We Must Redefine “Normal”

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What is going on everyone? I'm your host, Isaac Mashman, and you are now listening to episode 21 of Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, the podcast. Pretty simple to remember, right? So today I am going to be talking about the definition of normal. What does normal mean to you? But before I hop into that, I want to go ahead and address something. The only way that this podcast can grow is with your help. See, I'm never going to run an outside advertisement. I'm not going to, you know, go ahead and promote all of these different companies on my show. The most promotion you will ever get is my own products, my own services.

I have a lot of amazing things that are coming out over the next couple of months that I might plug on my show here and there.

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But I am the one who's trying to give value. I'm trying to deliver the most value I possibly can to all of you guys. I haven't had 10, 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship or in business or in self-improvement, like a lot of people have. But the one thing that I do have is some experience. I do have some skin in the game. This upcoming August is going to mark three years in my entrepreneurial journey. The one thing that I've been able to do over the past couple of years since I got started is study and take on mentorship, take on knowledge. I've been a student of the game. Because of that, I am trying to relay that information over into your own brain, so you can learn from my mistakes.

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So you can learn my knowledge. I believe that we should always be students, we should always be learning, and we should always be trying to save as much time as possible. That's called cutting timeframes. Why would you spend 10 years, or even one month, or even one day or one minute, making the same exact mistake that someone has already made before you? It doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? So I'm all about saving you time. That is the one asset that we will never get back. So I say all of that to say this: if you get any ounce of value from the episodes that I share, tell a friend.

Tell somebody about Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman. I'm not talking about just posting it on your story or just saying something briefly in conversation, but no, make an effort to go out and tell somebody about my podcast.

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That is literally the only way that I'm going to grow. If I ever run advertisements in the future on social media to grow my podcast, great. But until I get to that point, I need your guys' help, and I will always need your guys' help. You guys are the reason why I'm doing the show. So I just wanted to mention that, any episode that you listen to, share it with a friend. I would say go out and tell somebody in real life, but, you know, obviously, as of the time and the date of recording this episode and its published date, we're all under quarantine. We're under lockdown, and I'm not going to encourage you to go out and tell somebody, and drive to where they're at, their house.

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Anyways, so into what we're going to be talking about today. Normal, what is normal? You see, I was listening to a podcast earlier today, actually it was Bradley's podcast, Dropping Bombs, and it was with a guest, Alex Morton. Now Alex Morton is, he's 30 years old, he's made a whole bunch of money, and he is the vice president of a network marketing company. He made his money through network marketing, and for those of you who don't know, I was actually a part of that network marketing company that he was vice president of for nearly a year. I'm not going to mention the company, but after getting out of that company, I still look to a lot of those company leaders as mentors because of their experience.

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It goes back to always being a student. So he was on that episode, and they were going back and forth, having a conversation and literally dropping bombs. That's Bradley's podcast. So whenever you get a golden nugget or something that is really powerful, he has a little bomb emoji that makes an explosion, or not an emoji, but he has a bomb sound that goes off. That's like, hey, people, pay attention to that, that thing that was just said. Hit that replay button and relisten to the past 15 seconds. They were talking about normal life, and it got me to thinking over my own past. It got me to thinking about the way I was raised, the way I was brought up, and, see, for the longest time, I thought that it was normal.

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Would have been like, that is impossible. Only the birds can fly. Only the angels can fly. Then fast forward, the Wright brothers were like, you know what? If a bird can do it, I can do it. Then they made a plane and they flew. This is an analogy I got from one of my virtual mentors, Bob Proctor. He spoke about the concept of a chair in his book You Were Born Rich. In that analogy, he mentioned that there was some point where a man got so distraught over sitting on the ground, on the cold hard dirt, to where he started to build and manufacture a chair in his mind.

Then the chair evolved from just a piece of wood that you were sitting on, and it evolved to having padding, to where you have pads on your chair to make it more comfortable. Then when the office came into being, the chair had wheels to where you could roll the chair around, and then it had a couch, and then it had a sofa.

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It's a consistent evolution. So I believe that we are all able to create and shape our realities and our lives. I've seen it happen in way too many people's lives on my own network over the course of literally two years or less than two years. They go from being a nobody to being a somebody. I've met so many amazing influencers and creators through my social media connections. I was a star creator for a Facebook competitor to TikTok called Lasso. Because of that, I had a lot of amazing connections that I was able to establish with some pretty big names now, but they weren't always big names.

There is someone who I met at VidCon 2019, and his name is Sean Does Magic. At the time of meeting him, he had less than 100,000 followers on Instagram, I think he was sitting around 70, 80K, and he had less than a million followers on TikTok.

