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How To Stop Comparing

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1:00

For the modern but I'm also here now and I create

1:02

a lot of content. I put it out there. And I

1:04

actually see a lot of people's joy

1:06

being stolen from their life because

1:09

they're too busy comparing themselves with everybody else.

1:11

They're comparing themselves they're they're comparing their body

1:13

to somebody else's body who's been working

1:15

out for ten years straight and then they get down on

1:17

themselves. They're comparing their business

1:19

that's three weeks old to someone

1:21

else who's been running the business for three years

1:24

and running trying to figure out why they're not

1:26

where they are. The other person is

1:28

at this point in time. Live in a world where we can

1:30

constantly see everything that everyone else is doing,

1:32

and we compare ourselves. We see where they are.

1:35

Oh my gosh. They traveled to this amazing thing.

1:37

haven't left town in three weeks. What am

1:39

I doing with my life? We can see what they're

1:41

wearing. We can see what they're eating. We can see

1:43

who they're with. And if you

1:45

spend enough time on social media,

1:47

I bet that you compare yourself

1:49

sometimes with some people. And now, comparison

1:52

itself is not

1:54

necessarily a bad thing. There is a lot

1:56

of good in comparison. You know, if

1:58

you think about comparing, you can compare

2:00

how fast a car is going compared

2:03

to your speed to see

2:05

if you should turn or not. That is where it becomes

2:07

beneficial. Our ancestors could

2:09

compare the size of an animal

2:12

that was running at them to figure out if it

2:14

was something to be afraid of. And if it was

2:16

something to be afraid of, they could compare how

2:18

fast it is moving compared to how fast

2:20

they can move and decide do I run

2:23

or do I climb the nearest tree? And

2:25

they could compare the speed of things that

2:27

were happening, the size of things were happening. And

2:30

so that itself is very

2:32

beneficial. We can compare the

2:34

food that's on our plate to the size of our stomach

2:36

and go, yeah, that's probably a little bit

2:38

more than I need. So comparison does

2:41

have some beneficial uses, but

2:43

when you're not paying attention to your brain

2:45

and it's just running a muck like it normally

2:47

is, and you're looking at somebody else's

2:49

life on Instagram, that's when

2:51

it starts to get bad. Especially when you

2:53

can look at someone else's life on Instagram and think,

2:55

oh my god, they're so happy they have such a

2:57

great relation ship. They have so much money. They're

2:59

so successful when in reality. What

3:02

we're seeing from somebody else is the highlights

3:04

of their life, not the the low lights

3:06

of their life. And so one thing that

3:08

is important to realize is that

3:10

every single person is on a different path. Right?

3:12

So people can look like people come

3:14

up to me all the time and they're like, Rob, how do I

3:16

have a podcast that's successful like yours?

3:18

And I'm like, well, do like thirteen,

3:20

fourteen hundred episodes and come back to me

3:22

in eight years and let see where you are.

3:25

So if you're, like, on, I don't know, episode

3:27

three, you can't really compare Comcast episode

3:30

three to somebody else's fourteen

3:32

hundredth podcast because sometimes

3:34

we just gotta go through each chapter of our life.

3:36

And in one of my favorite phrases that

3:39

has to do with this, is you can't

3:41

compare your chapter one to

3:43

somebody else's chapter twenty. And so

3:45

if you're on your third podcast episode

3:47

and you're like, I don't feel like I'm good, I feel

3:49

like I know what I'm doing. I don't feel like this

3:51

is growing. And then you're looking

3:53

at someone else's podcast who's been doing it for a

3:55

long time. Yeah. Of course, they have more experience.

3:57

They have more time. They have more

4:00

under their belt than you.

4:02

And, you know, it's it's funny

4:04

because I started taking boxing lessons. Right?

