18:43The Mindset Mentor Podcast · Talking Head
The ONE Habit That Transformed My Life Forever
An 18-minute argument for why your goals are holding you back, and the five-reason case for building systems instead.
May 25thThe argument in one line.
Goals get achieved when you make them specific, name the sacrifice, attach a deadline, and then program your subconscious by reading a written statement aloud every morning and evening.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You set goals like 'lose weight' or 'make more money' and keep drifting away from them within weeks.
- You want a simple repeatable routine for a goal this year, such as a weight target, an income number, or less anxiety.
- You've read Think and Grow Rich and want the practical version in plain language with examples.
SKIP IF…
- You already run a written goal system with deadlines and daily review.
- You want research-backed evidence for the subconscious and theta-state claims, because the talk asserts them rather than citing studies.
The full version, fast.
Rob Dial lays out seven steps to achieve any goal, six adapted from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Fix your mind on exactly what you want, decide what you'll give up for it, set a firm date, write a definite plan and start immediately, picture the outcome, and write one clear statement covering all of it. Read that statement aloud every morning and evening, especially before bed when the mind is most programmable. His own seventh step is to ask, how can I make it easier on myself? He gives worked examples for weight loss, a $250,000 sales year, and reducing anxiety.
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00:00 – 01:17
01 · Step 1: Fix your mind on what you want
Get extremely specific. Lose 20 pounds, weigh 185, hit a body fat target, rather than 'lose some weight'.
01:17 – 03:02
02 · Step 2: Decide what you'll give up
Every goal costs something: queso, weekend beer, late nights. Your old self has to die off.
03:02 – 04:15
03 · Step 3: Set a deadline
A goal without a deadline is a dream. Deadlines create the productivity people feel before a vacation.
04:15 – 05:11
04 · Step 4: Write a plan and start now
A definite written plan, started immediately, not next week.
05:11 – 06:17
05 · Step 5: Future pace the result
Visualize the finished goal so it feels real and possible.
06:17 – 07:24
06 · Step 6: Write your statement and read it aloud
One clear statement with result, date, sacrifice, plan, read twice a day.
07:24 – 09:34
07 · Why reading it works: the subconscious
Reading right before bed and on waking programs the mind. Stay off news and social media at night.
09:34 – 13:10
08 · Step 7 and worked examples
Ask how to make it easier on yourself, then examples for weight loss, a $250K sales year, and peace.
13:10 – 13:36
09 · Wrap-up
Be clear, follow the steps, read the statement daily, and expect big shifts.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- If a six-year-old can't repeat your goal back to another six-year-old, it isn't clear enough yet.
- 'Lose some weight' is a bad goal because losing one pound technically hits it.
- Every yes costs a no, so a goal without a named sacrifice is a wish that expects your life to stay the same.
- A goal without a deadline is just a dream, and the deadline adds the pressure that makes people act.
- People are most productive right before a vacation or a presentation because the deadline makes going back impossible.
- A plan that starts 'next week' or 'next month' is not a plan, so the first action has to be immediate.
- Future pacing means mentally living the finished goal until it feels already real.
- A good goal statement holds four things: the result, the date, what you give up, and the exact plan.
- Reading the statement aloud twice a day feels pointless for a few days and starts to change belief by month two or three.
- The last thing you feed your brain before bed is what you end up dreaming about, so skip news and Instagram then.
- Asking 'how can I make it easier on myself?' removes friction rather than adding willpower.
Make the goal specific, costly, dated and spoken
WHAT TO LEARN
A goal sticks when it's specific enough to explain to a child, tied to a sacrifice and a deadline, and rehearsed aloud every day.
- Replace vague targets with numbers: 'lose 20 pounds, weigh 185' can be missed, while 'lose some weight' is hit by losing one pound.
- Write down what you'll stop doing, such as queso, weekend beer, or late nights, because every yes to a goal is a no to something else.
- Pick a calendar date for the goal, since a deadline creates the same focus people feel the days before a vacation or a presentation.
- Write a definite plan and take the first action immediately, rather than promising to start next week or next month.
- Put result, date, sacrifice and plan into one paragraph, then read it aloud each morning and each evening for months, not days.
