Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. And if you're out there and you're trying to perfect your morning routine, I just created a simple workbook for you to download that shows you the step-by-step process to create an amazing morning routine based in science.
If you wanna download it for free, you can go to theperfectmorningroutine.com and get it now. Today, I'm gonna be talking to you about a simple trick that will make you more motivated every single day. Because have you ever noticed that the days you feel the most motivated are the days where you actually know where you're going?
It's kind of like you're excited to actually be moving towards something. But if you look at the days where you're stuck, those are the most exhausting days because you feel like you're having to use so much energy and so much force just to do something that feels a little bit productive. So what I'm going to teach you today is going to fix all of that.
If you do this every single morning, I am positive it will change the course of your life. It's not difficult at all. It's not rocket science. It is so simple. But sometimes we doubt things that are very simple. So I need you to just trust me and do this and see how your life changes. Okay, so here's what I'm going to teach you. Most people...
when we're trying to think of being motivated, we think what we need to do is we need to push ourselves. We need to be like, oh, I need to be more disciplined. I need to work harder. I need to stop being so damn lazy. I need to wake up earlier. I need to force myself to go do this thing. Trust me, I did this for a very long time, years and years and years. And you can do it too.
You can do it for a bit, but I promise you this. Eventually, you will wear yourself down or you will burn out in some sort of way. You cannot force yourself all day, every day. It's kind of like pushing a boulder uphill. Like when I was younger and I was really trying to be successful in my early, early 20s, I was working like 110 hours a week, like 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
every single day, Monday through Sunday for years. Eventually, of course, I'm going to burn myself out.
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Chapter 2: What is the simple trick to become more motivated every day?
And I ran my business headfirst into the ground, ended up going broke, ended up going way in debt. You just can't go like that forever. And that's why motivation for a lot of people, it feels like something that's really a struggle because it becomes this internal battle. It's like you versus you. And yeah, you can like win the battle for the good guys for just a little while.
You can force yourself and you can grind and you can get with that hustle mentality and all of that. But eventually, I promise you, every single person will burn out because pushing something takes a lot of energy.
Chapter 3: How can knowing your direction enhance motivation?
So what you actually want is called pull motivation. What you want is a future that is so clear, that is so vivid, that is so exciting that you actually feel pulled towards that future, not that you have to push yourself towards that future.
You don't want to put in the work because you have to put in the work, but because you actually want to put in the work because you want to get to that future as soon as you freaking can. You want to work hard because you're excited about where you're going and the destination that you will eventually get to if you put in the hard work.
This is a difference between pull motivation and push motivation. And so this is where the 15 minute habit is going to come in, okay? Every single morning, I want you to do this. It is a very sacred time when you first wake up in the morning.
Before you get to your phone, before you let the world in, if you got some kids, please wake up before they wake up so you can have this before all of the noise of the children and in the household and the noise of the world. I want you to take 15 minutes to brainwash yourself. That's it. 15 minutes, preferably even before your spouse wakes up.
What I found is like, if I have like a simple conversation before I go into my meditation in the morning, that conversation will pop up in my meditation. And so for me, I'm like, how can I keep my brain like as closed as possible? Nothing can come in before this 15 minutes of brainwashing. Now, why do you wanna do this in the morning and not some other time or right before you go to bed?
Well, right when you wake up, your brain is naturally in a slower brainwave state that's called theta. It's associated with deep imagination, it's associated with memory, and it's also associated with subconscious programming. And so in this state, theta state, your brain is more receptive to visualization and suggestion.
This is the brainwave state that most children are in from zero to seven years old, which is why they pick up things so fast. It's also the brainwave state that you get into when you're in hypnosis. So you're kind of, in a way, hypnotizing yourself. And so what that means is that
your focus, like what you focus on in the morning, in these 15 minute sessions, gets encoded deeper into your subconscious. So early morning mental imagery can actually influence your beliefs, it can influence your habits, your actions, and the motivation that you have at a neurological level. Before all the stress, before all the notifications, before the stimulation kicks in,
Your prefrontal cortex, which is your decision-making part of your brain, the executive functioning, it's quieter in the morning. It makes it easier to direct your focus without so much resistance, without so much, oh, I need to do something. This isn't productive. I need to do something else. I need to go take action. What's my to-do list for the day?
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Chapter 4: What is the difference between push and pull motivation?
And so every single morning I would visualize what it would look like to wake up, walk the streets of Rome and get a cappuccino and be able to sit with the sun on me And so what I started doing is I started doing it every single morning. I became obsessed and I became obsessed. And then I started thinking like, how can I get all five of my senses in on this thing?
And so I would, I would go outside at my house. I'd sit in the back porch and I would take an actual chair and put in the backyard and I would sit in the sun and imagine the sun on my face in Italy. And I would have my own cup of coffee and I would hold it in my hand and I would taste my coffee. I would never open my eyes, but I'm imagining that I'm drinking this in Italy. So I would taste coffee.
that coffee. I would smell that coffee. I'd feel the sun on my skin. I would visualize myself walking the streets of Rome to go get it. So by like month two, maybe three of doing this, I was like, we need to fucking get there faster. Like we got to go because I was so obsessed with it. I was like, I can't wait till July.
And so we actually got there on June 1st, 2017, because I was like, I don't want to wait anymore. I just want to get there. That is what it's like to be pulled towards your future, that you work harder to get there sooner. That's the difference between force versus inspiration. Force says, I have to do this. Inspiration says, let's go. Like, let's just take action. Force drains you.
Inspiration fuels you. The part that people don't realize when you look at this is when you're sitting down to do this every single morning, you're not just visualizing.
You are visualizing, but you're also training your brain to start noticing and filtering people, places, and opportunities and notice possibilities and take more action naturally and brainwash yourself to believing that this future that you want is possible because now your brain has a target that's exciting. So here's what I want you to do.
Tomorrow morning, before you do anything else, take 15 minutes, calm your body. Build your future in your mind. Feel it. Experience it. Pretend that it's real. And then go into your day carrying yourself as the version of you that's working towards getting there as soon as possible.
Because once your future becomes extremely clear and you get excited about it, you don't need to chase motivation anymore. You don't have to force yourself to do anything. You will feel pulled by it and excited to go take action. 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 at RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R.
Once again, if you wanna download my free workbook on how to create the perfect morning routine based by science, you can go to theperfectmorningroutine.com. And with that, I'm gonna leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.
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