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Episode 391 · Jun 9, 2021

13 Habits for Creating Your Best Life: Wayne Dyer's Final Seven

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In this episode of The Daily Mastermind, host George Wright III completes his two-part walkthrough of Wayne Dyer's 13 habits for creating a life you love. The first installment covered habits one through six, including believing you are an infinite spiritual being, becoming the observer of your thoughts, and remaining independent of the opinions of others. This episode picks up with habits seven through thirteen, going deeper into the internal shifts that make lasting change possible.

These seven habits move beyond mindset and into deliberate practice. They ask you to reconstruct how you think, feel, and speak about your own life, and to align those inner states with the outcomes you want to create.

How to Reconstruct Your I Am Statements

The language you use to describe yourself carries enormous power. George explains that too many people stay focused on what they lack rather than what they want to become. The shift is simple but demanding: move from "I want" or "I will" to "I am." Write those statements down. Repeat them until your mind accepts them as present reality. When you train your mind to believe an outcome has already happened, you begin to act and think in ways that support it.

Why Patience and Eliminating Doubt Change Everything

Conditioning your mind in a new direction takes time. George acknowledges that it can be difficult to stay the course, but patience is not passive. It is a conscious choice to stay focused and keep doubt from closing off possibility. All things worth having require time and sacrifice. Giving yourself grace during the process is not weakness; it is what sustains the work long enough to see results.

How Feeling Your Goal Accelerates It

Visualization and affirmations are valuable, but Wayne Dyer adds a third element that George highlights here: feeling. You need to connect emotionally with the state of having already achieved what you want. Attach yourself to the emotions you would experience when you reach your personal or professional goal. As George notes, Dyer points to Einstein's observation:

Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere.

Your logic has carried you this far. It is your imagination and your emotional connection to the vision that will take you the rest of the way.

Why the Naturalness of Your Dream Matters

How natural does your dream feel? Wayne Dyer makes a direct connection between that feeling and how quickly you will achieve your goal. George shares Dyer's observation:

The time it takes your desire to become reality is directly proportional to the naturalness of being it. The more natural an experience your wish feels for you, the faster you will create it in your life.

If a goal feels forced or unnatural, it will take longer to achieve. If it aligns with your unique talents and deepest passions, it will come more quickly. Listen to yourself. If what you are pursuing does not feel right, that is information worth acting on.

Phrasing Your Intentions as Given Statements

Writing down your goals is valuable. Writing down your intentions and reading them aloud daily is something different and more powerful. Intentions are not wishes; they are declarations. Placing them into your daily rituals means you are reinforcing your direction every single day. George encourages you to make this a non-negotiable part of your routine.

How Choosing Love Over Ego Gives You More Power

Goals can quietly become ego-driven. The desire to win, gain status, or overpower others can take over without you noticing it. Wayne Dyer's perspective, as George shares it, is counterintuitive: when you come from a place of love and understanding rather than ego, you actually gain more power and influence in your life. Love is not soft. It is a driver. It aligns you with something greater than personal ambition and opens up possibilities that ego closes off.

Why Gratitude Is the Final and Most Essential Habit

The thirteenth habit is gratitude, and George calls it foundational. Until you genuinely appreciate what you already have, it is unlikely you will continue to receive more. He returns to a phrase he has carried throughout The Daily Mastermind:

Happiness is wanting what you have rather than having what you want.

Gratitude is not resignation. It is a posture that positions you for growth. It shifts your attention from scarcity to abundance, and from there, more becomes possible.

Action Steps

  • Write five "I am" statements that describe the person you intend to become and read them aloud every morning.
  • Spend two minutes each day closing your eyes and feeling the emotions you would experience if your most important goal were already achieved.
  • Write your top three intentions as declarative statements and place them into your daily routine.
  • Track how natural your primary goal feels each week. If it consistently feels forced, consider whether it is truly aligned with your strengths and passions.
  • Practice gratitude by listing three specific things you are thankful for each day.

