Transcript of Episode 556: The Mindset Myth & What Actually Upgrades Your Mind and Business New

Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it. Before we dive into today's episode, I wanna thank our sponsor, Momentous. When your goal is healthspan, living better and longer, there are very few non-negotiables. One of them, quality. And when it comes to supplements designed for high performers, nobody does it better than Momentous. Momentus goes all in on NSF certification, which means every single batch is tested for heavy metals, harmful additives, and label accuracy. And that's why they're trusted by all 32 NFL teams and top collegiate sports dietitians across the country. Here's the thing. They don't sell every supplement under the sun because they believe in nailing the basics. With rock-solid consistency. And those basics are protein and creatine. Momentous sources CreaPure, the purest form of creatine monohydrate available, an absolute must for both men and women who want peak physical and cognitive performance. So if you're serious about leveling up, go to livemomentous.com and use code JENN for 20% off. Just act now. Start today. Jen for 20% off. livemomentous.com. Welcome, welcome, welcome back to Habits and Hustle. And I'm here with one of my favorites. My, well, my favorite foil is Shawnee.

Oh, do you have a, ugh, whatever. You don't have any other foils.

Like, it doesn't count. No, I was gonna say with one of my favorites, period. But also my favorite foil— no, and my foil just so happens to be that my foil is also one of my favorite people. So I love you.

I love you.

Honestly, that's what I mean, guys.

I told Jen earlier I wanna get like a wind-up action figure doll with just like all of her favorite sayings in there. Cuz first of all, Jen's a big ego booster, but she's also like really good at like these hilarious sayings. She's got these little like really funny sayings. I don't even— hell in a handbasket, whatever the hell it is.

Hell in a handbasket.

It's so good.

I don't know. They're so funny. That's like not just my saying. I feel like it's been around. That just kind of shows how, how old I am.

But you know all of them. You know, I've heard all the things too. I don't use them, but you use them. You like, you got them in your repertoire, you know, you have them handy. Like you pull them out.

Gosh, I feel like I talk like an old per— like I talk like I'm like 77 years old or 107. It's really kind of sad. Vintage. Vintage. I am. I'm kind of vintage, but I've, I think I was also vintage when I was like 14.

Yeah, you're, yeah, for sure. Cuz you're not actually that old, but you use slang as if you are like in your 70s. But it's good slang. It's fun slang.

Thank you.

It's like, it's good slang.

Aw, thanks. All right, you guys, here another episode. By the way, if you guys can, it would be so amazing if you guys could comment and leave reviews because it helps the algorithm. I'm trying hard in one of my New Year's resolutions, I should say, is to try and be more present with YouTube as a business New Year's resolution. Like really focus on my YouTube because that's what they say. That's what they say. They, that's what all the, uh, young people are telling me to do. And so with that being said, Maybe you guys can help me because part of my whole platform is asking for what you want, right? And now I'm asking you guys to help me by leaving reviews, comments, and get that algorithm like churning a little bit more. So please do that. That's a little, that's a side comment. But today we're going to talk about something that I think is so interesting. And it is, there is a paradigm shift. There's a paradigm shift here. The biggest paradigm shift. I'm going to tell you about it. It's not mindset. We all hear so much about mindset, mindset, mindset, but here's the paradigm shift.

The most important thing is not your mindset. It is your health. Health is actually first. Oh, because yeah, it is. And I'm going to explain to you why, because health, if you don't have health, you have nothing, but it goes physical, mental, and then business. Because once you start changing your body, your mental just is on a different page. You are literally like, it's a, it's a, you become physically stronger, you automatically become mentally stronger, mentally more tough, much more resilient. It really does start with the physical because you, you feel it's like an actionable thing that you're feeling yourself doing. It changes your mindset, it changes your mentality. It really is. A re— it's a difference. Like, I think people are— so the word of 2023 and 2022 is mind— and 2021 has always been this hashtag a mindset. But a lot of times people don't even know how to change that mindset. So they get stuck. And instead of being stuck, I'm going to give you a very actionable thing to create real mental resilience. And that is changing and working on your physicality. That is focusing on your health, focusing on the habits that you do to be healthier daily.

And that will create a tougher, better mental resiliency. And then third is your business, because you will approach your business very differently if you basically reverse engineer it by focusing on your health, which is your physical, that will turn into your mental, that will eventually change and translate how you work and deal with business.

I love that the body is your literal tool. Like, all of these things— your mind only comes from your body. If your body can't work, then what can you even do, right? It's so empowering to physically feel better.

The most empowering. And I think, like, I know that I talk about this, like, in different ways, and I focus on different pieces, but at the same time, fundamentally, at the foundation, the core of what I always talk about is the physicality, the fitness, of it because I do believe it is the foundation where everything comes from. And if you don't feel healthy, you really don't perform as good as you would in every area of your life. When you feel physically strong, you show up differently. Your relationships are different. Your conversations are different. Your self-esteem is different. Everything that you do, how you show up in the world, your mannerisms, change. And so giving someone something that's actionable, that's measurable, and that you can actually do— anybody and everybody could work out a little bit more and focus on their health a little bit more. And we are in 2024. We're right in there where everyone has these New Year's resolutions or trying to change things. The top 5 resolutions, number 1 is always fitness. You know, number 2 is finance. We went through all of these in another episode, but I will say that if you actually follow through and create daily habits to really make health your number 1 goal, I'm gonna basically, you're gonna make health be your number 1 resolution to help.

