Dan Martell - Your Reality Is The Collection Of Your Strongest Beliefs

00:00:00.080 People say this to me all the time.

00:00:01.320 I know it's not a big deal in your world,

00:00:03.280 but this happened to me.

00:00:04.240 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:00:05.520 Celebrate that small win.

00:00:20.000 So, your reality is the collection

00:00:24.440 of your strongest beliefs.

00:00:26.440 That is a very powerful idea.

00:00:29.040 Because if you are struggling

00:00:31.580 with having the motivation or positivity,

00:00:35.600 you feel like you've been beaten up a little bit,

00:00:37.380 you feel like that nothing's going the right way for you,

00:00:42.700 then that is an opportunity

00:00:46.280 to kind of reframe your beliefs.

00:00:50.160 And to me, it's hard, but if you do it right,

00:00:53.100 you literally wake up motivated, excited, energized

00:00:57.460 to attack your day.

00:00:58.640 And it's a huge opportunity.

00:01:01.600 I, when I look at the mental journey that I went on

00:01:06.160 to reprogram my mind,

00:01:08.840 because that's the only way to do it.

00:01:10.080 Carol Dweck talks about it in her book,

00:01:12.580 The Growth Mindset, is you literally need

00:01:14.640 to reprogram your mind to adopt a new set of beliefs

00:01:19.500 that are gonna support you to make better decisions.

00:01:23.620 But the question I get asked all the time,

00:01:25.700 from my coaching clients, from my friends,

00:01:27.860 from people on social media is,

00:01:29.700 but how do I build these beliefs?

00:01:32.040 Where do you find them?

00:01:33.040 What was the process to kind of create a new reality

00:01:37.860 based on these beliefs?

00:01:38.880 So that's what I wanna share with you today.

00:01:40.420 I think once you hear it, it'll demystify.

00:01:43.520 It's very tactical.

00:01:44.580 Like I'm a tactical driven dude.

00:01:47.180 And I'm also gonna link up below

00:01:50.540 training called Future Living.

00:01:52.260 They will help you understand

00:01:54.660 how to project your future into existence.

00:01:58.620 It's a private training I created for my coaching clients

00:02:02.180 and I wanna share that with you.

00:02:03.460 So you can click the link below to get a copy of that.

00:02:07.620 But the first big idea I wanna share with you

00:02:11.220 is the belief collector framework.

00:02:14.700 Becoming a belief collector is something

00:02:16.540 that is on my manifesto.

00:02:18.420 I have this manifesto of probably 35 different beliefs

00:02:23.420 that are the underpinning of my life, okay?

00:02:26.120 And it's like in my garage.

00:02:27.940 When I drive in my car, it's there.

00:02:30.400 It's on the wall.

00:02:31.860 It's in my house.

00:02:33.420 I look at it.

00:02:34.180 It's on my website.

00:02:34.860 If you go to danmartell.com forward slash manifesto,

00:02:37.160 you will see it.

00:02:38.500 And one of the beliefs is kind of meta

00:02:41.040 is to become a belief collector.

00:02:43.260 One of the principles of my life

00:02:45.360 is to become somebody who goes and seeks new beliefs

00:02:48.080 because one of the beliefs I have

00:02:50.220 is I need to unlearn and relearn a whole new set of concepts,

00:03:00.140 frameworks, points of views, beliefs

00:03:02.440 that are gonna enable me to get to this next level of success.

00:03:06.680 So one of the ways I do that is by reading a ton of books.

00:03:11.080 So I read at least 10 pages every day.

00:03:13.420 And I do that not because I'm trying to learn new stuff

00:03:16.360 all the time.

00:03:16.960 sometimes I like just reading to be entertained but usually business story biographies etc

00:03:23.140 but what I'm looking for is sound bites I'm looking for these quotes I'm looking for sentences

00:03:28.080 I'm looking for mini stories I'm looking for things that I could draw from to inspire me

00:03:34.260 okay and you know the the reality of it is is like all of my my books and the way I review them

00:03:42.660 is I use a Kindle now,

00:03:44.500 but I used to use it in physical books

00:03:46.000 is I would highlight, right?

00:03:47.380 And even I would go at the beginning of a book

00:03:50.300 and I would write down the page number

00:03:51.640 and write down the quote

00:03:52.660 so I could come back to review it and reference it.

