 Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast I am your host Rob Dylan if you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button such you never miss another podcast episode And if you're out there, and you want some extra mindset tips on how you can improve yourself every single week Go to Monday email comm right now once again Monday email comm it is absolutely free And I will send you an email every single Monday with what I am personally working on myself And how you can improve every single week with your focus starting on Monday, so Join us on there once again Monday email comm today. I'm gonna be talking to you about Why right now? Might be the most important time in your life Why I think right now is most important time in life and a very important piece to being a human I Think that one of the most amazing if not the most amazing part of being a human is that we can be Anything that we want to be now you might look at and be like okay Well, you know I once when I was younger I was a kid I want to be an NBA player, but I only ended up being six-foot one. I can't not not super super athletic I'm athletic enough, and I can't jump really high, so you'd be like well, you know, that's great And all you can try to be anything that you want to be but you weren't able to become a basketball player And I can go yeah, maybe I didn't have the skills Maybe I didn't have the right mindset then maybe I wasn't born with the athletics that I needed But when you look at that you could say Is the point of it is the end result to get to the NBA or is the end result to become the best Basketball player that Rob can become and that's we're gonna dive into today is how can you? Become the best at whatever it is that you want to become you don't have to be the best in the world But the best that you are possibly capable at being I think that one of the coolest parts about being a human Is that you can decide to master anything you can decide you know what I want to learn guitar And it's gonna be the focus for the rest of my life that I'm gonna be the best Possible guitar player that I can be I'm gonna figure out what it's gonna take to get there I'm gonna figure out who I need to hire as a coach I'm gonna figure out how to train myself how I can go on to YouTube and practice what my practice routine is going to look like And you can have no skills at playing guitar or no skills at building a business or no skills at public speaking Or no skills at anything right now, but there could be a piece of you. It's like you know what I Really want to master this thing And that is the amazing part about being human is that we can master it to the best of our abilities if we put our focus into it So really what it comes down to is what do you want to be who do you want to be in? I the very first only have two tattoos and people always ask me for pictures of them But you know, I don't really have pictures of my tattoos You could see them if you watch the videos But I have a tattoo on my wrist, which is the Roman numeral X with the line above it Which is the Roman numeral for 10,000 because I love the idea of the 10,000 hour rule If you're not familiar with the 10,000 hour rule, what it means is this And it might be 9,000 might be 11,000 whatever it is But it takes about 10,000 hours of what is called deliberate Practice to master something deliberate practice doesn't mean that if I want to become a master at guitar I I learn how to play guitar and then I play the exact same songs over and over and over again And that counts into my 10,000 hours It means deliberate practice is about 85% of your capacity and 15% of it is a little bit more than you could do But you're challenging yourself every single moment of that deliberate practice And we're going to talk about how to actually use this deliberate practice to become who you want to be If you look at the world right now, I feel like every day the world becomes more and more uncertain More and more uncertain all the lockdowns We went through all of them things that have come up all the stuff that's happened over the past few years You're just like what in the hell has been going on? I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's going to happen all of that, but can I With all of the uncertainty around me build a whole lot of uncertainty into me will there be another lockdown I don't know we'll be another virus. I don't know is the economy gonna crash I don't know is the world gonna self-destruct. I don't know it's trying to gonna take over I don't know I don't know any of these things And I'm not in control of any of those things, but what I am in control of is me and what I do And I know that the more that I focus on myself the stronger I become in whatever it is It's like a tree in a storm if there's a young tree and a massive storm comes through I used to live in Florida. So I used to see trees knocked over all the time Hurricanes would come through and just plow through places, right? And if it was a young tree Almost all the young trees be knocked over why because the roots were not deep enough And so the wind came in and just knocked them all over if it's an old Mature tree the roots are so deep that most of the time the storm won't knock it over We had this tree that was in my front yard when I lived in Florida and it was a huge Banyan tree. I mean this thing was like massive and to walk around it was like a good 50 steps The roots of that thing were so deep in the ground that when hurricanes came through and they knocked over power