The Price of Not Choosing Yourself

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you're the type of person who wants to learn and grow and improve yourself, I put out episodes four times a week to help you because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life and that's all we're really looking to do. Today, I'm gonna be talking about the price of not choosing yourself and what it would look like to actually choose yourself because you were born into somebody else's programming. Let that land for a second. Before you ever chose your first dream, before you chose your first outfit, before you chose what your beliefs were, somebody was already shaping you into who you were supposed to be, whether that be that they did it on purpose or just by proximity to them and growing up in the same household. And most of the time, what it really is is it's just us becoming our parents, us becoming what society wants us to be, us becoming what our family wants us to be. And most people, they stay there forever. They never break out of it and they wonder why they can't create the life that they want. And those people are just running the same outdated one point o software version of themself. And they're trying to get to the next level. They're trying to create an amazing life, but they're doing it with the first level identity, the one that they're supposed to grow out of. But what if the missing piece, like, the real, real key to success, to joy, to freedom, to peace, what if the real key to all of that, it wasn't more hustle, it wasn't more strategy, it wasn't working harder, it wasn't fixing anything outside of you, but it was actually you deciding that you're finally gonna choose yourself, learning how and when to choose yourself, and how to do it in a way that creates the life that you see in your dreams. And so let's dive into it. I want you to understand that the version of you that you came into this world as and that you learned, you know, basically majority of who you are by the age of seven, is one point zero version of you. And that is your default. If you're not paying attention, you will default to it all of the time. And most people think that it's their destiny, but it's not. It's something that you're supposed to grow out of. And so I'll hit you with the truth. That first version of you, like the one point o version of you, it wasn't built by conscious choice. You didn't sit down at four, five, seven years old and say, who do I wanna build myself into? It was built by what you learned. …