4:07

And today was the the second boxing

4:09

lesson that I did. This guy comes over to my house. We've been doing

4:11

boxing lessons and stuff. And

4:13

I I've I've find myself fumbling

4:16

around because I'm I'm first off, I'm

4:18

sore of shit in random places I've never been

4:20

sore before because I'm like, I'm moving my body in

4:22

ways I've never moved. Like, I'm sore between

4:24

my freaking knuckles. Right? Like such a

4:26

weird place to be sore. And

4:28

when he's talking about, okay, 123,

4:30

and he's talking about a jab, and he's talking about a

4:32

right hook, and uppercut, and all of these

4:34

different things, he does it and it's like

4:36

it's like a snap and it looks it looks so

4:38

effortless, but he's been doing it

4:40

for fifteen years. And so I can look

4:42

at myself and look at him and be like, well, I'll

4:44

never be as good as him and he's so much better.

4:47

Maybe I just Maybe this isn't for me

4:49

or I can go, you know what? This is

4:51

my chapter one. Like, I'm I'm not even on chapter

4:53

one. I'm still reading the introduction. Of

4:55

this book. This guy is probably

4:57

finished this book and he's onto his next book.

4:59

And so the quote that goes

5:01

along with this is you'll never be a graceful

5:04

master if you don't allow yourself to

5:06

be a foolish beginner. And so do

5:08

I look like a giraffe

5:10

that was just birthed and is trying to figure out how to

5:12

walk? I do. Does he look

5:14

like he's been doing this for a long time? He does,

5:16

but I can never get to looking

5:18

as graceful as he does unless I go

5:20

through the foolish beginner stage.

5:23

Kast we're just afraid to

5:25

go through the foolish beginner stage. And we think

5:27

that just because of the fact that, oh my gosh, I took

5:29

two boxing lessons. I should be a fucking expert.

5:31

Or you know what? I've been going to the gym

5:33

for three weeks. Why am I not in shape yet? Or

5:35

you know what? I've been running my business now for two

5:37

months. Why am I not a millionaire yet?

5:39

And, you know, an example is like, you know, if somebody's

5:42

overweight, they can't compare their

5:44

body to somebody on Instagram who's been

5:46

working out for seven years. Like,

5:48

all you have to do is just go, I need

5:50

to show up every single day And if

5:52

I'm better than I was yesterday and I

5:54

take this path and I just continue on this

5:56

path for as long as possible, eventually

5:58

I will be as far along

6:00

as they are. So if someone's

6:02

overweight now, it doesn't mean that they'll

6:04

always be overweight. But if

6:06

they start to make changes and they take the

6:08

right daily actions, they could eventually

6:10

at this fast forward seven years have

6:12

the same body as that person. But

6:14

if we look at someone on Instagram

6:16

now and we compare ourselves

6:19

to them. And we make ourselves feel

6:21

bad about the fact that we don't look like them.

6:23

We'll never actually motivate ourselves to

6:26

take the action that we need to to create the

6:28

life that we want to. And so maybe

6:30

you just started. That's okay. You can't

6:32

expect to have the body that you want already.

6:34

But you can compare your body

6:36

to your body yesterday. If

6:38

you have been working out for a month,

6:42

can you help on the scale and see how your body

6:44

has changed Can you think about how

6:46

your body has changed when you look in the mirror?

6:48

Can you think about how maybe your body has

6:50

more energy? And so instead of comparing

6:52

ourselves to somebody else, we've

6:54

gotta learn to compare yourself to who we were

6:56

yesterday. That's what we need to do.

6:58

That's the only comparison that we should ever

7:00

make when it comes to our lives. Am

7:02

I better than I was yesterday? Do

7:05

I have more knowledge than I did yesterday?

