Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Topics: Chapter 12 - When you’re a cleaner, you’d rather be feared than liked. - A cooler will keep his opinions to himself, a closer will talk behind your back. A cleaner will say it to your face - A cleaner wants to beat the competition when they're at their best. - A cleaner moves silently under the surface, doing all the work without big noise and theatrics. But when the time comes, they'll unleash the power of a tsunami and dominate - You don’t have to be loud to be the center of attention. Actions and results lead to complete control. - A cleaner never has to gloat about how good he is. Talk is always free. Usually the loudest person in the room is still trying to convince themselves. - Your intimidation tactic is to be a winner. Your actions and results are what intimidates others - Respect isn’t just about physical dominance, but intellectually & mentally which comes from discipline & self control - Talent isn’t enough. You need to develop the mental acuity to compete & dominate throug

Topics: The Tony Robbins Podcast - Interview Dan Heath - Meaningful moments: We assign our own meaning to moments and that frames the tone of the memory. We assign an emotion to a memory and that feeling is what we remember. - We can reframe a moment, by changing the feeling attached with it. - Defining moments that are both memorable and meaningful - The four common elements that positive experiences share: - Elevation - experience that rises above the everyday. - Insight - abrupt realizations/transformations. - Pride - moments we’re at our best, - Connection - between individuals, or between groups - We don’t remember the average of our experiences, we remember the highlights/lowlights and the ending. - Find ways to break the script to create moments - Purpose and passion are both important and people who embrace their purpose are more effective MFCEO Project Ryan Michler - Taking Ownership of your life - Everyone is on their own "hero’s journey" - everyone’s fighting an internal battle. - Discover

Topics: The Entreleadership Podcast - The $20 bill anecdote illustrates how a lot of us see the world and our own lives. We can ignore opportunities, because if it were possible, it would be already be happening. - The solution is to change your mindset, if you don’t like you current position in life, your purpose is to change that purpose. - You advance in life by bettering yourself - Your head is for having not ideas, not holding ideas. - Seek first to understand, then be understood The Bigger Pockets podcast - Ryan Holiday - Not every situation will be good, but there will always be that sliver of good in the learning for next time - ‘Memento mori’: always remember that you’re life will end - Ask yourself if you would do it, if nobody knew you were doing it? - Don’t ask for the recognition - Do it for yourself and for nobody else The Tim Ferris Show - Ray Dalio - The main thing is to know what you don’t know and how to overcome that - Instead of thinking you’re right, asking yourself how do you kno

Topics: Chapter 6 - A Trip to the Darkside - A cooler tries to fight his dark side and loses - A closer can’t control his dark side - A cleaner harnesses his darkside into raw controlled power - Your darkside is who you really are, where you drop all of your inhibitions and are just left with actions & results - Everyone has a dark side, your secrets & desires. All the stuff you don’t want anybody to know about - As kids, we were all taught to stop these desires and instincts, but to be relentless adults, we need to learn how to control this darkness - It’s not about taking stupid risks - The most important thing is that you are the one in control of your impulses, not vice versa. - Both champions, CEO’s and crime bosses share the same relentless attitude to win at all costs. - You do what you have to do, so that you can do what you want to do - A cleaner’s darkside isn’t his weakness, it’s part of who he is. It’s about breaking the rules that you don’t agree with in order to get what you want, th

Topics: Entreleadership - Patrick Lencioni - Look for 3 things in new hires: Humble, Hungry and Smart Order of man "A smart man learns from his mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others" The art of charm - Admiral William H McRaven - Take things one step at a time, looking too far down can overwhelm you and be discouraging. - - There’s a balance, so set aspirational goals and set in steps to achieve it - Take on the hard and tough jobs that nobody wants: you'll earn a reputation of being the one that can get anything done and you'll also learn a lot - Servant leadership - your job as a leader is to serve the team and make them the best team they can be - The mission and the team come before the individual - Are all your actions: Moral, legal and ethical? Art of charm - Robin Dreeke - Trust underpins everything in society - people that can inspire trust are great leaders - It’s easy to lead others when you put their needs first - The dichotomy of leadership you still need to know what yo

