Master Playing The Game of Life

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 episode. And if you're committed to making 2026 the best year of your life, join my free two day high performance live workshop this January, where I'm gonna teach you the real life tools to stop procrastinating, to take action, follow through, and get the results that finally match the potential you know that you have. You're gonna leave with the mindset, systems, and habits to build the version of you that you know that you're meant to be this year. So go to 2026workshop.com to register for for free. Once again, 2026workshop.com. Today, I wanna talk about you. I wanna talk about me. I wanna talk about life. I wanna do this thing called living. I wanna talk about this thing that we do. You know? And hopefully just just shift your perspective a little bit about what all of this is about. Because life is great. It's amazing. It's basically a series of paradoxes. Right? Life is both beautiful, but it is freaking brutal sometimes. It is amazing, and it is hard. It is the best thing ever, and it is the worst thing ever sometimes. And we're often caught in what's going on in the outside world. We chase success. We look for external validation from other people. We measure our own self worth by our achievements, by the likes that we have, how many followers that we have. We figure out if we're good enough based off of other people's opinions of us. That's all external, and we're kind of raised to pay attention to the external. But the real game, like, the one that matters the most, all of that happens inside of us. And some people never figure this out. In my entire podcast, every episode that I make is to try to bring you to the internal so that you can work on that more than you work on the external. The outer world, it's amazing. It's great. It can influence us in the way that we feel and the way that we act, but our inner game, the quiet moments, the unseen battles that happen inside of our minds, that is what ultimately shapes the quality of your entire life. Not your external world, not what happens to you, not your situation, not your circumstances. It's what happens inside of you. The inner game is what this entire thing is all about. And so it's hard for us, though, because as children, we don't look outside of us as children. Everything is happening outside of us. Like, my son who's downstairs, he's he's not thinking to himself, well, I wonder how I feel. Like, he's looking at me. He's looking at my wife. He's looking at our dog, the toys. It's all outside because it's what he sees. And our parents, when …