- Use the minutes before sleep deliberately: skip news and social media, and rehearse your goal statement instead.
- Ask 'how can I make it easier on myself?' to remove friction from the plan before relying on willpower.
Terms worth knowing.
- Future pacing
- Visualizing yourself having already achieved the goal, in detail, so the outcome feels familiar and reachable before you start.
- Theta state
- The drowsy stretch just before sleep and just after waking, which the host describes as the moment your mind is most open to suggestion.
- Goal statement
- A single written paragraph naming your target, deadline, what you'll give up, and your plan, read aloud each morning and evening.
Things they pointed at.
00:00bookThink and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Lines you could clip.
01:00
“If you lose one pound, you hit your goal.”
03:10
“A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”
02:08
“Whenever you're saying yes to something, you're saying no to something else.”
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Today, I'm going to be talking about seven simple steps to achieve any goal that you set for yourself. And six of these seven steps are going to be Napoleon Hill, and then the last step is actually going to be from me. So let's go ahead and go through it.
The first one is to fix your mind on exactly what it is that you want. And so what he means by that is you need to get very, very clear on what it is that you want. I mean like extremely clear.
If a six -year -old were to come up to you and say, what is your goal? It needs to be clear enough for a six -year -old to understand it and then go explain it to another six -year -old. If that is not possible, then you are not clear enough on what your goals are.
And so don't say something like, I just want to lose some weight. That's a shitty goal. I want to lose some weight.
Because if you lose one pound, you hit your goal. I want to make more money. Well, if you make $1 more, you hit your goal.
So you need to get very clear. You need to say, hey, I want to lose 20 pounds. I want to weigh 185 pounds and I want to be at 7 % body fat.
See the difference of how much more clear that is? So you get really, really clear on exactly what it is that you want. And the reason why is because the more clear that you are in your goals, the more that you can see exactly what you need to do in order to hit them.
If your goals are this weird, vague, nebulous thing that exists, You're not going to hit it because you don't even understand it and nobody else understands it and the universe doesn't even understand what you're asking for. So you've got to get very clear on what it is that you want first.
The second thing that you need to do is you need to determine exactly what you tend to give up in return for what it is that you want to achieve. And this is a really interesting one. It's actually probably my favorite one out of the seven steps.
is most people think that their life is just gonna stay exactly the same and somehow magically they're just gonna be gifted this new goal that they just accomplished out of nowhere. No, in order for your goals to be accomplished, things are gonna have to change. You're going to have to give up aspects of yourself.
Parts of yourself, your old self, are gonna have to die off. And so you need to give up certain things. So if you want to, once again, lose weight, like we just talked about, you might have to give up eating queso every single time that you go out to restaurants.
Ah, shucks. Yeah, it's probably not going to help you out if you're eating queso. You might have to give up drinking beer on the weekends because you go through a 12 -pack on Saturday and a 12 -pack on Sunday with your friends.
Yeah, that's probably not the best for losing weight. You're going to have to, if you want to wake up early, you're going to have to give up staying up late. If you're going to try to be more healthy and maybe run a marathon, you might have to give up alcohol for six months.
You have to give something up. Whenever you're saying yes to something, you're saying no to something else. So at this point, you need to determine exactly what you're going to be saying no to and what you're going to give up in your life in order to achieve the goal that you really want to achieve.
So that's number two. Number three is to establish a date of when you are going to hit that goal. So you need to figure out the exact date because a goal without a deadline is just a dream.
All too often people are like, I would like to lose 10 pounds. No, I'm going to lose 10 pounds by July 1st of this year. Okay, well now we've got a deadline and a deadline adds just a little bit more pressure onto yourself.
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And now back to the show. If you think about when you're the most productive at work, it's usually the couple days right before you leave for vacation because you're like, I got to get it done. Or you're the most productive whenever you know that you've got a presentation that you've got to get done.
So when you have a deadline that you have to hit, there's no going back. That's usually when you're more likely to get it done. So that's number three is to establish the date.
Number four is to write out. a clear and definite plan for how you're going to do it and then start immediately. So don't say, I'll start next week.
