 what is good wake up Monday morning dunk life mindset Monday let's get it I'm really excited for this week this is a very exciting podcast this is I have the whole week lined up Monday through Sunday the seven dunk life laws I'm still figuring out what I'm gonna call it the principles but basically today is mindset I'm gonna talk about my five or maybe not I don't even know how many but the mindset books that I love there's different types of mindset and then I'm gonna talk about different pillars of mindset so by the end of this episode you know exactly how to start strengthening your mind everything starts in your mind every action starts with a thought and I'm really pumped to get this going and why am I doing this this is who I am and how I can help you best with my strengths in your dunk journey in your life journey I've been writing a book I've been writing a lot I've been doing a ton of podcasts for years now and this coming to I'm honing it in I'm figuring it out and this seven steps the seven days I really got inspiration from Deepak Chopra with the seven spiritual laws one of my favorite books I've read it a million times but what I love about it is that he has a video for each day so I'm kind of taking a page out of that book pun intended and by doing that you practice one of these things I'm gonna be teaching you all to give you a quick outline of what the days will be but you practice them each day so hopefully become routine you become the master of your own life the master of your energy so if you're listening to this this is a podcast don't clap daily I do every single day all on all platforms I'm everywhere just search Steven Selle everywhere YouTube Instagram tick tock Spotify Apple music I even have raps I'm everywhere you guys know me so welcome to the show really hope this changes your life that's my goal and it's what I do it's not like technique heavy and I'm gonna go through the outline now so you understand what the hell I'm talking about so so today Monday is mindset right and I'm gonna be talking about positivity I'm gonna be talking about the reticular activating system gonna be talking about stoicism and talk about giving and receiving those different things ways to strengthen your minds you can start now and I'll be peppering in peppering in books that I think really help I think books are super important they've changed my life they're the way I see them at their intelligent people gifted people people that worked really hard that read a lot of other people's books learn from a ton of people and then made their own cumulation accumulation of that knowledge so it's just invaluable keep learning keep reading it expands your mind and then tomorrow Tuesday all about habits the subconscious how the hardest part is starting and how to get over it how to build routine and momentum and then Wednesday is sleep if you know me I talk about it all the time the number one habit is sleep and I'm gonna explain why and I'm gonna talk about my habits and my routine for sleep nutrition I'm gonna talk about my basic nutrition for everybody my specific nutrition and then next level nutrition and how to find what works for you and how to go next level because I've really transformed my body in my mind nutritionally this year Friday is the body the stimulus sweet spot learning body awareness how to make long-term body progress how to get shredded boy and that's what we do because it's for dunking of course and we look good you look good you feel good you make most and it's more about the journey just like all these things as you as I come to the end of this outline is all these things are to open up your eyes to what's possible okay and now Saturday mindfulness meditation visualization belief gratitude why those things are important and how to control your mind I have the mind that races the most out of anybody I know people say that and they can't beat me they can probably equal me but I'm telling you my mind can race more than ever so if I can make any type of progress controlling my mind or focusing it you can too and I want to teach you my tricks and what else and then Sunday be yourself and enjoy my life philosophy how to enjoy life more why enjoy life more why be yourself and just ways you can do that by cutting away things that aren't you and all those things so I'm so so so so pumped let's get into Monday let's get it hope you guys enjoy leave a comment subscribe do the cool things that help content creators grow alright so starting off I'm gonna talk about positivity mindset everything starts with mindset positivity is so much more scientific and so much more tangible than I think people realize which is why I'm starting off with that everything starts in your mind one of the greatest books I'm gonna start off with is the four agreements it's for personal growth self-growth the four agreements ready off the top off the dome did I look this up in forehand maybe that's fine off the dome be impeccable with your word because everything that goes out of your mouth into your brain subconsciously is gonna affect it so be impeccable with what you say if you say I can't dunk maybe you can't at the moment but say I'm I'm working on getting to dunk just say it differently it changes and I'm gonna explain why be don't make assumptions because you can't make assumptions about things that you can't understand because there's just no benefit you could read the book take responsibility this is a really huge one you'll see as a theme through today's podcast and the last one is try your best which is on a day even if when you feel shitty you do your best it may not be your best of your best but it's your best on this day so do your best those are so powerful read the book put those into practice and you grow as a person and that's exactly what I'm talking about and I'm gonna start with positivity by saying the reticular activating system there's so many spirituality books and different religions that talk about what you see is what you believe what you perceive is your reality and that comes down in the science world as a reticular activating system in your brain and simply put I'm not gonna get into it I am a scientist I have a PhD from science school is that it's the filter and we've all had this experience which is what I love to bring up so you guys can really feel it which is you've seen a car you see a brand new car and it's like oh man what is that and someone tells you oh it's the Chevy Chevy 126 and you're like whoa I made that I don't know cars and then you see it everywhere because now it's in your filter why does that happen doesn't matter you can look into it the point is it happens and we've all had that experience or a new pair of shoes anything that we haven't seen before when you see it once