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Chapter 1: What are the seven mindset habits to transform your life?
Today, I'm gonna be talking about seven different mindset habits that helped me get my life together. If you're listening to this podcast, it's because you want to work on your mindset because you know working on your mindset will improve your life.
These are seven different things that have happened over the course of the last 19 years of me being in a personal environment that's really changed the course of my life. So let's dive into it. The first one, which I think is one of the most important ones, is getting to the point of my life where I accepted full responsibility for my life.
Chapter 2: How can taking responsibility change your life?
Up until a certain point in my life, I was the best person at making excuses. I was the best person at blaming other people. I was so good at telling you why it wasn't my fault that I was this way or that I wasn't successful or that I didn't have the life that I want. And I've told this story before, but I was on a coaching call with my one-on-one coach at the time. I was 20 years old.
And he was my mindset coach, life coach, sales coach. And in my sales, I wasn't doing as well in my sales as I was supposed to. And I wasn't doing as many outbound calls as I was supposed to. And I wasn't having the success that I wanted to have. And I was showing up a little bit late to all of our calls without my assignments done. And he had this like coming to God moment with me.
And I'll remember this conversation for the rest of my life. And he said, Rob, if you look at a business and a business fails, Whose fault is it? And I was like, it's the business owner. He goes, okay, see, it's a big business, like a really big business, thousands of employees. If the business fails, whose fault is it? And I was like, well, I guess that's the CEO's fault.
He goes, okay, if a business succeeds, if a business is able to take a thousand people that work in this business, get them towards one common goal and the business succeeds, whose fault is that? I was like, well, it'd be everyone's fault who worked there, but it'd also be the CEO's fault for getting everyone to go in the right direction and succeeding.
He said, okay, so if a business fails, it's the CEO's fault. If a business succeeds, it's the CEO's fault. I said, yes. He said, okay, if you get to the end of your life and it's not the life that you wanted and you look back with regret and you didn't have the love and the happiness and the joy and success that you wanted, whose fault would that be? And I was like, that would be my fault.
And he goes, okay, if you got to the end of your life and it was the life that you wanted, you had the joy, the happiness, the love, success, everything you wanted, it was the life you wanted, whose fault would that be? And I was like, I guess that would be my fault. He goes, the problem with you is that you're not acting like you're the CEO of your life.
You're acting like it's everybody else's fault. Nobody is coming to save you. Put on your big boy britches and actually start to do something with yourself. And I was like, it was like at that moment, everything clicked in my life. And I was like, 10-4, I got it. And so if you're out there and you're still saying, I can't control this. It's my mom's fault. It's my dad's fault.
It's my spouse's fault. It's the government's fault. It's the president's fault. You're not going to get to the life that you want. You have to accept full responsibility for your life. You have to stop blaming external circumstances and finally take ownership for your life. And this will shift you from having a victim mindset, which I had for years. I was such a victim.
It was everybody else's fault, but my own. from being a victim to being an empowered person. Because when everything is your fault, when everything's your responsibility, it means that you're the one that's in control. And you can hold yourself accountable for the choices that you make, towards the actions that you take.
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Chapter 3: What role does a growth mindset play in personal development?
And you can understand that that responsibility is not something that should cripple you. It's actually the responsibility that leads to you controlling over your life, to getting in the driver's seat and creating the life that you want.
And so you just make peace with your past mistakes, use them as learning tools, get past it, let it go and say, from this moment forward, I'm the one that's in control of my life. So the first thing is accepting full responsibility for my life. The second thing, was developing a growth mindset that goes along with this one.
But a growth mindset is basically the idea that I know that no matter what I do, I can grow, I can continue to get better, everything. I have a tattoo on my wrist that's an X with the line above it, which is the Roman numeral for 10,000, because I love the idea of the 10,000 hour rule, which means that with 10,000 hours of dedicated, focused work, Practice work at anything.
You could become a master at it. Might not be exactly 10,000 hours. Might be a little bit less. It might be a little bit more depending on what it is. But you can master anything that you want to. And for me, the reason why I love this and I got a tattoo to my wrist was because for me, I realized years ago that I want to get as close to mastery of this guy named Rob.
And if that's the case, I'm going to need to be very, very focused on trying to improve this guy. I believe that all of our abilities and all of our intelligence can improve. I don't believe in the phrase, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Neuroplasticity in science proves that that's false.
And so now what I wanna do is I wanna look at my challenges and realize that all the challenges, all my biggest challenges in my life have come and turned into my biggest learning opportunities. I want to look at all of this challenge. I want to look at those mistakes and pull the lessons from them instead of looking at myself as a failure, but go, okay, I messed up on that. How can I grow?
How can I get better? How can I have a growth mindset with everything that I do? How can I look for feedback on how I can improve? How can I use as many things around me as an opportunity to grow? How can I surround myself with people that are better than me so that they inspire me to be better by looking at them and going, you know what? I could be like them. They inspire me.
I want to be like that person. How can I find people that are successful individuals that are still alive or maybe successful individuals that died or had a whole lot of wisdom? And how can I read and listen to them and learn from them so that hopefully I can get to a point where I feel like I am a being that's full of wisdom that has knowledge to share with others?
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Chapter 4: Why is practicing gratitude essential for happiness?
How can I keep pushing myself out of my comfort zone so that I can look for ways to grow with this growth mindset? And so that's another one of the big things that really changed my life is developing a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset is like, well, I am the way that I am. I'm going to be this way forever. I don't believe that.
We can turn ourself into anything that we want to. And that's one of the most beautiful things about being a human. So that's number two. Number three, this really changed my life over the past probably three years. And so I heard about this, you know, practicing gratitude before. I was like, that's cute. That's awesome. But like, if I'm too grateful, I'm not going to be motivated.
If I'm like so grateful for the stuff that I have, I'm not going to keep working for the what I want. So I like kept kind of pushing gratitude off for a while. And then I realized that, you know, I was succeeding and I was getting better, but I wasn't any happier. And it didn't make me happy to have more success. It didn't make me happy to have more money. Didn't make me happy to buy more shit.
And so I was like, you know what? I'm going to practice gratitude every single day. And that's number three is practicing gratitude every single day. So I woke up and I would focus on gratitude every single day. Find anything in my life I could be grateful for.
And people are like, sometimes when I say this, people are like, well, I don't have all the success that I want or the happiness that I want or whatever it might be. And I'm like, It doesn't matter where your life is. If you're listening to this podcast, you have a million things to be grateful for.
And the biggest ones are that your heart's still breathing and you're still, a heart's still beating and you're still breathing. Those are the two biggest things you can focus on every single day. Oh my God, I woke up today. That's amazing. Then you can look at, is the weather nice? Did you have a great cup of coffee? It doesn't have to be huge things that you can be grateful for.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show. And what it does is it shifts your mindset. People always say like, how do I shift my mindset from scarcity to abundance? You focus on gratitude because when you focus on gratitude, you start seeing how rich your life actually is, how amazing your life actually is. You can keep a gratitude journal if you want to, to track positive moments.
You can start your day by listing three things you're grateful for. You can find all of the things that you're appreciating every single day. But more than anything else, like what I like to do is I just wake up in the morning and I take a few minutes and I just close my eyes. Then I just do some breathing, deep breathing, and I just think of things that I'm grateful for.
Sometimes it's big things. Sometimes it's small things. Sometimes it's things in between. It's just there's so many things that when I am in go, go, go, focus, build, build, build mode, I start thinking in too much lack and too much scarcity. When I wake up in the morning and I focus on what I can be grateful for, it sets my overall tone for how I want to feel throughout the day.
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