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Episode 808 · Jul 6, 2023

13 Habits to Create Your Best Life: Wayne Dyer Part 2

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In this continuation of his two-part series, George Wright III of The Daily Mastermind walks through the final seven habits from Wayne Dyer's framework for creating your best life. These habits move beyond mindset shifts and into the daily practices that make transformation real and lasting.

Before diving in, George shares a quote from Lisa Nichols that sets the tone for everything that follows:

Leap afraid and gather courage on the way down.

You do not need everything figured out before you begin. You need a direction and the willingness to move. With that in mind, here are habits 7 through 13.

How to Use "I Am" Statements to Attract Abundance

Habit 7 is to reconstruct your "I am." The problem for most people is that their inner dialogue focuses on what they lack rather than what they desire. Dyer's solution is to shift the language from "I want" or "I will" to "I am."

Say it as if it is already true: I am successful. I am a great communicator. I am a strong leader. I am present for the people I love. There is real power in your ability to act as if, and to visualize the outcome as already accomplished. This is not wishful thinking; it is a deliberate rewiring of the default story you tell yourself.

Why Patience and Faith Are Non-Negotiable

Habit 8 is to be patient and banish doubt. George is honest here: patience is something he personally struggles with. But the truth is that any transformation worth having is going to take time, focus, and sacrifice.

One key insight George shares is that faith makes patience easier. When you commit fully and refuse to give up, doubt loses its grip. Adopt faith not as a feeling you wait for, but as a decision you make: you are committed, and you will not stop. That decision changes everything about how you experience the waiting.

What It Means to Feel the Wish Fulfilled

Habit 9 is to align yourself with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Visualizing your goals is a start. Writing affirmations is another step. But Dyer pushes further: you have to feel it.

George points to Albert Einstein's observation to illustrate why this matters:

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

Your logic has already brought you to where you stand today. Now it is your imagination, and the emotions attached to it, that will take you further. Spend time not just seeing the future you want, but inhabiting the feelings that go with it. Get around people and situations that produce those feelings naturally.

How Natural Your Dream Feels Is a Signal Worth Listening To

Habit 10 is to take stock of how natural your dream feels. The more natural a desired experience feels to you, the faster you will bring it into your life. The more unnatural it feels, the longer it will take. This is not a reason to give up on big dreams; it is a guide to how much inner work remains.

The feeling of naturalness is the common thread across these habits. See it, feel it, let it become the expected rather than the exceptional.

Why Phrasing Your Intentions as Given Statements Changes Everything

Habit 11 is to phrase your intentions as given statements. Writing your goals down is powerful. Reading them daily is more powerful. Saying them aloud, repeatedly, is where the real momentum builds.

This is not passive reading. It is an active daily ritual of repetition. The more you reinforce a stated intention, the more your mind and behavior begin to organize around it. Make this a non-negotiable part of your morning routine.

How Love Overrides the Ego in Goal Pursuit

Habit 12 is to choose your reality with love. Ego-driven goals, those built on the need to win, gain status, or outcompete others, tend to keep you in a state of tension and scarcity. When your intentions come from love and genuine desire for growth, the ego steps back.

Gratitude is the practical expression of this habit. When you come from a place of love and appreciation, you gain access to more patience, more clarity, and more authentic motivation. It is counterintuitive, but love is one of the most powerful drivers you can harness.

What Gratitude for What You Have Actually Produces

Habit 13 is to know that what you already have is enough. George returns to a philosophy that has shaped his own life:

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

When you practice genuine gratitude for what already exists in your life, you open the channel for more. Chasing what you do not have tends to reinforce the feeling of lacking it. Appreciating what you have shifts your internal state, and that shift attracts more.

Action Steps

  • Rewrite your self-talk: replace "I want" and "I will" with "I am" statements phrased in the present tense.
  • Choose one goal and write a present-day affirmation for it. Read it aloud every morning this week.
  • Sit with a desired future outcome for five minutes and focus entirely on how it would feel, not just what it would look like.
  • Identify three things you already have that you genuinely value. Start each day this week by naming them.
  • Decide to have faith as a practice, not just a feeling: commit that you will not stop, regardless of how long it takes.

