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Rob Dial (1:14)
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 episode. And if you're committed to making 2026 the best year of your life, join my free two day high performance live workshop this January 14th and 15th where I'm going to teach you the real life tools to stop procrastinating, to take action, follow through and get the results that finally match the potential you know that you have. You're going to leave with the mindset systems and habits to build the version of you that you know that you're meant to be this year. So go to 2026workshop.com to register for free. Once again, 2026workshop.com today I want to talk about you. I want to talk about me. I want to talk about life. I want to do this thing called living. I want to talk about this thing that we do, you know, and hopefully just shift your perspective a little bit about what all of this is about. Because life is great. It's amazing. It's basically a series of paradoxes, right? Life is both beautiful, but it is fricking brutal. Sometimes it is amazing and it is hard. It is the best thing ever and it is the worst thing ever sometimes. And we're often caught in what's going on in the outside world. We Chase success. We look for external validation from other people. We measure our own self worth by our achievements, by the likes that we have, how many followers that we have. We figure out if we're good enough based off of other people's opinions of us. That's all external. And we're kind of raised to pay attention to the external. But the real game, like the one that matters the most, all of that happens inside of us. And some people never figure this out. In my entire podcast, every episode that I make is to try to bring you to the internal so that you can work on that more than you work on the external. The outer world, it's amazing, it's great. It can influence us in the way that we feel and the way that we act. But our inner game, the quiet moments, the unseen battles that happen inside of our minds, that is what ultimately shapes the quality of your entire life. Not your external world. Not what happens to you, not your situation, not your circumstances. It's what happens inside of you. The inner game is what this entire thing is all about. And so it's hard for us though, because as children, we don't look outside of us. As children, everything is happening outside of us. Like my son who's downstairs, he's not thinking to himself, huh, well, I wonder how I feel. Like he's looking at me, he's looking at my wife, he's looking at our dog, the toys. It's all outside because it's what he sees. And our parents, when we grew up as children, our, you know, as a child, your parents are basically the gods of your world. As children, our parents are external. We see them. And so from an early age, we basically learn. Not like anybody's telling us we have to do this, but we learn to look outside of ourselves for all of the answers and that becomes a pattern. We start to believe that happiness, that security, that fulfillment, all of those things happen from what happens to us in the external world. I'm only going to be happy if I achieve this thing. I'm only going to have security if I get this amount of money. I'm only going to feel fulfillment if I do this with my life. And so what do we do is we set goals and we make plans and we chase dreams along the way, and we try to convince ourselves that when we achieve X, then we will feel content. When I do this, then I will feel happy. When I get this, then I will feel better. When I make this amount of money, then I will finally be enough. When someone finally decides to be in a relationship with me and marry me, then I will be lovable. So something happens, internal or externally, and we think that's what I'm waiting for. It could be the perfect career, it could be the right relationship. It could be the love and acceptance of other people. It could be financial security, it could be buying a Ferrari. I don't know. It's different for every single person. When I finally get that thing, then I will finally feel happy, right? Didn't we all think that growing up, like, once I get this, once I get that, once I get this once, then I'll finally be enough, Then I'll finally feel good enough. The truth, though, the external world, it's amazing, but it's also chaotic. It's unpredictable. And we control very, very little of what happens outside of us. As I always say, you want to control the world around you. You can barely control your bowels after Taco Tuesday and you're trying to think that you could control the whole damn world. It's insane. If you're waiting for the world to be what you want it to be, and then you will be happy, then you will never find happiness and fulfillment because the world will never be what you want it to be. Why? Because shit happens. Life is unpredictable. People will come into your life, people will leave your life. People that you love will die. You will get heartbroken, you will lose your job. You will never be exactly what you want it to be. So happiness, when I get this thing, is never going to fully happen. Happiness is basically just a can that you're kicking down the road forever. Circumstances outside of you change all of the time. So then you need to wake up to this realization. The outside world will never stop shifting. The ground beneath your feet will never truly be solid. And if you see that, you go, that's interesting. Well, that's when you really realize that all of the true power lies within you. It's not out there, it's in here. It's the internal game is what it's all about. This is why you can see people who are absolutely successful and they've got everything that they want in their life and they're still miserable. The richest person I know, multi, multi billionaire is fucking miserable. He has everything, everything that you think that you could want, miserable. Why? Because it's not about the external, it's about the internal. All of that achievement, all of that money, all of those buying the coolest things in the world doesn't make him feel any different inside. The real game to play is what's happening beneath the surface. It's in the quiet moments, in the way that we talk to ourself when no one else is around, in what we do when no one else is around. It's in the how we handle adversity, how we respond to challenges that life throws our way. The inner game, our mindset, our emotional resilience, our inner peace. All of those things. That's what actually dictates what we feel. That's what dictates how we experience life. Not the circumstances. 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