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

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your phone. Text me right now. 512-5-5. Once again, 512-5-8-0-3-0-50. Today I'm going to give you five tips to stop being so lazy. I used to be somebody who was very lazy. And in fact, there are definitely sometimes where I am lazy, but it just doesn't go

throughout my entire day. Like, after 6 o'clock, I'm pretty damn lazy when it's during the week. So when I was younger, though, I was a very lazy kid and didn't really do anything or care to do anything. They didn't want to go to work, didn't want to do any of that stuff. And so I do think that you can be lazy and also still succeed.

And I do think that laziness is not a trait

that you have to have forever. I think it's something that you can be sometimes. It's kind of like something you could, you know, sometimes if you're an introvert, you can turn it on and be an extrovert for a party that you go to and then turn it back off. Well, your laziness can be the exact same thing, I believe. And so if you're a lazy person,

if you're a procrastinator, if you're a self-sabotager, all of those things, this episode is for you because you know, I know, that in order to get the life you want, it requires effort. And if you're being too lazy, you're not putting the effort in, you're not going to get the life that you want. And so let's dive into those five different things. Number one, I want you to start

being honest with yourself. I want you to just stop launching. you're not going to get the life that you want and so let's dive into those five different things

number one i want you to start being honest with yourself i want you to just stop lying to yourself

and i want you to admit to yourself i am lazy or i have been lazy and then tell yourself i'm not

going to be lazy forever it's like a you know 12-step program the first thing is you have to just

admit you know you have to stop lying to

yourself. Call it what it is. Once you admit it, once you become aware of it, then you start to work

to overcome it. I personally have a different viewpoint than I think most people do. I think that

humans are just inherently lazy. I think most people are inherently lazy. I think there's some

people that I see that have so much energy and I'm like, I wish. Like if I had that person's energy, I feel like I'd be 10 times further than in life. But I just ain't got it. And I think that most people don't have it. Are there some who are blessed with copious amounts of energy? Sure. Am I one of them? No. Are you one of them? I don't know. Probably not as well. I think the majority of people don't have a ton of energy. And I think that most people are kind of lazy. You know, if we were to, like here in the summer in Texas, it gets so hot. Like 107 degrees for like 45 days in a row. It is torture to be outside and it is torture to be in the

sun. I think if we went back 100,000 years ago and we viewed it whoever happened to be living

in Austin, Texas at that point in time, I bet you the majority of the day, they're probably

hanging out under trees. Probably ours. They probably woke up early in the morning. They did their

hunting. They did their gathering. They did everything as the sun was coming up. And then around 1, 2 o'clock, they probably went and hung under some trees, waited for sunset. You know, they might have taken some naps, you know, a midday nap as a caveman or cavewoman. And then they would go out and do their thing as the sun is starting set as it was cooler again. And it is natural for us as humans to take the path of least resistance, which when we're trying to build a life that we want, can seem lazy. And so the first thing I want you to do is just admit to yourself that you are lazy sometimes, and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with it. I don't want you to shame yourself. I don't want you to guilt yourself because that's completely unnecessary. I want you to say, hey, if I am lazy, this is something that I want to work it. This is something I want to change. You know, I can be lazy anytime outside of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. if you're trying to build a business, if you're trying to get something done. And then stop blaming anything that's outside of yourself. Everybody, we like to blame the external. What we have to do is we have to look at it and we have to take full acceptance. Yes, I am lazy, but it's something that I'm going to change. I'm going to change it and I'm going to allow myself to be lazy outside of my working hours. But during my working hours, I'm going to be a machine. I'm going to figure out how to get done, whatever it is. I need to get done. Okay, so that's the first thing. Just accept it. Become okay with it first. Therefore, you don't have that internal resistance like you tend to do all the time. Right. Number two is to take your goals and to make them bite size. One of the things that I realized, and for years, I would do New Year's resolutions

with people, and we would do, you know, planning sessions, and I would do a webinar, and we'd do

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