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Episode 707 · Jan 10, 2023

Wayne Dyer's 13 Habits to Create the Life You Love

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George Wright III opens this episode of The Daily Mastermind with a truth that most people sidestep: you are capable of far more than your current circumstances suggest, and there are specific, repeatable habits that can help you access that potential. Drawing on a landmark article by Dr. Wayne Dyer, George walks through the first six of 13 habits designed to help you reprogram your thinking, align your imagination with your goals, and start living the life you were meant to live.

Wayne Dyer spent decades teaching that human beings are not simply the sum of their struggles. He believed that when you tap into the right mindset habits, you gain access to a level of consciousness that makes real, lasting change possible. George brings that framework to life with his own reflections, making it practical and immediately usable.

Habit 1: See Yourself as a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience

Dyer's first habit invites a fundamental shift in identity. Instead of viewing yourself as a person defined by your situation, your past, or your limitations, consider that you are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

"You are not your situation. You are not the circumstances that you're in. This is empowering because you're not just limited to your ego, your life, your struggles that you experience every day."

This reframe matters because the moment you stop identifying with your circumstances, you stop being imprisoned by them. Your current reality is a starting point, not a sentence.

Habit 2: Become the Observer of Your Thoughts

You become what you think about most. That is not a motivational cliche; it is a principle George returns to repeatedly because it is that important. Becoming the observer of your thoughts means you monitor what is running in the background of your mind, catch negative or disempowering patterns early, and redirect your focus before they take root.

In a world full of social media noise, news cycles, and daily friction, the ability to stay laser-focused on what matters to you is a competitive advantage. It starts with noticing what you are thinking and choosing deliberately.

Habit 3: Release Your Imagination from Limiting Circumstances

Your story is not your identity. The resources you have right now, the setbacks you have experienced, the labels others have placed on you: none of these define what you are capable of. Dyer's third habit asks you to actively disconnect your imagination from the ceiling your circumstances have imposed.

"You've overcome everything in your life so far. So open up your mind and your imagination to the possibilities and release your imagination and stay outside those limiting circumstances."

This is less about ignoring reality and more about refusing to let current reality set the boundaries of future possibility.

Habit 4: See Your Wish as Already Accomplished

Visualization works because your subconscious mind does not sharply distinguish between what is real and what is vividly imagined. When you consistently picture your goals as already achieved, your brain's reticular activating system begins filtering the world for evidence and opportunities that match that picture.

George calls this one of the most empowering shifts you can make: when you start operating as the person who has already reached the goal, your decisions, habits, and attention all align with that version of yourself. The result is a self-reinforcing loop that accelerates progress.

Habit 5: Believe in Your Own Divine Power

Dyer often said: you are never given the power to dream without the equivalent power to manifest that dream and make it your physical reality. George echoes this with a simpler formulation borrowed from Les Brown: you have greatness inside of you.

This habit is a choice. You decide to believe that the talents, abilities, and drive you need to build your best life are already present within you. You are not waiting to become capable. You already have what you need.

Habit 6: Remain Independent of the Good Opinion of Others

This one is blunt. George does not soften it: stop caring what other people think. The opinions of critics, skeptics, and bystanders are a distraction. They will derail your progress until you make a clear decision that your goals, the people you are working for, and the vision you are building toward are more important than outside approval.

Remaining independent of other people's opinions is not arrogance. It is the discipline required to stay on course when the world around you offers constant reasons to play small.

Action Steps

  • Write down which of these six habits you currently practice and which ones are missing from your daily routine.
  • Choose one habit to focus on this week: pick the one that would make the biggest difference right now.
  • Practice becoming the observer of your thoughts for five minutes each morning before checking your phone or news.
  • Spend two minutes each day visualizing a specific goal as already accomplished, in vivid detail.
  • Identify one opinion or criticism you have been letting hold you back, and make a deliberate choice to stop giving it power.

