Are You Ambitious but Lazy?

Rob Dial (0:08)

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 want to finish this year strong, join my free three day challenge October 27th to 29th live with me. Here's why, because most people check out around this time of year, they look at their goals that they've set, they see how far away they are and then tell themselves that they'll start over again in January. Don't do that. There's still enough time for you to make real progress this year, you just have to use it. Over these three days, I'm going to teach you how to deprogram and reprogram your identity, how to start taking real action and also how to start changing your brain to the new you. You're going to get a 60 day roadmap for the rest of 2026 and a workbook so you know exactly what you need to focus on next. To join for free, go to finish2026strong.com. Once again, finish2026strong.com and I'll see you live on the challenge. Today I'm going to give you five steps to stop being so lazy. Let's dive in. I used to be somebody who was very lazy. And in fact, there are definitely some times where I am lazy. But it just doesn't go throughout my entire day. Like after six o'clock, I'm pretty damn lazy when it's during the week. So when I was younger though, I was a very lazy kid and didn't really do anything or care to do anything. Didn't want to go to work, didn't want to do any of that stuff. And so I do think that you can be lazy and also still succeed. And I do think that laziness is not a trait that you have to have forever. Sometimes if you're an introvert, you can turn it on to be an extrovert for a party that you go to and then turn it back off. Well, your laziness can be the exact same thing, I believe. Because you know, I know, that in order to get the life you want, it requires effort. And if you're being too lazy, you're not putting the effort in, you're not going to get the life that you want. And so let's dive into those five different things. Number one, I want you to start being honest with yourself. I want you to just stop lying to yourself and I want you to admit to yourself, I am lazy. Or I have been lazy. And then tell yourself, I'm not going to be lazy forever. It's like a, you know, 12 step program. The first thing is you have to just admit, you know, you have to stop lying to yourself. Call it what it is. Once you admit it, once you become aware of it, then you start to work to overcome it. I think that humans are just inherently lazy. I think most people are inherently lazy. I think there's some people that I see that have so much energy and I'm like, I wish. Like if I had that person's energy, I feel like I'd be 10 times further than I am in life. But I just ain't got it. And I think that most people don't have it. Are there some who are blessed with copious amounts of energy? Sure. Am I one of them? No. Are you one of them? I don't know. Probably not as well. I think the majority of people don't have a ton of energy. And I think that most people are kind of lazy. You know, if we were to, like here in the summer in Texas, it gets so hot. Like 107 degrees for like 45 days in a row. It is torture to be outside. And it is torture to be in the sun. I think if we went back 100,000 years ago and we viewed it, whoever happened to be living in Austin, Texas at that point in time, I bet you the majority of the day, they're probably hanging out under trees.

Probably ours. They probably woke up early in the morning. They did their hunting. They did their gathering. They did everything as the sun was coming up. And then around one, two o'clock, they probably went and hung under some trees, waited for sunset. You know, they might have taken some naps, you know, a midday nap as a caveman or cavewoman. And then they would go out and do their thing as the sun was starting to set as it was cooler again. And it is natural for us as humans to take the path of least resistance, which when we're trying to build the life that we want can seem lazy. And so the first thing I want you to do is just admit to yourself that you are lazy sometimes, and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with it. I don't want you to shame yourself. I don't want you to guilt yourself because that's completely unnecessary. I want you to say, hey, if I am lazy, this is something that I want to work at. This is something I want to change.