Spring Cleaning: Transforming Your Space and Mind

Welcome to today's video. Today we're going to be talking about doing a spring cleaning in every single aspect of your life and doing a massive purge to help you get closer to your goals and to make your life a little bit more effortless. Let's dive in. It is a springtime, and right now people talk about spring cleaning and going through and making their house prettier and all of that stuff and getting rid of things and purging things that they don't necessarily need anymore. Two to four times a year and or don't go on. The habits that you have, the actions that you take, are those helping you or those hurting you? If they're serving you and they're serving you for the greater good and moving you towards the life that you want, hold on to those things. If they're holding you back from the life that you want, maybe those are some things that you should start to let go of and replace with something else that's going to be helping you. What about the standards that you have for yourself? Do you have certain standards that are helping you Cool. Keep those. Do you have certain standards that are hurting you cool? Maybe that's something that you should start to let go of. You know, like, if you're the type of person who shows up late to calls, shows up late to meetings, shows up late to family and friend events, you know, that's probably not the way that you want to be viewed by other people. I literally had a. I was watching a sales call that one of my team members had done. It was a zoom that was recorded. And the guy said on it, he said, I was on an enrollment call and I was on a call with another company that's a competitor of yours. And the guy showed up 10 minutes late. He didn't apologize, he just showed up 10 minutes late. And he said to himself, yeah, I'm not working with these people just because of the environment. It wasn't that some people can't show up late. It was. There was no apology. And he was, you know, he believes in being on time, and that was just a mini part of him. So it's like, hey, maybe if you're showing up a little bit late, maybe if you're not following through on doing what you say you're going to do, maybe those things are kind of holding you back in some sort of way. Because the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. So what are your habits? What are your actions? What are your standards that are helping you and what are the Ones that are hurting you and can you keep the ones that are helping you and serving you? And can you let go of the ones that are not? Then we should talk about the people that you surround yourself with, right? Your friends, your family, your significant other, the people that you follow on Instagram, as I spoke about a couple episodes ago. Are they helping you? Are they hurting you? Are they celebrating your success? Do they not care about your success? Do they find holes in your success? You should start to go through and start to think about, hey, man, like. Like, I've got people right here that have been around in my life for a really long time, and every single time I'm around them, I start to feel worse about myself. I start to feel drained when I think about being around them. Okay, well, are they helping you? Are they hurting you? Is that relationship serving you? Are you serving them in that relationship? Start to go through and actually. And start to think with a fine tooth comb, like, what should I do? Okay, what about the food that you consume? The food that's inside of your house? Is it helping you? Is it hurting you? We had a baby shower a couple weeks ago and we had all of the cake come back to our house and we had all of the treats and stuff come back to our house. And I don't have any self control when it comes around those things. So what I do personally is I keep all of that shit out of the house when it was in the house. And then everyone came over and my mom was over at the house and she was staying there. And when my wife's family was staying at the house, it was all there. I don't have really great self control. I have great self control until I have sugar. After I have self control, no self after I have sugar. I'm sorry, I have no self control. So I had to get rid of all that stuff. Once everybody left, I had to throw all of it away. I said, either take it if you don't want to take it. It's getting thrown in the trash because I just know how I am. So when you look around that the food that's inside of your house, is it serving you? Is it helping you become healthier, become the person you want to be? Is it hurting you in some sort of way? Are you like me where you got sugar problems and if there's too much sugar, you eat it? That's what I do. And so I know with myself there's a difference. I wrote this in my book. There's a difference between Rob that has skittles in the house and Rob that doesn't have skittles in the house. And my willpower is different, and that's me. Like, I know what my willpower is. So do you know what's in your house, what's helping you, what's hurting you? All that stuff? What about your finances? When you look at the way that you think about your finances, the habits that you have around your finances, the fact that maybe you've never done a budget before and you're 40 years old and you have money coming in, you've never sat down and said, okay, I need to look at where my money's going. I need to look at how I'm allocating my money. I need to look at all of this stuff. And you start to look at your finances. Are your habits, your traits, your actions helping you in becoming the person you want to be and maybe becoming more financially free or financially stable or getting out of debt, or is it hurting you? Do you end up spending more money that you need to do? You end up going into Target more times than you need to, and you meant to go buy one thing, but you end up spending $300 at Target because you found a bunch of really cool stuff that you liked, right? Are your finances that you currently have, are they helping or hurting you? If you're looking at your life, you're saying, this is the amazing life that I want to create. This is how much money that I have is where I currently am going to help me get to where I want to be, or do I need to start maybe figuring something else out? Do I need to learn something? Do I need to get a new skill set in order to make myself more valuable in the marketplace? Start to see what you can do some spring cleaning on, you know, oh, my gosh, I'm spending this much money on these things. Yeah, I don't really need to buy. I don't need to spend. You know what I'm doing? I'm going to take six months off of Netflix. I'm going to save myself that 10 bucks or 20 bucks, however much Netflix costs. What about my living situation? The people that I live with? You know, if you have some roommates, are they helping you? Are they hurting you in your situation? You know, if you don't really like your roommates, could you try to switch to another place? Get, you know, bunk up with a friend and maybe they need a roommate or something? Is your living situation helping you or hurting you? Can you purge certain things in your living situation? What about technology? In your life. Tv, social media, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount plus Peacock, all of those things that now exist, are they helping you? Are they hurting you? They might be hurting you in some sort of way. Can you go through and start to purge things? Can you do some spring cleaning in every single aspect of your life? This isn't like. It requires a lot of effort, and that's why a lot of people don't do this. But I promise you, when you do this type of stuff, it's going to help you so much. What about the possessions that you own? All of the things that are in your house? Think about that. What about your goals and your vision? Do you have your goals up? Do you have your vision? Have you thought about it? Have you started thinking about every single little thing that's inside of your life? What you really need to start thinking to yourself is ask yourself, if you're trying to figure out, like, should I keep this? Should I not keep this? I'm not really sure. Ask yourself the question, does it serve me? Does it serve me? When I look at my possessions, this thing right here that's in front of me, does it serve me? When I look at the TV subscriptions that I have, does it serve me? When I look at social media and the people that I'm following on social media, does it serve me? When I look at my living situation, does it serve me? When I look at the things that I'm spending money on, does it serve me? When I look at the food that's inside of my house, does it serve me? When I look at the people that are around me, does it serve me? And do I serve them? When I look at my standards that I have for myself in different aspects of my life, does that standard serve me? When I look at the actions that I do or don't take, does it serve me? When I look at my habits of everything that's going on, does it serve me? When I think of my thoughts, do my thoughts and this pattern that I have, does it serve me? What I want you to do is to start becoming very intentional about every single aspect of your life. And sadly, I know that some people listening to this episode are going to be like, this is awesome. This is great. And you will never do this. Some people are going to listen to this episode and be like, I'm going to dedicate a day. And I promise you, if you do want to put in, it takes a lot of effort, it's going to prep you. It takes a lot of effort. But if you do this you will notice you have so much more mental energy to spend on things that are important to you and to when you design every aspect of your environment, internal and external, to support you to create the life that you want, it becomes easier when you stop pulling so many things that have been around you your entire life. It's like you have a trailer full of things and stuff and habits and traits and standards and people that you're pulling around with you all of the time that you should have let go of five years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. And as you start to let go of these things, your life becomes easier and getting to where you want to go becomes less effort and more effortless. So do a little spring cleaning this weekend. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please do me a favor. Share it on your Instagram stories and tag me Robdial Jr R O B D I A L J R the only way this podcast grows is from you guys sharing it. 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