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Welcome to the 100xLife Podcast! This is the place for anyone who desires to not just hear the words of Jesus but to live them fully. Together, we’ll explore what it means to experience the abundant life He promises, a life of purpose, growth, and transformation.
Each episode is designed to inspire and challenge you to put in the work of following Jesus, equipping you with practical insights and encouragement to align your life with His teachings.
Whether you're just beginning your faith journey or looking to deepen it, the 100xLife Podcast helps activate your next step toward the life you were created to live.
Rob Dayton (00:00)
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Welcome to the 100X Life Podcast, where we activate people who desire to live the words of Jesus and experience the abundant life He promises. I'm your host, Rob Dayton, and I hope this podcast inspires you to put in the work of following Jesus.
Rob Dayton (00:36)
Hey, 100xlifers, welcome back to the podcast. We are on a 10-part series, 10 Jesus Mindsets that are core mindsets for living His Word. I get more and more excited about this particular teaching about mindsets. Jesus is the mindset God. He is the He is the member of the most concerned about the way we think.
And we're on part three of a 10 part series. and these 10 mindsets are central for Jesus followers. You know, in the 100xLife you rated your progress with each of Jesus's words, based on the parable, the sower and Jesus's rating system, receiving, resisting, refocusing and reproducing. And by looking at those, you can kind of see your maturity in living a word.
How would you rate your ability to live each of these Jesus mindsets? Well, first, what is a mindset? We can't say this enough. A mindset is a stable set of beliefs, a stable set of beliefs and assumptions through which you interpret yourself, other people, events, which in turn shape how you think, how you feel, and how you act.
If there is a lamp of the body, what Jesus says, the eye is the lamp of the body. How you see is your mindset. Will you be full of darkness because your mind is full of darkness or will your mind be full of light? Your mindset fully on board with the things of Jesus so that you can see well. A mindset shapes how you pay attention to information, how you make sense of your experiences. It is your underlying attitudes.
how many people want to have a great attitude? How many people want to be around people with a great attitude? How about let's start there? Yeah. These mindsets are your underlying attitudes about things like ability, effort, success, failure. in the world in general, like how you see your worldview is through your mindsets. It guides your responses, your decisions.
and your pursuit of goals over time. Mindsets are critical for your health. So we want to be really plugged in to what a mindset is. And remember, we're developing a capability of changing your mindsets. One of the things that I've noticed is I've been chasing this for the better part of 20 years is that I get better and better and better at changing the way I think faster and faster, more efficient. And that's what we want. We want to build the
capability of changing the way you think. You can see why Jesus insists that we develop mindsets based on his teaching. Because when we do, we automatically think, we automatically speak, and we automatically act just like him. We will see people and the world as he sees them. Isn't that brilliant? Don't you want to see people as Jesus sees people, the world as he sees the world? Our mindsets will judge all of our circumstances.
Every circumstance that comes in gets judged by our mindsets. And if we have a growth mindset that's fully on board with Jesus, every circumstance that's negative will be an opportunity to grow. wise mindset will remain strong in the face of life's storms. So how would you measure mindset maturity? Okay, so your mindsets mature.
When you think, speak and act like Jesus, if you are doing that and you're thinking, you're speaking, you're acting, look like Jesus, you know you're fully mature. When love is supreme in your response, both internally, the stories you're telling yourself and externally to those who witness you. Here's when you know you've fully adopted a new mindset and these are progressive. So number one, your internal dialogue aligns with your new mindset. It means
What you're saying to yourself, the stories that are rising up within you, they're consistent with your mindset. In other words, they're reaffirming. They're not battling your mindset. They're actually consistent with your mindset. If the stories that your brain brings to your mind, your conscious mind's attention are aligned with your Jesus mindset that you desire, you know you are becoming mature. Here's the next one. You begin to react emotionally consistent with your new mindset.
