Welcome to the rewire podcast.

I'm your host, Ryan Stumann, and I'm here to rewire your mind for success.

You were put on this planet for success.

You were created to succeed, but the force of average is after you every single day, my brothers and sisters.

And this podcast is the one thing that's designed to help you fight the force of average and excel in every area of your life.

We're glad that you're here.

One of the things I've been able to create that's helped me through some really hard times in my life is what I call a mental safe space.

So let me give you an example.

I've learned how to play some brain games on myself.

And these may work for you.

They may not work for you,

but I'm going to give you the game here anyway to try it.

For example, if I'm in the gym and I have to do 10 reps,

you know, five, let's say they're box steps.

Okay, five on the left, five on the right.

The mental game, the mentally safe space that I'll go to,

especially if I'm sweating, it's hard. I've done a whole bunch of them, right? I'm going to go to

this safe space in my mind. I'm going to remove my mind from the physical pain that I'm going

through and put my mind on autopilot while my body is doing what it's doing. There's a couple of things I do for this, right?

First of all, I count down.

I never count up on reps.

When I'm in the gym, even when I'm swinging a hammer on the ranch or putting fence post in the ground or working, swinging an axe, whatever, I always count down.

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