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Fast forward, not even 12 months later, he just crossed 10 million followers on TikTok. He has 140,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and he has 250,000 followers on Instagram. He's getting direct messages from people of importance, people who are verified celebrities, A-list celebrities, B-list celebrities, he's getting into the [public eye], and that was a goal that he set. There was a reason why he achieved those things. He wrote out the goal, he worked his butt off to obtain that goal, and now he has manifested and created that into his life. That is what we have the power to do in our own lives if we take massive action.

Anyways, that's a topic for another day. I could go on and talk about that for hours on end. It's something that I'm extremely passionate about, and the things that I'm passionate about,

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I'm able to talk about for long periods of time. But going back to what we were discussing today, today's topic of what is normal, I believe we establish the definition of normal in our life. But we have to understand that the way that we were raised and the way that our parents taught us and the way that the teachers programmed us have all influenced our way of thinking on a subconscious level, not a conscious level. The subconscious level, see, our brain and our lives are operated mainly by our subconscious mind. For those of you who drive, think of the first time that you ever drove a car.

You thought you were going to crash that car, you thought you were going to freak out and kill yourself. Then now, fast forward, you've had more experience driving and now, you know, I'm not suggesting you do this by no means, but you're driving with your knees. You're drinking a cup of coffee, you're on the phone, which you shouldn't be, or you're listening to music at the same time. You're not giving so much conscious effort and conscious energy towards driving that car. It becomes second nature to you. That second nature means that it was programmed in your subconscious mind. Just as actions can be programmed, thoughts can also be programmed.

The ways of thinking, why do you think a lot of people who were raised in a certain political party come out and they are of the same political party, or they are raised underneath a certain religion, then they grow up and they are of the same religion of their parents, of their grandparents, of their great great grandparents? That tradition is subconscious programming that gets programmed into your DNA to where your kid is the same exact way as you. Then your grandkid is the same exact way as you.

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Now, I still believe that you should only eat or you should only get what you can eat. But it's like, if you didn't eat everything, yes, you were wasting it, but if you didn't eat anything, it's like food is never going to come on your plate again. It's like you have to finish that. If you don't finish it, man, like the world is falling, like the sky is falling, literally Chicken Little running around like the world's going to end if you don't finish every single pea on your plate. That's a scarcity mindset. That is a mindset of, oh, there's nothing more that you can eat.

There's nothing more. You have to do that. That scarcity mindset breeds scarcity results, whether that's financially, whether that's in friendships or relationships, whether that's in human growth.

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We as human beings should always be growing. We should always be improving. We should always be getting better. Should always be pushing our limits. Why do you think the phrase that I'm using now is Live Without Limitations? Because I saw so many people in their lives stop growing, and the moment that they stopped growing, their lives went to total chaos. It went totally down the drain, and you can't grow with a scarcity mindset. People think [being] stagnant, and people think stopping, [is okay]. Oh, I'm content, I'm happy with where I'm at, I'm not looking for anything else. I'm perfectly okay with where I'm at. Well guess what?

You are actually [regressing] because the rest of the world is moving forward. I've used the analogy multiple times of the rock in the stream. The rock in the stream doesn't appear to be moving backwards. But over the course of 100 years or 1,000 years, the current of the stream is going to be wearing and eroding away at that rock to where eventually it'll be nothing. It will just go down and drift away into nothingness. Many people live their lives like that rock in the stream.

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They just don't move. They're stuck in the ways that they were raised. They're stuck in their current form of living and they don't have this fire in their heart. They don't have this fire underneath their butt that keeps them going. I've noticed myself in my own life getting so comfortable and so complacent, to where I have to continuously [light] that fire and look for ways that I can be uncomfortable and look for ways that I can continuously be moving forward. It's taking a conscious effort, but I also recognize that as I consciously make these decisions and take these actions, it'll eventually subconsciously get reprogrammed into habit. I started the Live Without Limitations program to establish habits, and habits are subconscious ways of acting or thinking.

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So after a period of time, for example, last month I started the program April 1st, I started the L.W.L. Program. If you're curious to know what I'm talking about, go back to episode 19 with my good friend, Paul Miller, where we talk and break down the program. But I started out with 30 minutes of exercise each day. So for the exercise, what I did is I started walking. So I would go on walks every day for about a mile and a half, two miles, 30 minutes' worth of exercise, brisk walk, go around, I would listen to self-development at the same time. A mile and a half a day really isn't a lot.

But then at the end of the month you look back and you're like, in a period of 28 to 30 days, I was able to walk over 50 miles. 50 miles compared to walking a couple of [miles] a month, going to 50, that is a huge jump. That razor edge difference, and that razor edge, you know, that one little decision that I made to implement into my day to day life made such a big difference. It's the same exact way with our thinking, and what is normal?