In other words, your emotions are fully on board in an alignment with that thing that you chose to believe that takes practice. It takes a long time because the triggers that are within us are based on our past we're not Jesus mindsets. And so we witness a thing and then we get triggered and we respond emotionally. In this case, inconsistent with the Jesus mindset we want. So will be emotional consistency with the mindset. Number three, your actions.
become fully aligned with your mindset. That's how we know about faith. Faith is automatic action in the area of Jesus mindset. So behavior follows thinking. That's why Jesus doesn't set a bunch of rules for us to, to, actually do. He wants us to develop mindsets so that the, will naturally live the behaviors of love. The, the, the amount of opportunities to love are countless. We can't describe every situation.
that we're going to experience all of our lives, but we can shape mindsets that will naturally breed love in every single circumstance. Number four, people will notice your mindset shift. Everyone's gonna notice. If you are becoming mature in a mindset of Jesus, people will notice, they will see what's happening.
And number five, circumstances, your life circumstances can radically shift, but your mindset remains strong. So you know you're mature in a mindset when these circumstances come and they totally contradict your mindset. What if your mindset was Jesus is always healing and then you go through a season where you ask for healing, you ask for healing and you're trying to...
seek healing in other people's lives. And it just doesn't happen. The circumstances are the opposite of your mindset. you know, your mindset's mature when it is, it is completely undeterred. It's like, well, I don't know what that was about, but Jesus wants to heal in every moment. And I'm not going to keep going. I'm going to keep exercising my mindset. So those are, those are five ways that you can know you're becoming more mature. think it's helpful because we want to self monitor how we're doing.
Ask yourself how much of this is true for me. How much of these that I just laid out, let me just review them, your internal dialogue, your emotional consistency or emotional alignment, your actions are aligned with the mindset, people are noticing the mindset, and then you're not deterred by negative circumstances. So ask yourself, how much is this true for me? Each step is progressive. So another way to look at it is
that I have fully adopted a mindset in which my unconscious brain is fully aligned with my conscious decision to believe it. So when we want to adopt a mindset, when we set out and we say, I want to believe, we want to believe, I want to believe in Jesus. Okay, great. Your conscious mind wants to and says it wants to do this. And then your unconscious mind is in this battle saying, no, this is how I already automatically believe and it's different.
So the process of developing a Jesus mindset is actually and reprogramming of your unconscious brain. You know, you've reached maturity when your unconscious brain is acting like the mindset you've chosen to believe. You could say you're a believer of Jesus. You know, we call ourselves believers, but if you don't display growth in living your beliefs, a believer you are not. And I'm not talking about salvation.
Jesus' love is so powerful and so ferocious for you. If he has an inkling that you're in, he's all in for you. So that's not the issue. The issue is will you practice freedom? Will you become alive? Will you see the abundant life? Will you be able to manifest heaven now in the earthly plane, this training for reigning that you'll experience for the rest of your life? Okay. So the minds, the first mindset we talked about.
The first week we were talking about this was believing in the one God sent. That is Jesus. This is, this one is fundamental to developing all mindsets grounded in Jesus's instructions to repent and believe. Change the way you think so that you can actually believe. And then last week we looked at another core Jesus mindset, living as one led by Jesus. In other words,
We're going to look at life as though Jesus is taking us. He's taking us on a journey. That journey leads to the Father's house. This place is filled with love. This is filled with compassion, forgiveness, no condemnation. And we talked about how it would be if you were following Him on earth versus following Him now and how different that is, and that this mindset sees life as one big check-in to stay on the path. Where are you going, Jesus? Where are you taking me now?
If you start doubting, Hey Jesus, can you fill me in on where we're going? How am going to benefit? What are you trying to teach me through this circumstance? We will live as one following Jesus. That's a mindset. And today we're going to look at mindset number three, living His word is my freedom. Living His word is my freedom. Wow. What if we believed that if we, if we believed that living His word was the abundant life is our freedom.
How would that change our actions? Here's our key scripture in John 8, 13 through 32. If you abide in my word, that word abide means to dwell in, to live in, to remain in. If you abide in my word, then you are truly my disciples. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Unbelievable. I love this scripture. It's so precious. If you really want to be his disciple,
you will abide, you will remain, you will dwell in the words of Jesus. And that's when you'll know I'm following him, I am his disciple, I'm learning from him, and then we will see the truth. How many want to know the truth? This world is desperate for the truth in all areas every single day. We want to know the truth. We want to be right about the truth. And that truth, the truth of Jesus is going to set us free.
