Stop Controlling Everything and Just Let Go

The Mindset Mentor

Rob Dial

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Mindset

4.8 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are you constantly trying to control everything around you? I dive deep into the roots of control issues—where they come from and how they silently sabotage your relationships, work, and inner peace. This isn’t about calling you a control freak—it's about uncovering the trauma beneath the control and learning how to finally let go. Looking for daily motivation? Get free inspirational messages straight to your phone, plus exclusive podcast recommendations and updates on my free workshops so you never miss out. It’s simple: just send "Quotes by Rob" to this link here 👉 https://my.community.com/robdial

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast.
0:16.0	And if you love this podcast, please do me a massive favor. Give us a rating and review however you listen to us. The reason why is because the more positive ratings or reviews that we get on those
0:24.2	platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, the more that those actually show this podcast,
0:29.5	people have never listened to it before so that more people can discover us, find us,
0:33.0	and hopefully we can change more people's lives. If you do that, I would greatly appreciate it.
0:42.3	Today, we're going to be talking about all of your control issues that you have. Have you ever felt like you're just trying to control everything?
0:45.3	You're trying to hold the whole world together with your bare hands.
0:48.3	You're always managing or planning and fixing and overthinking everything.
0:53.3	Chances are if you clicked on this
0:54.5	episode, there is a chance, a small, small chance that you might have some control issues.
1:00.5	And I want you to understand, I have identified with myself years ago that I had control issues.
1:07.0	And this was back in 2018, 2017, when I really identified that I had control issues.
1:13.2	And I had this big awareness and I started working more on myself and working more
1:16.7	of myself. And I had this awareness that I had control issues because when you look at my entire
1:21.5	childhood, if you were to put one word over my childhood with having a father who was an alcoholic
1:26.8	and passing away when I was 15 and all of that, that the word over my childhood with having a father who is an alcoholic and passing away when I was 15 and
1:29.2	all of that, that the word over my childhood would be uncertainty. And the only way to fix
1:36.8	uncertainty is to try to control everything. But I had this realization that if I have, if I try to
1:41.5	control everything, it's going to ruin almost everything in my life.
1:45.0	It's going to ruin my relationships. It's going to ruin my business, all of that. And so I started
1:50.2	really working on my control issues. And that made me better at delegation in my, you know, business,
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