Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Once again, that is theperfectmorningroutine.com to get it for free. Today, I'm going to be giving you my seven mindset habits that absolutely changed my life. And have you ever looked back on your life, maybe 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and realized that everything has changed? Like everything. You're not the same person. You don't think the same.
Besides your face looking the same and a little bit older, there's no aspect of your old self that exists anymore. And it's not because of one big breakthrough. It's because of a few quiet, repeated decisions. I've been thinking a lot about this recently because I think about who I used to be.
When I think about who I am now, and even though I look the same, my life is completely unrecognizable and every part about me, especially in my mind is absolutely unrecognizable. And so I wanna share with you the seven habits that just completely changed my life. And hopefully I inspire you to take on one of these or two of these or every one of these.
And these seven habits didn't just shift my thoughts. They changed how I showed up in the world. They rewired my brain. They built my confidence. They reminded me or actually taught me what the hell I was doing in this world. And underneath all of the shame and the fear and the not good enoughs, It was able to work through those things and start to quiet them down.
Not that they're all gone, but just that they're quiet. The shame, the fear, the not good enough. They're way quieter than they used to be. And if you're anything like I used to be, which is overthinking or people pleasing or chasing perfection or not taking the action that you want to, then it's time for you to take your mind back and hopefully pick up one or two of these.
So the first thing that really changed my life, number one, was taking radical responsibility. And at one point in time, I realized that no one's coming to save me. And that's good news. And that's really the first mindset shift that happened to me when I was 20 years old that just broke my identity wide open. I stopped blaming people. I stopped blaming my past. I stopped blaming my parents.
I stopped blaming the economy, my exes, the weather, Mercury and retrograde or the algorithms or all of those things.
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Chapter 2: What are the seven life-changing habits that can transform your mindset?
I realized that I have to be the person to do it. And it was through one conversation that I had with my one-on-one coach at the time. I was 20 years old and I was making excuses. I was showing up late to calls. I was not getting my assignments done on a weekly basis. And I've told this story before, but it was a conversation that really changed the course of my life.
He said, hey, man, I've got a question for you. Like, if you look at a business, And a business fails, whose fault is that? And I was like, that's the CEO's fault. And he said, if you look at a business and it's got thousands of employees and one person's able to take all those thousands of employees and move the whole company in one direction and succeed, whose fault is that?
And I was like, well, that would be the CEO's fault. He said, okay, so let me ask you this. If you get to the end of your life And you look back with regret. You don't have the life that you want. You wish you would have done more. You wish you would have loved more. You wish you had more peace, joy, happiness, love, all of those things. And you don't have as much as you wanted.
And you didn't create the life that you want. Whose fault would it be? I was like, that would be my fault. He's like, and if you did have the love, the joy, the happiness, everything you've ever wanted, you create an amazing life and you're on your deathbed. Whose fault would that be? And I was like, that'd be my fault.
And he said, so the problem with you, Rob, is you're blaming everybody else but yourself. You're not showing up. You're not taking your life seriously. And you're not acting like the CEO of your life. And I was like, 10-4. Got it. From that moment on, I was like, everything is my responsibility. Right? The good, the bad, the still working on it. And it's not...
The thing that I want you to understand is it's not about shame and shaming myself to do it. It's about power. Because as long as something is out there that's responsible for my happiness or responsible for my money or responsible for my joy or my love, whatever it might be, as long as it's out there, I'm going to stay stuck.
But when you take responsibility for everything, you're no longer the victim in your life. You're the sole person in control of your life. But once you say like, it's on me to heal, it's on me to change, it's on me to create the life that I want for myself and my family. Once you really get that clicked into your brain, everything changes completely. And so that's the first thing.
The second thing that changed my life is practicing daily gratitude, even when life sucks.
and gratitude seems like this cutesy little you know flowery i'm gonna put on my yoga pants and i'm gonna be all grateful and that's the way i always thought about it for years but it's not just like a cute little habit what i have realized over the past couple years when i've really been focusing on gratitude is that gratitude is a gateway to happier moments in your life happier days in your life without needing to change anything except for your perspective
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Chapter 3: How can taking radical responsibility change your life?
And that fear... was tied to my dreams. And so I was like, okay, so if I feel this fear, if I'm looking at my dreams, I've gotta get out of my comfort zone, I've gotta do this, I've gotta grow. And so the fear was actually a compass for what I should do, not what I shouldn't do.
Like starting my podcast, when I started this podcast back in 2015, I had the idea in January of 2015, I didn't start it till August of 2015, because for eight months I was scared. And then I realized this is something that I feel is the right thing to do, I should do this. And so it was like starting my podcast scared the hell out of me, but I did anyways.
Getting on stage for the first time in front of 10 people scared the hell out of me. And then I started doing a little bit more, a little bit more. Now I am excited to get on stage in front of 3000 people sometimes. Opening up about my story when I first started the podcast. All of these things scared me. I was scared every single time, but I did it anyways.
And the shift is instead of thinking I'm scared, I should wait. The feeling is, I'm scared, so this probably matters. And so I should do this. And so think about that. What would you do today if you weren't afraid? How is that fear attached to your dreams and what you want to create? And if you feel it, it's okay. You can feel the fear and do it anyways. So just do it anyways.
So that's number three. Number four is learning to trust my intuition. It's trusting the whisper over the scream. You know, there's a quote that says, your fears will scream at you, your intuition whispers. And so you've got to think about that. Your intuition doesn't demand anything from you. It doesn't tell you what to do. It doesn't rationalize. It simply is just an internal feeling.
It's an internal nudge. And most of us have been taught to ignore that whisper and to think logically instead or to wait until we have a clear plan that we can be absolute certain for or to keep doing what's safe or to listen to our fears in some sort of way. It's very, very subtle. But the whisper, in my opinion, is the wisest part of you.
you're just keeping yourself too damn busy to actually listen to it. You're too busy scrolling and watching this and doing that and doing that and doing this. And you're just constantly doing things all the time versus going inward and actually paying attention to you. It's there, I promise you it's there. You've just gotta get better at listening to it.
My whole life changed when I started listening to that quiet voice, that quiet inspiration that was inside of me. Even if it made zero logical sense. Like starting this podcast and quitting my job 10 years ago to do this podcast made no sense. There was no money to be made. People didn't listen to podcasts. They didn't know how to listen to podcasts.
And a lot of times when I told people I had a podcast, they said, what is a podcast? Fast forward over 10 years now and you're like, yeah, it's a pretty good decision. But it was only because I had this internal feeling of like, this feels like the thing I'm supposed to do with my life. It didn't come from like creating a five-year plan. They didn't. I had no plan.
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Chapter 4: What role does daily gratitude play in improving your perspective?
I appreciate you. And I hope that you have an amazing day.