1040: Building an Unstoppable Mindset with Alden Mills

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former Navy SEAL Alden Mills shares his battle-tested strategies for building mental toughness.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to push past fear

2) How to master the mindset loop

3) How to direct your emotions

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— ABOUT ALDEN —

Alden Mills is on a mission to help 100 million people Be Unstoppable. He is a three-time bestselling author, the Inc. 500 CEO of Perfect Fitness, and the founder of multiple businesses. Throughout his time as a businessman founding and leading multiple companies, he has been awarded over 40 patents.

A former Navy SEAL, he is a three-time platoon commander and ranked #1 platoon commander each time. Alden teaches people, teams, and organizations to Be Unstoppable. Entrepreneur magazine recently ranked him the #1 top virtual speaker.

• Book: Unstoppable Mindset: How to Use What You Have to Get What You Want

• Website: Alden-Mills.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts by Leo Tolstoy

• Book: Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business by John Mackey, Steve Mcintosh, and Carter Phipps

• Book: Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You by Ethan Kross

• Past episode: 957: How to Push Past Discomfort and Expand Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Marc Schoen

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0:00.0	Beliefs can come from the environment we grew up in, from our parents, from our brother, our sister, our coaches, our teachers, whatever.
0:15.3	They come all over the place. And here's the wonderful thing about beliefs. We can decide which ones are true or not, and we get to change them.
0:23.2	Leadership action number three.
0:26.6	We get to decide.
0:28.0	I decide what I can or cannot do.
0:30.6	Nobody else.
0:32.1	You have to lead yourself to decide what's the helpful or hurtful thought.
0:36.0	Where am I going to put my focus?
0:37.2	And what am I going to decide to believe the helpful or hurtful thought, where am I going to put my focus, and what am I going
0:37.7	to decide to believe in?
0:46.2	That's Alden Mills. He's a former Navy SEAL who's been ranked number one flatoon commander
0:50.6	and has been on a mission ever since to help 100 million people be unstoppable.
0:56.0	He's also an accomplished businessman and inventor of The Perfect Pushup. In his books, he shares the
1:01.4	necessary mindset changes to build the mental toughness to succeed. So you'll learn one, how to push past
1:06.5	fear. Two, how to master the mindset loop. and three, how to direct your emotions.
1:13.5	If you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways,
1:15.9	I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter found at
1:19.1	awesome at your job.com.
1:21.2	I'm Pete McItis.
1:22.2	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:23.8	And now, here's Alden.
1:30.3	Alden, welcome back.
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