Mindset Coach on Why You’re Failing to Achieve Your Goals & How to Fix It | Rob Dial
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Rob Dial explains that intellectual fears like failure or rejection are imaginary constructs that paralyze action, and the solution is awareness, deep breathing, and repetition to rewire thought patterns toward helpful thinking. Success stems from uncovering your deepest "why" through seven levels of questioning, then making an absolute decision to pursue it without backup plans, while recognizing that external achievements won't fill internal voids. The most transformative practices are daily self-awareness through silence and meditation, taking full responsibility as CEO of your life, and learning to love all parts of yourself rather than trying to eliminate unwanted aspects.
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Fears are the primary thing that hold people back from focusing on goals. Fears can be divided into two categories: primal fears and intellectual fears. Primal fears are those where pain or death is attached to the situation. Intellectual fears are the fears that people deal with daily, including the fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of not being accepted, and fear of success. All intellectual fears are made up in people's minds.
Intellectual fears cannot be overcome because they do not exist. People create the boogeyman in their minds by focusing on fears like the fear of success or failure rather than taking the necessary action. The focus gets placed on trying to overcome the fear when the fear doesn't exist in the first place.
The human ability to project minds into a future that doesn't exist yet is both a strength and a fault. When projecting into a fearful future, the brain sends neuropeptides to the body and creates hormones as if that moment is actually happening. This fearful feeling keeps people in the same place.
The process for handling intellectual fears consists of three pieces: awareness, practice, and repetition. Awareness involves recognizing when in a state of fear. Practice involves calming down through six deep breaths, connecting back to the heart, and asking what the best thing that could happen is. Repetition involves doing this over and over again to rewire the pattern.
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