You are an amazing person with unlimited, untapped potential. The goal is not to build something from scratch but to uncover what is already inside you, much like Michelangelo removing the stone that was not needed to reveal the statue of David. 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. I am your host with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. And I am really excited to finish up with you today part two of 13 Habits to Create Your Best Life from Wayne Dyer. And so I'm excited about this because we talk a lot. We've been really spending a lot of time talking about how you can empower yourself in your life, take responsibility and control and create your life. But you can't do that by sheer will. You have to do this by creating habits and structure and daily rituals and things that will help you. And one of those daily rituals is the Daily Mastermind. I'm doing this podcast and I've got this community because I want to be able to empower you to be able to create your best life. And the only way to do that for me is to give you, you know, I've spent 25 years learning from some of the greatest minds, you know, inspiration and motivation and strategies and techniques and business and thought leaders and authors. And this is my way of kind of giving that back in the form of a podcast and as well as our community. So download the Daily Mastermind mobile app. You're going to see a ton of resources in there. Like and subscribe to the podcast. One of those resources is the Mastermind quote of the day. And the quote of the day today is from Lisa Nichols. I love Lisa Nichols. She's spoken for us many, many times. But she really is a fearless leader. And her quote today is, leap afraid. Listen to me carefully when I say this. Leap afraid and gather courage on the way down. That is a great, great quote. Because at the end of the day, you've got to be able to take action and just gain your courage and direction and everything else along the way. Amy Porterfield just talked about on a recent podcast I heard where she said, you don't have to have a plan. You don't have to have it all figured out. You'll figure it out along the way. Just have a direction and get moving. So let's get back today to these 13 habits on how you can create your best life and ways you can reprogram and structure yourself to be productive. And maybe just as a quick reference, let me give you the first six again. The first habit was believe you're an infinite spiritual being, have a temporary human experience. Habit two was become the observer of your thoughts. Number three was release your imagination from current limiting circumstances. Number four was see your wishes already accomplished. Number five is believe your own divine power. Now those are really really powerful ones but wait till you hear the rest here Habit seven is reconstruct your I am Now in order to have or to attract abundance into your life you need to think abundantly And the problem is that too many of us are focused on what we lack or what we don't have. So we need to be very careful and carefully identify what we want in our lives and shift into a state where we can visualize what we want in our life has already happened. And these are these I am statements. It's simply a process of, or it's a habit that you can teach yourself of shifting from, I want this. I will get this. I'm going to do this to, I am this. I am successful. I am productive. I am a great communicator. I am a great speaker. I am a great business person. I'm a great father, mother, friend. There's a massive power in your ability to act as if. And visualize in your mind the events is already happening in your life. So reconstruct your I am's. What is it that you believe that you are and that you want to live in the moment? Because remember, it's just the present moment that we have. Habit number eight is be patient and banish doubt. This is a tough one, but I really love it. I know it can be difficult to condition your mind in a new way like Dr. Dyer suggests with being patient and banishing doubt. I'm definitely struggling with patience all the time. But this is why it's so important for you to be patient and to allow yourself the time, patience, and understanding when you are in the process of changing your life, right? It's going to take work and it's going to take a lot of focus for you to get what you want. But all things are worth it and all things that are worth it are going to take time and patience and sacrifice. So be patient with yourself, not just in growth, but in adopting the long-term habits and discipline that it's going to take. It's going to be a process. It's going to be a process. Now, I will mention one other thing, is that it's helped me to sometimes just have that faith and belief in yourself and adopt faith as sort of a decision that you know things are going to happen. Because when you have faith, your patience will kick back in and also doubt kind of goes away. So faith is kind of that key ingredient. Habit nine is align yourself with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. We talked earlier about see things, see your wishes as fulfilled. but this is aligning yourself with the feeling. Visualize yourself. Accomplishing your goals is one step, but creating present-day affirmations of it is another. You know, Dr. Dyer talks about something in this habit that I really like. He says that you also need to feel it. You need to feel, and that's why he says the feelings or emotions that get