How to Think Like a Role Model

Hello my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week, sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day, you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance, an inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, Join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi, thanks again for listening. Now let's begin. The role model mindset says, I know people are watching how I deal with this. I'm aware that I'm a person of influence with others, even if that means they're my peers or my friends. I was aware that our behaviors and energy impact other people and I took responsibility for that. And that was a game changing moment. And some of you who went during the pandemic, if you were in my audience at that time, and I mean my community, our global audience, social media, wherever, I did a whole series for our coaching clients at the time, in the first months of the pandemic and some of those you can go back and look on YouTube as well, I think we released a few of them for free and it was about how to deal with crises. The central teaching back then was hey, be a role model through this time of uncertainty, your kids are watching how you deal with this pandemic. Your kids are watching how you're dealing with this uncertainty. And if you don't have children, your friends are, your spouse is, someone is observing how you're dealing with the difficulties of life. And you have a chance to inspire them as soon as you realize that when you're with other people, you have an opportunity to inspire them. To me, that is the role model mindset. I'm going to take it upon myself to be a role model in other people's lives. Not because they gave me permission to do it, not because they expect it, not because I'm an expert, not because I have ego, but because I've read enough books that say, you know what? Somebody changed my life. All those self help books, it's always the same thing. All the great biographies, you cannot read a great biography without a person saying, this person inspired me to be better. And that person is never necessarily the person they sought out. It might be a grandma, it might be one of the teachers at school, it might be a neighbor, but somebody was a role model to them. Role model is not a comma after your name. It's not a designation that you get by some school or university. It's not a certification. It's a decision and an intention that you're going to be a force of positivity and good influence in this world. You just decided. It's one of the great things about my career. I never waited for anyone to say, Brandon, you can teach people stuff. You're now qualified to share insights about life. What I did instead was say, I'm going to be a role model. I'm going to help people with deal with these situations by sharing what I've learned. And what I learned originally was from books, Then it became from coaching, then it became from training, then it became from our own pioneering research. Then it became from just having a global community of coaches who are doing the work and getting feedback. And so for me, I wasn't never thought, you don't have to be the smartest person in the room to be a role model. You have to be kind, compassionate, understanding, sharing your truth, letting other people see you strive and work and try to reach your potential. Soon as you step into the role model mindset, you free yourself from so many nonsensical concerns. Hey, it's Brandon jumping back in here again. Are you looking to go to the next level in your life right now? The next level of joy, abundance, success? Then you already know that you need to journal about your lessons learned in your life. You got to track your moods and your habits. You have to learn from the best personal development coaches and teachers in the world. And you got to stay inspired and accountable so that you can be more focused, disciplined, joyous, and keep growing. That's what the Growth Day app is going to help you to do, my friend. It's the world's first all in one personal development app. It has all of the tools you need, all the coaching and the community that you need to level up to progress every week, to track your breakthroughs, and to keep growing in every area of your life consistently over the long term. So go start your transformation right now@growthday.com or just download the Growth Day app on your phone right now. Every day. You can keep improving every day. We are here for you. And every day is truly a great day to grow together. So let's make self improvement a way of life. Let's make that self improvement stick. Go to growthday.com right now. As soon as you step into the role model mindset, you free yourself from so many nonsensical concerns because you're like, you know what? If I was being a role model, I wouldn't freak out about that. I'd keep perspective. If I was being a role model, I wouldn't freak out about this thing. I'd handle it well. See, sometimes we're stuck in our own emotions, but understanding we have social influence with other people says, you know what, it's okay if right now I choose to be strong even though I feel weak, because these folks need to see me being strong. And you can be honest and let them know, hey, I'm feeling weak, but I'm going to do this. I'm going to take this action. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to move through this. So it's not about being fake. It's not about faking it till you make it. It's about recognizing that your energy impacts other people. Another throwback to Oprah. She said one of the defining shows she ever had was when a woman was on her show sharing the story of when she had walked back at this, I think it was a newsroom. And in the back there was a sign that said, please be responsible for the energy you bring into this space. Please be responsible for the energy you bring into this space. That's that social awareness. That is the role model. Like, oh, you know what? I don't want to be a grumpy jerk. I need to get A hold of my own emotions because I realize that I influence other people. And once we can do that, we can see outside of ourselves. Now you get to think big picture, too. For those who are entrepreneurs. If you were a role model to other CEOs in the world, what would your actions be this week? If you were to become a role model to the other CEOs in this world, what would your actions be this week? I asked my sports stars, who I coach all the time. Okay, when you win that Olympic gold, how are you going to be a role model to the kids, to the youngsters trying to be you? Immediately getting people to think about that, even before we're at the Olympics, even before we're on the championship field, I'm asking them, okay, tell me about how you're going to be a role model to others because it inspires the best in you and it places you in a social context to see beyond yourself because many people will do more for others than they will do for themselves. And when you tap into that, you realize that your actions right now are role modeling. Something becomes very powerful. Okay, my friend, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Brendon Show. 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