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Get IXL now and the Mindset Mentor listeners get an exclusive 20% off of IXL membership when they sign up at ixl.commindsetmentor Visit ixl.commindsetMentor to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price price. 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. And if you're out there and you live in the US Or Canada and you want to get some inspirational mindset motivational text messages from me sporadically throughout the week, text me right now. 512-580-9305. Once again, 512-580-9305. Today we're going to be talking about your goals. And I'm going to be talking to you about the problem with your goals. I'm going to tell you why it is so hard for you to hit your goals, for you to stay consistent in taking the right action, hitting your goals. And I'm also going to give you a hack in your brain to help you make it easier to hit your goals. And let's talk about goals, for instance, right? I could sit down and I could say, hey, let's come up with your 10 year plan. Where do you want to be in 10 years? What do you want to have in 10 years? What do you want your family to look like? What do you want your happiness to look like? Where do you want to have traveled to? How much money do you have? What kind of house do you have? What kind of cars do you have? And it can be exciting in the moment, but then after you get done planning, one thing that happens with a lot of people, it can become paralysis by analysis because you start thinking, here I am today and that's where I want to be in 10 years. And your mind can immediately go to processes and all of the things that you need to get done in order to get there. And it can seem so far away that sometimes it could actually be demotivating. This is something I've learned over years and years of working with people. I thought that, hey, when you create a 10 year goal, you're excited and then you work your ass off to get there, right? And you're all fired up that you're going to be there. And then you wake up the next day and you start thinking about how long this journey is, this journey of a thousand miles, this journey of 10 years to get you where you want to go. And the thought of how many things need to be done in order to get you there can actually stop you from taking action. And so really what it comes down to is we're focusing too much on the outcome and everything that needs to be able to get there over the next 10 years. Like what we have to do every single day over the next 3650 days. And it's like, man, that's a lot of things when really we should be focusing on the process. And so that's what we're going to be diving into today is the process instead of the outcome. Because we all want the outcome. We all want the goals, we all want the money, we all want the successful business, the great relationship, the incredible children that we've been able to grow and help and create into these great humans. We all want those things. We want the goals. But what we need to focus on is we need to focus on the process. We need to focus on what it is that we need to do every single day. And not just every single day, each moment. What's the best thing for me to do right now. And so most goals are focused on what I like to call results based goals. We're focusing on the result that we want. What we're going to talk about today is the benefit of having action based goals, having daily action based goals, right? So results based goals would be like, I want to lose 10 pounds and then I'll be where I want to be, right? I want to make, I want to hit a million dollars in revenue in my business and then I'll be where I want to be. And those are great. Those are results based goals. And I think that they are important to create, but then after you create them, you actually transition into creating from your results based goals. Action based goals. What action do I need to do today in order to be in alignment with where I want to go? What do I need to do today? Just focusing on today, even just the next hour in order to get me to where I want to go. And then we want to act in alignment with the type of person that we want to be, the type of person that we want to show up as every single day. You want your actions to reflect the type of person that you want to become. And so what you do is you actually focus on just today. And then what you do is you develop something called a dopamine reward system. So what is dopamine? Right, so dopamine. Most people think that dopamine is like the feel good chemical in your brain. And it does feel good, but that's more of a serotonin thing when you look at dopamine. Dopamine is the chemical of motivation. Dopamine is a very external based chemical. Serotonin is a chemical of here and now and everything's peachy and everything's beautiful. Gratitude, grateful for what you have. Dopamine is the chemical of motivation. Dopamine is a chemical of more. I want more. I did this thing, and I want more of it. It's the chemical that's released. Also, when you get really excited about something or you're celebrating something. And the best part about dopamine, it is completely subjective, which means that you can literally be in this moment right now and you can just decide, you know what, I'm going to try to fill my body up with as many good feelings as possible. Think about how amazing my life is. Think about amazing. These challenges have come in my life, have helped me get better. And we can actually celebrate anything that we want to make ourselves feel good. Release dopamine. And when we release dopamine, because it's a chemical of more, our brain will actually want more of it. What's the most common trait of the greatest achievers in our lives? When you look at people like Michael Jordan, you look at Kobe Bryant, you look at the greatest CEOs that are out there. Some might say hard work, dedication, obsession. And that's all correct. But there's a secret behind all of it. All of those things are true. They are really hard workers. They are extremely dedicated. They are obsessed with what they do. But there's something underlying they Most of them fell in love with the process. They fell in love with the process, and most of them, whether