aligned And you can do this by attaching yourself to the emotions that you want to feel He notes that Einstein made an interesting observation, Albert Einstein. And Einstein, what he said was, logic is going to get you from point A to point B, but imagination will take you everywhere. And your logic has gotten you where you are now, but your imagination and implementing that feeling, feeling, and you get that feeling when you're around the right people, when you're doing the right thing, but start to feel it, not just see it. That's so, so important. It goes back to some really, you know, age-old principles. Habit 10 is take stock in how natural your dream feels to you, okay? There's a quote I like that says, the time it takes your desire to become reality is directly proportional to the naturalness of it being. The more natural an experience you wish feels for you, the faster you're going to create in your life. Conversely, the more unnatural a state is and how it feels to you, the longer it's going to take. The key word is feel. That's kind of a common denominator you're probably, you're noticing today. You've got to learn to align yourself with these emotions, see them as happening, but feel them happening. And, you know, the more you can kind of get those emotions and feelings in line, the more it's going to feel natural to you and the more it's going to happen. And you know what it's like when you feel things naturally, they just come easier, right? Habit 11 is phrase your intentions as given statements. Now there's a power in writing out your intentions and reading them daily. Sometimes you think that spending time on your goals and dreams is kind of a waste of time, you know, like this idea of visualization or studying and daily. But the key is you've got to take time to phrase them and say them and reiterate them and this power of repetition. And so that's why having these power statements as part of your daily rituals is so important. Habit number 12 is choose your reality with love. Now I like how Dyer talks about this habit. He talks about how our goals and desires can become driven, but our need to win, create status, gain recognition, or basically all those kind of things kind of overpower us. So that's because the ego, your ego is always going to take over. I've got to have more of this and this and this. When you come from a place of love and understanding, your ego will kind of take a side step, right? It'll kind of come back a little. And you can sort of have more powerful emotions and patience and things for yourself So choose your reality with love Make sure it not based on all of the things you want to have but maybe the emotions that you want to experience and come from a place of gratitude, right? So choosing your reality with love is a great one. And then finally, habit number 13 is know that what you already have is enough. And I really like how this rounds everything out because we've got to learn to practice gratitude for what we already have, Because until you practice gratitude for what you have, it's really unlikely that you're going to continue to get more and more in your life. I love that quote, happiness is wanting what you have rather than having what you want. And the irony is when you want what you have, you are going to get what you want. And this is a philosophy that has definitely helped me in my life. In other words, there was many part of my life that I was chasing things I wanted and trying to get the things I wanted. And, you know, sometimes later in life you start to realize that it's the little things that really count. and the things you've had along the way are really what you truly desire. And the irony, like I said, is that when you focus on loving, enjoying, and gratitude for what you have, you're going to get more. You're going to attract more into your life. Ultimately, I want you to know, and my most important message I want to give you today, is that you are an amazing person. You have unlimited, untapped potential. You have everything inside of you that you need to create the best version of yourself and the best life possible. And it's like Michelangelo when he was creating that statue of David, and he said he wasn't carving out the human form. He was simply removing or chipping away the stones from the sculpture that were not needed. And that's what a lot of great artists do, is they uncover the beauty and magic that's out there in the world. And I want you to do the same thing for yourself. And I hope that this message and these last couple of days are something that give you the power and give you the strength to search inside yourself and go to the next level. That's what we're designed to do here at The Daily Mastermind. So that's my message for today. I hope you've enjoyed that. Tomorrow I want to talk to you a little bit more about developing the confidence of these habits and rituals, but I want to tell you that I want to hear from you. Do me a favor and share this podcast, but tag The Daily Mastermind on Facebook or Instagram, tag me and let me know what you're doing. I want to be able to help you and support you. And the only way I can really direct that and help you is to get feedback. So I want to get some feedback from you. Keep me posted on what you're doing. I'd love to be able to help you. Certainly reach out at any time. And once again, my name is George Wright III, and 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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