 Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast I'm your host Rob dial and if you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode And if you're out there and you love this podcast And you want some extra tips and tricks on how to improve your mindset and also how to improve your life Go ahead and go to Monday email calm right now once again Monday email calm I send out an email every single Monday with my tips and tricks on how to improve yourself how to improve your life and Things that I'm working on to improve my life so that you can actually get some extra tips and tricks and improve your life as well Today I'm gonna be giving you eight things that successful people do that unsuccessful people don't do now Before I go into it I want to just say this success means something different for every single person for some people That means making ten million dollars for some people that means becoming the best person They could be for some people it means like helping it their children become the best people They could be for some people that means that they want to Help the world for some people that means that they just want to have an incredible relationship What I'm going to talk about today is how to improve and become successful for whatever success means to you Before I dive into those tips what I want to say is you have to define success for yourself Whatever that means define it cool Let's dive in the first thing that I find and this is not across the board I'm speaking in generalizations, but I'm saying like 90 95 percent of successful people will do these things Are there people that are outliers? Of course not every single person is gonna be exactly the same But the one thing that I know among very very successful people is they wake up early now I'm not saying I think it's actually kind of crazy to wake up at like four o'clock in the morning Unless that's your thing, you know I know like Mark Wahlberg goes to bed at 8 a.m. Or 8 p.m. When his kids go to bed and then wakes up at 4 a.m. Or 3 a.m. Or something like that that makes sense Cuz he's getting seven eight hours of sleep But they wake up earlier Than most people do they don't wake up at 8 right when their alarm's going off Rush in the shower take something You know a snack a bar on the way to work eat it and just be rushing all over the place They wake up earlier 80 to 95 to 90 percent of success people that I know and when I was researching this wake up early like Richard Branson Multi-billionaire waits a bit 530 in the morning. That's not too early Tim Cook wakes up at 4 30 in the morning That's a little bit early, but some people like waking up if I don't wake up at 4 30 more Let me say that six o'clock is the time that I like waking up Because that gives me a couple hours before I actually start having to dive into my business But Tim Cook who is the CEO of Apple makes up at 4 30 Howard Schultz the guy who started Starbucks wakes up at 4 30 The key to it is not the time they wake up The key to it is waking up before they need to so that they can work on themselves and Have time to themselves maybe even some just silence to themselves Enjoy a cup of coffee while sitting in the living room and thinking about life and thinking about how they want to improve Maybe journaling maybe reading but the key is being proactive in their day versus being reactive in their day, you know if you Watch TV for an hour before you go to bed just stop watching TV and wake up an hour earlier and see what happens because One of the things I see with people is a lot of people like to blame time as the reason why they're not successful They like to blame externally versus blame on themselves when you blame external You just take all control of your life when you say, ah, there's nothing that I can do about it time I don't have enough time right every single person gets 24 hours in The thing that that you have to realize is that you have to be the person in control of your schedule Ask yourself. Do you wake up early enough to have you time? You time to be able to do whatever is you want to do different for everybody Maybe you just want to sit in silence and have coffee like I said Maybe you want to read maybe on a journal. Maybe you want to go for a walk. Maybe I do some yoga Maybe you want to get a full intense workout Whatever is it you want to do maybe you want to meditate for a while and start getting better at that Whatever is it you want to do do you give yourself enough time in the morning to have time to fill your cup? Before you go outside and take on the day. That's the thing. I think is important about waking up early It's not just about like waking up early for the sake of waking up early It's about waking up earlier so that you have time to improve yourself Before you go out and face the world. So that's the first thing that I notice The second thing is that they read a lot like a lot a lot. I was an event this two weeks ago And Patrick bet David was there and Patrick bed David just sold his business for a few hundred million dollars And he said one of the best piece of advice that he ever got was from one of his first mentors And he said what is the biggest key that you can give me for being? Massively successful and being ahead of everybody else and he said most people will never read if you could just get the habit of reading down In four five six ten years you'll be light years ahead of everybody else No one will be able to compete with you in whatever it is that you're doing because you have such a base of knowledge That's your light years ahead of everybody else the average CEO and every time I say some my on my Instagram people think it's bullshit But you can Google it the average CEO reads about 60 books per year That's crazy the average CEO reads 60 books per year. That's more than one per week But what's crazy about that is that 80% the crazy you're on the other side The crazy your part about it is that 80% of American families didn't buy a book last year And so if you want to be light years ahead and further along than the average person Just start reading no matter what it is I would recommend don't read fiction read nonfiction so that you can be improving but read whatever if you want to work on your Mindset, there's many amazing books that I could recommend on mindset if you want to learn about business There's many great books you can learn about that if you want to be a great parent There's many books