Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host Rob Dyle, and if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another episode.

Today we're going to be talking about how we are at war, and no, I don't mean that we're at war with ISIS or al-Qaeda or any other countries.

We are collectively as a species at war with an invisible virus that's come in, killed a lot of people, and I want to talk about how your life would be different if you...

I'm going to ask you a question. If you were about to go to war, if you knew that in two weeks or a month from today, right now, that you had to go to battle, that you had to go to war,

what would you do differently right now if you knew that in two weeks from today, let's just use two weeks to example, two weeks from today, you're going to be going to war. What would you do differently?

Think about this for a second. Would you spend more quality time with your family? Probably. Would you work out harder than you ever have in your entire life so that you can be physically as prepared as possible to go to war? Probably.

Would you focus on having the best mind that you possibly can? Probably. Would you meditate more? Probably. Would you read more? Probably. Would you eat healthier? Probably. Would you focus on what's important to you? Probably.

These are the things that you would probably do if you knew that you were going to war. Would you spend more time creating something that would impact the world or maybe even your children if you did not come back from battle? Probably.

Think about it. If you were to go to war and you knew you came to war, you went to war. What did you want to have something to be remembered by? That your children can remember you, that the world can remember you, so they can know who you are, what you believe in, what you stand for?

So we got that you would spend more time with your family. You would work out harder. You would eat healthier. You would work on your mind more that you would create something to impact the world. Would you spend a bunch of time on social media? Probably not. Would you spend time wasting time worrying about things that don't matter? Probably not. Would you worry about what Karen down the street thinks of you? Probably not.

Would you worry about what Karen in accounting thinks of you and she's on the Zoom call? No, probably not. What you would do is you would focus on the things that really matter the most. Your mind, your body, your soul, your relationships, all of the things that you possibly could.

But you wouldn't waste on all the things that don't really matter. The social media and the worrying about things that don't truly mean something. I want you to realize the way that I see the current circumstance that we are in is we are at war. The human race is at war with us. Now I'm not scared of the coronavirus. It will eventually pass over.

I don't know if it's ever going to disappear, but we will all eventually calm down. I do know that for sure. I do think that it'll calm down quicker if people stop leaving their damn houses and putting themselves at other people at risk.

So the quicker people lock themselves down, the quicker this is going to go over so we can get back to somewhat of a normal life. I don't know how much normal how normal it's going to be in the next couple of years, but I see it as we are at war.

I am mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually trying to prepare myself financially, business-wise, all of these things prepare myself as if we are at war, as if I am personally at war. That is physically, mentally, emotionally, the way that I am seeing it in my head and the way that I'm thinking about it.

This is not going to get better within the next month. I'm just going to tell you that right now. It's not going to get better in the next month. It's going to get worse.

Not trying to scare you, but I'm trying to be realistic. When you look at the numbers and I just did basic math and saw, oh my gosh, this doubles every three days.

You can see that we're at the point if you've ever read the article about the penny that doubles. If you double a penny every single day for 30 days, that penny, that one cent, double it, one penny to two pennies, two pennies to four pennies, six, four pennies to eight to 16 to 32 to 64.

30 days later becomes over five million dollars. It looks really small, really smaller, small, and then it takes off and it's a point where it's massive amounts of money.

It's the same thing that's happening right now. I'm just being realistic. I'm not scared of it. I'm not trying to scare you. You haven't. I'm just being realistic. It's not going to get better in the next month.

So how can we mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually see ourselves at war? Because your health is at war right now. Your bank account is at war. Your career is at war. Your family's health is at war. How can you think to yourself if I was going to war in two weeks, what would I do differently right now?

And how can I make that switch in my head to go, you know what? I'm going to work my freaking ass off.

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