Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so,

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podcast, do me a favor. Give us a rating and review however you listen to us. It helps more than you can imagine. Today, I want to start off

and give you a phrase that I made up a couple years ago and it just changed the way that I think.

And I say it to myself multiple times a day. I'm constantly talking to myself in my head. And the phrase is this,

I will not let anybody piss on my picnic. So let me explain what that means to you because

without context, it makes no sense. But the phrase is, I will not let anybody piss on my picnic.

It means that I'm going to make today a great day regardless of what happens to me.

Regardless of who tries to come and piss on my picnic, metaphorically speaking, of course, I'm

going to have a great day no matter what.

And to be fully transparent with you, and without getting into too many details, I started thinking

this way because there's someone who's in my life that I see pretty often, and I can't, you know,

completely get rid of this person in my life. So I can't just completely let go of them. You know,

I won't tell you reasons why. And I'll just leave it at that. But I notice how

sometimes this person comes around every once in a while and they just kind of try to bring

everyone down. Like you probably know someone that's like that. They just try to bring everyone

down. Like they can almost, they almost like, they almost have like negativity coming out of their pores.

And I noticed that when they would come over and try to piss on my picnic, I noticed that my

energy would shift to a place of not wanting to be around them and starting to get a little bit

pissed off that they were around or starting to get pissed off that they were talking to this person that way or talking me this way. And so I noticed that my

energy started to shift. And I just said to myself, I was like, nope, I'm not going to do it. Like,

I will not let them fuck up my day. I will not let them piss on my picnic. And I said that phrase

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