In this second installment from The Daily Mastermind, host George Wright III continues his deep dive into the transformative habits drawn from the work of Dr. Wayne Dyer. Picking up from where the first episode left off, George walks through habits 7 through 13, offering practical frameworks for reprogramming your mindset and stepping fully into the life you were designed to live.
Whether you caught part one or are jumping in fresh, these seven habits build on a core idea: you cannot create lasting change by willpower alone. You need structure, daily rituals, and a new way of relating to yourself and your goals.
How to Reconstruct Your "I Am" Statements
Habit 7 is about shifting the language you use to describe yourself and your reality. Too many people operate from a place of lack, constantly saying "I want this" or "I will get there someday." Dr. Dyer's framework asks you to replace that future-tense framing with present-tense declarations: I am successful. I am a great communicator. I am a great business person.
This is not wishful thinking. It is a deliberate reprogramming of how your mind processes identity and possibility. The act of speaking in the present tense trains your subconscious to treat your desired reality as already true, making it far easier to act consistently with that vision.
Why Patience and Faith Are Non-Negotiable
Habit 8 calls for patience and banishing doubt, and George acknowledges this is one of the harder ones. Changing your mind is not a switch you flip. It is a slow, sometimes frustrating process. But all meaningful growth requires time and sustained focus.
George offers a practical reframe: instead of trying to force faith in a specific outcome, commit to the process itself. Adopt faith as a decision that you are committed and will never give up. When you make that commitment, doubt naturally recedes. Patience follows because you are no longer waiting for something to happen; you are trusting a direction.
How Feeling Your Dream Accelerates Its Arrival
Habits 9 and 10 are closely related and share a key word: feel. Habit 9 asks you to align yourself with the feeling of your wish fulfilled. Visualizing a goal is one thing. Feeling the emotions of having already achieved it is another level entirely.
George cites Albert Einstein on this point:
Logic is going to get you from point A to point B, but imagination will take you everywhere.
Your current logic brought you to where you are today. To get somewhere new, you need imagination, and imagination lives in emotion and sensation, not just pictures in your head.
Habit 10 takes this further. The speed at which a dream becomes real is tied directly to how natural that dream feels to you. As George puts it:
The time it takes your desire to become reality is directly proportional to the naturalness of it being. The more natural an experience your wish feels for you, the faster you're going to create in your life.
This means your job is not just to visualize your goal but to practice feeling comfortable inside it.
Why Writing Your Intentions Matters More Than You Think
Habit 11 is about phrasing your intentions as given statements and repeating them daily. Writing goals down and reading them aloud is not a productivity trick. It is a form of neurological repetition. Each time you speak your intentions as if they are already true, you reinforce the neural pathways that make those beliefs feel natural, not foreign.
If you have a morning routine, this is where power statements belong. The compound effect of daily repetition over weeks and months is not subtle.
How Love Keeps Your Ego in Check
Habit 12 asks you to choose your reality with love, and this one cuts against how most high achievers are wired. George explains that as goals and ambitions grow, the ego tends to hijack the process. The drive to win, gain recognition, and create status can quietly replace the original vision with something hollow.
When you anchor your goals in love rather than ego, you access a more sustainable kind of motivation. You stop competing against others and start creating for your own deepest reasons. The ego steps back, and patience, generosity, and clarity step forward.
What Gratitude Has to Do with Getting More
Habit 13 rounds out the list with a principle that sounds simple but is genuinely hard to practice: know that what you already have is enough. George frames it with a quote he returns to often:
Happiness is wanting what you have rather than having what you want.
The irony is real. When you stop chasing what you lack and start appreciating what is already present, you create the emotional and energetic conditions for more to arrive. Gratitude is not passive. It is a posture that opens you up.
Action Steps
- Rewrite three to five "I want" or "I will" statements as present-tense "I am" declarations and read them aloud each morning.
- When doubt creeps in, shift your faith from a specific outcome to your commitment to the process. Ask yourself: am I still showing up?
- After visualizing a goal, spend two minutes sitting with the feeling of having already achieved it. Notice what emotions arise.
- Write your top intentions as given statements and place them somewhere you will see them daily.
- At the end of each day, name three specific things you already have that you are genuinely grateful for.
The thread running through all seven of these habits is that your inner world shapes your outer results far more than circumstances ever could. You have untapped potential that has not yet been uncovered. Like Michelangelo removing stone to reveal the David within, your work is not to build something from nothing. It is to chip away what does not belong. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