7:07

Do I feel like I'm taking steps in the

7:09

right direction for my health better

7:11

than I was yesterday. Do I feel like I'm

7:14

reading more and my intellect is growing

7:16

more than it was, more than

7:18

I know more today than I did yesterday when

7:20

I went to bed. That's it we should

7:22

start preparing yourself. Do I have more money

7:24

in my bank account than I did last

7:26

week? Or last month or

7:28

two months ago. So instead of being like,

7:30

well, why am I not a millionaire yet? I should

7:32

be a millionaire at this point. Look at your bank

7:34

account six months ago. Do you have more money in your bank

7:36

account than you did six months ago? If

7:38

so, that's a great comparison. You're

7:41

getting better. You're saving more. What

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9:21

older that you get. Like, I thought I knew everything when I

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I'm working so hard. I'm putting in, like, a hundred hours

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9:35

at all these people that were, like, millionaires and they

9:37

were successful. And I used to live when I was twenty

9:39

one, I lived down in Fort Lauderdale, and I

9:41

lived right by, you know, Fort Lauderdale is a

9:43

ton of money. Palm Beach is a ton of

9:45

money. I was right by Boca Raton. Boca Raton. There's a

9:47

ridiculous amount of money. And I was

9:49

comparing myself to all of these people who

9:51

are who are, you know, they had jets and they had

9:53

ventilies and they had Ferrari's name, all these

9:55

cool cars and cool life, but it

9:57

ever took a step back until recently, now

9:59

that I am older and just realized that things

10:01

take time I

10:03

was twenty one comparing myself to

10:05

guys who were like sixty three years old.

10:07

And it's like, of course, they

10:09

have more than me. Of course, they have a different life

10:11

to me. They've been on this path three

10:13

they're literally three times my age

10:15

is what I could have thought to myself. I think

10:17

I would have had a lot less stress

10:20

and anxiety when I was younger. If

10:22

I would've stopped comparing myself to

10:24

sixty three year old people and started comparing

10:26

myself to what who I was the month before

10:28

and who I was three weeks before and who I

10:30

was a year before. And so you

10:32

can't compare yourself to somebody

10:34

else. The only person you could compare

10:36

yourself to is you in the past.

10:38

You can't compare your business that you

10:40

just started to your friend's business who's

10:42

been in the industry for ten years.

10:44

Yours hasn't had as much time to

10:46

mature as theirs has. You haven't

10:48

had as much mistakes as

10:51

they have. You haven't learned the

10:53

lessons that you need to learn to get you

10:55

to where you wanna go. But you

10:57

can compare your business today to where

10:59

it was six months ago or

11:01

where it was last year. You can compare

11:03

your body today to where it was six

11:05

months ago you can compare your

11:07

knowledge to where you were six months ago. You

11:09

can compare your bank account to where you were

11:11

six months ago. So when you compare

11:14

The real question is when you compare after

11:16

you compare, do you feel good or do you

11:18

feel bad? K?

11:21

If you feel bad, you're probably comparing

11:23

yourself to other people, or

11:26

you're comparing yourself to where

11:28

you think you should be.

11:31

And the word should is a shame

11:33

word just so you know, you are shaming

11:35

yourself. You're shooting all over

11:37

yourself is what you're doing. Oh, I should be this. I

11:39

should be this. I should be this. No. Because if you

11:41

should be that, you would already be

11:43

that. And really, when we

11:45

compare, do we feel good?

11:48

Because we're comparing ourselves to other people, which we

11:50

can't do because we're not other people. We haven't had the

11:52

same life circumstances that they had.

11:54

And we can't or we can't compare ourselves where

11:56

we think we should be because that's completely

11:58

unrealistic. Really,

12:00

does comparison make you feel good?

12:02

Comparison usually brings on

12:04

the feeling of lack. I

12:06

don't have as much as they do. I'm

12:08

not as happy as they are. I'm not

12:10

as far as long as I should be.

12:12

And usually, that's what it'll bring

12:14

on lack but also what it tends to do is it tends to bring

12:16

on jealousy. And we get jealous of

12:18

other people. And lack in

12:20

jealousy are not

12:23

that's lacking in jealousy are not

12:25

magnetic energy. But

12:27

neither one of those are magnetic energies.

