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Episode 919 · Feb 2, 2024

3 Steps to Turn Your Life Around

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George Wright III opens this episode of The Daily Mastermind with a direct challenge: "You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there." It's a statement that cuts to the core of personal responsibility, and it sets the stage for a practical, no-excuses framework for breaking through whatever is holding you back.

Whether you're hitting a ceiling in your business, stuck in a personal rut, or simply not sure where to start, George lays out three concrete steps you can use right now to shift your direction and start building the life you actually want.

Why Your Mind Is Both Your Greatest Asset and Your Greatest Enemy

Before getting to the steps, George frames the real obstacle: your own mind. Most of the struggle you experience isn't external. It's the internal voice telling you that you're not good enough, that you'll never break through, that you should slow down and play it safe. Your mind is genetically and scientifically designed to protect you, and that means it will consistently pull you back toward comfort and safety.

David Goggins has talked about how most people have only tapped about 40% of their potential. The moment your mind senses you're about to quit, it does everything it can to wind you down. But here's the counterintuitive truth: all your solutions, your success, your fulfillment sit just past that 40% mark. Until your brain knows you are not going to give up, it stays in protection mode. It won't go to work for you.

Most of our struggle is just you and your own thoughts. It's those thoughts that are telling you you're not good enough, those thoughts that are telling you that you'll never be what you should be.

The subconscious mind acts like a governor on a car or a thermostat in a room. No matter how hard you push, it will keep returning you to your preset level until you reprogram it.

How to Reprogram the Governor in Your Mind

The path forward is action, not waiting for inspiration. George cites Jocko's analogy: when you're lost in a forest, sitting still gets you nowhere. Start walking. As you move, you find the ravine, the river, the sign of civilization. Movement creates solutions. Standing still in the dark never will.

This is why effort and action are the missing ingredient for most people. You feel shut down, overwhelmed, unsure where to start. The key is just to start.

When your brain knows that you're not going to give up, it doesn't stop. Now it goes from trying to protect you into trying to help you survive.

Once your brain understands you're not quitting, it shifts from protection mode to survival mode, and that's when real progress begins.

Step 1: Make a Decision and Commit with Resolve

The first step is the most obvious, and the most underestimated. You have to make a genuine decision to take control of your situation. Not a casual "I'll try" kind of decision. A commitment with resolve.

George draws a sharp distinction here: most people make decisions all the time, but they aren't truly committed. Real resolve means you operate from the mindset that it's not over until you win. It's not over until you figure it out. That state of resolve is what separates people who talk about change from people who create it.

Step 2: Flood Yourself with Certainty

This step, which George credits to Ed Milet, is the one most people skip. The moment you make a tough decision and start acting, everything around you will work against you. Self-doubt kicks in. External noise amplifies. Old patterns try to reassert themselves.

The antidote is to proactively flood yourself with certainty. That means:

  • Curating your environment so it reinforces your commitment
  • Seeking out mentors and masterminds who have done what you're trying to do
  • Cutting out or limiting inputs (news, social media feeds, negative people) that create doubt
  • Repeating your vision clearly and consistently until it becomes your new norm

Surrounding yourself with proof that what you're attempting is possible is not a luxury. It is a survival strategy for your resolve.

Step 3: Take Massive Action

Not just action. Massive action. Faith without works is dead. Attraction doesn't happen without action. George is emphatic on this point: stop worrying about what people think, stop worrying about whether you might fail, and start moving.

Where your energy and attention go, your actions follow. When you state your intentions clearly and pursue them aggressively, solutions emerge, your mind kicks into gear, and momentum builds. Inspiration doesn't come before action. It comes on the path.

Become what George calls the CEO of difficult times: someone who owns hard moments, leans into them, and understands that growth only ever lives on the other side of difficulty.

Action Steps

  • Write down a clear decision you've been avoiding and commit to it today with full resolve: not "I'll try" but "I will."
  • Audit your environment: identify two or three inputs adding doubt and replace them with resources, people, or content that reinforce your goal.
  • Find a mentor, mastermind group, or proof-of-concept that confirms your goal is achievable.
  • Set a repetition habit: read your goal or vision aloud every morning and evening to build certainty through repetition.
  • Take one piece of massive action today, any forward movement, and commit to not stopping until you see a result.