00:03:55.220 Sometimes I'll look at a book on my bookshelf

00:03:57.040 and I'll be like, man, there was some gold in there.

00:03:59.260 I wanna go grab that.

00:04:00.300 Some Brian Tracy, some Jim Rohn,

00:04:03.140 some, you know, Zig Ziglar,

00:04:04.700 whoever is your jam, you know,

00:04:06.800 it could be Napoleon Hill's book, Think and Grow Rich,

00:04:09.680 but like to pull the book off the bookshelf

00:04:11.980 or open up my Kindle and go to highlights

00:04:13.800 and to just see the things that resonated with me

00:04:17.340 and just kind of on a daily basis,

00:04:20.020 that's why I read every day, 10 pages minimum,

00:04:22.860 is I wanna soak in those ideas.

00:04:29.000 And just like taking a shower or brushing your teeth

00:04:31.820 is something you do every day,

00:04:33.580 even if you're not technically like dirty

00:04:35.720 or need to take a shower,

00:04:38.240 I think it's really important to just continuously do that.

00:04:41.900 And it's just been a success habit for me

00:04:44.260 that not only inspires me and motivates me

00:04:47.180 in the morning to kind of attack my day,

00:04:49.640 but I kind of look at it, it's like a game.

00:04:52.260 And I share them often on Instagram stories,

00:04:55.440 like every day almost.

00:04:56.500 I'm always like reading, highlighting,

00:04:57.900 taking pictures, sharing.

00:04:58.960 It's because it's like me going to find this gold nugget

00:05:02.600 and then sharing with the world.

00:05:04.040 But I want you to know that when I do that,

00:05:07.380 it's because I'm collecting that belief

00:05:09.680 and I'm trying to reprogram.

00:05:11.420 And I'm trying to like move maybe negative ideas

00:05:15.240 or things that are not supporting me in my life

00:05:16.900 out of my life so that I can kind of keep

00:05:19.420 filling it with new ideas.

00:05:20.380 So that's the first one is become a belief collector

00:05:22.760 and books is an incredible way to do that.

00:05:24.580 You just gotta highlight and you need to review.

00:05:26.620 So I also take time to sit down,

00:05:28.200 I review past highlights to kind of reintroduce my mind

00:05:33.120 to that content or to those concepts.

00:05:35.480 Number two is to listen really well

00:05:39.120 and surround yourself with people that inspire you.

00:05:40.880 One of my buddies, Brad,

00:05:42.720 is he's like a walking motivational seminar.

00:05:46.140 But I say that and I think, so is .

00:05:48.940 You know, so like, and when I say that a lot,

00:05:51.160 I think so is every one of my friends.

00:05:53.220 You know, my buddy Trent,

00:05:54.140 like our conversations are full of like these takeaways

00:05:59.560 and sound bites and ideas that have helped them

00:06:02.700 propel their lives forward.

00:06:03.880 So it's their, you know,

00:06:06.340 interpretation of what they're reading.

00:06:08.560 And when they say this to me, this is the difference, okay?

00:06:10.840 is when I'm hearing this, you know,

00:06:12.620 usually I'm driving, going snow biking with my buddy Brad

00:06:15.680 and we're just talking about life and challenges

00:06:17.340 and he's sharing these, well, you know,

00:06:18.840 it's kind of like this and I'm just like,

00:06:20.460 oh my God, that's just so good, right?

00:06:22.660 Like he recently, it was saying, well, it's like, yeah,

00:06:25.840 you know, because I was telling him,

00:06:26.840 I had this big rant about like how the news 0.86

00:06:28.960 is literally rotting your brain.

00:06:30.320 And I have people that I absolutely love and care for

00:06:33.820 that are letting news affect their lives

00:06:37.080 to the point where it's detrimental to their health.

00:06:40.080 It's hurting their state of mind.

00:06:42.980 And it's just, it's frustrating as somebody

00:06:45.300 that wants to create opportunity

00:06:49.540 that people are stopping themselves

00:06:51.180 from taking action on opportunity because of the news.

00:06:53.260 So I tell this to him, he goes,

00:06:54.140 well, the reality of it is our mind is like a bowl of water

00:06:57.200 and it's a container.