you see it everywhere see a baby like us I feel like I see babies all the time now you see babies everywhere it's things like that anything song you hear a song once you hear it everywhere okay yeah they're playing it because it's a new song it's a different the point is you have this filter but use it to your advantage use it okay and the other thing is a placebo effect which I want to get into if I don't forget this might be a little scatterbrained but this is how I work and when I write my book which if you've been listening to this podcast since day one of 2020 this year I really set a goal to write a book and this is going to be it I think and I'm gonna write it and it's gonna be more structured but me speaking is just my brain going everywhere but I do have a structure and I promise you everything I say will be helpful so the reticulator activating system you have that filter what you see your brain has too much stimulus if I'm looking around this room right now I see different colors I see different textures I see different objects how do I use them what are they doing there they're inanimate I need to eat that that's going bad I can't think of all those things at one time so you have a filter right you would go nuts but people don't realize that what they say like being impeccable with their word changes their filter what they think about changes their filter so with positivity no matter what you do well if you think positive or try to find the positive Michael Jordan said he was his dad was the most positive person always said is a positive when his dad died he said he's tried to find the positive in it and one of it was he came to his last game he got to see his last game he did come back out of retirement but the point is he found a positive and then there's no downside to that and there's a huge infinite amount of possibilities that happen as a benefit and one of those things when I said the four agreements is taking responsibility so for example someone comes and slaps you in the face I think he even says that in the book you didn't do anything wrong you don't deserve it you can get mad and you say what's the positive how do I take responsibility that well how is it my fault and how do I see a positive out of this maybe you don't want to change the situation but you can say okay how do I practice my patience we all can agree patience is a good skill right patience in that situation someone slaps you you want to react but if you don't react you're strengthening that muscle of patience or restraint or something to be calm and level-headed which is a great skill right and in that moment you're not changing the situation you're not saying like oh I deserve that slap that's not saying that's a positive the slap was positive for your face that's not the positive the positive where's the positive and then the filter opens up so you can see that situation in a different light and it's changed my life drastically so I want you to know that that filters happening and positivity is a practice it's not just like everything's good all the time but you can say okay I'm going through this storm right now I'm struggling right now how could I make light of it how do I find something to work on because when you do that another book right here drop in knowledge obstacle is the way Ryan Holiday fantastic book which will lead me into stoicism but basically the obstacle is the way you could find a way to turn the obstacle into the opportunity and I love telling you about the reticular activating system the RAS is I'm not going to say it anymore the RAS is an actual thing that your brain is doing it's a it's a mechanism so knowing that that your brain has to filter these things if you you can choose to what it filters and choose to see other things so I think it's so so powerful so moving on to stoicism from Ryan Holiday's book this is not from him but the stoic philosophy which I don't remember exactly except what you can't control and the second part I changed so I forget the actual one so the actual one is it's a serenity prayer but grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot control cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference one of the most powerful prayers there is so and so in Ryan Holiday's book the obstacle is the way it's very stoic philosophy oriented but then there's the power of now by Eckhart Tolle which is saying then how the now the moment right now is the only thing that exists it's a weird concept because you're thinking other things exist too but they don't the future is yet to come the past is already gone the now is all that exists so knowing that you have resentment over the past you have things you did wrong and when you accept them it's not saying you shove them down okay it's saying you accept them as they is and you can learn from them but you can't change them so don't spend energy trying to change it you can't in the future you're worried about the future you're worried you have anxiety about something paying rents failing in a dunk contest you can't do that Michael Jordan said he doesn't why would he think about a shot he hasn't taken yet wasted energy right there so you can't change it accept it it's not saying it's not going to happen it's not saying avoid it it's not saying that's where I think people make the mistake is like you it's a practice and when you understand accepting it is growing from it is learning from it but you're not getting caught in it you're not you're living in the now and when you live in the now you can be the most effective you can be the most creative you can see things like the RAS you start to see things differently to grow so if you accept it okay even if you murdered someone I guess is a bad example but you murder someone right I did that I can't change it I did it am I gonna just dwell on it my whole life no accept it what could I do to maybe I don't murder someone in the future it's a bad example but you get the point you have to look back on it accept it bring it in I did that that happened it's done let's go move okay so that's so my philosophy that I kind of changed on it a little bit just shifted it for dunk life purposes is accept what you can't control and attack everything else so don't just have the courage we're going next level with the things you can control give it your 100% go all in and give it your all give it your best and I'm gonna end it so let me read a few other books to the point the reason why I changed it for that is because people don't just do things you got to give it your all because things that in your life if you push yourself to the max you become more at peace and that's the goal with this whole week that's the goal with mastering your energy is just to enjoy life and be at peace so if you're pushing