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Chapter 1: What is the focus of today's Mindset Mentor episode?
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Chapter 2: Why do some people remain stuck in their habits?
Today, we're gonna be talking about why some people take action and why most people stay stuck forever. And this is one of the biggest hangups that I see that stops people from creating the life that they want. Like most people know they want a better life. They consciously want to create a better life, but they keep stopping themselves and they can't figure out why it is.
So if you can master this, It's going to be so much easier for you to take action towards the life that you want to create the future that you want to create. And so, obviously, we all need to do things to change our life. Like, that's just not going to change. You can't sit around and just meditate a different life. You have to do different actions.
You have to do harder things than you're currently doing to make a better life. And you've got to stop holding yourself back, but... You have to understand your brain is not wired to do that. Your brain is not designed to do the harder thing when it's not necessary in this moment. Your brain is wired for short-term focus.
You've probably heard like life is either hard now and easy later or easy now and hard later. Well, it's because our brain is always looking at the short term. But if you can look through a different frame, like through a different lens, and start seeing long term, you will change what you do on a day-to-day basis drastically.
Chapter 3: How can you shift your mindset from obligation to opportunity?
And it's this idea that I want to share with you of opportunity versus obligation, okay? Opportunity versus obligation. Your brain will almost always go to the easiest, safest route. So if you want to change your life, you're going to need to consciously change go the hard route sometimes. And so when I say obligation versus opportunity, let me give you a few examples of exactly what I mean.
Chapter 4: What are examples of opportunity vs. obligation in daily life?
Many people wanna start working out more, or they wanna be consistent working out, or they wanna work out harder, right? But they don't always do it. Why is it? It's because they're focusing on the obligation that's in front of them, the short-term obligation, which is the action needs to be taken. The obligation for working out is you gotta work harder.
It's a lot easier to sit on a couch than it is to go and work out. The obligation is you've got to put your body through some strain. You got to hurt yourself a little bit. You got to strain your muscles. You got to get out of breath. It's easier to not do anything. It's easier to stare at the ceiling and lay on the couch than it is.
And that's why most people don't take actions because they're focusing on the obligation that's right in front of them. The opportunity is what you want to start getting yourself to focus on though. The opportunity is what could come later on down the road
long term so what's an example of opportunity for working out losing weight maybe being proud of the way that you look in a bikini maybe it's gaining muscle maybe it's living longer okay so the obligation is yes i need to in the short term take action put strain on my body get my heart rate up sweat be out of breath Okay, that's the obligation. The opportunity is I could lose weight.
I could be healthier. I could have more energy. I could look better in a bathing suit than I've ever looked since I was 17 years old. I could gain muscle, whatever it is for you. That's the obligation versus the opportunity. Most people focus on the obligation. What I'm trying to get you to do is to start looking more at the opportunity. Let's say that you want to eat healthier, right?
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Chapter 5: How can focusing on opportunities change your long-term outcomes?
The obligation is you've got to stay away from certain foods that you're used to eating.
you got to say no to some really delicious shit sometimes and this is where people don't eat healthy not saying that eating healthy isn't delicious it can be but there are some very delicious foods that are not good for you means you're not going to eat as much sugar sugar's great tastes amazing and people don't like change they'd rather not stop eating the things they love eating that's the obligation what's the opportunity later on down the road of eating healthier well
I'm going to have a lot more energy throughout the day. I will probably stay alive longer for my kids. I'll be able to walk my daughter down the aisle, which, you know, if you're 100 pounds overweight right now, it might not be an opportunity for you. But if you do take the right actions, the long-term opportunity is, yeah, you could still be around.
You could be able to be mobile enough to walk your daughter down the aisle to pay with your grandkids. That's the obligation versus the opportunity. Let's say that you're in sales. I know a lot of people in sales listen to me or some form of sales or business, right? The obligation is you gotta put in some work. You gotta make some calls. You've gotta get rejected on some calls.
Maybe some people are gonna hang up on you and you've gotta deal with like, oh my God, is there something wrong with me? That story that might pop up inside of your head, that's the obligation. I've got to sit here for the next two hours and just pound the phone and just see if I can get some people to answer. That's the obligation. Cold calling, if you've never done it before, it sucks.
There's a reason why sales is a high-paying profession. It's because it ain't the most fun when you're doing the hard things. The opportunity of it, of making the cold calls, is maybe you can buy your first house. That's a long-term opportunity. You can pay for your children's education.
You can take your family on trips that when you were a child would have never even been able to dream of because your parents didn't have the money. Maybe you can buy your mom a car because you always want to buy. Maybe you could get so good at sales that you could buy your mom a house later on down the road. That's the opportunity. Most people are not focusing on the opportunity.
What are they focusing on? The obligation. I got to put in work for the next couple hours. That's what they're thinking. Waking up early. Okay. Obligation. You got to get out of your warm, comfortable, beautiful, amazing bed when you could just fall. Like how comfortable is your bed when the alarm goes off? It's the most comfortable at that moment.
There's nothing more comfortable in the entire world than your bed when your alarm goes off. So the obligation is you've got to get out of that thing. It's much easier just to stay in bed and to not do it. The opportunity though, how much better you're going to feel after having your morning routine. How much better I will treat people if I get my meditation in.
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