00:06:58.440 And it doesn't matter if you pour fresh,

00:07:01.660 clean water from the stream or you put arsenic,

00:07:05.080 it will hold that in your mind.

00:07:07.300 And I was just like, wrote that down.

00:07:08.840 So I have, I literally on my phone, I have a notes file where I write down all of these beliefs. So I'm talking to somebody, they say something, one second, I write it down. And it inspires me. A lot of time I use it to create content like this. I use it in talks. I use it when I'm trying to help a friend get through a tough time and say, well, it's kind of like this scenario, this metaphor, this analogy, this saying or whatever, right?

00:07:34.380 And I just think that like listening and write it down

00:07:37.080 and just building that habit of taking the time

00:07:42.220 to actually just pause and just write it down.

00:07:44.040 A lot of times we hear stuff and we just like dismiss it,

00:07:46.200 but if you really wanna transform your ideas,

00:07:48.620 you're gonna have to be more intentional about it.

00:07:50.820 You're gonna have to be more kind of like specific about it.

00:07:55.560 You can't just let it come in and fly away.

00:07:58.080 You need to like stop, collect it, review it,

00:08:01.000 and then try to build a process.

00:08:02.200 and then the other one to the number three is really about celebrating small wins i believe

00:08:09.600 you know my buddy matt has this great quote something like time is the enemy something else

00:08:15.600 momentum is everything okay and the essence of that is that often we have these beliefs come in

00:08:24.780 or we hear them and we just don't believe them we dismiss them too quickly they're just like

00:08:28.900 yeah but it's yeah but the thing is is if you actually stop and celebrate the small wins

00:08:35.520 you congratulate yourself on the journey you recognize the effort even if it's not a big deal

00:08:44.900 because it's too easy like a lot of people they'll just like discount it right they'll just

00:08:48.740 like yeah but that's not a big deal that's compared to you that's nothing um i know it's

00:08:53.840 not like people say this to me all the time i know it's not a big deal in your world but this

00:08:57.980 happened to me no no no no no no celebrate that small win make it about momentum make it about

00:09:05.480 and that's why I wanted to tell you about this future living training again you click link below

00:09:09.340 to get access to that but that small win is the beginning of reinforcing the belief so you might

00:09:18.120 hear something that says you know you already have you already know everybody that you need to know

00:09:23.440 to accomplish anything in life and your brain might go yeah you know and this is where it's

00:09:27.880 fascinating is your mind will actually like discount say yeah but that's not true or yeah or

00:09:31.320 whatever you need to celebrate those many moments when you've done that right when you've reached

00:09:37.940 out to somebody cold when you've talked to a stranger on an airplane when you've gone to a

00:09:42.680 coffee shop and said hello to somebody or asked a question or been curious because that will

00:09:47.680 unlock the real belief and the activity the action that comes from that belief if you don't celebrate

00:09:54.020 the small wins, if you don't build that momentum, then these are just words that might as well just

00:09:58.360 sit on a wall, right? I have a lot of friends that I go to their house and their walls are plastered

00:10:04.560 with motivational quotes, yet they have not internalized what's written on the wall

00:10:11.580 because I look at their outcome. I look at their circumstances. I look at the struggle. I look at

00:10:17.500 the lack, I listen to the words they use.

00:10:21.220 So there's one thing to have those visually

00:10:24.740 in our purview or in our world.

00:10:28.380 And there's another one to truly internalize them.

00:10:31.120 And for me, the gateway is to celebrate those small worlds,

00:10:35.440 to build that momentum.

00:10:36.780 If you can do that, you will change your whole reality

00:10:41.560 because those strong beliefs will become the norm

00:10:44.560 and that's what is driving your reality.

00:10:47.520 So quick recap, become a belief collector.

00:10:50.400 Number two, listen and write down things that inspire you.

00:10:54.320 And then three, celebrate the small wins

00:10:57.360 to build that momentum, to internalize those beliefs,

00:10:59.920 to really transform your life.

00:11:03.000 If you found this useful, please leave a comment below.

00:11:05.660 Let me know what was the number one,

00:11:07.320 most important thing for you to hear today.

00:11:10.360 And with that, hope this finds you incredibly well.

00:11:12.440 We'll talk soon.

00:11:13.280 Peace. Later.

Dan Martell - May 17, 2021

Your Reality Is The Collection Of Your Strongest Beliefs

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