These six habits are the foundation. George covers the remaining seven in Part 2, along with success traits you can use to build more discipline in your daily life. The core message here is that change starts with how you think, and you have more control over that than you realize. 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 here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you're having a great week so far. You know, we were talking a little bit yesterday about how you can create your life and really take control of what's happening. And today what I want to do is I want to talk to you about some habits that you can do or habits that you can create in order to create your best life. I got some real inspiration for you today from Wayne Dyer, and so I'm looking forward to talking with you. But let's start you out with the Daily Mastermind quote of the day. It's, Don't stop running towards your dream by Les Brown. Don't stop running towards your dream. That's the big thing, right? You can't lose if you don't quit. And that's a really, really great message. So what I want to do today is I want to talk to you about a great article that I read a while back from Wayne Dyer on 13 Habits to Create the Life You Love. And I'm going to split it up into a couple of days because it might go a little bit long and I want to keep to the, you know, the basically daily five to seven minute dose that I want to give you in order to help you create your best life. I mean, remember the reason I started the Daily Mastermind was to help give you that daily inspiration motivation. It's a battle in your life and in your mind every single day. So let's talk about this a little bit and how it can help you in your life. Dr. Dyer talks about sort of a realm or a place that's outside your normal level of consciousness that allows you the opportunity to visualize and create what you want in your life. And he talks about how when you get to this realization of this place and your innate ability to access this level of consciousness in your life, you truly become empowered. And maybe you've experienced this a little bit in your life, or maybe you haven't, but I've certainly learned and come to the conclusion in my life that you can access a certain energy and or influence and power greater than yourself, and it'll help you to impact and shape your life. And whether you believe in yourself or your abilities, because a lot of us struggle with that, or you believe in powers greater than yourself, it doesn't really change whether they're true. These principles are true universal principles, and they're there to basically, for you to tap into so that the greatness inside of you that can come out, whether you've discovered it or not. And I say this because no matter where you are in life, you truly are capable of more. And you need to believe that We all are You simply just have to decide to believe that and believe that you not alone that you do have greatness inside of you Plus you come to a point in your life that you realize that faith is something that outside of yourself something that you believe outside of yourself that you can implement. And you'll come to that point in your life where you'll realize that faith is just simply a decision of something that you can believe in that is more than yourself. And once you do that, you're going to see some powerful changes. So I want to run you through these 13 principles that Dr. Dyer kind of outlines. And I think it'll assist you with your perspective, your thoughts, your daily practices, and ultimately help you manifest and create that life that you love. So these 13 habits, I'll run through half of them today, half of them tomorrow. But the first one is, and this is a really great one, believe that you're an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. And I truly love that thought. Rather than thinking that we're human beings that are having a human experience, Dyer suggests that there is much more to life than that. He suggests that we are spiritual beings more than we could possibly imagine that are having a temporary human experience. And the key here is to understand and believe that you're not your situation. You are not the circumstances that you're in. This is empowering because you're not just limited to your ego, your life, your struggles that you experience every day. And when you start to realize that, you're going to be very much empowered in your life. Habit two is to create the habit that you become the observer of your thoughts. Now, you've heard me and many other people talk about this, say it over and over and over, that you become what you think about the most. And that's why I like this habit so much. You have to become a master at monitoring your thoughts and feelings. Now you can do this and you've got to do this because you have to quickly adapt and deal with negative or disempowering thoughts. But you also can stay on track better with what you want to deal with and what you want to be focused on when you monitor your thoughts. So staying laser focused is really the key to getting what you want. And you can only do that when you're the observer of your thoughts so you don't get distracted. by things in your life, whether it's social media or situations or the news or the marketplace. Become the observer of your thoughts and stay laser focused on what important to you Habit number three is release your imagination from the current limiting circumstances Now this is important and it important that you disconnect from your circumstances but it's also important that you disconnect from the circumstances and your identity. You are not your story. You're not limited to the resources and experience that you currently have. You are not a culmination of all the bad things that have happened to you. You need to accept your situation in life is just temporary. It's just a temporary, limiting circumstance that you're in. And you're the one who's capable of overcoming kind of where you are and growing past it. But you have to believe that you're not your story and that you're determined to overcome whatever it is you're facing. I mean, let's be honest. You've overcome everything in your life so far. So open up your mind and your imagination to the possibilities and release your imagination and stay outside those limiting circumstances. That's a great habit. Habit number four, see your wish as already accomplished. See your wish as already accomplished. You've got to learn to visualize yourself as already accomplishing your goals. This sort of tricks your subconscious mind because it's not really easy, but your subconscious mind doesn't really separate the difference in what is real and what is not real, like your conscious mind does. So when you learn to imagine your goals and dreams as they're already done, then your mind can go to work making these things happen. It uses that, what we talk about, that reticular activating system inside your brain. And as you start to visualize that things have already happened, this is when you really start to become empowered because your mind goes to work thinking, well, if I'm already this person, if I already have these skills, if I'm already doing these things, then I have to start living that way. And things begin to happen for you. So see your wishes already accomplished. Habit number five, believe in your own divine power. Now, Dyer would, you know, he would say, and he'd talk about this a lot, and for me it was always a little bit of a stretch, but I really appreciate and try to recognize in my daily life something that he always says, which is, it is my belief that you are never given the power to dream without the equivalent power to manifest that dream and make it your physical reality. You know he liked to reflect on that teaching of you know many spiritual great leaders that would encourage us to see ourselves as unlimited and know that we capable of great things And so this habit five of believing in your own divine power it one you know I started out with Les Brown and Les Brown would always say, you know, you have greatness inside of you. I think that there's a choice we need to make in our life and a choice that we do have abilities and talents and things that are inside us that we do have what we need to create our best life. We have everything we need. And so believing in your own divine power, I think, is a great habit to be able to put into your life. And then habit number six is remain independent of the good opinion of other people. I love this one, and this is another one that Les Brown hits on a lot as well. It's so important today, and in today's world, to clarify what you want and picture the vision of yourself that you want to attain, but it's equally important to have faith in yourself and your intentions and not get caught up in the opinions of others. You know, other people are just a distraction. You know, these distractions are going to just keep you from moving forward in your life and creating the best version of yourself. And they're constantly going to be derailing you until you decide, until you decide that you are not going to care what other people think. Now, I think it's, you know, a real, you know, nice way of saying habit six being remain independent of the good opinion of others. But to be quite honest, I think you just need to stop giving a damn about what other people think. You have to start realizing that your goals and dreams, the things that you're working for, the people you're trying to do things for are way more important than negative criticism and things that others will have. So those are our first six habits. And I want to cover the rest of the 13 habits tomorrow. But I want to get you on this track of if you're going to take control and be empowered in your life and you're going to start to make changes and you're going to start to do the right things, you have to start reframing and reprogramming the way that you think, the way that you were brought up. And these are six amazing habits for you to be able to do that with. So that's the message I want to leave you with today. Tomorrow we're going to finish these habits up and I want to talk to you a little bit more about, you know, some success traits that you can use in your life to create more discipline. And so I'll talk to you a little bit more tomorrow. Do me a favor, share this episode with anyone that you feel might benefit. I really would appreciate it. mean the world to me and I hope you have an amazing day. Make it a great day and I will talk with you soon.

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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