7 Habits to Live Your Best Life in 2025

All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you're having a great start to your week. And I want to talk to you a little bit today about going into the end of the year here and also going into the beginning of 2025. So many of you might be feeling stressed. You might be feeling overwhelmed. And it could be holidays. It could be what I found. And I don't know if you can relate to this, but I found at the end of the year, you start to have all these questions go around in your head. You're probably waking up in the morning thinking, oh my gosh, it's the end of the year. Did I get things accomplished like I wanted to? What do I want to do differently? How am I going to change my life so that I get what I want out of my life coming up? You're thinking about New Year's resolutions. You're thinking about the holidays. You're thinking about what you're going to do over the next week or two. Are you going to take time off? Are you going to feel guilty if you take time off? Are you going to grind? These are all things that start to happen because of these impending deadlines of the calendar. Maybe you know what I mean. When you look at the end of the year and you start to question or you reflect back on what's happened this year or you're starting to wonder, what will I do different this next year? you start to shift more quickly between your reflection of the past, your vision of the future, and really you lose the most important thing, which is living in the present moment. And so today I wanted to just talk to you about a few different ideas. I want to give you seven habits that I believe will help you to create a better life. And I'm giving you these because I feel like they're a framework that you can use as you begin to plan your next year, but also there are things at the exact same time I feel like you can use to create current present moment success and fulfillment and you know you'll you'll know what I mean when I when I start to talk about them but what I really want you to do is I want you to consider for a minute that there are certain fundamental things that you can do to be much more productive but all of these things, the ideas of being productive and moving forward with your life, all have to center around the idea that you're going to create your best life. I really believe it's never too late, whether you think you've accomplished what you want or not, it's never too late to start creating the life you're meant to live, but it's got to start in the present moment. We're moving so quickly through life that we don't actually have a life. So how do you really start to incorporate a quality of life while you're pursuing your dreams. Well, let me give you seven suggestions, and I've given these out before, but I think they're really appropriately timed for the end of the year. I'm going to give you seven suggestions that I believe you can use to increase your lifestyle and quality of life right now and use them as a framework going into the new year as you set your goals. And the first one is to hack people. You've heard me say this before. Technology isn't always the key. The human part of it is an absolute must. And if you're doing everything that you want, that's one thing. But when you're not, when you look at what other successful people are doing you find that you can do so much more If you trying to find ways to create new movement in your life the best way to do that is to find the person that emulates what you want to be living, whether it's lifestyle, money, time, relationships, and just look and see what they're doing. It's worth taking a few minutes out of your day and saying, look, I'm not going to try to figure it out myself. I'm just going to go and I'm going to ideally follow the patterns, the rituals, the disciplines that the people are doing that are doing what I want to live, my life that I want to live. So really think about how you can hack people. The second thing is no matter where you are in your life, you've got to get some quality sleep. Don't let sleep become a thing that you don't prioritize because you have to get quality sleep. Make sleep a deliberate thing. You don't realize how much having mental recovery is helping you. And so how do you get ideal sleep? How do you get quality sleep? Well, you have to have the right sleep conditions. So this involves things like having a better temperature, eliminating work and distractions from where you sleep, finding a routine. It's so important to have a routine. Don't get caught up in the timeline of how many hours sleep you're getting. You know, your body's going to adapt to whatever it is that you have available. This isn't about getting more sleep. It's about getting quality sleep. What I want you to do is I want you to consider next year not so much trying to get more of what you want, but trying to get a better quality of what you want. This goes straight back to the idea that we're trying to create your best life. So it's not about doing more things at work or getting more sleep or getting more nutrition. It's about getting better quality. So getting quality sleep is something I think is super important. The third thing is focus on creating memories. What do I mean by that? Well, nothing increases the quality of your life like creating a good solid memory. Think back to the best birthdays or the best events that have happened in your life or the best vacations. They're not ones that maybe, at least in my case, were the most epic places for a vacation. They were the ones that you remember the emotional ties of what happened. So your best Christmas may not be the one where you got the most gifts or you went on the most expensive trip or you had the most fun. It might be the thing where you emotionally connected with an experience. and it could be something that costs you no money. It could be something where you were just in the moment with someone that you cared about, but create memories. And so if you go into next year working to create memories, you're gonna live an epic life. If you live in the moment during the holidays and you create memories, you're going to live an epic life. Now that takes a little bit of work. Emotions, that's what ties your thoughts and embeds them into experiences in your mind. So work on creating emotions in events that you have over the coming weeks and into next year. And another way to do