Rob Dial: Want to Actually Achieve Your Goals in 2026? Use THIS Action-Based Goal System to Get Back on Track (Even If You Fall Off!)
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jay sits down with Rob Dial for a powerful conversation about discipline, purpose, and why so many people stay stuck even when they know exactly what they should do. Rob reframes discipline not as punishment or pressure, but as an act of self-respect, explaining why choosing discomfort today is often the deepest form of self-love. From building consistency to reshaping identity, he reveals why real change has nothing to do with motivation or willpower, and everything to do with designing a life where doing the right thing becomes automatic.
Drawing from his own journey, Rob shares hard-earned lessons on following curiosity, embracing failure, and staying consistent long before results appear. He challenges the idea that purpose is something you “find” all at once, offering instead a more grounded path—one built through action, experimentation, and committing fully to the season you’re in. Together, Jay and Rob explore how fear, past pain, and self-judgment quietly hold people back, and how small, imperfect steps can begin healing old wounds while building confidence, competence, and momentum in the present.
In this interview, you'll learn:
How to Build Discipline When Motivation Disappears
How to Stay Consistent Even When You Fall Off Track
How to Focus on One Habit for 100 Days
How to Design Your Environment for Better Habits
How to Turn Discipline Into Self-Love
How to Not Quit Even When You Don’t See Results
How to Make 2026 Your Best Year by Doing Less, Not More
Focus on what you can control today. Do one thing well. Create habits that support the person you want to become, and be patient with yourself as you grow into them.
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
00:58 How Can You Actually Get Ahead in Life?
04:44 Should You Do What You Love?
11:45 What to Do When You’re Unhappy at Work
20:57 Why We Talk Ourselves Out of Our Passions
28:05 Understanding Your True Motivation
32:39 How to Build a New Skill From Scratch
38:01 How to Stay Consistent When Changing Your Life
46:26 Focus on One Thing for 100 Days
51:25 How to Set Lasting Goals for the New Year
56:23 How to Stop Fixating on the Negative
01:00:49 How to Take Control of Your Life
01:02:50 A New Way to Think About Aging
01:05:00 The Power of Believing It’s Already Yours
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.0 | Most people are focused on the result base goal, which is when I lose 40 pounds, then I will |
| 0:09.4 | have hit my goal. |
| 0:10.0 | That is a result. |
| 0:10.8 | You still set the result base goal, but then what you do is you create something that's |
| 0:14.4 | called daily action base goals. |
| 0:16.0 | As long as I get these things done every single day, it is a success. |
| 0:19.7 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome back to On Purpose, |
| 0:22.0 | the place you come to become happier, healthier and more healed. Today, my guest is a dear |
| 0:27.4 | friend Rob Dow, leading mindset coach and the host of the Mindset Mentor podcast. If you haven't |
| 0:33.1 | subscribed to his, make sure you do, helping millions rewire their thoughts and their habits. If you're feeling |
| 0:39.1 | stuck, unmotivated, or just don't know where to start, this conversation will show you how to |
| 0:45.0 | finally get out of your own way and achieve the life you've always wanted. Please welcome back to |
| 0:50.8 | the show, one of your favorites, and my good friend, Rob Dahl. Rob, it's great to have you back. Hey, I'm so excited to be here, man. I love being here with you. Dude, the last time you were here, our episode just crushed. Like, people loved it. The comments were crazy. Views were awesome. I just love how clear cut you are. Thank you. There's no BS. It's really practical, pragmatic advice. Anyone can do it. You don't have to have a starting |
| 1:13.4 | point of money or followers or success. And I think that lands really well. The first question I have |
| 1:19.2 | for you is, what can someone today listening do to be ahead of 99% of people? |
| 1:26.6 | Hmm. I think the main thing that people can do if they want to be ahead of 99% of people. Hmm. |
| 1:31.8 | I think the main thing that people can do if they want to be ahead, |
| 1:33.6 | depending on what a head means to them, |
| 1:37.4 | is I think that they can develop their discipline within themselves. |
| 1:41.8 | I think that one thing that I've become really obsessed this over the past couple years is thinking about the idea of discipline. |
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