Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have

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subscribe button and follow along. Today, I'm going to be talking about seven different mindset

habits that helped me get my life together. If you're listening to this podcast, it's because

you want to work on your mindset because you know working on your mindset will improve your life. So let's dive into it.

The first one, which I think is one of the most important ones, is getting to the point of

my life where I accepted full responsibility for my life. Up until a certain point in my life,

I was the best person at making excuses.

I was the best person at blaming other people.

I was so good at telling you why it wasn't my fault that I was this way or that I wasn't successful or that I didn't have the life that I want.

And I've told this story before, but I was on a coaching call with my one-on-one coach

at the time.

I was 20 years old. And he was my mindset coach, life coach, sales coach. And in my sales, I wasn't doing as well as my sales as I was supposed to. And I wasn't doing as many outbound calls as I was supposed to. And I wasn't having the success that I wanted to have. and I was showing up a little bit late to all of our calls without my assignments done.

And he had this like coming to God moment with me. And I'll remember this conversation for the rest of my life. And he said, Rob, if you look at a business and a business fails, whose fault is it? And I was like, it's the business owner. He goes, okay, say it's a big business, like a really big business, thousands of employees. If the business fails, whose fault is it? And I was like, well, I guess that's the CEO's fault. He goes, okay, if a business succeeds, if a business is able to take 1,000 people that work in this business, get them towards one common goal the business succeeds succeeds. Whose fault is that? I was like, well, it'd be everyone's fault who worked there, but it'd also be the CEO's fault for getting everyone to go in the right direction and succeeding. He said, okay, so if a business fails, it's a CEO's fault. If a business succeed, it's the CEO's fault. I said, yes. He said, okay, if you get to the end of your life and it's not the life that you wanted and you look back with regret and you didn't have the love and the happiness and the joy and success that you wanted, whose fault would that be? And I was like, that would be my fault. And he goes, okay, if you got to the end of your life and it was the life that you wanted, you had the joy, the happiness, the love, success, everything you wanted, it was the life you wanted. Whose fault would that be? And I was like, I guess that would be my fault. He goes, the problem with you is that you're not acting like you're the CEO of your life. You're acting like it's everybody else's fault. Nobody is coming to save you. Put on your big

boy britches and actually start to do something with yourself. And I was like, it was like at that moment, everything clicked in my life. And I was like, 10-4, I got it. And so if you're out there and you're still saying I can't control this, it's my mom's fault, it's my dad's fault, This is my spouse's fault.

That's the government's fault.

That's the president's fault.

You're not going to get to the life that you want.

You have to accept full responsibility for your life. You have to stop blaming external circumstances and finally take ownership for your life. And this will shift you from having a victim mindset, which I had for years. I was such a victim. Everybody else's fault but my own from being a victim

to being an empowered person. Because when everything is your fault, when everything's your

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