This Mindset Completely Changed My Life

The Mindset Mentor

Rob Dial

Mindset, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

4.9 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Have you ever stopped to wonder if the life you’re rushing through right now is actually the life your future self would do anything to get back? In this episode, I share the perspective shift that completely changed the way I see time, presence, and what truly matters by asking one simple question: what would my 80-year-old self tell me today? If you’ve been stuck chasing the next goal, overwhelmed by stress, or forgetting to enjoy the season you’re in, this episode will help you slow down, reconnect with your life, and realize that these might already be the good old days.

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dyle. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you want to learn how to create the perfect morning routine, go to the
0:21.1	perfect morning routine.com. I created a workbook and a video for you to go through to create
0:27.0	the perfect morning routine based off of science. Once again, that is the perfect morning
0:31.5	routine.com to get it for free. Today, I want to talk to you about something that genuinely,
0:37.0	I think has changed my life forever.
0:39.1	And it's not a productivity hack. It's not a business strategy. It's not a neuroscience trick.
0:44.3	It is a perspective. It is a simple shift that's really changed my outlook on my life every single
0:52.0	day since I came up with it. And I think truly that if you let this
0:55.9	land and you use what I teach, that it could completely change the way that you live your life as
1:00.6	well. So for me, I just turned 40 and there's something about turning 40 where time starts to feel
1:08.0	a little bit different. Not in like a depressing way, but in an actual beautiful
1:12.9	way, I started thinking more deeply about time that has passed and time that will pass. And I started
1:19.5	realizing like, hey, this life is not an endless hallway anymore. I started realizing like,
1:24.7	this thing is moving. And when you look at the average person and how long
1:29.0	they live, I am halfway through the average person's life. Hopefully I do get longer, but according to
1:35.8	stats, I'm halfway there. I'm halfway done. And recently I keep seeing these videos on Instagram of people
1:42.3	holding their babies and their young children. And on the
1:45.3	screen it says when I'm 80 years old, this is what I'll dream about. And every time I saw one of
1:51.3	those videos, something inside of me cracked open because I started looking at my young son way
1:57.2	differently, not with like sadness, but with like this reverence. And I started realizing,
2:03.2	like even though I already knew it, but I started really, really realizing, oh my God, like
2:07.5	these are, I'm in the good old days right now. Like this is it. So that moment that feels like
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