yourself to the hardest you can and you fail you'll say to myself well I fucking left it all on the floor and I can I can be at peace with that but if you didn't you give you you tried to do things you can control and worked on a little bit but left you you would even have more regression I didn't really push myself hard enough and the last rule before I talk about my positivity formula and some books is giving and receiving there's spiritual laws on this but there's also just simulation theory where it says everything's a give and take everything you're receiving whether it's an emotion whether it's tangible what are you giving off to receive that and if you want to receive something how do you give it if you want to be inspired this is the best one because of dunk life if you want to be inspired go inspire someone else if you want to feel more positive help someone else feel more positive that's the give and receive and I think those those things the the four agreements the stoic philosophy accept what you can't control and attack everything else giving and receiving positivity all these things are a practice and I think they will change your life so drastically if you start working on them so I'm going to read off some books and then we'll talk about my my positivity formula that I think is a great mindset that you guys can remember all right so I talked about the four agreements relentless fantastic book Tim Grover back to Michael Jordan he was Michael Jordan's trainer it's about tapping into that zone and never not even not giving up but never being satisfied and constantly looking so the second you win a championship it's about the next one that's it and it's really amazing and it's a if you if you need some confidence if you need some of that killer mentality that mom the mentality that Kobe had relentless is a book for you the compound effect changed my mindset to see every single moment as a decision towards my future of that if I work now no matter how small the decision is I brush my teeth instead of doing it pushing it off to later that's momentum going in the right direction if I don't and I say oh I'm gonna do brush my teeth a little later I'm my momentum shifting the other way so it's just made me think that every little moment counts another book is the subtle art of not giving a fudge and that one it was fantastic for being yourself cutting away what it is choosing your f's wisely so it's not about not giving an f about anything it's about choosing them wisely because you only have so much f's to give and so much energy another one is called the one thing by Gary Keller that one helped me focus really zone in on what you can do right now you can't do everything in one day so what's the one thing you can do today to really make progress towards your dreams and then in the whole life picture what's the one thing your life is about because everything everybody who has really successful uh is good at one thing they're not they're not going to be jack of all trades Michael Jordan basketball or winning even more one thing just straight winning okay can't hurt me by David Goggins purely never give up no matter how much the pain is the more pain the better never give up if you need more more motivation than that go to them go to David Goggins limitless I just read by Jim quick fantastic he talks about the verticulator activating system actually and he also talks about the brain is a muscle and it was one more thing about limitless I wanted to mention um but that's how your brain works how your brain learns learning how your brain learns and understanding that your your brain is a muscle instead of like a hard drive where it has a limited amount of space changes the way you learn okay and then the obstacle is the way okay so now by Ryan holiday definitely check those books out and there's different different types of mindset like I said by the way shout out to my boy Travis for asking me that question he asked what are good books for mindset and there's just for me they're all different facets of mindset but like I said I just listed those out because I get I'm the nugget farmer okay I did the work I just gave you a list of the different types and you guys go choose what you want I read them all catch up I mean people read way more than me I like to go off sometimes okay positivity formula to wrap up Monday's motivation mindset motivate Monday mindset what positivity formula in my experience what I think is really helpful and we'll get into later this week is the three foundations of energy which are sleep nutrition and body body movement just getting the right amount of movement in your day and then chasing a dream push yourself to chase a dream that you once thought was impossible when you make progress progress is happiness but also when you're pushing yourself to to do this dream dunking is a huge goal is a huge great example you need your full body mind and spirit in line and at peak performance to dunk and to get better that doing that your whole life is better because you have to have your mind fresh you have to be positive you have to have your body in tune you can't have injuries you can't make long-term progress you can't keep jumping higher if you have a bum hamstring like I do or anything in balance right you need a whole balanced body you need to treat your body right because you can't be wasting time on recovery you can't be getting poor night's sleep and not recovering properly you're not having the right fuel you need to nutrition right so those chasing of those dreams elevates you to a higher level of existence and I think if you're chasing a dream I don't think it's it's very true to me but I think it's universal is what I meant for everybody find something that's an insane goal and when you work towards that and you do three foundations positivity comes naturally energy comes endlessly and I just think that so there's two sides of positivity you do the three foundations and you chase a dream and it's really really hard not to be positive about life and feel good and that's what life's about enjoying more and having more fun and more happiness and then on top of it choosing positivity is also a practice so you figure out that paradox all right I'm so pumped having a lot of fun with this excited thank you all for sharing because the more you guys share the more you guys give me feedback the more I know it resonates and I appreciate you so share this out I love you if wherever you're watching this I love you if I'm looking right into the camera right now or you're just listening I'm right in your head in your ears much more to come excited for tomorrow stay tuned have a great freaking day go chase your dreams accept what you can't control and attack everything else happy monday let's go