George closes with the image of Michelangelo and the statue of David. Michelangelo said he was not carving the human form out of stone. He was simply removing the stone from the sculpture that was already there. You are already great. The work is not about adding something foreign; it is about uncovering what is already inside you. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

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All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III, and I'm your host. And if this is your first time listening to The Daily Mastermind, my goal is to help bring you a little inspiration, motivation, and education to help you create the life that you were meant to live. It's never too late, and you truly can unleash your true potential. So what we're doing today is we're covering the second half of the 13 Habits to Create the Life You Love, The Best Life by Wayne Dyer. It's an article blog that I've kind of printed and kept on my desk and ready access in order to help me sometimes change my perspective and just my viewpoint of circumstances in life. And I think you're going to get a lot out of it. So what I'm going to do real quick, if you didn't listen to yesterday's episode, I'm going to review the first six, and then we're going to go in detail a little bit more in the last and remaining habits that he kind of suggests that you have. But before I do that, let me do the Daily Mastermind quote of the day. The Daily Mastermind quote of the day is, challenges are an opportunity to learn and grow. Constantly remind yourself of that. Challenges are just an opportunity to learn and grow. And that's a great segue into this list of 13 habits on how you can change the way you look at things. Because like Dyer's always said, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Think about challenges as opportunities, and all of a sudden you're going to have all kinds of perspective on them. So the first six that we covered yesterday is, number one, believe you are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. Know that you're worth more and you are capable of more. Habit two, become the observer of your thoughts because when you're conscious of your thoughts, you're going to be much more focused on where you're going rather than the circumstances that you're in. Habit three was release your imagination from current limiting circumstances. Get outside your circumstances so that you can create solutions. Habit four, see your wish as already accomplished. See yourself as already accomplishing what you want to accomplish and you're definitely going to feel that you can get outside your comfort zone and be more successful. Habit five, believe in your own divine power. Know that you are capable of more than you are currently. And man, that's such a big one. I hope you really spend some time thinking about that and telling yourself over and over that you are capable of more and you have more greatness inside you. Habit six, remain independent of the good opinions of other people. And I want to just comment on that one really quick before we move on So many times we may not consciously think that we care about others opinions but if you find yourself searching through social media asking what people think of you, and those kind of things, you've got to realize this might be a habit that you have of putting too much focus on what other people think. So now let's finish up these habits. Habit number seven is reconstruct your I am's. Now this is a little more strategic. In order to attract abundance into your life, you need to think more abundantly. The problem is that too many of us are focused on what we lack or what we don't have. We need to be very careful and we need to identify what we want in our lives and shift into a state where we can visualize that it has already happened. That's why these I am statements, I am successful, I am great, I am whatever it is that you want to be, do, or have in your life. It's simply a process and a habit that you have to teach yourself to do over and over. shift from I want this or I will be this to I am. I am. There's power in those words. And there's a massive, massive power in your ability to act as if when you train your mind to think the situation, the thing, whatever it is you're trying to accomplish has already happened in your life. So reconstruct your I am's and write those down and train your mind to think that way. Habit number eight, be patient and banish any doubt. You've got to eliminate doubt. I know it can be difficult to condition your mind a new way, like Dyer suggests. This is why it's so important for you to be patient, allow yourself time, a little bit of patience and understanding when you're trying to change your life. But it'll take work, and it'll take focus for you to get where you want to be. But all things that are worth it will take time and sacrifice. just be patient and learn to eliminate and just close your mind to doubt and to negativity if you do this this is going to be a major major benefit for you it's going to help to empower you habit number nine is align yourself with the feeling and i love how he says this with the feeling of the wishes already fulfilled visualize yourself accomplishing your goal this is one thing right Creating present-day affirmations, that's another. But here, Dyer's talking about something that I really like. He says that you also need to feel what it's like so that you can clearly align with what you're trying to accomplish. You can do this by attaching yourself to maybe the emotions that you might feel when you accomplish what you want personally or professionally or whatever. He notes that Einstein, for example, said, logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere. Your logic is part of it but it time to start developing your feelings and emotions that take you as if it already accomplished When you close your eyes imagine and feel that you have accomplished your goals. There's a real big power