Have you ever let fear or anxiety hold you back? In this episode, I share how to reframe your mindset to overcome fear, take control of your imagination, and visualize success instead of failure. Looking for daily motivation? Get free inspirational messages straight to your phone, plus exclusive podcast recommendations and updates on my free workshops so you never miss out. It’s simple: just send "Quotes by Rob" to this link 👉 https://my.community.com/robdial from your phone. Reveal the hidden patterns shaping your choices, habits, and success. Take my FREE Identity Quiz to discover who you really are and how to break through to the next level.Join here 👉 https://www.identityunlockquiz.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
Chapter 1: How can a morning routine help overcome fear?
And if you're out there and you want to create yourself your own morning brainwashing technique, I call it morning priming routine, you can go ahead and download my free lesson that shows you step by step by step how you can create your own routine. every single morning that primes your brain and your subconscious to become the person that you want to be and take the actions you want to take.
So if you want to download that absolutely free, go to morningpriming.com. Once again, morningpriming.com and you can download it for free. Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how to stop your fear and your anxieties that are holding you back. Let's talk about it.
Chapter 2: What is the role of fear and anxiety in our lives?
When you look at fear, when you look at anxiety, they are these sneaky little thieves that steal away so many amazing moments in your life. And what it does is they convince you the worst case scenario is most likely going to happen. If you think about it, if you've ever felt paralyzed by fear or caught in an anxiety spiral, you know exactly how powerful this can feel.
But the truth is, fear and anxiety only has the power that we give it. And so if you have a lot of fear, that's holding you back, you're giving it the power. If you have a lot of anxiety that's holding you back, you're the one that's giving it all of its power. And so today I'm gonna talk about how to take your power back and how to reframe your mind to be something better.
And so I want to give you a story from my life because one of the things that's funny is people ask me questions like, well, how are you past your fears? How have you mastered yourself, your mindset? I'm like, I haven't. I still have all of the same fears. I just kind of have some tools in my tool belt to get myself out of fear or anxiety quicker than I used to.
Chapter 3: How does Rob Dial personally deal with fear?
And so this past week, I'll give you a really good example, okay? This past week was not really a good week in aviation in the United States. So there was three plane crashes that happened in one week. And, you know, it's terrible. One of them was the worst one in the United States since 2009. And that was last week at the moment of me recording this. And this weekend...
was supposed to be my very first solo flight, which is basically where I drop off my flight instructor, he gets out of the plane, and I have to go fly it alone for the very first time. And so I'm seeing on the news and on YouTube and everywhere on the internet, all of these crazy plane crashes and things that have happened, these terrible stories and these sad stories that happened.
And then I'm thinking in my mind, oh my God, I've got to fly a plane for the very first time this weekend by myself. And even though I'm completely ready for it, and I have way more hours than the average person that does their first solo, I found myself terrified of what could happen. And I was thinking about all of the crashes that happened.
And I was thinking, oh my God, what if it happens to me? And I started thinking and almost accidentally visualizing tragedy happening when I go to fly the plane. And I could feel, this is the important part, I could feel inside of my body, my body was getting nervous and I was getting scared and it was trying to protect itself.
Chapter 4: What techniques can reframe negative focus?
And so then I realized what was going on because I'm not immune to fear. I just noticed it and I was able to get myself out of it. And so I realized that my fear wasn't coming from actual reality in my life. Now, sure, things happened in the past, But that's not actual reality of what's going to happen in the future. And my fear, my anxiety around all of it was coming from what I was focusing on.
Do you get this? It wasn't in my reality of what was going to happen this weekend in the future. It was all in my head. But it felt like it was in reality because I can look and say, well, this happened in this place and this happened in this place and this happened in this place. And I can be terrified of it and say, oh my God, well, that's reality.
Chapter 5: How can imagination be used to combat anxiety?
But it's not reality in the future because the future hasn't happened yet. But I was projecting myself unconsciously into the future and being afraid of what could happen. And here's the important thing I really want you to understand is that both possibilities in this moment are equally as real. In this moment, I want you to understand this.