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That is because I have the power to change my thoughts because normal to me really wasn't normal at all. Every single person lives an entirely different life. That's the crazy thing. Every single time you're driving on the highway and you are stuck in the middle of traffic. Let's say you're on a major highway, like I-95. I-95 is the major highway that runs through Jacksonville, Florida. Let's say you're stuck in traffic and you're driving along and you're basically at a standstill. The person in the car to your left, the person in the car to your right, the person behind you 100 cars back, the person in front of you 100 cars [up].

[Every] single individual in that vehicle has had a different life with different people, with different experiences, with different beliefs. I want you to replay this past 15 seconds.

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Think about this for a second. Every single person around you has lived an entirely different life and so what is normal to that person might be radical to you. What your life is might be radical to them. So this leads me into my next point and the final point of today's episode, that you need to take time to figure out what you want your normal to be. I'm not saying the average. I'm not saying be normal. I am saying take a step back and reevaluate those beliefs that you were programmed with, reevaluate those different things, those ways of thinking, right, the Great Value beans versus the Bush's beans.

But ask yourself, you know what? Do I want to be living in that mindset of scarcity or do I want to be living in that mindset of growth and prosperity?

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But I had that prosperity mindset and I knew that there was a client out there that needed what I offered, and I closed that client and paid for my ticket home. I had faith and I had an optimistic mindset and I knew that I could do it. Normal thinking gets normal results. If you make your definition of normal something that is so far out there when it comes to prosperity thinking, when it comes to beliefs, then these daily routines and these daily habits and your subconscious programming will be so powerful, you won't even have to think about it, you won't have to think about going out of your way to do self-development every day.

You won't have to think and go out of your way to put on a podcast or to tune into a new episode of Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, because it'll just become second nature to you.

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Guys, we are in full control of our lives. We are in full, full, total control of our lives, our situations. I get that a lot of what is going on right now might appear to be out of our hands. Yes, to an extent it is out of our hands, but to a large extent it is not, because just because you got laid off from a job doesn't mean you should go out and start smoking weed, or start partying, or start blaming everybody else, and start pointing fingers at your employers. They have to put food on their own tables too. You understand that. It is why you need to be a leader, and, you know, a good episode to refer back to is the last episode, right before this, where I say it is time to step up as leaders. I go into why it is important to be a leader.

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You're in full control. Take that extreme ownership of your life. Jocko Willink is a Navy SEAL. He was in the Navy SEALs for 20 years and he talks about extreme ownership and taking control over your situations. Every single successful mentor or person who you could look to doesn't blame the government, doesn't blame everybody in their life or Uncle Joe for things that worked or things that didn't work. No. If something is going right, everyone takes responsibility. Think back to, let's say, a company project you were working on with a couple other people, or, for some of you younger guys, back in school, whenever you were doing a school project.

Oh yeah, when you got that A plus on your project or when that project had a huge success rate, everybody wanted to claim ownership of that.

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Everybody wanted to be like, yeah, I did a... Yeah, that was mine. I did a part of that. But then if you failed that project or if you didn't get those results that you were looking for, nobody wanted to go ahead and say, yeah, that was mine. No, they wanted to point fingers and say, oh, it was him. It was Susie. It was that person. Oh, this went wrong in the project. I couldn't do this because this was out of whack. Guys, stop beating around the bush and take control. Take ownership. I've realized [this about] success. It is better to give the credit to another person than take the credit because it helps that other person succeed. It encourages that other person and you automatically feel better. You also need to take credit when things don't go as planned.

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Take control of your situation. Guys, there are so many phenomenal things that I could go on and talk about. But in today's episode, go ahead, listen to this a couple times if you need to, but really pay attention to what I say. Really pay attention to the way that you are operating in your day to day life. As you go out today, go through today and go through tomorrow and go through next week, I'm [asking you to pay] attention to how the way that you were raised has affected your normal life. Take some time to reflect tonight, meditate, write out your thoughts, write out your feelings, and write out how that scarcity mindset has affected you today.

Then where you see fit, make changes. You could do all the studying in the world, but if you don't take massive action, you will never receive massive results.

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So guys, thank you so much. Like I said, a little bit of housekeeping rules, make sure to share this episode with someone who you know will get value from it. Feel free to reach out to me at Isaac Mashman on all social media platforms. Tweet at me at Isaac Mashman to let me know what your thoughts are for today's episode. Use the hashtag Thrive With Isaac, and man, I'm so excited for the rest of 2020. We're just getting the ball rolling and expect brand new episodes every single Monday of every single month, guys. Always live without limitations, and make sure to go to my website, isaacmashman.com. Much love and keep up the work.