in that. Habit number 10 that he suggests is take stock of how natural your dream feels to you. You can see how we're driving down into the levels of creating this. Take stock of how natural your dream feels to you. There's a quote that he has it says the time it takes your desire to become reality is directly proportional to the naturalness of being it. The more natural an experience your wish feels for you, the faster you're going to create it in your life. On the other hand, the more unnatural it feels for you, the longer it's going to take for you to achieve. This word, the key word here is feel. It ties directly to what we talk about with doing your unique talent, which is something you're passionate and excited about. See, if you don't feel right about what you're doing, you're never going to accomplish this. If you don't help yourself to get past this image, confidence, all these things that you have, you're never going to accomplish it. So you've got to take stock and sort of track how natural it feels to you and listen to your gut. Listen to yourself if you're doing stuff that doesn't align with what you should be doing. Okay, habit 11 is a good one. Phrase your intentions as given statements. Now, we're not talking about what you want to accomplish. I'm talking about your intentions here. There's a power in writing down your intentions and reading them aloud every day. Sometimes we think about spending time, you know, thinking about our goals and dreams, studying them, but repeating our intentions is also a very, very powerful thing. So spend time placing your statements and your intentions into your day as well, into your daily rituals. Habit number 12 is choose your reality with love. This is a really interesting perspective that he has. I like how he talks about this habit. He talks about how our goals and desires can become driven by that need to win and create status and recognition and basically overpower our environment. But this is because our ego always takes over. When you come from a place of love and understanding, you can adopt much more power and influence in your life. It's counterintuitive to a degree, but love is a very powerful emotion and it's a very powerful driver if you adopt that into your life, if you come from a place of love and press that into your reality. And so I encourage you to really think about that for a little bit. And then we have our final habit, habit 13. Know that what you already have is enough I cannot emphasize this whole idea of gratitude Know that what you already have is enough Learn to practice gratitude Until you practice gratitude for what you have it's really unlikely that you're going to continue to get more in your life. You know, I love, I've always kind of said this quote over and over throughout the episodes we do. Happiness is wanting what you have rather than having what you want. And it's a philosophy that I think will help you to get more in your life. Ultimately, you know, I know you're an amazing person. You have unlimited, untapped potential. And you have to believe that everything inside of you will be able to come out if you focus on it. The key to becoming this is to uncover what it is that's the best version of you. And so let me just review one more time these 13 habits. I hope you can really take these into your life. Believe, number one, that you're an infinite being, having a temporary human experience. Number two, become the observer of your thoughts. Number three, release your imagination from current limiting circumstances. Number four, see your wish as already accomplished. Five, believe in your own divine power. Six, remain independent of the good opinion of other people. Seven, reconstruct your I am's. Eight, be patient and banished out. Nine, align yourself with the feelings of your wish fulfilled. The feelings. Habit 10, take stock of how natural your dream feels to you. 11, phrase your intentions as a given statement. 12, choose your reality with love. And the most important, habit 11, know that what you already have and what you already are is enough. It's like when Michelangelo was creating the statue of David and he said he wasn't carving out the statue, he was chipping away the stone from the sculpture that was already there. You've got to view this process for yourself as well. You are already there. You have greatness inside you. You just got to brush away the rough edges and uncover the best version of yourself. I hope this message and these habits will help you. I hope it'll give you some perspective, help you to change your filter on life. And I really look forward to getting some feedback from you. Do me a favor, like and subscribe to this podcast and share it with somebody that you know. Send me feedback. Let me know what it is that you can benefit the most from. I'm always incorporating these ideas that come to me from our community. Hit me up on The Daily Mastermind at Instagram or Facebook, or email me at george at g3worldwide.com, and I look forward to hearing from you and hearing about your success. Once again, this has been The Daily Mastermind. Have a great day.

About the host
George Wright III, host of The Daily Mastermind

George Wright III

George Wright III is an entrepreneur, investor, and the host of The Daily Mastermind. Over more than two decades he has founded and scaled several multimillion-dollar companies and built a renowned seminar business that put some of the world's biggest names and brands on stage. With 25+ years across marketing, sales, and executive leadership, he's made a career of turning bold ideas into results — and momentum into lasting growth.

Today his mission is singular: empower driven entrepreneurs everywhere to master their mindset, unlock their potential, and live their ultimate destiny. Through The Daily Mastermind, George shares the Prosperity Principles and strategies that help people create massive change — in their business and in their life.

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