12:29

When I lack something, I'm not

12:31

attracting something to me. When I'm jealous of somebody

12:33

else, I'm not attracting that thing to

12:35

me. So by getting jealous and

12:37

by feeling the feeling of lack, you're

12:39

actually pushing away what it is

12:41

that you truly want. So

12:43

we need to learn when we look at somebody

12:45

and we wanna feel the feeling of like, damn

12:47

it. I wish I had that body. Damn it.

12:49

I wish I was on that trip. Damn

12:51

it. I wish that I was, you know,

12:53

driving that car damn it. I wish that I had that

12:55

business damn it. I wish that I had as much

12:57

money as they do. Instead of comparing

12:59

ourselves and feeling lack and feeling

13:01

jealousy because we're not where they are,

13:03

we can actually congratulate that person

13:05

and be like, you know what? Hell

13:07

yeah. Good for you.

13:09

You're doing well in life. And you know

13:11

what? If you start to congratulate people

13:13

in your mind out loud

13:16

to them in their face if you see them,

13:18

you will actually start to attract more of

13:20

what you want. It's a more magnetic energy.

13:22

Even if it's just by yourself and you

13:24

never say it directly to that person. Right?

13:27

I used to get jealous when I'd see people

13:29

with nice cars and see people with

13:31

nice houses and see people traveling the

13:33

world. And now when I see people, Even when I

13:35

see them on Instagram, I'm like, fuck yeah, man. Good for

13:37

you. Good for you for doing

13:39

that. That's awesome because I know that in order

13:41

to get to where they were, There was a lot

13:43

of stuff they had to get through. There was a lot of

13:45

things. A lot of crap that they had to go through to

13:47

get to where they are. Hell, yeah. Good for

13:49

you for achieving what you've achieved. You got a

13:51

freaking Lamborghini good for you, man. That's probably something

13:53

you've been wanting for a long time. How

13:55

awesome is that? So we have to learn to stay

13:57

in our own lane. Right? We have

13:59

to learn that you

14:01

have your own lane that you're in. I

14:03

remember that a few years

14:05

ago, I was doing, well, you know,

14:07

I was doing psychedelics. I'll say that. I won't

14:10

say any further. I won't say where I was, what I was doing,

14:12

any of that stuff. But I was on a psychedelic journey a few

14:14

years ago. And one of the things

14:16

that came very clear to me in this psychedelic

14:18

journey was, I am on my

14:20

own path. Like, I the

14:22

universe has made a lane

14:24

for Rob Dial and Rob Dial

14:26

only. I am the only one that can get

14:28

in this lane. I cannot get into anybody

14:30

else's lane. Anybody else cannot get into my

14:32

lane. I have my own lane I have a

14:34

journey that the universe or

14:36

god or life has designed for

14:38

me and I'm not in competition

14:40

with anybody. The universe made me my

14:42

own lane. I just need to follow

14:44

this lane. I just need to follow the path I'm

14:46

supposed to be going. Now I believe that

14:48

you, if you're listening to this, every single

14:50

person has their own lane as well. And so

14:52

if we're so focused on other

14:54

people's lane and where they

14:56

are, we're not gonna get to where we wanna

14:58

be. It's like that really famous picture like

15:00

five or six years ago when the

15:02

the Olympics were happening and Michael

15:04

Phelps was swimming. And he

15:06

ended up winning gold, but

15:08

they they took a picture. In one of the guys who

15:10

was swimming, he was right behind him, you can

15:12

see a mid stroke. He's actually

15:14

looking at Michael Phelps and he ended up

15:16

losing to Michael Phelps. He was so

15:19

focused on where Michael Phelps was that

15:21

he didn't put a hundred percent focus into where

15:23

he was and he ended up losing. And

15:25

so really what it comes down to is, like,

15:27

swimming your journey, staying in

15:29

your lane, staying on your path, and when you

15:31

see people succeeding, being like, man,

15:33

that's amazing. I can't wait till I get

15:35

there. That's amazing. Good for you. There's probably

15:37

a lot of things you had to go through to get there. I