So we want to create this mindset of living His word is my freedom. That's how we believe. How many want to be free? just from a physical prison, but out of a mental prison of self-condemnation, self-loathing, and self-doubt. How many of us are trapped in our minds, in the thoughts that well up within us to pass judgment against us?
to judgment against others. Thoughts that bring judgment and condemnation to everything. Thoughts that catastrophize about things that are not even real. Our imaginations can play scenarios that aren't even real that are reprogrammed in our brains to fear and to worry. That is not freedom. That is a prison. And thoughts of unforgiveness that come to torture us. Jesus says unforgiveness is torture. How many of us live
in a mental prison, true imprisonment happens in the mind and Jesus wants your freedom. That's why we're talking about these mindsets. We want to be blown away by the truth of Jesus so that we can truly be free. Okay. So this mindset, let's talk about living His word is my freedom. That's the mindset living His word is my freedom. What is this going to do for us? If we were to live this word.
live this mindset and actually behave like this automatically, what is it going to do for us? Well, we're going to see the words of Jesus as the most precious nourishment to our minds. We're going to gravitate toward them. We're going to be like Jesus' parable where a man finds a treasure in a field and he buries it up and then he spends all his money to acquire that field so he can have that treasure.
That's how the word of Jesus will be for us. We will be constantly seeking out. We will be diligent, not just to read or memorize the words of Jesus, but to live them, to put them into practice. We will not see His words as a sacrifice. I think that this is one of the biggest points that I ever make. It's like, it's not a sacrifice if it's self-beneficial. It may seem like it's a sacrifice, but if we're free and we're living this mindset,
we'll see it not as a sacrifice. We'll see it, see it as a benefit and we'll be, we will be an awe of the love and beauty contained in his words. want to emphasize that in this particular podcast that awe, awe is one of the things that really transforms our brain. If we want to program reprogram our brain, that's what we're talking about with mindsets. We will experience awe. So if you are undone, if you just go, my gosh.
His words are so beautiful. they're so lovely. Compare them to creation. His words as behaviors of love, the words of Jesus are far more beautiful than I'm looking at a Japanese Elm tree that's blooming right now outside my window. And it is so stunning and beautiful. How much more stunning are the words of Jesus? So if we believe that we'll just be in awe. We will see His words, the very foundation of life within us.
We will see that this is the foundation we build everything on would be his words. will practice, practice, practice living his words till we die. We will continue to practice getting better and better at his behaviors of love. will dedicate time to working on our spiritual and mental capacity to live his words. We're going to get in the gym. was the 100X Life gym is a spiritual gym. It's a mental gym. And if we see
His words is our freedom. Then we're going to run into that gym because that's where freedom grows. Okay. So that's what this mindset will do for us. And when, when we are fully convinced that the words of Jesus are the place where we will find freedom, love, contentment, glory, the abundant life, then we'll easily pass up other pleasures for the glory of practicing His word.
So the things of this world, the things that may seem like a distraction now, the worries, the cares, the mortgage payment, the challenges at work, the challenges at church, all of these things that get us catastrophizing, we will shift our focus away from them. They will be nothing to us because we are fully convinced that the words of Jesus are a place where we're going to find freedom, love, contentment.
joy, the abundant life, no matter the circumstance, no matter what's happening to us. So defining a mindset of Jesus is one thing, but programming and reprogramming our brains for automatic action, that's quite another thing. we could, again, we could say we're believers, but if we can't reprogram, then how are we gonna do this?
So each week I'm going to paint you a little bit different picture on how to take action. One of the, one of these is going to really take hold with you because it'll be, it'll make sense to you. It'll, it'll feel like that one's made for you. Remember the gospel does not make a difference until a person lives it. The words in our Bible are meaningless until a person lives those words out. Kingdom expansion happens with your transformation.
