7 Critical Questions to Find Direction and Focus in Your Life

welcome back to the daily mastermind George Wright the third here with your daily dose of inspiration motivation and education let's get you started today with the quote of the day the quote of the day is from Anthony Robbins it's the past does not equal the future the past does not equal the future well listen if this is the first time you're listening to the podcast I'd love it if you would hit like and subscribe. Don't miss any episodes. The goal of The Daily Mastermind is to give you that mental consistency, discipline, you know, the things that you need on a day-to-day basis in order to create your best life. I've always said that it's never too late to start living the life that you were meant to live, but it begins with your daily rituals. It begins with your daily inspiration, motivation, and education. And so at the end of the day, I want to talk with you about things that will help you to grow your life and go to the next level. And so this week, what we're doing, yesterday I kind of mentioned it, we wanted to talk a little bit about these seven critical questions that can help you to create focus and direction in your life towards the path that you need for success. And so reviewing a little bit from Monday, I really want you to think a little bit about what you can do with each of these seven questions. what you can do in your life and and it's going to take some critical thinking you know normally we like to just bang out some some consistent rituals activities and things like that but sometimes it takes especially if you're looking for focus and direction it takes critical thinking and so i'm going to go through these seven questions and these questions are designed to get you to understand that what you're focusing on is what you're creating in your life because you grow into your expectations. We talked about that yesterday in that you grow into your expectations. Well, your expectations are based on your thoughts. So, what is it that you're thinking about? So, I want to walk you in depth through these questions. The first one is the opening question and that is what is on your mind? Let's go just a little deep on this. What are your dominant thoughts that you're thinking about? What is it that you are spending most of your time thinking about both consciously and subconsciously, proactively, reactively. Why are you thinking about the thoughts you're thinking about? Are you caught up in stress and anxiety or the problems of the day? Because remember, those are things you're going to have to work on, but you want to make sure that you continue to focus your mind on the things you want not the things that you currently dealing with If you focused on what you dealing with that where your energy is going to go So the opening question really is what on your mind And I want you to write down what you thinking about The second question is the expansion question What else is on your mind And the reason I bring this up and the reason my mentor has always kind of gone deeper with me on that is remember your thoughts are driven by your expectations and your actions. And a lot of times our actions are not driven just by the thoughts we have right now. They might be thoughts in the back of our mind. In other words, are you avoiding pain? Are you avoiding certain things? Are you trying to keep up with expectations of other people subconsciously that are driving your actions? So, go deeper. What is it that is on your mind at an even deeper level? Because you have to seek to understand what your thoughts are, why you're thinking them, where you're going because that's going to help you to direct your thoughts in the future. So this is that that idea that go a little bit deeper what else is on your mind. The third question is that focusing question what's the most important thing you could be thinking about right now and I like to you know sort of create an analogy for this in fact I like an example that Gary Keller uses in his book the one thing what's the big domino in your day-to-day life that you should be doing or you should be thinking about that will knock all the other dominoes down. If you know what I mean, you know, if you've ever lined up dominoes or you've seen them line up dominoes where they can tip the first domino over and it makes all the other ones fall down in line. This is what we're talking about. What's that one thing you could be thinking about or should be thinking about that will help to direct all the rest of the areas of your life? For example, maybe it's getting your body moving in the morning and it's working out because then your mind and your body and everything starts to go right. Maybe it's writing a journal. Maybe it is a certain activity prospecting in your business. But the key question here is, are you focused on something that is important to the direction of your life or something that is not important to the direction of your life? The fourth question I want you to really use to get some critical thinking going is the target question. Exactly what do you want? What do you want? And more specifically, if you think about it, Most of us want things, right? But what we truly want is the emotions that those things give us. Happiness, recognition, satisfaction, success. What emotions do you truly want in your life? And how can you feel these emotions right now? Because let's think about it. If you want to be happy there are moments in your life that you can be happy right now And you don have to wait to get those things to be happy So think about exactly what you want in your life and more specifically, what emotions are you trying to create? Write those down. Are you mostly, and I used to have an exercise I would do with some of my clients where I'd have them write down the values and the emotions that they're trying to achieve and then rank them because you need to understand at a deep core level? Is it success, happiness, recognition, love, security? You know, what is it that you want to create for an emotion in your life? Because these are the things that you have to have your thoughts circle around. Does that make sense? So that's the targeting question. What exactly do you want? You're getting focused. What do you want? Then you've got to have this guidance question. How can you get help to get there? Remember, the mind that got you where you are is not necessarily prepared to get you where you need to go. I know and I believe that you have inside you the skills and talents and abilities to realize your dreams, but who's the best person, resource, support, group, individual, mastermind, whatever it is that you can use or that you can go to to help you? How can you get some clarity, some communication? How can you help to clarify those needs and goals that you have? Because guidance is a very important thing when it comes to accomplishing your goals, whether it's in sports, athletics, business, relationships. Guidance can help you to get things that you're not equipped to be able to do on your own. So how can you obtain help. Then the sixth question, the sixth question is that action question. What's the best thing you can do right now? What is the action that you can take? Listen, you can only do one thing at a time, literally. I know most people think they can multitask. I definitely think that, but you can only do one thing at a time. So what is the one thing you can do right now? What is that one thing that you could be doing back to this idea of what's your most important thought, but what is the best action you can do right now that will take you closer to your goals? And how can you even maybe potentially create daily rituals that will drive you in that action every day? In other words, if your one thing that you should be doing is prospecting, what are the things you can do to line yourself up so that you can do that? If your most important thing is getting up and working out, if you've got a goal to get yourself in physical shape, what's the one thing you can do to make sure that that's lined up for you? What is the best thing you can do right now And then finally we have the true growth question And the growth question is what are you learning by examining your thoughts and how can that help you grow This is one of those things where it becomes intuitive that if you can find ways to really analyze how you think and the reason you're thinking things, what's the biggest takeaway you can have that will help you to continue to grow and evolve and stay in that place where you can implement constant growth as a consistent daily action. That's the most important thing when you really get down to your thoughts is when you can recognize, you can step back and realize that you're the conscious observer of your thoughts. And so let's go back and just do a recap here. what's on your mind right now and then what else is on your mind that you're not consciously thinking about that you're not really aware of what else is on your mind and then what's the most important thing you could be thinking about right now to take you in the direction of your goals and exactly what do you want with your life dig deep on this because the things you want are look are really guided towards probably emotions you're looking to experience and then how can you obtain help and what's the best thing you could be doing right now to take you in that direction and then what are you learning by going through this that can help you to grow. I promise you that even though these questions sound simple, if our thoughts control our life, how are our thoughts controlled? By the questions we ask ourselves and so it's so important that you ask the right questions, that you ask critical questions. That's why I give you these seven critical questions to ask yourself and are your thoughts helping you to experience the life that you want to live because what you focus on grows focus your thoughts on what you want not just on everything that's happening to you in your life so i hope these questions will help you i hope that you'll hit me up tag me at the daily mastermind on facebook or instagram or hit me up on our website dailymastermind.com i'd love to hear what you're working on what are you struggling with What are you trying to accomplish? Let's see what we can do to help each other to go to the next level. And then also, it would mean the world to me if you would share this episode. Just share it. Push it out on your story. Tag me if you do. It would mean a lot, and I know it would mean a lot to others as well. That's my message for today. Once again, my name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. Have an amazing day. you