Topics: Relentless outlines the principles that Grover used to coach and bring about not only #1 champions in the sport, but legends. Chapter 1 - A cleaner doesn’t celebrate a championship win. A cleaner will put in more work once he has won, because he knows that winning is just the start. - Being unstoppable means, you place no limits on yourself. - You already know what you have to do get to the top. Almost everybody knows how to achieve a goal. Very few take action - You do whatever it takes to get what you want, you have an insatiable desire to always achieve more - Everything you need to be great, is already inside you. It’s just waiting for you to let go - Five simple steps: Decide, Commit, Act, Succeed & Repeat - Success isn't the same as talent, there are countless people out there that are talented and unsuccessful - Truly relentless people have a dark side. Everybody has a dark side and if you harness it properly, it will drive you. Chapter 2 - When a championship is on the line and you’

Today's Topics: MFCEO Project Tim Grover - Insanity, Intensity & Becoming a peak performer - When you’re trying to achieve something out of the ordinary, your circle of relationships will try and change you because the gap between you’re levels of life will increase, instead of changing themselves, they will want to change you. - You can determine how successful somebody will be by their work ethic. - Everything is always your responsibility no matter how high up you get. - When things aren’t going well you need to have the same high standard that should carry over to good times too - consistency - Everybody always looks for the best time to tell the truth, the best time is all the time - 3 types of people: Coolers, Closers & Cleaners - You can change your type by doing the things that the type does. - Extreme ownership of your current role and mastery The little things you do all the time will cultivate the mindset that translates over to bigger and more important things - The details matter, no

Topics: The 9 Masks of Masculinity 1. The Stoic mask - invulnerable and tough, emotionless 2. The Athlete mask - the clearest way to be an alpha is on the sports field 3. The Material mask - the amount of money in his bank account and his net worth shows his worth 4. The Sexual mask - his worth is defined by the number of women he’s slept with. 5. The Aggressive mask - violent and tough by nature. 6. The Joker mask - a sense of humor that can repel any critique 7. The Invincible mask - a man doesn’t fear anything he doesn't have time to think about consequences, they’re too busy taking action 8. The Know It All mask - a man is intellectually dominant, knows all about everything. Doesn’t need anybody to help him 9. The Alpha mask - they are only 2 types of men, alpha and betas. Winners and losers. Must win everything. 1 - The Stoic Mask: - Warrior mindset, staying cool under pressure and not ever being seen as afraid, even if you are. Never let them see you sweat, especially as a leader. - Being strong dur

Topics: Art of Manliness Sean Young - Stick With It - It’s not about pure discipline, it's about tweaking little things and changing the process. - Motivation is only temporary, because external effects don’t last - Education is not enough. Knowledge is only potential power. Just because you know you should do something doesn’t mean you will do it - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. framework: Step Ladder Community Important Environment Neural Hacks Captivating Engraining - ABC behaviours: Automatic, Burning & Common - Steps (less than 1 week) - Goals (1-2 months) - Dreams (loftier) Tim Ferris Podcast When to decide when to quit and when to persevere? Scott Belsky, Seth Godin, James Altiture, Debbie Millman, Chase Jarvis. - Are the difficulties questioning your core assumptions or just getting you down a bit? - Knowing all you know now, would you pursue this project again? - The Dip is the part of the process where it gets super hard before it gets to the final product - Understand that you are very rarely the first pe

Topics: BiggerPockets Eric Barker - Success isn’t one size fits all - Intensifiers - qualities that are generally thought of as negative, but you can leverage to your advantage - Think of success as the alignment between your unique abilities and the environment that rewards them - The 3 P's: Personal, Pervasive & Permanent - Think in terms of small incremental improvements. Consistency is better than length of action over the long run. - It’s better to set up systems, rather than setting up goals. - Successful people had 4 metrics: Enjoying life, giving back, doing things important to those around them and they were achieving a goal - Can’t be overly focused on happiness - our expectations are not meant constantly over time - Ignoring negative emotions, might hide the ability for your to solve a problem. - All of our emotions are data points, and emotional agility is our ability to step back and analyze these emotions in order to truly evaluate how we are going in life Art of Manliness Dan John - L

