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$30 first month and $25 after with auto pay price guarantee. Exceptions apply. Cipher Details. Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you are free this Thursday I'm going to be running a free free one night workshop on how to build yourself into a high performer. I'm going to teach you the real life tools to stop procrastinating, to take action and to get the results that you know that you can in this life. If you want to join me, it's absolutely free. You can go to 2026workshop.com once again 2026workshop.com. Today I'm going to be talking about everything that I learned from being around the top 0.01% of people in the world. Because if you operate the way that most people operate, you're going to get the results that most people get. And most people will never get anywhere close to being in the top 0.01% of earners or of people in the world. And it's not because they're not smart enough. It's not because they don't work hard enough. It's because they're living their life off of the wrong principles. And so I've spent time with people that are in the top.01%, and it shocked me that they're not really, honestly the smartest people in the world. They're not the most outgoing, they're not the most charismatic. It was just kind of the way that they think. And the way that they operate was different than everybody else in society. They operate on what I broke down into five specific principles. And these principles are not taught in school. Most people don't really have this taught to them by their parents. And it's definitely not taught by society. And so I want to teach you these five principles because if you can understand these five principles and then implement them into your life, you would actually start making completely different decisions in your life. And it would turn the destination of your life into a completely different place. Five, 10, 20 years. And so let me show you what those five principles are. The first one that I have found with the most highest performers in the world is that they are absolutely ruthless with their time. I mean, when I say ruthless, like, I mean ruthless like, they protect their time way more than they protect money. Like, and when I talk about money, like, sure, you know, they have more digits in their bank account, but it doesn't make them a better person, just so you know, it doesn't mean they're more honorable or more special or anything like that. So when I looked at it, in order to be the top, like 0.01%, you need to be making about $5 million per year. And so when people are at that level, at least 5 million up to, you know, hundreds of millions a year, obviously. But in order to get to that level, you have to get really good at deciding what you're going to do with your time. Like, they don't hop on quick calls. They don't just grab coffee with somebody for no reason. They don't just, like, go do something and see what happens. Like, their time is treated like oxygen. And if something is not aligned with, like, their highest leverage work or their highest vision for what they're trying to create in their life, then they just say no to it. They Protect their time ruthlessly to the point where majority of them have somebody who is a executive assistant or an assistant that is the gatekeeper to that person and to their time as well. And here's the thing that I notice about, like, when you look at it psychologically, they don't feel guilty about protecting the time in any sort of way. Like, most people feel guilty about protecting their time. Like, they feel bad for saying no to other people. They feel bad for saying that they don't want to go do something when everybody else is going. Most people feel bad for prioritizing themselves. But, like, the highest performers in the world understand something that most people do not. Every yes is a no to something bigger. So every time you say yes to something, you're saying no to something else. And so if you're saying yes to just going to grab coffee with some random person who sends you an email, you're saying no to something that could be a much bigger thing to do in your life or your business. And so they don't, like, just manage their time. They defend their time. Like, they protect their time. And when you start to think of your life differently, you start to think of your time differently, your life will start to shift. And so what I want you to take from this principle is, like, look at all of the leaks that you have in your schedule and in your life on a daily and weekly basis. You know, you're gonna. Like, the most successful person that I know doesn't have Instagram. He doesn't have Facebook. He's nowhere. Like, you're not gonna find him wasting time on the Internet, looking at what other people are doing. Like, he is so protective of his time that every moment is just like, he defends every single moment. So I want you to start to think about that when you think about your daily. In your, like, time throughout the entire week, what are you doing? What are you. Where are you wasting time? Where are you wasting time? That you could be doing something that is of much higher leverage to you. Like, your calendar is your future. If you look at your calendar, what does it say about your future? So that's the first thing. Get absolutely ruthless. The second thing is that I have found is that they think in decades and not years. And this is really important for a couple reasons. Number one, from a business, from an investment, from a money standpoint, but from a psychological standpoint, it's really big as well. Like, this one really hits for me because most people think about, like, what they're doing and what they want today, and what they want this week. Maybe some people think about what they want this month or this year, but most people think about like very, very short term. When you look at the highest performers in the world, they think about where they want to be in 10 years. Like, they think about what industries will be running and existing and be dominating the market 10, 20, 30 years down the road. Like, they think so much further ahead than anybody else. They think about relationships not of like, oh, I'm gonna go meet this person for 30 minutes. They think about relationships that they have in their life that are the most important relationships that will compound over decades. And so they don't. When you start to think in decades and not just days, like they don't chase quick wins, like, they're not really the type of person that focuses on like immediate gratification. They think about building a life, they think about building a legacy, they think about building an empire. And another big thing is that they will also, you know, when you really start to think about this, it will really start to change the way when you think in decades and not just days, it'll change the way that you think of failure, it'll change which think of challenges. You know, when you're thinking in decades, you don't panic about this week. And this is something that's been really big for me, especially in my own business. When you're thinking in decades, you don't spiral over a bad month. Like I've had years ago, where I would be like, we have a terrible month. But it's like now if we have a bad month, no big deal, like it's not the end of the world because I'm building towards something way more long term. And we will be right back.