How to build a future you actually want

Rob Dial (0:00)

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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 road map 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 be going through a five-step process to design the life that you want. Have you ever just woken up and thought to yourself, like, how the hell did I get here?

Like, you were actively participating in your life, but you didn't really build exactly what you wanted? I don't know if you've ever felt this way. I've definitely felt this way. And I remember waking up and I was, like, luckily still younger. I was about 28 years old. I remember being like, if I fast forward my life five years and I get, I do really well and I make more money and I get my manager's job. I'm not going to like the life that I have. Like, what the hell am I doing with myself? I need a full reset. And I have many people that come to me and they're like, hey, I need to redesign my life. I need to start it over. I need to change something at least. How do I do it? The first thing that we need to talk about, and this is not one of the tips, but I just want to say before we dive into it, this is the truth. No one's coming to save you.

No one's going to come in and design the life that you want. No one's going to come in and then create the life that you want. And as children, we don't really have a transition from children into adult like they used to five, 10, 20,000 years ago, maybe even more, right? There was always like a rite of passage. Like certain tribes, you'd go off into a cave for five days and eat five handfuls of mushrooms or something like that. And then you come out and you're like, now you're a man or now you're a woman. Now it's like, oh, you just go to college. And we still have this feeling kind of lingering in the back of like, is someone coming to help me? Like our parents were there. Our parents were always telling us what to do. And now they're not telling us what to do. And so it's like, we never really get this full like cutoff of like, hey, you're an adult now. This is your decision. There's no one coming to save you. But I do want to tell you that before we dive in. And if you want a life that excites you, that fulfills you, that gives you a sense of purpose, you have to be the one to create it. So I'm going to go through this simple five step process to design your life, your life, not the life that someone else expects of you, not the life that your parents told you that you needed to be or else you were a loser, not the life that just kind of happened to land on your lap, but the life that you want to actually create. And this is the way that I think of today's episode. Confucius has had a quote that was very famous and says, we have two lives and the second one begins when we realize we only have one.