lines And they knocked over parts of buildings that thing never budged What I want to be is the physical version the human version of that banyan tree that was in my front yard when I was a kid I want to be so My skill set in my mentality to be so firm that no matter what storm comes through nothing will happen But before a tree grows up it has to grow down it has to plant deep roots We planted trees in my yard over the past two years since I lived there They haven't grown up very much like they haven't really gotten more than like a foot in the past two years But what they have been doing is growing down so that they can grow up And so what I really want to focus on today is what needs to grow down What do you need to feel those roots growing down into you? So that you can actually start to grow up and be be able to create the life that you want and It's really how business works. It's how relationships work. It's how mindset works It's how Building any foundation of playing an instrument or playing a sport is you have to figure out How to get your skill set to be the best that it could possibly be Right now with all of the uncertainty that's happening in the world right now What I'm focused on is how can I grow my roots deeper? And I know what that means for you But when I ask you right now if you were to grow your roots deeper, what does that mean for you? What does that mean from you think about that for a second? What does it mean to grow your roots deeper? To master that process of being you To master the process of the things that you want to get better at right now I'm getting focused on getting really great coaching from some of the best coaches that I could find in the world at a Few things and mindset and neurobiology and marketing and business some skills that I want to become much better at I feel like I'm good at all of those things, but I feel like I can get even better at all of those things You know, we invested over the past year into a new studio A whole bunch of new stuff that we built into it I want to I want to be able to to at this point in time set myself apart from everybody else that happens to be out there You don't have to do exactly what I've done or what I'm doing But there's books. There's coaches. There's mentors some of the best people in the world that you can learn from me I'd be like, well Rob, I don't have any mentors in my area. I live in a small town You can order any book that you want to online to be delivered to your house You can go onto youtube and you can learn how to do almost anything you could go on Skillshare Which is I don't they don't sponsor this podcast you go on a Skillshare You could pay whatever it is 20 bucks a month or something like that and learn from tons of different masters on how to improve it Something there is no excuse Right now with all the technology that we have with the internet to stay naive And actually why I guess you could say more than anything else stay uneducated with whatever it is that you want to be educated in You have all of the information of basically all of humankind at your fingertips at every single moment And instead you're deciding to scroll on instagram Think about that for a second What if every moment that you had Every spare moment around your life whatever it is that you're doing everything that you got going on Every spare moment was was geared towards how can I become better right now because I don't know it feels like every day we should get more and more uncertain with what's going on And with all of the uncertainty in the outside world What I want to build what makes me feel better is that no matter what happens on the outside I'm getting better on the inside. I'm building myself and be the person I want to be I had a friend that was over my house the other day and he had a business that he sold a couple years ago He's got another he just started getting into real estate investing He's doing really really well at the real estate investing and he was talking to me He's only been doing it for about a year But he's making a bunch of money doing it and he's like hey man, you ever get worried that like Your business could just disappear that you know things could just change Algorithms could change people could stop listening to the podcast instagram would stop doing whatever it is And you know your business would you wouldn't have people follow you anymore And the thing I said to him is I was like, yeah, I mean it can be a fear But the thing that I know is where I've gotten myself to if I were to be able to lose all of it Something happens some flute comes in and I lose everything that I own everything that I've ever had my business everybody I could always build it back and the reason why is because I have the knowledge of exactly how to do it That's what I said to him. I said you've already built two multimillion-dollar businesses If you lost this business, I guarantee within the next 24 months, you could be at a million dollars again Why because you have the skill set to do it That's why you see people who are millionaires that become millionaires They lose everything and then four years later. They're back to being a millionaire again That's why you can see people is because the most important thing is not buying shit Buying a new car and buying a new house You know, that's that's the thing that people in society really want you to focus on Growing the economy is just buying things that you don't need. That's what everything is based off of but That's not the most important thing the most important