you could read upon that and so read every day Ten pages a book and also just so you know reading Psychologists found that reading fends off neurodegenerative diseases like dementia Alzheimer's And so reading and then growing and learning actually helps your brain stay healthy for a long time And so ask yourself how often do you read should you read more? Would that help you hit your goals and get to where you want to be that's number two number three Successful people what I found is the majority of them exercise consistently Does that mean that every single successful person exercises every single day? No But I think there is a mind-body connection that we get away from and we need to get better at if your Body is better. It will make your mind better and it'll make your life better All too often people just focus on I want to grow this business and I want to be a multi-millionaire And then they're don't have the energy that they want. They're tired They're not getting taking control of themselves in the way that they their body's working The way that I see it is like I'm about to go to war in Business and life whatever it is I want to make sure that this physical meat suit that I happen to be inside of is that it's best shape It could possibly be to have as much energy as possible because energy Time is important energy is more important because energy makes the time That I put into something more potent makes me more productive makes me more focused And so if I can take care of this meat suit that is Rob dial I can make sure that I have the energy to put in the hours I need to put in and be able to outperform Anybody that might be competing against so the third thing is exercise consistently ask yourself How often are you working out? How often are you taking care of your body? How often are you doing yoga stretching? Giving yourself time to just literally be in this physical body of yours So that's number three number four it is proven over and over and over and over and over again Successful people write down their goals. There's a study that was done Harvard in the 1970s that found out that 3% of their students They were graduating with their MBA 3% of them wrote down their goals 10 years later They followed up with all of the people that were graduating that year again 10 years later They found out that that 3% was 10 times more successful than the other 97% Combined why is that think about that for a second? Why why is just the physical act of writing your goals on a piece of paper? Beneficial well number one it makes it real it makes it physical makes it exist in this universe It is now real and when it is I always say this over and over again I say this all the time on my Instagram and reels and all the stuff that I put out there when it's on paper. It can be planned Very rarely do we successfully plan something in our heads? And so if we can take the things from our heads put them down and say this is my goal for next year This is my goal for this month. This is my goal for this week We can go okay this even if it's just my goal for today This is my goal for today and I can see that goal for today. I could say okay What do I need to do to make this happen? What do I need to move in my schedule to make sure I put the the amount of time They need to want to make this important and I can get really clear number one on my goals Number two on what I need to do and number three the date that I want to have it hit by I can write down and say I want to do this by the end of this year. I want to lose 17 pounds by the end of this year. I want to End up making saving ten thousand dollars by the end of this year Whatever it is take your goals out of your head put them on paper So they're real they physical they exist in this universe They're right there in front of you and then you can start to plan out how to actually execute on those So number four is they always write down their goals number five is that they have mentors this one is Ridiculously important I can think of so many people that have been mentors in my life that have helped me get to where I am like no Man is an island. Nobody just becomes successful by themselves There's statistics that have been found that the average millionaire has seven mentors before they actually make that million dollars Why because what you do is you can shorten your learning curve if you can find a mentor That's 20 years ahead of you like even this way if we just say let's take money out of it And let's say success to you is having an incredible relationship with your spouse Can you find somebody who could be a mentor in your relationship? Somebody who has a marriage that you want you look up to them. The husband and wife have this incredible relationship They have an incredible family that they've built you can take 20 years of their knowledge 30 years of their knowledge And shorten it and learn from them learn from the six their successes learn from their failures If you want to grow a business, there's somebody who has grown a business similar to yours It can't even be different than yours, but they know what potential you know between zero to a million dollars There's a lot different Challenges then there is from 1 million to 10 million then there is from 10 million to 20 men from 20 to 100 million And they can take their 20 years of knowledge and shorten into two years for you And you could have a paid mentor you could have a free mentor. I always get asked this like what's the benefit of paid What's the benefit of free? I? Think paid mentors are great. I think free mentors are great I've had free mentors, but I've always gotten more results from someone that I've paid to be my mentor Why because when you pay someone to be your mentor They feel responsible for you if they're a good person they feel responsible for your success and your failure They have skin in the game. They take it more serious. They want to actually make sure they help you succeed by getting there Free mentors they care, but they just don't care as much But I've had many free mentors that have just been friends of mine They've taught me things and conversations that I've that I've heard from them of just like oh I really appreciate that they know they said but I think that both of them are great But I think that paid mentors usually end up being better somewhere five is they always have mentors number six Some of the most successful people that I know are people that really