George closes with a reminder that applies no matter where you are right now: it's never too late to start living the life you were meant to live. You already have what you need. Your mind, your tools, your will, they will create what you're after. Persist, stay resolved, and keep moving.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

All right, listen, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III. I'm your host. I hope you're having an amazing week, and I'm glad you're here. If this is your first time listening, this is your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education, and I'm here to help you to truly develop into the best you can be, whether it's your business, your personal life, your relationships. relationships and so what I want to do today I want to start you out with the quote of the day now the quote of the day you can find on the Daily Mastermind Instagram Facebook TikTok YouTube pretty much everywhere but the quote today is a very direct one and it says you are where you are today because you've chosen to be there you've chosen to be there and I think it's so important for us is we go through life one of our big big principles we have here in our prosperity principles is that you create your life. You take responsibility for your life. You do the things that are going to make the biggest difference in your life and you will have that certainty that you're looking for and that you're trying to create. Now, I just dropped a couple of episodes and the one I dropped a little bit late was yesterday was this concept of how to really push past your limits. I talked about stuff that I've learned from David Goggins and I really think if you haven't listened to that, I want you to go back and listen to that because today I want to just dovetail a little bit off that. I want to go and follow up with that with some additional thoughts. And so what we're talking about is what are you struggling with? What is it you're trying to overcome? You know, some of you are dealing with situations and struggles and, you know, drama and conflict, and some of you are just hitting ceilings. You're just not able to push through the ceiling and you just don't understand why. And so it's this whole concept of struggle. What is it you're struggling with? What is it that, what is struggle? I mean, you know as well as I do that struggle is temporary. But at the end of the day, what I find, and I've talked with thousands of entrepreneurs over the years, I find that most of the struggle that we deal with is in our mind. Most of our struggle is just you and your own thoughts. It's those thoughts that are telling you you're not good enough. Those thoughts that are telling you that you'll never be what you should be. now of course you have outside external influences people what they say and what they do and your environment your circumstances but at the end of the day your entire reality is being crafted in your mind your reality is listen to me your reality is being crafted in your mind it's you and your mind so what is your mind we know that your thoughts control your life but your mind is absolutely without a doubt one of your greatest assets but it also can be your greatest enemy Your mind is what holds you back. It's a tool that can help you to overcome challenges, but it's also a tool that can hold you back. But you need to remember that you are the ones with your hand on the wheel. You drive and direct your mind. But understand, your mind is designed to protect you. Your mind is designed to, when you don't think you can do something, or when you are stressing your body or you in a situation or something that is not normal it going to ways to shut down It gonna find ways to tell you to peel back sleep in, don't go the extra mile, slow down, take care of yourself. It's genetically designed, scientifically designed to protect you. But your mind is also designed to help you endure. It's designed to help you find solutions. it's designed to help you go past the point of no return when you need to for survival so remember you control the steering wheel of life you just gotta for you gotta remember not to take your hands off the wheel because for most of us when you take your hands off the wheel that's literally where your life goes off the rails you know david goggins in the in the episode i dropped yesterday talks about how most of us have only tapped about 40% of our potential. And the reason for this is we see something coming up. We see a problem, a circumstance, whatever it is. And we decide in our mind, we have that subconscious part of us that says, I can't do that. And the minute, the instant your mind senses that you've given up, even at a subconscious level, it does anything and everything it can to protect you, to wind you down, to make sure you don't hurt yourself, to protect you. But the solutions, and I need you to hear me when I say this, what I've learned over time in my life, the solutions and the success and the fulfillment, it comes just past that 50%, that 40% mark, that 40% mark. Until your mind knows you're not going to give up, you're not going to quit. it's not going to go come up with the solutions. It's going to be in protection mode. And your mind needs to know that you're not going to give up and it won't tether you and pull you back to that 40% mark. It's kind of like a governor on a car. We talked about that yesterday. If you've ever driven a car that has a governor, you know, rental agencies, people like that put it on there so that you can't go over the speed limit. But it doesn't matter how hard you try to push the gas down when a car has a governor, it's going to keep you below a certain speed limit. It doesn't matter how much you want the temperature in the room to go up. If the thermostat is set at a level, it's always going to come back down to that level. And your subconscious mind is no different. So what you have to do is you have to learn to program your mind because all of your best life, all of your solutions, all of the things you're trying to accomplish are past that 40% mark. and trust me when I say I know you've sensed this in your life already you've done things you never thought you could do you've you've made it through you didn't think you were ever going to make it through that situation you were dealing with and you did anyway when you step back and look back you are stronger than you believe you are and you have more talent and experience that you need than you know you need to do the problem is and it's like uh Jocko talks about his another one of my mentors I'll go to, Jocko says, you know, it's like you're in a forest. You're in a forest when you struggling when you having a problem You in a forest and you saying where do I go What do I do You can see anything You don know where to go You don know what to do You lost in the forest And so what he would say is he say start walking And many of you would say, well, what good is that going to do? Well, the bottom line is sitting in the forest, sitting in the dark isn't going