Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.

I'm your host, Rob Dial.

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I put out episodes four times a week to help you improve yourself so you can

improve your life. So if that's what you want to do, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm going to be

talking about how I tricked myself and my brain into believing that I could create the life

that I wanted to create. Because have you ever noticed that you keep saying that you want more in your life,

but you keep acting like this old, outdated version of yourself?

If so, more than anything else, it's not laziness, it's not distractibility,

it's an identity protection.

Your brain would rather keep these small and predictable

than risk you becoming anything else, even if that anything else was powerful and uncertain.

Because it's uncertain. Your brain doesn't like that. And when I was younger, I remember

wanting to feel more confident. And it never came. So I did something

different. I forced my brain to update who I thought I was. And once my identity shifted,

everything else in my life followed. And so today I'm going to teach you exactly how to do that

for yourself. And if you stick with me through this episode, it could be the most life-changing episode that you've ever heard. Okay, so let's dive in. I want to be fully honest with you. When I was younger, I didn't believe in myself. I thought the way things were were just the way that they were always going to be. I saw other people's lives and I thought, oh, that must be nice to have that amazing life.

I didn't wake up confident. I didn't wake up certain. I was shy. I was not the type of person

that would just go out and create something. You know, I didn't wake up thinking like, oh my God,

I'm the guy who can build an amazing life. I thought the exact opposite. I was more of a victim

more than I was anything else.

And so I had to trick myself into believing that I could create the life I wanted. And I know

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