Don't say, I'll start next month. Say, this is exactly what I'm going to do. This is what I'm going to do it.
And this is exactly how I'm going to do it. All too often, people don't know how to create the plan for what it is that they want to achieve. And the reason why is because they never really got on number one, really clear on exactly what it is that they want.
And so once you get clear, once you figure out what you intend to give up, once you figure out the date that you're going to hit it by, well then now you need to sit down with a pen and paper and actually write out the plan of what it's going to look like to get you there. I'll give you a secret tip. If it's hard for you to figure out the plan, You can try this thing that I like to do sometimes when it's really hard or maybe I don't believe in myself or I'm like, I can't really wrap my head around it.
And I like to call this thing future pacing. And so basically what it is, is now that I know the date that I want to hit it by. So let's say that I remember one time I wanted to have an event with a hundred people at the event.
And I was like, I don't know if I can do that. And I was like, I don't know what the plans are to get there. So I said, okay, I want to do it by July 31st of this year.
And so I said to myself today, and I started journaling it out today. is August of this year, I just had 100 people at my event and here's what I did to make that happen. And I started journaling as if I had just got it done and I was in the future.
And I just started letting myself be creative. So therefore the plan doesn't feel like, oh, I've got to create a perfect plan. It's like, I'm just journaling as my future self, telling myself exactly what I did to get there.
And so you can throw yourself into the future to help yourself create a plan if you're one of the people who kind of struggles with creating plans. Okay, so that's number four. Number five is to write a clear and concise statement.
And what you do is you summarize number one, number two, number three, and number four. And you summarize them into a clear, concise statement. And you want to think of clear and concise this way.
Same way that I said just a few minutes ago. You're going to explain it to a six -year -old. They're going to go say to another six -year -old.
And the other six -year -old is going to go, oh, okay, I get it. That's the way that you want it to be, clear and concise. Because sometimes you might be one of these people, and if you are, you're probably going to laugh at yourself, or you know somebody who's like this, where it's just like, hey, dude, can you get to the point?
Like, stop beating around the bush. Like, just tell me what it is that you need to tell me. If you're one of those types of people, you might want to create an entire 12 -page mission statement on how you're going to hit your goal.
No, no, no, clear and concise. What I mean by that is less than... 10, but preferably less than five sentences that says exactly what you're going to do.
That summarizes number one, two, three, and four. Okay. And then number six is you're going to read your written statement out loud two times a day.
Now you might be saying to yourself, that's kind of weird. Like I'm going to read it out loud to myself. Like what if, what if my husband walks by and sees me?
What if my roommates are like, what are you doing, kook? You're all kinds of crazy. No, no, no.
You're going to read it out loud to yourself. If you are afraid of your roommates, go say it into your closet by yourself where they can't hear you. I don't care what it is.
But you're going to read it out loud to yourself. One of the reasons why so many people don't hit their goals is because they simply just forget about them. They get busy.
They go back into their daily life. And then the end of the year, they're like, what was my New Year's resolution again? Oh, yeah, that's right.
Man, I forgot about it. So you're going to read it out loud to yourself every single morning and every single evening. There's one really...
two really magical reasons why you're going to do this. The reason why you read it out loud to yourself in the morning as soon as you wake up is because that is when your brain is just coming out of and still kind of in what's called theta state. Theta state is what children are usually in as far as their brainwaves go.
It's the most easily programmable state that your brainwaves can be in. And also at the same time, it's what people go into when they're in hypnosis. And so if you wake up in the morning, you're still kind of in theta state.
You sit up and you read this out loud to yourself. You're kind of bypassing the subconscious mind and the filter of the subconscious mind, I guess you could say. And you're going straight in.
You're implementing the ideas and what you're trying to create into your subconscious. That's the reason why it's important to do in the morning. And the reason why it's important to do in the evening is because when you go to sleep, your conscious mind clicks off.
Your subconscious mind clicks on. And so if you have ever noticed that sometimes you'll think about something or you see something on the internet right before you go to bed and then you dream about it, well, the reason why is because you were just programming your brain right before bed, which is why I always say stay off of the news, stay off of the internet, stay off of Instagram, any of those things right before bed.