they realize or not, probably created a dopamine reward system. I don't know if they meant to do it, but they probably did it. And this is why you see somebody like, I always hear people that are like, oh, well, if somebody's a billionaire or they're a millionaire and they could retire, why don't they just retire and just enjoy the rest of their lives? Because they've actually fallen in love with the process. They've fallen in love with becoming the person that they're becoming. They've fallen in love and created a dopamine reward system, whether they realize it or not. And so I'm not sure that they knew they set up a dopamine reward system, but they did. So when you look at a dopamine reward system, what is it? What does a dopamine reward system actually mean? It's a way to get your brain to release some dopamine after you accomplish a task that's part of your process. So it's a way to get your brain to release dopamine as soon as you get done and you accomplish a task that is part of your process. And once again, it's subjective, so you can basically feel excitement for doing something right. So in the context of a dopamine reward System. Dopamine is released in response to rewarding or pleasurable stimuli. The release of dopamine, it signals to the brain that the behavior that led to the reward, the release of the dopamine, the celebration, should be repeated in the future. So the release of the dopamine signals to the brain that the behavior that led to the reward, the celebration, whatever it is, the, hey, I showed up at the gym and I didn't want to. Hell, yes. Congratulations. You're amazing. I'm so proud of you for doing this. You can literally tell yourself this in your head. It's the release of dopamine. And that signals to the brain that the behavior that led to the reward, the celebration, the being proud of yourself, should be repeated in the future. And this is because dopamine reinforces the neural connections that were involved in the behavior, making it more likely that. That the behavior will be repeated in the future. So I'll give you an example of what I mean by that. Let's say that you're trying to lose ten pounds, right? You could be like, I'm going to. I'm going to lose ten pounds. I'm going to lose ten pounds. I'm going to lose ten pounds and lose ten pounds. And you can focus on it. But at some point in time, you're probably going to do some really good stuff, and you're probably going to fuck up. We all do, right? You're going to mess up at some point in time. Usually when people mess up, they feel. They feel down on themselves. They start to, you know, tell themselves what an idiot. You shouldn't have done that. You screwed up. And instead of making themselves feel good about the correct actions that they took, they make them feel bad about the time that they kind of fell off track. And that's not going to motivate you to want to do it again. And so what happens is, how can we reward ourself in this process? So let's say you did go to the gym, you showed up at the gym while you're working out, you're getting your first set in. Hell, yeah. I'm so proud of you for showing up. You don't want to freaking be here. You didn't want to be here, and you're doing what you didn't want to do. I'm proud of you. You get done with that next set. Hell, yeah. Great job on this set. Right? Releasing dopamine. Great job on this. I'm so proud of you for showing up. I'm so proud of you for showing up every single set. I'm so proud of you for showing up. I'm so proud of you for showing up. You're doing what you didn't want to do. We're on the right path. We're in the process. We will get the outcome. We just got to keep going. You're talking yourself. You're talking yourself. You're talking to yourself, right? You get done at the gym. Hell yes. I'm so proud of you. Instead of leaving the gym and look at yourself in the mirror and being like, damn it, I'm so far away from my goal. I'm still not where I want to be and getting pissed off at yourself, you leave the gym and as you're walking out of the gym, you're like, I'm so proud of you. You eat that thing that you wanted to eat. Hell yeah. I'm so proud of you. You say no to that thing that you didn't want to eat or you know you shouldn't be eating if you're trying to get to your goal. Hell yeah. You said no to that. You said no to that bag of Skittles. I know. You wanted that bag of Skittles, right? Hell yeah. So proud of you for this. See, the problem with results based goals is that if we're only focusing on the achievement of the goal, dopamine won't be released until you achieve the goal. And that could be years down the road. If you set a 10 year goal and you're only going to be proud of yourself when you hit that 10 year goal, you're not going to get dopamine, you're not going to get proud, you're not going to get the chemical of motivation until you achieve that goal. That could be years down the road. That's not motivating you to do it that way. How can you use the chemical of more, the chemical of motivation to actually want more? And so when you look at like for instance, the person pops in my head is Kobe Bryant. Because I used to. I studied him after he passed away and just was like, what? What? He was obsessed. What made him obsessed? He accidentally set up a dopamine reward system. I don't think he knew that this is what he was doing. But maybe, maybe did. Maybe he worked neurologist and they told him this, right? His thing was never about winning championships. His thing was never about winning championships. Did he want to? Of course. But his was, I'm going to be the best fricking basketball player that's ever walked the planet. Sure. This is exactly what LeBron James I'm sure this is exactly what Michael Jordan had done as well. Right? But if we look at Kobe Bryant, he would wake up at 4 o' clock in the morning every single morning to work out and we will be right back. What are the fall staples that you love? For me, it's apple cider. Stocking up on all things pumpkin and grabbing ingredients for all your favorite fall recipes is easy and Instacart can help to deliver what you need so that you don't have to add another errand to your day. 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