Welcome to today's episode of The Mindset Mentor podcast.

I'm your host, Rob Dial.

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that subscribe button, join us on this journey. Today, I'm going to be talking about the mindset

that I adopted that completely changed my life because there was a moment where I realized

something uncomfortable. Nothing was really wrong in my life because there was a moment where I realized something uncomfortable.

Nothing was really wrong in my life, but nothing was really changing either.

And if I didn't do something drastically different, I would end up with a life that I did not

want in my future.

And that's when it really, really hit me hard.

If something was going to change in my

life, I had to do something different. If I stayed comfortable, if I stayed the same, I could

predict exactly where I would be in five years with the same habits, with the same problems,

with the same excuses, with the same life, and ultimately a not fulfilled

life in the one life that I have here. I would just be older and probably grumpier, and that

scared the shit out of me. And I realized that being comfortable wasn't a sign that I was doing

life well. It was a sign that I had stopped challenging myself. And my very first

mentor gave me this mindset, this phrase that really changed the way that I thought about the world.

And he used to always say, you're either green and growing or you're brown and dying. You're green

and growing or you're brown and dying. And when I looked at my life and where I was,

to be honest, I was brown and dying. And if my life was going to change from that moment forward,

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