Topics: Our final bastion of control. True will is quiet humility, flexibility & resilience. - If perception and actions are disciplines of the mind. The will is the discipline of the heart and the soul - It gives you the strength to endure life’s hardship, and make the best of a bad situation and deal with fate with cheerfulness and compassion - This self imposed stress builds a strength inside us that is referred to as the inner citadel, nobody is born with one, it must be built through tough times. - We can’t afford to shy away from things that intimidate us, life will force us into times that we don’t want - Think of a pre-mortem, the pre-meditations of evils. Examine the worst possible ending BEFORE it happens. Think about what will or can go wrong and what to do about it - The only guarantee we have is that things will go wrong, and the only way for us to deal with it is to prepare for the inevitable failures, so we can either answer them, fix them or even endure them - Constraints in life are a g

Topics: Part 2 - Action - In the process of dealing with the reality of a bad hand, you can either fold or play it for all you’ve got. Play it hard, working through the problem will reveal the steps to success. - Obstacles won’t unobstacle themselves. They'll only get worse - Meet our obstacle with action, energy, persistence, coherent and logical process, strategic vision, craftiness, eye for savvy ingenuity - You’ve got to start to go anywhere and the circumstances in which you start will never be perfect, but the first and best thing you have to do is say ‘yes’ and take action. Once you get started, no matter how slight. You will build momentum and achieve greatness. - Always ask you if there is more you can be doing - There is an opportunity cost to you not acting with speed and vigor. As you slowly proceed forward, you’ve lost the opportunity to do more in that same amount of time. - Slow pressure applied from many different angles will provide the path to the solution - The solution isn’t going to be

Topics: The Art of Charm Frank Sesno - The Power of Questions - Solve problems by asking questions - Think of question and listen - Questions create collaboration - Strategic questions: test and challenge the assumptions at the moment - Intimate distance - the ability to be completely in the moment and present, but be able to take a step back to listen and to ask questions - Empathetic questions: Have I ever been in that situation? How does the world look through their eyes? - To understand people think about three questions: - What do I need to know? - What do I want to figure out? - What should i be asking about if I'm really trying to be in the other person’s shoes? Order of Man Jon Acuff - Finish What You Start - The start isn’t the hardest part, the middle part is probably the hardest part - Perfection hurts getting started - Consistency is important as it overcomes doubts, taking little steps towards becoming good. - Fear of completion - you’re now exposed to being judged by others, or you no

Topics: Entreleadership Christy Wright - Communications is the leader’s responsibility - It is up to the leader to learn the best communication style for each individual - Think about more than an information transfer, think of buy in and belief The Tim Ferris Show Walter Isaacson - How to think like Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin & Steve Jobs - Be curious about everything, all the time - Think of about the intersection of art & science - Delineate the line between what is and isn’t possible and allow you to blur the lines of reality and imagination - Learn as much as you can about inside the box, so you can explore outside the box - Look at your circumstances as being good, so you can see how it can be leveraged - When gratitude begins, the struggle ends The Art of Manliness Robin Dreeke - The Code of Trust - People want a sense of affiliation and a sense of being valued - Seek people’s thoughts and opinions - Talk in terms of their priorities. Their needs, wants, dreams and aspirations - Vali

Topics: Part 1 - Perception Part 2 - Action Part 3 - The Will 1. Perception: - It’s how we see the reality of the world. We need to take our preconceived notions about reality and only rely on a disciplined, rational and logical thought process - Problems that befall you, aren’t a negative situation, rather an opportunity to learn and how you handle those situations is what makes you grow as a person. - Don’t lose control of your emotions, we can choose or not choose to feel 2. Recognize your power: - Your negative emotions are nothing but destructive to your current situation. - Situations cannot be good or bad, it’s only our human perceptions that judge it so. See every situation as to what they could be, not about the problems they bring 3. Steady your nerves - Troubles will always find us and talent won’t necessarily get us through the problem. Poise and a level temper will get us through. - Resist the temptation to declare this a failure and accept the fact that the solution is up to you and you

