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Welcome to the Brian Bafini Show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies of success.

Here's your coach, Brian Bafini.

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Well, thank you, David, and the top of the morning to you and welcome to the Brian Bafini Show coming to you.

From the Earl Nightingale studio in Bafini and companies headquarters, we're delighted to bring encouraging and hopefully insightful information to brighten your day, give you some food for thought, give you something to do with it, mindset, motivation, methodologies.

So today we're going to talk about renewing your mind, but do it in the context that renewing your mind is not refreshing your screen. And we're really going to kind of dive into day and talk about stopping something and starting something else.

And that really is as a coach in the head of the largest small business coaching company in North America, where we've seen great success is when we encourage somebody to stop something and start something else.

And it doesn't have to be always monumental, but it's for example, somebody says, all right, I want to get in shape. I want to run a marathon, but they haven't really been exercising.

How about we do this? How about we stop drinking soda, start drinking water. That's the first step. Stop doing something negative and start doing something beneficial and positive.

And that's kind of really where we're going to go today. There's certain things we need to stop and there's certain things we need to start. And we do that, we get to renew our minds and renewing our mind is a very powerful thing.

One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, by the renewing of your mind.

That's ultimately a big part of what God's will for our life is to be able to renew our mind. And so we need to stop something which is conforming to this world and be transformed.

Right. So do not conform, be transformed. Stop something, start something. I'm going to give you some thoughts on that today and I'm kind of a simple how to presentation.

The three points I'm going to cover today. The first thing we're going to cover is the social dilemma. The next thing we're going to cover is the power of a renewed mind. And then the third thing we're going to cover is how to renew your mind just a couple of specific how to's there mindset, motivation, methodologies.

So first and foremost, we're going to cover the social dilemma itself, you know, renewing your mind is not refreshing your screen, you know, people underestimate by 50% how much time they spend on their phone.

The average person spends three hours a day on their phone, you know, that's 11 years over an average life span. I'm going to say this, I've had seasons in my life where I've seen those numbers creep up beyond that.

And so your next thing, what am I doing all day? And you realize it's becoming more of a habit. In fact, there's an excellent show on Netflix called the social dilemma. And it wasn't that it was so revolutionary or so spine chilling.

It was very confirming to me very confirming knowing the way business works, knowing the way markets move and knowing the way that tech moves and tech has become more and more a dynamic where ethics is not really part of a lot of the decision making in tech.

It's really a very utilitarian approach to things. And so what happens is you start to eliminate those human decisions that require an ethical choice.

And so this is a dynamic, the social dilemma where it's a fantastic program because it features a series of interviews with former employees and executives from a lot of the tech firms that actually established the social media platforms that many of us use.

And they provide kind of the first hand insight of how it actually works. And they all say that you know it all started out good. It all started out positive.

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