60,000 Thoughts – How to redirect your brain towards success! With Rock Thomas

My Guest is Rock Thomas.  You probably have heard about Rock, maybe even seen him in the goal cast video that went viral, about 70 million plus people have checked that out. I'll tell you, I think it went viral because he shares his personal story, which is both heart wrenching in the beginning and incredibly uplifting in the end. Rock shares about his dad who pushed him relentlessly but never showed him love, affection or appreciation. And as a dad, sidebar here, but that part of the story just broke my heart. You guys know as parents, I think one of our central roles is to create an environment where kids can be encouraged to be more of who they were created to be. And that means pushing them but loving them as well. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Website: https://rockthomas.com/ Twitter: @rockthomas Instagram: @rockthomas FB: RockThomasOfficial Interview: Mitch Matthews: So Rock didn't get much of that. He did learn how to work hard, very hard. And initially he did that. He worked really hard to win, try to win the affection of his dad, which sadly never came. But I'm happy to say that after some really tough blows in his early thirties, Rock found some people who believed in him and helped him to reshape his thinking, and he took that and his ability to work hard, and he turned it into some incredible success. Here's a short list. He's a self made millionaire, bestselling author three times over. He became one of the top 50 realtors in the world, he studied with some of the greats like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Wayne Dyer, one-on-one. But most importantly, he's taken up a personal mission to help those who have been beat up by life, successful people, but he's helped them to retrain their thinking, find their self worth and also often help them to grow wealth and abundance in the process. He's definitely living the Dream Think Do life. So it's about dang time we had him on this show. So let's get to this Rock Thomas, welcome to Dream Think Do, buddy. Rock Thomas: That's beautiful, man. Not only do you have a beautiful voice, but you articulate as well. So I'd like you to send me that recording and I'm going to put it on my phone first thing every morning when I wake up. Mitch Matthews: You got it. You got it. Tell you what I always say a good intro is my gift to my guests. You know, you deserve it for crying out loud. And yours, yours is so easy. I just, I really was blown away and I don't want to shortchange your story. I want to start with the story that really you covered in that goal cast video. Just so Dream Think Doers can know a little bit more of kind of where you came from. Take us back to your, to your childhood because this was, this was not an easy story. Rock Thomas: You know, I think we all grew up with a dream and then somewhere along the line often it gets crushed. And if you don't have the wherewithal or the resources of the guidance or the encouragement to revive it than most people live this life of quiet desperation and just trying to avoid pain, quite frankly. And I fortunately, somehow, I think maybe through reading, I didn't grow up with the TV. I was, my parents got divorced at five and funnily enough, my sister and I grew up when I was around one and three, my mom adopted two other kids. So I was actually the youngest of four kids in the house, you know, back in the days when moms were raising kids single and dad worked, you know, till 7:00 at night. Then we got divorced and I lived with my mom for a while and I wanted more attention. She was a gypsy. So I didn't get that. I set things on fire and I fought with principals and I was that kid who was skinny but went into the new school and looked for the biggest kid and kicked him in the shins and said, what are you looking at? And- Mitch Matthews: It was a survival strategy, right? Like something you learn. But- Rock Thomas: Yeah, it's like if I can take on the biggest kid,