The possibility in the future of me having something go wrong while I'm flying the plane is equally as real as me taking off and having the best flight of my entire life and loving it and thinking it's amazing and being so excited and proud of myself for doing it. In this moment, both of them are equally as real. Now, do we think one of them is more real than the other one?
Yes, our brain is making up a fear and we think that that fear is real. So one version, I mess up, something goes wrong, there's a disaster. The other version, I have the time of my life, I'm soaring through the sky, I feel powerful and free. This is one of my childhood dreams. I want you to understand you did not lose your imagination in your childhood.
All too often I talk to adults and they're like, well, I'm just not as, I don't have the imagination that I used to. You know, I remember when I was a kid, I used to have such a great imagination.
And then I'm like talking to them and then they're talking about all of these fears that are holding them back and all of these unconscious visualizations that they have that are keeping them from taking action. I'm like, no, no, no. You still have that incredible imagination. It's just, you're not using it anymore. It's using you.
You're still imagining all the time, every single moment, as rich as you used to when you were a child. But most people are just imagining the worst case scenario all of the time, and it's paralyzing them and keeping them from taking the action that they need to to change their life. And so both outcomes, all outcomes exist in your mind.
And I want you to understand, if it's not about flying a plane like it was for me in this moment, that's just an example. Some of you guys want to get into a relationship. And you're thinking about all of your failed relationships and your marriage that ended in divorce and how you were cheated on and all that stuff.
And you're projecting it into the future and saying, well, if I did get into another relationship, I could get cheated on again. I could have my heart broken again. And man, that was really painful. I don't want to do that again. And you're projecting into that future. But that future...
In this moment, in this present moment, in this very second where you're listening to my voice is equally as real as you getting into another relationship, finding the love of your life, getting married and sailing off into the sunset happy. Both of them are equally as real, but you feel like one of them is more likely to happen because you're projecting your past into your future.
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Chapter 6: What mindset shift can lead to success?
And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Another example, let's say you want to start a business, but you're just so fearful of starting your business because you have failed businesses in the past, or maybe your dad or your uncle had failed businesses in the past and you saw how hard it was for them.
And so you're thinking to yourself, well, I want to start this business, but what if it fails? What if I lose money and I spend time and energy and money to try to get this thing going and it still fails?
Well, that failed business as equally as real as you starting this business and growing it to a million dollars a year and having all of the success and happiness and everything, achievement that you wanted, both of those are equally as real where it fails and you become a multimillionaire that are equally as real in this moment. But what do we focus on? Usually the one that we don't want.
And so both of the outcomes existed in my mind, but only one of them was taking over. And it was up to me to think about it and decide which one I wanted to feed last week. So I decided to reframe my focus. So instead of fueling the fear and thinking about all of the worst things that could happen, I started picturing everything I wanted to happen.
And so for hours, whenever the baby was asleep and I was holding onto him, I would go onto YouTube and I would watch People flying planes that, you know, the plane that I fly is called a Cirrus SR-22T. So I went onto YouTube and I typed in Cirrus SR-22T solo, first solo.
I'm watching everybody do their first solo flights and their first cross country flights and what it looked like and how excited that they were and all of that. And then I was like, you know what? This is cool, but let's make it more fun. And so I was like, I'm going to watch Top Gun 2. And I watched Top Gun 2 and I was like, this is amazing.
And I started getting into like the feeling of like the pure joy of flying. And I came across a video of the Blue Angels, which if you're not in America, you might know who the Blue Angels are. They are some of the most elite, like elite, elite, elite pilots in the world.
And there's a video online of them visualizing together in a group, all of the guys are on the table and speaking out loud as if they're actually in the planes. They have their eyes closed and they're holding on to the throttle and they're holding on to the stick and the yoke and they're calling out their turn. They're calling out, you know, going up, going down, movement, all of that.
And they do an entire visualization of them flying the plane. And I was like, these are some of the most elite pilots people at what they do in the entire world, and they're visualizing what they want to happen before they go out. How few people do that in their life, visualize exactly the way that they want something to be executed before they go out and do it. So I was like, you know what?
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