How I Tricked Myself Into Believing I Could

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you improve yourself so you can improve your life. So if that's what you wanna do, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm gonna be talking about how I tricked myself and my brain into believing that I could create the life that I wanted to create. Because have you ever noticed that you keep saying that you want more in your life, but you keep acting like this old outdated version of yourself? If so, more than anything else, it's not laziness. It's not distractibility. It's an identity protection. Your brain would rather keep these small and predictable than risk you becoming anything else, even if that anything else was powerful and uncertain because it's uncertain. Your brain doesn't like that. And when I was younger, I remember wanting to feel more confident, and it never came so I did something different. I forced my brain to update who I thought I was. And once my identity shifted, everything else in my life followed. And so today, I'm gonna teach you exactly how to do that for yourself. And if you stick with me through this episode, it could be the most life changing episode that you've ever heard. Okay. So let's dive in. I wanna be fully honest with you. When I was younger, I didn't believe in myself. I thought the way things were were just the way that they were always going to be. I saw other people's lives and I thought, oh, that must be nice to have that amazing life. I didn't wake up confident. I didn't wake up certain. I was shy. I was not the type of person that would just go out and create something. You know, I didn't wake up thinking like, oh my god. I'm the guy who can build an amazing life. I thought the exact opposite. I was more of a victim more than I was anything else. And so I had to trick myself into believing that I could create the life I wanted. And I know it it sounds kinda weird, but I basically had to hack my identity before my brain had any evidence to support that I was that type of person. And that's something most people really never learn how to do. I had to learn how to believe in myself and believe the life that I wanted was possible before I had any proof that what I wanted was actually possible in the first place. And so something that a lot of people don't understand is that your brain is not a truth detector. Most of the time, it's usually lying to you. More than anything else, it is a prediction machine. It's always trying to predict the future based …