Topics: Listen Money Matters Wes Chapman - Getting rid of the victim mentality 11 signs of victim mentality: 1. They’re constantly blaming other people or situations for feeling miserable 2. They poses a ‘life is against me’ philosophy 3. They think others are purposely trying to hurt them 4. They’re cynical or pessimistic 5. They feel powerless to change their circumstances 6. They enjoy sharing their tragic stories with other people 7. They have a habit of blaming, attacking and accusing those they love for how they feel 8. They’re constantly putting themselves down 9. They believe they’re the only one being targeted for mistreatment 10. They refuse to analyze their beliefs or improve their life 11. Even when things go right, they find something to complain about - Your past isn’t a roadmap for your future - Understand your inherent worth to the world Order of Man Jocko Willink - Discipline equals freedom - In the short term discipline only gives you actions, in the long term, your actions will lead to

Topics: Part 2 - Courage changes behaviour - There is so much information about improving health, and almost all will work, if you start and follow through - What are you waiting for? Don’t start the diet, next week, next month or even next year… start today! - It can seem impossible to bridge the gap between who you are today and who you want to become. - Productivity comes down to focus - Having the knowledge isn't enough - The 5 Second Rule can stop distractions - Be a boss about your morning - take control of your morning - Don't hit the snooze button! - Don't sleep with your phone in the room - Start your day proactively, not reactively - Write down your goals - Procrastination is caused by stress - Find out what your underlying stress points are - Forgive yourself, picture your future self, 5,4,3,2,1. - Replace worry with a positive thought about the outcome - Anxiety reappraisal - Have an anchor thought to overcome fear - Confidence isn't a personality trait, it's a skill that can be learned - Confi

Topics: Entrepreneur on Fire Thor Conklin - Figure out what you want, efficient & effective planning, decision, commitment, believe in yourself, accountability, time, rewards Art of Charm Tom Bilyeu - Teach what you learn - Be careful who you surround yourself with Tony Robbins - Don't stay a green level skier, have the courage to tackle the double black diamond run and make it down the mountain alive Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast Connect: Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2 Email: podcast@wynnterprise.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/ Today's podcasts: https://theartofcharm.com/podcast/ https://www.eofire.com/podcast/ https://www.tonyrobbins.com/podcasts/

Topics: Part 1 - - Whenever you feel an instinct fire up to act on a goal or a commitment, or you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do. You start the 5,4,3,2,1 countdown, when you reach 1 you have to physically move. - Wake up the inner change agent inside you - You can use the rule to take action or stop bad behaviours - Every bad habit will snowball into more bad habits - A situation can always be made worse by your own thoughts - It's easier to feel sorry for yourself, than yo take actions - The counting mentally disrupts you’re pattern of overthinking and creates a closed loop since the counting ends. Physical movement means your mind will fall in line with your body. - Force yourself to do the productive things that you don’t want to do - Increase the locus of control of you life. The more you believe you’re in control of your life, the happier and more successful you’ll become - The rule doesn’t make things easy, it makes things happen - You are not your behaviours - you can st

Topics: Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness - Peak Performance - Burnout is the tipping point to fatigue - Being connected all the time, brings the temptation to always do more work, if you work all the time, you’ll burnout or decrease performance. - Stress adaptation cycle: Find the right amount of stress and rest/recovery - Set aside time for deep work - Create habits & rituals to free up mental bandwidth - Find your why, when motivation is stronger than perceived effort, we keep on pushing Robert Mower - The Kaizen Method - Japanese method of manufacturing improvement philosophy of 1% better - 2 definitions - Taking extremely small steps to accomplish a goal - Looking at very small moments to learn large lessons - Don't think of big solutions, look for small improvements - Leverage your brain's like of habits - Ask small trivial questions - When you’re angry at yourself, you can’t improve yourself - you’re living in the past Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB Please subscribe and rate the Mind