Episode 11
11: Train Your Brain for Success - Robb Zbierski
Robb Zbierski is a professional speaker, trainer and coach with Freedom Personal Development. He is a fun and exciting speaker who works with people and professionals in all fields. His area of specialty is training your brain for success. This topic is especially relevant for people in the dental industry.
Having the right attitude and a positive self-talk can set the tone for the whole day, week, and practice. We talk about how people can learn to train their brains to be more successful in whatever they do. Robb shares tools like positive self-talk, affirmations, gratitude, and having clarity of purpose. He talks about how important it is to visual what you want or even what you are trying to remember. He talks about staying aligned with your core values and many more golden nuggets.
You can find Robb here:
Freedom Personal Development - The Only RobbZ
Show Notes
[02:52] Robb helps people learn how to train their brain so they can be more successful in whatever they do.
[03:13] Putting together consistent ongoing top level performance and results.
[03:31] Robb worked in the bicycle industry and lost his job 8 years ago. He took severance pay, and got involved in the speaker industry.
[05:15] How memory training is one of their most popular programs. Memory training is personal development.
[07:07] The importance of the brain.
[07:37] Robb has worked in every industry including dentistry. It doesn't matter what you do. People believe that they are so busy that they settle. People have unlimited potential.
[09:07] The importance of being effective and how you talk to yourself.
[09:56] How busy is a bad word or at least on the fringe.
[10:17] The importance of self-talk. Your self-talk begins when you wake up in the morning. Everything goes right into your subconscious.
[11:37] Getting into the habit of starting the day with positive self-talk.
[12:56] How you are in charge, so talk in a way that takes charge of your day in a positive way.
[13:22] It is impossible to be negative and grateful at the same time.
[14:12] Practicing gratitude sets off a chain reaction of thoughts in your brain and chemical reactions in your body and it physically manifests itself.
[15:25] Robb shares how his mother in law practices gratitude and how it is an amazing tool to get out of a funk.
[17:18] Looking for perfect can be dangerous for a dentist. It has a ripple effect.
[18:05] Be kind to yourself.
[18:44] Starting with affirmations and talking to yourself in a positive way.
[19:10] Eliminate I'm good from your vocabulary. What you say and the words you use has a massive impact on your success. If you brain only pictures "good" it limits itself.
[20:15] When people tell a lie long enough they start to believe. The same for what you tell your mind.
[21:16] Have a heightened awareness of things that matter like core values, purpose, vision, bigger picture dreams, spirituality, and living with integrity.
[22:03] How people with clarity sleep better at night. Clarity fixes a lot of things.
[23:00] The importance of core values and having a moral compass.
[23:54] Using core values as a form of checks and balances. Keep aligned with your core values.
[25:14] How systems are the cornerstone of ultimate happiness.
[25:34] Awareness. We already know what is important to us. Review your core values and have a vision.
[26:46] Feeding your elephant or the subconscious. Immerse your goal in your life whether it is a number or changing your passwords to new home 2018.
[27:35] The key to success is actually a combination lock.
[28:17] Committing yourself to the training and the marathon becomes the byproduct.
[28:40] The why talk. Why the why is so important. Your brain knows how and what. Keep connected with why it is important. When you are clear on the why the how and the what will just happen.
[30:43] Being good at establishing the why.
[31:24] Dentist having a frame of reference. When you accomplish what you need to do, you have more fun doing what you want to do.
[32:47] The importance of finding a mentor and how you perceived things.
[33:23] Being in the rut or the groove. Find a mentor and get in the groove and stay out of the rut.
[34:11] How it is impossible to do everything by yourself.
[35:36] How Robb loves working in the dental world because it is so specialized.
[36:05] Get clear on what you want and why it is important. Self-evaluation and finding a coach or mentor. Talk to yourself in a positive manner. What you expose yourself to first thing in the morning sets your tone for the entire day. Incorporate what is important to you into your routine.
[37:57] How Blue Monday can carry into the rest of the week.
[38:33] Your memory is either trained or untrained. Training yourself to recall information and thinking visually. Learn and practice the skill.
[42:38] Thinking visually and learning a system to improve your memory and memory practice.
[43:40] The challenge of indifference with dentists and hairdressers. Learn to remember names and make it personal.
Links and Resources:
Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records
Freedom Personal Development - The Only RobbZ
