What Do You Worship?

Rob Dial (0:08)

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Once again, finish2026strong.com, and I'll see you live on the challenge. Today, we're going to be talking about the hidden addiction that controls your life. We're going to dive into something that I'm sure many people listening have never thought about before. And that's what I want to do. I want to challenge your thinking. I want you to think outside the box. I want to help you think and see the world differently so that you can see yourself differently, so that you can see the world differently, so that you can act differently, so that you're not stuck in these same patterns day in, day out. And I promise it will shift your clarity, your power, your purpose and your peace when you start to realize these unconscious things, you bring them to the surface and you start to work through them. And so what we're gonna talk about today is what you worship. And I don't mean religion or anything like that. I mean what you actually put in the center of your life, whether you realize it or not. Like you could say, oh yeah, my children are in the center of my life. Cool, maybe, but there's also something that's probably unconsciously behind that as well. And so usually we have something that we put into the center of our lives and consciously or not, and we kind of worship these things. And everyone worships something. Most people just don't know it. And so most people hear the word worship and you start to think of going to church or Bibles or temples or gods or goddesses or something of that sort. That's not what I'm talking about. Whatever might pop up when you hear that word is not what I'm talking about. That's only like one tiny slice of the pie.

The truth is that worship isn't just about religion. Sure, it can be if you want it to be. That's not what we're going to be talking about. What I'm talking about, what you worship is what you're putting in the center of the universe, what you're putting your focus and attention on the majority of your days. Because what you focus on and what you give your attention to owns you.

It creates your perception of reality.

And if it creates your perception of reality, it is actually going to change what you become and what you get in your life.

And more than anything else, like what you become, sure, but also what you grant the power to define your worth, I guess you could say. There's a quote I love by David Foster Wallace, and he said, there's no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

And here's the thing to finally realize, you don't get to choose whether or not you're gonna worship something. You only get to choose what you're going to worship. And so you don't consciously choose most cases until hopefully after this podcast episode, you're gonna shift and you're going to consciously choose. Because if you didn't consciously choose, what matters to you and what you decide to worship, guess what? The world will choose it for you. And that's already happened to 99% of people listening to this. So what does the world want you to worship?

Go through a few of them real quick. Money, things, you know, you'll never feel like you have enough if you worship money, if you're constantly focused on getting money or that's your end goal. That hunger that you have for it, it won't go away. It's only gonna get louder. And when you make money, guess what you're gonna need more of? Money. So that's one thing that people worship. Another thing that people worship, their body and looks. And the mirror will become your judge, your jury, your executioner if that's the case. You need to look better, you'll constantly judge yourself. So that's another thing people worship. Another thing that I found, intellect, your knowledge. You will always feel like a fraud or like you're not smart enough and you need to learn more and become more worthy because you'll never get to the end of learning because it just goes on forever. Other things that people worship, power. You know, if you worship power, then you'll feel weak at certain moments, you'll feel afraid, unsafe. You need to control everything in your life or other people to soothe your fear. You'll always feel like you need more power in some sort of way. And so these things or these these soul sucking worship habits, they don't devour you all at once. They just kind of slowly eat away to eat you quietly. So I want to dive deeper into these and give you some examples of what I see that people tend to worship in their lives, especially unconsciously. And let's see if maybe from this, you can start to go, oh, I'm noticing myself here. So the first one, I said it a minute ago, but money. Why? Because money feels like safety. And for a lot of people who didn't have a safe childhood, they want to create safety in their adulthood. And a lot of people equate money with safety. Like when I'm speaking this, I'm speaking from 100% experience from me growing up as a child to me being an adult until I finally woke up to this. Because money feels like safety. It feels like freedom. It feels like power all rolled into one. So if you worship safety, if you worship freedom, if you worship power, any of those, it's a good chance you might have money at the center of your universe. Whether you think you do or not, you might unconsciously have it there. You also might consciously have it there as well. Many people do. I see this all the time with people. We think like, once I have enough money, I'll finally relax.