thing is how can I take my money my time my energy And focus it on building myself Because that is the only thing that cannot be taken from you is the knowledge that's inside of your brain So how can you focus on making sure that's knowledge that those Deep deep roots are as deep as they could possibly be especially with all the uncertainty that's happening Right double down on everything that's important to you in your life double down to your knowledge Double down on your family double down on your investing double down your savings your income how to make more money Whatever it is. It's important to you double down on that thing It's not time to sit back and wait and see what happens in the world It's time to double down It's time for you to double down on yourself on your family on your knowledge on your joy your happiness Whatever it is that you want to double down on it's time to do it Right Warren Buffett one of my I always go back to the same phrase When others are greedy be fearful and when others are fearful be greedy and right now Just being honest with you. It seems like people are starting to get very fearful and I said this Two you three years ago, whatever it was whenever we had this lockdown whenever we were in our last lockdown, right? I said this and I said right now when I was if you go back and literally listen to 2020 if you go back to April and march of 2020 when I was creating podcast episodes I was like right now Is not the time to be fearful is not the time to hard right now Is a double down on yourself double down on everything that you're doing So if you slow down now and just say, you know what? Let's just see what happens in the world You're going to be left behind in a couple years You might be too late because the world is changing so fast and it can be it can feel scary to have uncertain times Because uncertain times our brain wants to be able to predict what could possibly happen But if things are uncertain the brain goes Red flag red flag red flag. I can't predict. I don't know what's going on going on Stay inside of your comfort zone. Shut down. Don't do anything new because I can't predict what the future is going to look like Your brain can do that, but uncertain times can also be a blessing if you let them be Obviously, there's a lot of the world going on right now. There's always a lot of the world going on Are there crazy terrible things that we wish weren't happening in the world going on hell? Yeah I mean since I became conscious of what was happening in the world. That's always been that way though But the better that we are The more that we can impact the world if we can't even take care of ourselves How are we going to think that we can go and impact people in the world? So if you're sitting there and you're with all of the stuff that's going on around and you're like, oh, man I just gotta let me just wait it out. Let me see what's going on No, no, no, this is your time to shine this is your time to figure out What it is that you want to master because you have the opportunity to master something in this life What is it and when you look at somebody who we look up to if you look at like Tom Brady if you look at Michael Jordan if you look at anybody who's ever been great that somebody who has decided To put a concerted effort of everything that they have Into being the person who is master doing the best that they could possibly be at that thing Right like I was I was watching video the other day It was all of Tom Brady's old teammates talking about Tom Brady And they were like this guy He's 24 seven and the reason why it's hard for hard for him to to come back and play every single year Is because of the fact that he is 24 seven. It's not like hey during the off season I'm going to take off. It's like he literally is playing And practicing and working on his plyometric and working on his body every single day He's has his trainer train with him every single day. He travels the world with him He does everything any possibility. So it's like Mastering becoming not becoming the best football player ever but becoming the best Tom Brady that he could possibly be has made him the best that there could be Because he's put all of his effort into that thing Sometimes it requires an obsession and the obsession of becoming the best that you could possibly be Is one of the best obsessions I can think of so you have to learn that you have this chance in your life to become a master at something Or you could just sit back and just be comfortable with where you are But if you listen to this podcast, you don't want to be comfortable with where you are You want to learn you want to grow you want to make something amazing of your life So figure out what it is that you want to master and put every single ounce of energy into mastering whatever that is so That's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode Please share it on the instagram stories and tag me at rob dial junior r o b d i a l j r And once again follow the podcast on instagram as well So you're not just scrolling through a bunch of cat videos Let me help you inside of your instagram feed and put in some positivity So follow this podcast the mindset mentor podcast on instagram We're putting up a bunch of unseen never before seen videos never heard Before some talks that i've given before in the past that have never been never before been seen So follow me on there the mindset mentor podcast on instagram And i'm gonna leave you the same way 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