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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 and you want to get some inspirational motivational mindset tips and tricks delivered directly to your cell phone, text me right now. 512-580-9305 Once again, 512-580-9305 Today I'm going to teach you how and why you want to act as if everything in your life is always working out for you. Because there's a very good chance you've been manifesting the life that you don't want and you don't even realize that you're doing it.
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Because most people don't realize this.
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But they live life like life is out to get them. They're waiting for the other shoe to drop. They're assuming something is going to go wrong, and then they call it being realistic. And then they wonder why they're always anxious and exhausted and stuck in the same patterns every single year. Well, your brain is literally wired right now to look for proof that things are going wrong or don't work out for you. But you can rewire it to be the exact opposite of that. And so today I'M going to talk to you about how acting as if everything will work out changes your brain neurologically. It will shift how your brain shows you information and completely alter the direction of your life. So if you're tired of negative thinking, if you're exhausted from assuming that you're going to get hurt or worrying or fail or be disappointed in some sort of way, this might be the most important episode that you'll listen to all year. Because once you truly understand this and you start living it, your life is never going to look the same way again. And so when we talk about acting as if, most people misunderstand this phrase. They think that acting as if means I need to delude myself or pretend that bad things are not happening in my life. And it's not that at all. Acting as if everything always works out for me means that I don't deny reality. I don't deny pain at all, but I choose the meaning that I give to what's happening. So it's like saying, you know, I don't know how this is going to work out, but I'm going to move through my life as if eventually I'm going to look back and say, oh, I can see why that's exactly what I needed. Because you have to know it will work out for you. It's a posture, it's a way of walking through the world. Think about the opposite of that for a second. Acting as if nothing works out for you. I've done that before in my life. I'm sure you've probably done that. You probably know people that are like that. What happens? You wake up anticipating problems. You assume that people are going to disappoint you and screw you over. You go into opportunities, expecting rejection. You talk yourself out of action before you even start. And when you live like that, you're not only miserable, you're actually training your brain and your nervous system to be hyper vigilant, to be fearful, to be closed off. You're training your brain to actively search for what is wrong or what could go wrong in your life. So when I say act as if everything is working out, here's what it would actually look like, practically, okay, you're still gonna feel fear. Fear's not gonna go away. But the difference is you don't bow down to your fears anymore. You're still going to feel uncertainty in your future, but you don't move away from uncertainty. You still have many challenges in life. But then you ask yourself, whenever those challenges come up, how might this be working for Me and not against me. It's living as if life is happening for you and not to you. And I have said this many times in the podcast, but I honestly believe in my life that everything is happening for me and, and it's happening for the best thing to happen to me in the long run. And I didn't always think this way. I was not this way at all for a very long time. And now that I'm older, I think hindsight is 20 20. But now I can see everything that's happened to me in my life, especially the challenges and how they were basically brought to me for my life to be able to become better. You know, if I didn't choose to have an alcoholic father and have my father passed away when I was 15 years old from being an alcoholic. But that thing, I can see how it has changed my life completely and made my life better. It was the hardest day of my life and the worst day of my life, but also the best day of my life because it woke me up. Now when I look at like my first sales job I ever had when I was 19, that was so freaking hard. I was a shy kid, didn't know what I was doing, and they pushed me on stage after I started getting better at sales to do public speaking, I didn't want to speak to anybody. But, you know, when I was in that company, I had to be out of my comfort zone all the time and all the time and cold calls and talking on stage and, you know, I had to mess up and I had to face embarrassment. It was hard. It was really challenging. Then they started pushing me to coach people, to mentor the other people, and I had to learn myself and get myself better in order to be able to help others at a higher level. Then I hired a one on one coach and he pushed me and he got me into challenging myself and becoming better and constantly trying to challenge myself every single day got me into reading personal development and all of those things. From my father to the first sales job, to public speaking, to coaching people, to hiring my first one on one coach. All of those things, all those dots connect to what I do now. Like what is my biggest passion in life, right? It's. It's. Imagine if I gave up when things got hard. At some point in time, I wouldn't be doing what I do now. So you have to know like deep down inside of you that everything is actually happening for you. Especially the hardest, most challenging moments in your life. And when you really start walking like that, your brain will actually literally start to change. And so let's talk about how walking through life as if life is always happening for you and acting as if. Let's talk about how it's going to change you neurologically and how you shift when you shift from worst case scenario to hey, this is going to work out for me. You have to understand your brain's a prediction mechanism. It's always trying to predict the future. So your main, your job's main job is to protect you through trying to predict. It's going to try to predict what's about to happen, how safe or unsafe something is, what you should do next in every situation by predicting and he uses three main inputs basically. Number one is your past experiences. Number two is your current environment that you're in. And then the third one especially is your thoughts and belief about yourself and the world. And we will be right back.