this is to lock in the actual memory itself. So create a book or a list or a journal where you locking in your memories And if you create memories I can promise you you going to feel like you living a better quality of life The fourth thing is to start a meditation practice Now, what do I mean by this? A meditation practice, a mindfulness practice. Don't overcomplicate this. There's all kinds of methods that work. It might be mindfulness, meditation, visualization, guided, unguided. There's a lot of different ways to meditate, but what I'm truly trying to convey here is you've got to take time when the goal is nothing more than to simplify and limit your thoughts and focus on the present moment. It might be five minutes in the morning, five in the evening. It might be in the middle of the day. It might be whatever it is. What I encourage you to do is to set some type of mindfulness meditation practice in a routine. Do it every day. I can promise you that you're going to feel more peace of mind. You're going to have more energy. But if you can learn to be mindful, and the reason I don't just say mindfulness, because you can do that throughout life, I say meditation, is because meditation, in my mind at least, is a thing. It's a period of time. It's something that you schedule into your day. Start a meditation practice, which will allow you to center your thoughts, eliminate everything going on in a distraction and you've got to do your best to try to set yourself up for success on this and then just be consistent with it. If you do that, that meditation practice, you're going to feel like your life is more about you and not about everything that's pushing you around. And it's also going to help you to have some peace of mind, especially going into next year and in the holidays. Okay. The fifth basic suggestion I have for you is time blocking tasks. This is one I struggle with. I think most of us struggle with. There's no greater enemy to your success and results than task switching. So what you can do is when you block time for tasks, you're sort of micromanaging this idea of following one course until successful. Focus. Follow one course until successful. So it's a time block where you can put more synergy and momentum and focus into one thing and not go between a million things. Sometimes the best success I've had comes after I've spent a period of time on a topic. So when you block time, and, you know, I've always found that 90-minute blocks are really the best. What you're doing is you're dedicating your focus and your attention to a certain task or a certain product. and make sure that those are things that are gonna contribute to you moving forward in your business, your life, your family, your communication, whatever it is. And you're gonna experience some breakthroughs when you do this. I can't emphasize enough, right now into the end of the year as you're trying to be productive and especially setting habits in the next year, find ways to block your time around the big rocks that you have in your life. What I mean by that is the big important things that you wanna accomplish. and then let all the other stuff fall in between those time blocks, 90 minute time blocks. Number six, the sixth thing that I want to recommend to you. And again, these are just seven suggestions that I'm making for you currently and going into the year that will help you to get more organized and help you feel like you're on top of things. The sixth one is make decisions faster There no greater robbing of your energy There no greater problem in your life than indecision Just say yes and figure it out Most of the time you don know what the best answer is until you're already making the decision and doing the action. Let opportunities lead you rather than stress you out. Opportunities and pressures and responsibilities right now, they're stressing you out because you're not making decisions. Don't get caught up in the detail and planning. I do this all the time. Don't try to over plan to prepare and guard against, you know, bad outcomes. Just say yes and figure it out. I would rather you failed your way to success than found a couple of really perfect ways to do things. There's no perfect thing. There's just progress to perfection. Now, the last thing I want to suggest, and this is probably a core one I really want you to consider is journal for focus. Journaling has so many benefits. You probably heard me talk about this if you're listening to the Franklin Planner podcast that I started with Franklin Planners. Journaling and handwriting and writing on paper have been proven to provide so many benefits to you with stress and overwhelm and production and goal setting. Journaling has so many benefits. And if you don't have the practice down, you don't know what to journal about, practice gratitude. Write down what you're grateful for. So I use journaling for specific intent, not just to kind of journal. I like to practice my gratitude by writing down what I'm grateful for. I like to train my brain for success by writing down my wins. So when I journal, I always kind of start by writing down the things I'm grateful for, writing down the wins because I want my brain to start recognizing the wins, not what most of you do. Most of you, when you journal, you put your thoughts down, all the negative things you're trying to work through and all that different type of stuff. Maybe that's helpful for you. What I'm here to tell you is that if you want to be focused on your best life, you focus on the things that make your best life. Gratitude, successes, wins, things you're grateful for and thoughts you're having that are training your brain to be able to love and connect and accomplish and be a producer and have specific intent. And once again, schedule time for this. Don't try to fit it in. This is one of those big rocks, just like, you know, meditation that you've got to put in your day and let the other things move around that. So those are my suggestions for you. These are seven sort of suggestions and ideas on how you can create a better lifestyle and a better life, both going into the end of the year and into next year. And I hope there are things that'll benefit you. I'd love to hear from you, especially at the end of the year. What is it that benefits you the most when you hear podcast episodes? Is it inspirational stories? 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