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Rob Dial (13:32)

Dial and now back to the show. But it was. I just kept putting it out. I was like I'm just going to keep putting, I'm just going to keep trying to help people, all of this stuff. And then something happened and it was like the Chinese bamboo and the podcast, like 10x15x in one year. And it just exploded and it was like the hockey stick where it's like it's kind of growing just a Teeny, tiny bit. And then it was just a hockey stick moment, but it took five years to get to that hockey stick moment. And then, you know, now the podcast is, you know, 7x that. And it's just because of the fact that I think it takes time for great things to happen. It's almost like the universe, God, whatever you believe in, knows how long it's going to take and how much effort is needed for you to get to where you want to go. And you want to be there sooner, but you just have to trust I'm heading in the right direction. Eventually I'm going to get to where I want to go. And so, you know, it took me four years to get to 4 million downloads in the podcast, and now he does it in less than 30 days. And it's just a crazy thing to think about that it's gotten there and it's grown to what it is once again. I'm not saying it to flex or anything. I'm saying it because it took so much time. It took so much effort. It took so many hours and hours and hours of trying to get better at it. And if you just don't stop, you cannot fail at anything, because eventually you figure it out. But most people don't give themselves a long enough Runway. They don't. They say, oh, I'm going to try this out for six months, and then if it doesn't work, I'm going to try something else out. And they're bouncing from one thing to another to, to another to another every six months. And they never fully get the chance to be a master at something. What you've gotta do is you've gotta ask yourself, what's something that I love so much or that I'm so passionate about or that I want to get better at, that I'm okay dedicating the next two or three years of my life. Two to three years of my life, like, really trying to figure out what it is that I want to do. And I can think about many instances where this happened in my life where there was a hockey stick moment. My income was the exact same thing when I was first growing my business. It took time. It took time. It took time, and it took about four years before there was a huge hockey stick moment where it just exploded. And so the reason why I love life is because. And I love the idea of trying to master something is because as humans, we can master anything that we want to. We just have to be able to make the decision of the thing that we want to Master. And we have to dedicate ourselves to it. And I think too few people in this world want to dedicate themselves to something. But if you just decide that you're not going to stop, you can never lose. It might take you longer than it took someone else, but eventually you're going to get there. And I always use the example. It's like, very simple. I live in Austin, Texas, and if I want to get to Dallas, Dallas is north of Austin. And it doesn't matter how I decide to get there. I could walk, I could crawl, I could take a bike, I could take a car, I could hop in a plane. As long as I'm traveling north, eventually I'm going to end up in Dallas. So for some people, success, you might see other people and their quote, unquote success might be as fast as taking a plane. They get to Dallas very quickly and they seem like they're beating you and they seem like they're quote, unquote, better than you. For you, it might be like walking to Dallas, but you're heading in the right direction. As long as you don't give up, you cannot fail. When people want to grow a business and they say, I'm going to give myself six months, I know very few businesses that are successful in six months. If you say I'm going to give myself three years and I'm not going to, I'm not going to sway, I'm not going to give up, I'm not going to have a plan B, I'm going to put 100% of my working effort when I decide that I'm working into that. So If I work 9 to 5 in my business, 100% of my focused effort goes into that. Give yourself a couple years. It's night and day difference. And usually, and I've seen it over and over and over again in my life in many different ways and friends life in many different ways. Usually you hit a hockey stick moment where everything explodes and it goes way better than you ever possibly imagined. Like, when I look at the podcast, I never, ever thought it would hit 300 million downloads. I never, I could have thought that I would have been doing it for 30 years and still not hit 300 million downloads. But it did. And it's, it's only gotten there because I think of just the dedicated effort I put into it, of wanting to get better and wanting to work on myself and just passionately wanting to help people. And so if you want to be successful, whatever success means to you, what does it require? What, what Time. What do you need to learn? How do you need to figure out how to do it? You know, most people start, they get excited, and then they stop. If you just don't stop, you can't lose. And I remember seeing this before. I was watching a video. There's an interview with Jared Leto, and I've said this before on the podcast, but Jared Leto's, you know, an extremely successful musician. He's also an extremely successful actor. Like the highest of the highest of both. He goes. When he goes, as a musician, they sell out stadiums. When he won, has. Has won Academy Awards for the best actor for movies that he's been in. So he's like hit the top of the top in two separate categories that most people never even get to. I remember watching this video from him about 10 years ago, and he was being interviewed and a lady was asking him, and she said, what do you think the secret to your success is? And he said, I realize that most people just don't start. And as long as I'm starting, as long as I start, I'm already light years ahead of everybody else. And then if I just don't stop, I'm going to beat everybody else who gives up. Everybody else who gives up, you're just going to be passed. And so, like, I love the idea of mastery as a human because we can learn anything that we want to as long as we put effort in towards it. And I have a tattoo on my wrist for those of you guys that are on video. You can see it, and it's a roman numeral of 10,000. The Roman numeral for 10,000. It's an X with a line above it. Because I truly believe in the 10,000 hour rule, which is it takes 10,000 hours, hours at least of dedicated practice to master something, to become a master at something. But the problem is most people want to try to get to mastery in a hundred hours, and that's just not going to happen. And so when you look at your goals, your goals really only take three things. They take direction, they take action, they take time. Direction. Am I heading in the right direction to get me to where I want to go? The eventual destination that I'm working towards, that's something that I control. The direction that I'm heading in. Number two is action. Am I taking the right actions to eventually get me to where I want to go as well? Yes, that's something that I control. Time. That's the secret. You can't control that. It's like the Chinese bamboo. It takes the Time that it's going to take, that's something that once again, God, the universe, life, whatever it is that you believe in, is in control of. We cannot control the time. We can only control the direction in the actions that we're taking. It's kind of like the example I always love to give is, imagine if you're a husband, your wife is pregnant, and you go up to her and you're like, hey, honey, listen, I know this. I know this pregnancy thing. It's supposed to take about nine months. I would really like to get a vacation by the end of the year. Do you think that maybe you could hurry it up? Like, can you speed this thing up? Maybe we can. Can you get done in, like, five months so we can take a vacation by the end of the year? Your wife would think that you were insane. Why? Because pregnancy, creating a child takes about nine months. That's what the universe has decided. Your success. You don't know how long it takes. The only thing that you can do is control what you can control, which is the direction that you're heading and the actions that you're taking. And just like the Chinese bamboo, the Chinese bamboo takes six years before it finally comes out of the ground. But when it comes out of the ground, it grows 80ft in six weeks. Your success, the thing that you're working for, is exactly the same. You will. It will take longer than you probably want it to, but when it happens, it will be so much greater than you could possibly imagine. So figure out where you're going, take the right actions, head in the right direction, and then just don't stop. And that is how you create a life that's successful. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories. Tag me in it. Robdial Jr R O B D I A L J R the only way this podcast grows is from you guys sharing it. So the. The best way that you could really help us help other people and help pay it forward is just to share it. Share it on your Instagram stories. Share it anywhere that you possibly can. And with that, I'm gonna leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.

Katie Nolan (22:46)

I'm Katie Nolan and I have a new podcast called Casuals. It's a podcast for people who like sports a normal amount. Casuals is a twice a week hang with me. And my friends from across comedy, sports and entertainment where we talk about all the funny, weird, interesting stuff happening in and around the world of sports. So whether you're a die hard fan or just vaguely sports curious, Casuals is the podcast for you. You can find Casuals on the series XM app Pandora or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to follow the show so you never miss an episode. Give it a try. What's the worst that could happen?