Right before bed is your moment to program your brain. And so what happens is if you go in and you say, this is what I'm gonna do, this is how I'm gonna do it, this is what I intend to give up, this is what I'm gonna do it by. Imagine if you start dreaming about it, you start seeing it and new ideas come into your head and you get more excited about it.
And so you're going to read it out loud to yourself once in the morning, once in the evening. So those are the six that come from Think and Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill. And number seven, what I want you to do is I want you to ask yourself this one question, very simple.
How can I make it easier on myself? Okay, so let me give you a couple of examples of what this could look like. Let's say that you want to lose some weight.
Let's say you want to lose 20 pounds. So you say, I want to lose 20 pounds, which means I will be 185 pounds by December 31st of this year. And I want to be at 10 % body fat.
I intend to give up candy and soda and alcohol for the rest of the year. Also, I'm going to work out four times a week and I'm going to meal prep every single Sunday and every single Thursday. That is going to be your plan.
Clear, concise. You read it to yourself every single morning, every single evening. Let's say that you're in sales.
Let me give you a sales example. Let's say you want to make $250 ,000 this year. So you're going to say, I'm going to make $250 ,000 this year by December 31st this year.
I will give up texting and social media while I'm at work, talking too much to coworkers, and I'm going to be extremely focused when I get there. I will make 100 new calls every single day. No matter what, if I get hit by a truck, I'm still going to do it.
And I'm going to follow up with all potential clients every single Friday from 3 to 5 p .m. Boom. Sounds good.
Let's say that you just, man, you've been stressed out a lot. Like you've just been stressed most of your life. You're anxious.
You want to feel more peace in your life. So maybe peace is your example. So you're going to say, I will no longer have anxiety by November 1st of this year.
In order to do that, I'm going to give up all forms of caffeine that make me anxious. I will no longer drink any tea that has caffeine in it. I will no longer drink coffee anymore.
I'm going to give up all relationships in my life that bring me stress. I'm also going to make sure that I meditate for 10 minutes every single morning and I use my gratitude journal every single morning. after I get done meditating so that I can focus my perspective on what it is that I'm grateful for.
Also, I'm going to set reminders in my phone for every three hours to take six deep conscious breaths every few hours. And then I will place every negative thought that I have, I will replace every negative thought that I have with a positive thought whenever they pop up. And this is what's really going to start to help you is if you get clear, you say what you're going to give up, when you're going to hit it by, you give yourself the exact plan, and you have this clear and concise statement, when you're reading it out loud yourself every single morning, every single evening, the first couple of days, it's like, okay, yeah, whatever.
But by month two, month three, month five, you're really starting to brainwash yourself into actually believing that your success is possible. And of course, you can't have success if you're not willing to get out of your comfort zone, if you're not willing to take action.
But you start to think to yourself, this actually might be possible, which is one of the biggest things that holds people back because we create goals and we're like, I don't know if it's possible. But when you follow these seven steps and you are very diligent about being as clear as possible, following it step by step, making a clear and concise statement and committing to saying it to yourself every single morning and every single evening.
you are going to see massive shifts in your life. So that is the seven steps on how to plan and achieve any goal that you want. I've never seen anything that is easier or more successful for setting and planning and achieving your goals.
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The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Seven steps, one promise: any goal you set can be hit if you follow them. Six come from Napoleon Hill, the seventh is the host's own.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:00list
The 7 steps to achieve any goal
- Fix your mind on exactly what you want
- Decide what you'll give up in return
- Set a date
- Write a definite plan and start immediately
- Future pace the result
- Write a statement and read it aloud twice a day
- Ask how you can make it easier on yourself
Six steps adapted from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich plus the host's own final step.
Steal forany yearly goal
09:20model
Goal statement template
- I will [result] by [date]
- I intend to give up [sacrifices]
- My plan is [actions and schedule]
One paragraph covering result, deadline, sacrifice and plan, read aloud each morning and evening.
Steal forweight, income, or stress goals
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
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Mid-roll ad read with an on-screen QR code and URL, inserted between steps 3 and 4.
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