15:39

believe that you have your own lane. You just

15:41

have to follow for you what feels

15:43

right. And then you have to realize that things

15:45

just take time. Like,

15:47

that's the one thing that I've realized that

15:49

as I get older, slow and

15:51

steady wins the race. That's

15:54

it, ma'am. Slowing steady wins a

15:56

race. MIGHT's putting one foot in front of

15:58

the other on my path that I'm supposed

16:00

to be going on. Did

16:02

I did I get one step further?

16:04

One step closer today? Did I get one

16:06

step closer today? Did I get one step

16:08

closer today? And I realized that this just things

16:10

take time. Like, I wanted to be so

16:12

successful when I was so young. And

16:14

as I get older, I'm just like, things are gonna

16:16

happen as things are supposed to happen. And

16:18

I don't know about you, but when I start going through

16:20

that mental thought

16:22

process, the whole feeling of my body is

16:24

just like, okay,

16:26

I don't have to be so uptight, I don't be so

16:28

focused. And so why should why am I not there? I

16:30

should be further, and it's just such

16:32

a restrictive energy. You know, and I

16:34

used to see people that there were millions like, why

16:36

don't I have that? It's just like, you know, over the

16:38

past few years and I got to places that I wanted to

16:40

be and doing things that I wanted to do. I just

16:42

realized, It just I wasn't there yet.

16:44

Time wasn't things take time

16:46

and my time had not come

16:48

to to be that time yet.

16:50

And so when you see people,

16:53

that have something that you have, a lot of times

16:55

they might be fifteen to twenty years further than

16:57

you. Right? You

16:59

still have life stuff so many things you can be

17:01

grateful for. And with your goals, you just

17:03

have to realize they only take three things. They

17:05

take direction, they take action, and they

17:07

take time. Are you heading in the right

17:09

direction to achieve your goals? Is is, you know,

17:11

is what you're doing right now taking you closer

17:14

to or further away from your goals.

17:16

So are we heading in the right direction?

17:18

Okay. If we are, then

17:20

each day, am I taking the right action

17:22

to start to get there? Am I putting am

17:24

I one step closer to

17:26

my goal that I've been trying to work

17:29

for? Am I heading in the right direction? Yes. Am I taking

17:31

the right action? One step, one

17:33

step, one step, and just getting one percent

17:35

better every single day? And

17:37

then Time. Time is going to

17:39

work itself out the way that's supposed to work itself

17:41

out. If you think about how crazy would it be

17:43

to go to the gym, you know,

17:45

and and leave the gym and be like, look down and be like, what the hell?

17:47

I don't have a six pack yet. We would all be like,

17:49

that's wild. Nobody would ever think that.

17:52

Do we think that for everything else in our life? We think that in our bank account, in

17:54

our relationships, in our businesses, all of that stuff. We

17:56

need to make sure we're heading in the right direction. We need

17:58

to make sure we're taking the right action, and we just

18:00

need to let time itself out. So

18:03

what you have to do is realize

18:05

that you're running your own race, you're in your own

18:07

lane, and you've gotta stop comparing yourself,

18:09

and you've gotta stop being jealous, and you've

18:11

got to start congratulating. So

18:13

that's what I got for you for this

18:15

episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your

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18:26

going for a run or listening to with

18:28

your kids, whatever it is. I'd love to see you guys do that.

18:30

So if you do that, we'd greatly greatly appreciate it.

18:33

Also, it allows the podcast to be able to

18:35

grow and more people be able to find it who I've never listened

18:37

to before. And with

18:39

that, I'm gonna leave the same way of every single episode.

18:41

Make it your mission to make someone else's day

18:43

better. I appreciate you. And I hope that you have amazing

18:46

day.

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