And transformation is a process of moving from the undesirable state to the unbelievable state of freedom. And I invite you to be transformed. So last week, the hacks we talked about last week are devoting time in the presence of the Trinity. And that one is going to be fundamental. have to be like Jesus. We have to go away before the sun comes up and hang out with the Trinity, just like Jesus hung out with Papa. We talked about practicing.
Thankfulness is a way to transform and run. That's a really good one. Just keep being thankful for the new mindset, being thankful that you're capable of doing it, being thankful that you're in the gym. talked about journal, journal, journal, journal. That will always be the foundation. Journaling is the most effective way to reprogram your brain because it slows you down to think about what you're thinking about. And then rereading your journal reminds you of what you were thinking about. What you focus on is where you're going.
the mountain bike when we're going down the trail and I told you about the rock in the middle of the path, you focus on the rock. The bike's hitting the rock. Where you focus is where the bike is going. In this case, where you focus is where you're going in life. Where you focus is how you're feeling. And focus really is what you conscientiously give real estate to. So when you when you conscientiously give time to thought, that is focus.
Focusing your thoughts on your desired mindset is a powerful way to reprogram. Today, I've got some different exercises, different approach to exercising mindset. So again, we're working on the mindset of living his word is my freedom. So believing that what I recommend. Define the mindset as an expression of behavior. So for example, here's an observable behavior for today's mindset.
When I read a word of Jesus that sounds difficult, I naturally think, and this is the pathway to my freedom. So it's, it's kind of like, this is a behavior, that's consistent with this mindset that if I live it, this is what's going to happen. so, you know, when I think of a word of Jesus, that's difficult. naturally go, and this is my freedom. Of course I want this. another one is you can write some if then rules. Okay.
If I feel discouraged about failing a word of Jesus, then I'll remind myself that I'm only growing in my ability to follow Him. Here's another one. If I feel like living a word is impossible, I will ask Holy Spirit about the power He gives us to live it. So if then rules, when I'm confronting things that confront my mindset, here's the way I want to respond to that. So define the mindset as an expression of behavior. Here's number two.
Build daily cues and tiny reps. Daily cues, tiny reps. We don't need to get in the gym and kill ourselves with too much weight. We just want to focus on a couple things, maybe even one thing and get it right. So attach the mindset practice to a daily habit. What's a daily habit? So for example, if you're reading scripture as a habit every morning, I hope you are, then ask Jesus which word of yours relates to this scripture.
So you might be reading in the Old Testament, you might be reading one of Paul's epistles or the letter from James or Revelation or John's epistles or Peter's epistles. You might be reading other scripture to draw yourself back to the words of Jesus. So attaching a daily cue to that daily habit of reading scripture, you're just asking Jesus, words relates to the scripture?
another habit you're doing every day is you're going to work most days. So before you go to work, ask, which word of yours, Jesus, into today? Which one are we focused on? So you're going to do this repetitive practice you already have right now, and then you're going to attach the mindset to that with a question. Okay, here's the big one. Monitor the stories you're telling yourself. The stories you're telling yourself.
Remember, you know maturity in a mindset when the stories you tell yourself are consistent with that mindset. So are the stories you're telling yourself consistent with the words of Jesus? got to tell you, I'm still battling so many, like all the times. You can't thoughts that are arising within you, the thoughts that your brain presents to your conscious mind. You cannot change those. You shape them over time, but you're going to have to deal with them.
So the question is, are they consistent? Does the story you're telling yourself sound like Jesus? Is that a Jesus would tell himself? Journal about the predominant story you're telling yourself. Here's the predominant story I'm telling myself. You know, like you might be telling yourself things are just going to get worse. Well, that one's not consistent with Jesus. Let's pick that apart. What would I be telling myself if I was consistent with the mindset I want? The stories you tell yourself.
will be by far the best evidence of a renewed mind. So once our brains is reprogrammed to give in Jesus' mindsets, it naturally tells you stories about truth, about love. This is the example Paul gives in 2 Corinthians 10.5. This is exactly what it is. I'll read it to you. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised against the knowledge of God. And we are taking every thought captive.