Like, let's just say I wanna improve my health and I'm gonna do it by exercising X amount of days for X amount of time. I'm going to make 3 meals at home weekly that I cook myself. And that way you can really see what you're eating. I'm going to, I'm gonna increase my water intake, like be very precise and deliberate and create these things to create your daily habits that will improve your health, that will improve your mind, that will improve your business. They all work hand in hand.

Yeah. Yes. I think that also, by the way, longevity of the weightlifting, that affects your mind. I've been telling my dad this nonstop, like, he needs to start lifting purely because that actually does create that longevity in your mind to be able to stay sharp for longer. So even if you don't think of it like now, okay, your mind is sharp, whatever, even if you don't work out, it actually will be 10x the sharpness. And also just in terms of like, in the future, do you want to maintain this? Then you have to also maintain the body to be able to do that.

Well, I think, I think weight training, strength training is so crucial for so many different things. I think it's very important as you age, for sure, for your lean muscle mass. That's, that's a whole different conversation. But I will say again, if you are in, in terms of how that really reflects on this conversation, that if you start strength training and feel stronger and you end up feeling stronger physically, it will make you feel stronger mentally. And that's why weight training, and not to mention for bone health and all that other stuff, which is a whole other podcast.

No, but like, like for your brain.

And for your brain.

For your brain, 100% connects. So it's, it's like even if it might make you feel good, it literally will change your brain. Like your brain chemistry will improve with, and your memory, your everything will improve significantly with actually training with weight training. It's like a, there's studies on it.

Yeah, there's a lot. But I, I think at this point what I'm trying to tell everybody is when they focus on their, their health, and the physicality part of it, that will play a big instrumental role in your overall mentality and your mindset. So without just kind of just blankly saying mindset, mindset, I'm taking it back a little bit further into focus on your health and your mindset will follow, and then your business will follow. And we'll do a whole other podcast on all the benefits of strength training because as you all know, I'm a big advocate for it and of all the benefits. But at this point, find something that you like to do and then do it a measurable amount of times a week and start incorporating it, integrating it into your life. And that is the paradigm shift that I really wanted to kind of talk about. I'm all about finding sustainable ways to optimize performance, the kind of work that actually moves the needle on how you feel and function. And that's why I really need to tell you about ProLon's 5-day program. Most of us are chasing quick fixes that never get to the root of the problem, and the result is sluggish energy, brain fog, and bodies running below its full capacity.

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Do you ever save decisions for a post-workout, like, mind space, mindset? Like any big decisions in life? Sometimes I'll do that. I find it really fun.

Yeah, well, I always— this is actually what happens is that I get my best ideas when I am working out. Yeah. So if I do have a big life decision to make, like you're saying, I figure it out while I'm working out. Yeah. Because I have time to myself. It's a, you know what it is also?

Oh, so true.

It's a lot of me time, right? Like, I don't love, I'm not a big person who loves to work out with other people. I know having an accountability partner is a really big thing, for some people. I don't need that motivation myself to get my ass to work out because I've been doing it for so long and it's, it's become so ingrained in who I am that now if I don't do it— and this will happen to you too if you're just starting it— eventually it becomes so second nature and part of who I am. When I don't do it, I feel off and I feel weird. So I don't need that piece. So I use it as really like kind of like therapy in a way where I literally can like think through some of the, the troubles I have in my life or like the decisions I have to make. And some of my greatest like personal decisions and business decisions and all the other things happen because I have that time to myself where I can actually like go through in a real way like what I need to do and what would be the best outcome.

So if not for any other thing, again, the amount of like benefits you get beyond just the physicality that happen by just doing it for the physical reasons is just so off the charts, you know, in terms of there's too many to even talk about. But that's what I really want people to focus on. I want the, the focus to be is on your health as the, the crux of what is important, and so many other things will fall into place when you have that in check.

True. You know what people should try? So this is my favorite thing, is saving a hard text message for like after a workout to answer. Because, you know, I'll get something maybe like at nighttime or whatever that I just, oh, I'm angry or whatever, I'm gonna respond. I don't know, it won't be good. And then I'll just save it for the next morning after my workout, and I'll revisit the text, and the response is just tremendously better.

Well, also because like, yeah, and also because it like is a mood enhancer.

Yeah, yeah.

And it changes how you Like I was saying earlier, it's how you show up in the world, how you respond to people, how you, how you react. All of those things start to shift and change once you start putting other, like changing your priorities and creating a structure that's a little bit maybe different than what you originally did, right? If like, if I put physicality on the top of my pyramid, then my mental, then my business, right, and you start doing it that way, you will 100x your life in all the ways, right? But you have to start somewhere, and you can't get to a strong mindset or discipline and all those things and productivity and happiness and all these, like, all these, like, buzzwords by not doing the thing, the first step. And the first step is taking ownership and control of your health and your life. And when, what better time to start than now, right?

Yeah.

So start, because if not, you are, you'll be missing out. And we talked about it. Yeah, you don't wanna miss out. You don't wanna miss out on this. You don't wanna miss it. I don't know what order we're putting this up, so I just wanna make sure that you guys start, focus on your health, focus on your physical, because with that, your mental will come. The mental mind shift, the mentality, and then the business will shift and change for the better. I promise. And let me know in my comments down below, or the comments, not my comments, the comments, what you think. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Do you already do this? Have you started to do this? Are you going to try? Let me know and get back to me and then we can, we can evaluate. Anything else you want to add?

I think that's it. Go get it, guys.

Go start. Go get it.