't there.

They've always been there. But now you're starting to see it because your reticular activating system is not filtering it out anymore. It's the same damn thing with the life that you want. Because right now you've been focusing your entire life and everything that comes in based off of the old you, the old limiting beliefs, the old fears. And when you start focusing on what is that you want and you become obsessive, so that your life starts reorganizing around what you're repeatedly focusing on. And so most people are not doing that consciously. I'm trying to have you do that consciously.

Most people are just like waking up and without them realizing it, the old self just starts running the show. Old fears, get the microphone to just scream into so they just hear those all day long. Old wounds choose what they do and what they don't do. Like old beliefs decide what's possible for you. old insecurities get to vote on what you're going to be doing in this life? No way, dude. And then your future self is in the corner and it's like, hey, remember me? Do you want to check in with me? Because all you're doing is you're checking in like once a week through some cute little journaling

session. In my life, I want to be this. In 10 years, I want to be this. And then 99% of your week, you're focusing on your old self. No, your future self cannot be your side chick. Right? Your future self has to become the relationship. You have to become obsessed with the life you want. You need to, in that analogy, I just gave, divorce your old self and your new life needs to become the one that was your side chick that now you're going to marry, then you're going to promote to become married to that new life that you want. You've got to divorce your old self and you've got to marry your new self. Like, imagine if you got married to somebody and you only spent time with them sometimes and they didn't feel like they were a priority for you. Is that going to work out? No.

They don't want to be a sometimes relationship, but they married you. Be honest with me. Is that how you've treated the life that you want? Oh, I kind of think about it when I sit down for a cute little journaling session for five minutes in the morning. No. Obsession. Don't think about it sometimes. And then just like run on your old defaults for the rest of the week. Because your old patterns, like they're lightning fast. They have reps. They're good. It has. has so much momentum, it has so much years of evidence. And your new identity needs repetition too. It needs you to brainwash yourself before the world brainwashes you into being average. And I mean that like lovingly. Because the world's constantly telling you what to be.

It's constantly like your past is telling you who you need to be. Your family system is telling you who you are. Your trauma is telling you on what you should do. Your body's telling you who you've been. Your environment is telling you what's normal for you. If you do not consciously install, the new obsession, your old programming will win. It will. Your subconscious is 19 times stronger than your conscious mind, which means that you're not going to change it by just thinking about everyone so while. You've got to become obsessed with it. And that's why I love talking about reprogramming so much. We are patterns. That's all that we are. We come in this world with all of the hardware that we need. Then we get conditioned. And that's the equivalent of the software being

installed in us. And some of us have a lot of viruses that we need to uninstall that we got installed in childhood. And so that's our job. You can't always control your first thought, but you can definitely control your second thought. And with enough repetition, and I don't mean like 30 days or 60 days, I mean like two years, five years, 10 years, your second thought will eventually become your first thought. That is you reprogram yourself. And so the question is, are you willing to give up your old life and your old self and all that familiarity in order to create the life that you want? Because if you're not, it's not going to work. Because that's what obsession really comes down to. It is all out, focus, and devotion. It is the repeated decision to stop worshipping your old identity and to start

worshipping the future that you're building. And yes, I use the word worship intentionally because some of you have built an altar to your insecurity. It's like you worship your insecurities. You visit it every single morning. You bring it offerings. You give it your energy. You give it your excuses, you give it your dreams, right? And then you wonder why you feel empty. Like take your power back. Become unavailable for entertaining the same limiting belief for the 4,000th time. Like it's a Netflix series that you can't stop watching.

At some point, you have to say, I've studied this fear long enough, I have repeated this pattern long enough, I have defended this identity long enough, and I am done being loyal to a version of me that's not even happy, or it's not fulfilled or there's not even close to my full potential. That's the real shift. Because most people don't say stuck because they don't know what to do. You know what to do. Everybody knows what to do to be successful. 90, 95% of an idea, you know what to do. Right. Is there some extra stuff you can learn? Sure. Everyone knows what they need to do to create a new life. But they say stuck because they are emotionally bonded to the old self instead of the new one.

So your job is to make the new self emotionally real. Visualize them, journal about them, walk like them, talk like them, make decisions like them. Think about them when you're in the shower, when you're driving your car. Ask yourself what they would do in this moment. Ask yourself better questions. Like, what would the obsessed version of me do today? What would the version of me in the future that I'm building myself into refuse to negotiate on in this circumstance? What belief would I have to stop believing to become this person?

What am I currently getting from staying the same? Like, oof, that's a spicy one, right? What am I currently getting from staying the same? Because staying the same does give you something. It gives you familiarity. It gives you sympathy. It makes your life predictable. It gives you a reason not to risk failure.

It gives you protection from judgment and from being seen. It lets you keep the dream, like, perfect in your imagination instead of, like, getting messy and real. life. But you will never be a graceful master if you don't allow yourself to be a foolish beginner. So become obsessed. I don't mean frantic. I don't mean, you know, desperate. I don't mean punishing yourself. I don't mean white knuckling your weight to burnout. I want you to be devoted to it. I want you to love yourself enough to work hard for the life that you want. I want you to wake up and remember like, I'm hill to build something. I'm here. I'm becoming someone. My life is not

some random accident that I'm reacting to. I am the architect of my life. Because, Architects don't just like stared at an empty plot of land and cry because the mansion isn't there yet. No, they take out their pen and paper, they make a blueprint, they show up, they build, they put down one brick, one brick, one decision at a time, one uncomfortable conversation at time, one workout, one honest journal entry. And eventually, the structure appears. Not because you wished for it, but because you became obsessed enough to build it. And so today, I just want you to do this. I want you just write this down. Ask yourself this question, be fully honest with your own.

yourself. What am I currently obsessed with that's keeping me the same? Because you're obsessed with something. You are. So what are you currently obsessed with? What fear? What limiting belief? What insecurity are you obsessed with that's keeping you the same? And then right after you answer that, what must I become obsessed with? Like what must I become obsessed with to create the life that I want? And then do it. Become obsessed with it. Think about it all day long. Take the action that you need to because one day if you do this you're going to go you know what I notice this pattern I notice that old software you know I know this is this is not who I am I know that I'm changing this is not who I'm becoming and then what you goes who do I need to be and you take that next

action not because you feel ready but because you're obsessed with the person in the life that you're building and that obsession aimed correctly might be the one thing that finally sets you free so that's what I got for today's episode But if you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories. Tag me in at Rob Dial Jr. R-O-B-D-I-L-J-R. And if you want to learn more about the waitlist to come to my in-person event in Austin, Texas later this year, once again, go to FreedomWatlist.com. Once again, FreedomWatlist.com.

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