to the obedience of Christ. That summarizes mindset transformation. So we're monitoring the stories we're telling ourselves, and then we're catching the ones that don't conform to the words of Jesus that are freedom to us. We catch them. We say, no, that one is not going to help us. Or if I really think a thought that is like really crazy in opposition to the mindsets I want, I'll just say,
Not my thought. That must have been the devil. That's not the way I think. It's another great way of training your brain and taking those thoughts captive and then thinking about the words of Jesus, which is the obedience that he's calling us into. number four, make commitments to grow. And this is going to involve someone else, a coach, a friend that you can check in with and that you could say, you can say audibly to them or in writing, Hey, this is the mindset I'm committed to right now.
Will you hold me accountable? Will you ask me about it? Will you observe my behavior to see if there's any inconsistencies that you could point out or bring to my attention? Thank you, thank you, thank you person who's going to hold me accountable. Yeah, make commitments to grow. And then last one, number five, review, evidence and adjust. So we review, evidence and adjust. This is journaling, journaling, journaling, journaling. We're going to journal our progress. We're going to notice where we're growing and where we're getting resistance.
we're going to ask the Trinity how they are proud of us and our chosen journey to follow Jesus. Remember, Papa God and Jesus and Holy Spirit are so excited about you. Just think you're thinking about possibly following His words. He is giddy. They are so excited. They are the best cheerleaders, the best lovers. They have hope for you. When the Bible says God is faithful,
That literally means he believes in you. Isn't that amazing that the God of the universe believes in you? So we want to chase that down. Where are you really love where I'm going? Where are you excited? The best dads, the best parents are the ones that are most enthusiastic about the progress their children are making, not about the things that they're not doing. Realize that you're building new neural pathways this way. Every time you do this, you're going to be
developing a new neural pathway. And then here is the key. I got three things that are key to renew evidence and adjust. Celebrate your progress, love the gap, and be in awe over the process. your progress is the gain, not the gap. So we focus on the gain. In other words, on the track. I'm commonly doing this on the track. was doing it yesterday as I was running 400 sprints.
I'm going through my mind going, 100 yards down. And then it was 200 yards. I'm halfway. I've done halfway. Even though my body's screaming as I try to run faster, this 400 around this track. And then when I'm three quarters, I'm like, oh my gosh, only a hundred to go. This is crazy. I have done so much. That celebration in my mind is going to translate to more strength.
and more exercise in our body. So we want to celebrate the progress of developing our mindsets. And then we don't focus on the gap. So we focus on the gain, celebrate the gain, but we love the gap. We love the gap. Let me explain that. The gap is the space between where we're at now and the vision God has for us. And here's the thing. The vision God has for us is not the destination.
It's the progress that's the destination. So loving the gap is all about loving the process. The pain in the gym is just celebrating the pain in the gym and getting really excited. You know, so on that 400, maybe if I'm halfway and I'm starting to feel doubts, like, can I keep this pace up this sprint? think I love this that my body's complaining. I was in a sauna at a very high temperature yesterday for recovery.
my body's like, we got to get out of here. And I started loving the fact that my body wanted to leave the sauna because I know that that was building strength. So celebrate your progress, love the gap. And then finally, just be in awe of the processes of God growing you. Just be in awe of those. my gosh. You have created such a wonderful process for me to grow and to become more like you,
These are important steps to adopting your desired mindset. Take notes every week, stop the podcast, take a note, revisit your notes, and then revisit your most thrilling thoughts about your mindsets. Capitalize on your excitement to gain more momentum. Wherever you're thrilled is gonna give you more momentum to where you can go. And I'm thrilled about your journey.
I'm thrilled that you're actually taking this process seriously, that you want to transform your mind, that you want to take Jesus's words and put them into practice. And I'm all about your transformation. pray Holy Spirit will you supersize superpower, everyone who's listening, who decides that they want to adopt your mindsets. Jesus, we are so excited about you, so excited about your journey and we will see you next week.