Mindset Matters: Why? - Episode 1

The speaker of the podcast discusses the importance of mental toughness and how it can help navigate life's obstacles. They share their personal journey of wanting to change their mindset and improve themselves. They talk about facing hardships, feeling like a victim, and the impact of stress on their life. They also mention the inspiration they found on TikTok, specifically from a person named Fonzian, who inspired them to prioritize self-love and self-improvement. The speaker expresses their desire to be there for others and provide advice based on their own experiences. They end the podcast by encouraging listeners to love themselves, put themselves first, and watch their personal growth. Hi, and welcome to the Mindset Matters podcast, a place where we sit down and talk about the importance of mental toughness, how we can use that to better navigate all the obstacles life has to throw at us, and ultimately, how we can use it to transform our lives. So in this first episode, I essentially just want to talk about my why, you know, why am I making this podcast? Why am I getting into this? To start for 2023, I really wanted to focus on not being a victim, not having a victim mentality. You know, all sorts of things happen to people throughout their lives, you know, everybody faces hardships. How we come back from that is the most important thing. Not what happens to us, but how we get up. I just wanted to change my mindset. I wanted to change it for the better, improve myself, really just transform my mind. And I thought that if I could transform my mind, I can really, you know, change my perspective of life. Because if I'm being completely honest with you, I was not happy with where I was at in life even a month ago. Finals were just ending, it's December, right before Christmas. I'm broke, broke college student. I have no money to get for my family, like Christmas gifts or anything like that. It's just a bad time. Like sophomore year of college, I haven't touched, well, I touched a baseball, but I haven't been healthy in baseball since high school. So really for that last semester, it just felt like it got to the point where I was in a constant loop, trying to get healthy for a sport I inevitably can't play. Come to find out my injuries are so bad, I really need to do like physical therapy work and get my stuff right. But at this point in my life, I'm just really down in the dumps, not thinking too highly of myself because I'm spending all this time on baseball and I can't even play it. So that obviously sent me down kind of a bad place with the stress of school, stress of baseball, every little factor going on in my life, I felt the weight of and it really affected me and I played into that victim mindset. To go into it further, all the hardships I really faced over the past like year, year and a half, things like, you know, COVID, bouncing back from UNLV, injury, rehab, toxic relationships, I really just learned a lot about like mental toughness and everything. I wouldn't say that I applied it until I could look at it after the fact. And that's what talks about it most, honestly, like, I wish I would have thought how I do now back then, but you know, everything happens for a reason and that's why I have this podcast. I just want to be able to be there for someone with wisdom like this. I've been through it. So I just want to help, really, that's all it is. I want to be the advice that I wish someone could have given me. And I'm not saying I know everything either. I'm just saying I'm here. So to kind of get back on track here, some things that inspired me, funny enough, the biggest thing was TikTok. Scrolling through on TikTok, going through my For You page in the morning, right when I wake up, honestly, the worst habit probably you could possibly have. But thank God it was there because if it weren't for TikTok, I wouldn't have seen all the positive mindset TikToks and everything that talks about kind of building your own beautiful garden and that concept where if you build a beautiful garden and you spend all this time working on it, the butterflies are going to come. What you want is going to come. And if they don't, you still have that beautiful garden, which is a really good analogy that I took into account for my life. Another one I saw was building your own castle. It's kind of this concept of, you know, taking life for yourself, feeling fulfilled for yourself and really just taking matters into your own hands because I was done suffering. I was done feeling like crap. I was done feeling bad about myself. So if I can do something, get kind of on a path towards self-betterment and all of that, then, shoot, yeah, I'll be happy for sure. Someone who kind of kickstarted this whole movement for myself is a guy that goes by the name Fonzian. His name's Ian. He's an influencer on TikTok, Instagram, he's a Gymshark athlete, pro bodybuilder, super cool guy. All his social media and stuff's definitely a vibe. He's one of the more real influencers, if that makes sense, kind of like what I'm trying to be. Anywho, I scrolled through TikTok one day and I see a video and this is the first time I had ever encountered him. It's him talking about how he, his self-love journey and how he's finally putting himself first and kind of leaves his life behind in California and moves to, I think it was Virginia and kind of goes ghost, works on himself, puts himself first. He has a vision for himself and he fulfills it. He protects his energy and now he's actually living and he's loving life. And that simple TikTok video inspired me to do that for myself because if you're not living life and loving it, what's the point of living? And we're going to be here anyways, so why not make the most out of it? So yeah, Ian, if you're listening, thank you. We've talked a few times, cool dude. Hopefully we can collab on something, I don't know, that'd be cool. Anyways, yeah, so love yourself, put yourself first and watch the growth. Thank you all for listening in. I hope you enjoyed the first podcast and I'll see you next time.