to get you anywhere. Just start walking because as you're walking, you may find that ravine to go down. You might find that river to follow. You might find that sign of civilization, but you're not going to find it standing there. And so movement and action will always help you to create solutions. That's why you can't ever give up. You've got to keep moving. Effort and action is the missing ingredient with most of you right now. You feel shut down. Look, I've been there where you just don't know where to go. You don't know what to do. You're overwhelmed. You don't know where to start. The key is just to start. The key is just to go. But the way to get yourself off the mark, the way to get yourself off square one, is to do what David Goggins talks about, is that you've got to create a new norm. You know, when you have been doing difficult things in your life you didn't ever think you could do, and you've gotten through them, you've got a new norm. Now you know you can get through them. And so that's the new norm. What you need to do, and what I need to do, is we need to become the CEOs of tough times. We need to own that difficult moment. You need to own that place that you're in. You need to own it and say, I'm never going to quit. I'm never going to stop. I'm never going to keep persisting. And as a result, what's going to happen? Your mind's going to help you. Your environment's going to help you. You're going to find solutions because the brain will have to kick in. It's a survival thing. When your brain knows that you're not going to give up, and it takes work. when your brain knows you're not going to give up, it doesn't stop. Now it goes from trying to protect you into trying to help you survive. And that's when you're going to get it. And that's when you're going to get progress. So let's talk about three steps that you can use to turn your life around, to turn any situation around. And the first of three steps is the obvious, but I don't think we really think enough about it. And that is you've got to make a decision. You've got to make a decision that you are going to take control of your life and of the situation and of the circumstances of what's inside your power. And you are going to make a decision and you're going to commit. That's the thing a lot of people don't do. Commit to go in the distance, to find in the solution. And there's a state of, you know, what one of my mentors used to always tell me, a state of resolve. You know, when you make a decision to do something, a lot of people make decisions all the time. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. But they're not really committed to their decision. And there's most certainly not resolved to the fact that it's not over until I win. It's not over until I figure it out. So make that decision, but make sure it's a solid commitment and resolve to be in that state. And then the second thing you have to do, and this is the one I picked up from Ed Milet, this is one I never really thought of before. Most of us make a decision, we go out and act, but I think there's a critical second step. And that second step is you've got to, once you make a decision, flood yourself with certainty You got to flood and surround yourself with certainty because the minute you make a tough decision and you start acting everything going to be working against you So it important you flood yourself with certainty Because the minute you make a tough decision and you start acting everything gonna be working against you So it important you flood yourself with certainty Your external environment Who are the people that you're around? What's the environment you're around? What are the resources you're around? It's very easy to block others out if you surround yourself with an environment that's gonna validate and reinforce what it is you're trying to do. Listen to the right messages. Listen to the right thing. If you make a decision and you start acting, but then you surround yourself with negativity and watching the news and flooding your, you know, going through your social media feed, that's going to cause doubt. And the key for you after making a decision is to flood yourself with certainty. Other ways to do this is find the successful things to surround yourself with. Get a mastermind, get a mentor, find the talented people that have already done it. So you have proof that what you're trying to do is possible. flood yourself with that get clear on your vision and repeat over and over and over repetition repetition repetition that you will get through it and that you will make it work and that you will create this life on the other side of the difficulty and then the last ingredient that's the one that we talk about the most and that's take massive action not take action take massive action. Faith without works is dead. Attraction doesn't happen without action. You've got to stop worrying about what people think. You've got to stop worrying about whether you're going to fail or not. And you just have to start taking action, any type of action, as long as it's movement. Because where energy goes, your attention and your actions flow, right? So when you put your attention and your decision and you state your intentions out there of what you want to do, energy is going to come your way. Solutions are going to come your way. Your mind's going to kick in gear. Things are going to start to happen for you. And so I just want to use this message as a way to build you up. You don't need to be inspired and motivated. You need to make a decision and take all out action because inspiration will come on your path. Motivation will come on the path. You need to get out there and do what it takes and become the CEO of difficult times. Love it, enjoy it, look forward to it because your growth, your success, everything about what you're trying to accomplish is on the other side of difficulty. It's on the other side of decision. So that's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing weekend. For those of you that are pursuing your dreams and goals, stay consistent, stay persistent, stay resolved to what you're trying to do. And do me a favor and share this show. If you wouldn't mind, I'd love it if you would share this show. It helps us to grow the community and grow the messaging. And hit me up on The Daily Mastermind. Go to Instagram, Facebook. You can message me, DM me. I want to know what you're working on. What are you struggling with? What is it that I can help you with? And I look forward to hearing from you. And have an amazing weekend. At the end of the day, it's never too late for you to start living the life that you were meant to live. You have greatness inside of you. You already have all the answers. Your brain, your tools, your consciousness. It will create what you need. And so just hang in there and persist. That's what we're here to help you to do. So thanks for hanging out with us today. Have an amazing weekend.

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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