Believe in themselves a lot and one of the reasons why and this is the actual tip that they believe themselves a lot Is because they actually have very positive self-talk. They weren't born with positive self-talk But they became intentional about the way that they talked to themselves and you know if you think of it if you think of it like the way I like to think of it is Think of a garden for instance right like over to my right. I have one tiny garden over to my left I have one tiny garden. Let's just say it's not even a garden. It's a plant to my right I have a plant to my left. I have a plant and I can take the water if I have a bucket of water I can take that bucket of water and I can pour it into a plant right on the bucket on my right I'm going to pour in water and I'm gonna pour it. I'm gonna take care of it I'm gonna nurture it and I'm gonna make sure it gets the water that it needs I'm gonna make sure they get the sun that it needs. I'm gonna make sure it's in the right environment if it gets too cold outside I'm gonna make sure they bring it inside and I'm gonna be intentional about the one on the right The one on the left. Just let it do what it's gonna do Which one do you think is more likely to grow to its full capacity? The one on the right the one that I take the time the intention the one why I try to make sure that has a right Environment has a right water has a right Sun was too cold I bring it inside the one on the right It has a better chance of succeeding the way. I like to think of your mind is is like those plants I'm going to put positive energy and the Quote-unquote the water and the analogy I'm giving you the water Into this plant my mind is like a garden I want to make sure I'm putting in as much positive stuff as I possibly can will negatively pot negativity pop up Absolutely 100% Negativity will pop up in your mind, but when it gets there It's like a weed you have to pull it out and you have to remind yourself of what you're working towards and replace that negativity with positivity So some of the most successful people I know are Positive people and they're intentional about it. They weren't born that way. So ask yourself What part of yourself talk needs improving? Okay, number seven. They don't worry about failure. I Was on a call about a week ago and somebody spoke up on the zoom call and said hey How can we avoid avoid failure? And I was like Why do you want to avoid failure? Because failure is actually your greatest learning lesson They don't see failure as failure. They see it as falling Failure in my opinion is only when you give up on something You can't fail at something until you just you're done you give up at that point time You have failed but if you screw up and you screw up and you screw up you screwed up You didn't fail It's like going I want to be a basketball player, but I don't want to miss any shots No, no, no, you have to miss shots because when you miss a shot your brain your body Recalibrate and change and go okay that shot it went a little bit off to the right That means in this next time. I need to push a little bit to the left If you look at people like Michael Jordan Missed half of the shots he took his entire career If you look at people that are like that are incredible baseball players the majority of baseball players Strike out if you're like an all-star you strike out 70% of the time Which means that you fail quote-unquote more than you succeed You can't worry about failure you have to see them you have to learn from them You have to grow from them and so ask yourself how can I learn more from my failures? And then last one this is the most important thing that I think What I don't want to say most important it is probably the most important thing that I can think about on the road to success The people who I know they're most successful. They just don't stop You could put a truck in their way. They're just gonna keep going. They're gonna figure out a way They're gonna go under it. They're gonna go around it. They're gonna go out like on top of it They're gonna dig a hole and go and create a you know Actual tunnel like Elon Musk under that thing. They're gonna figure out a way to go around it instead of most people where they see Oh, yeah, there's something there's a roadblock. There's something in front of me I don't know if I can do this and then they just turn around and give up They just don't stop success people don't stop you want to know the secret to success outlast everybody Like I had I had somebody the same event that I was talking about where Patrick bed David was there I had a lady walk up to me and she's like hey You know the one of these guys said that you have a big podcast. I just started my podcast a few months ago What's the secret to it and I go she's like, you know, what's how can the exact question was how can I grow a podcast as big as yours and I kind of chuckled and I was like two fourteen hundred episodes of the next seven and a half years You'll win and she's like what and I was like just don't stop Like I know many people have started podcasts the same time I started podcasts and a lot of them gave up I just decided when I started doing this thing I will not stop and if I don't stop I will outlast everybody. I don't want to be the hair I want to be the tortoise on I'm slow and I live by slow and steady wins the race I am not competing against anybody else But myself and myself is yesterday and yesterday I did what I was supposed to do so today I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do You just give up too early on your goals. Lots of people are excited to start but they give up And so you've got to ask yourself how often do you give up and how different? Would your life be if you just didn't stop this new venture that you've been working on for the past few months How different will your life be if you just do not stop? That is one of the biggest keys that people never talk about is just don't stop make your mind up and go You're either gonna succeed or you're gonna die trying and that's it And if you think of it that way you'll succeed a hundred percent So that's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode Please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at Rob dial jr. R. O. B. D. I a L J R And if you love this podcast you want this podcast to fill up your Instagram news view with some positive Amazing stuff. 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