7 Ways Successful People Think Differently

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III, with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I'm glad you're here joining us here today. Obviously, if this is your first time listening, you're going to find out that we're trying to help you to create the best version of yourself and win that daily battle that's going on in your mind. And so the reason the Daily Mastermind was started was to share daily thoughts with you that'll help you keep consistent and provide you the power of the mastermind to basically help you to conquer all of your goals on a daily basis. So once per week, we're also providing some in-depth interviews, success interviews. You're going to see some of those this week on Thursday, but ultimately we want to guide you on your journey to become more successful and create the best life that you could possibly create. So today I want to start you out with the Daily mastermind quote of the day and this quote is right out of the bible this is a great quote do unto others what you would have them do under you do unto others what you would have them do unto you and i love that because i think today so many people are worried about themselves and you know i think at the end of the day you've got to be able to provide and here's the thing you've got to understand is that you can provide service to others in the world and be extremely successful when you align that with your ultimate unique talents and abilities. So what you're going to find is that your fulfillment, your passion, all of the success that you can create in life is going to come when you can learn to harness and focus in on your unique talents, but do that in the service to others. Do that so that you're making the world a better place. You're going to provide not just success, but you're going to provide fulfillment. So let me ask you a question. what is it that makes some people more successful than others you know what makes them really different have you ever thought about that have you thought about why some people just seem to have it so easy or why some people seem to constantly win what does it make some different and I'm here to tell you right now that it's almost always the way they think it's their thoughts because our thoughts lead to feelings lead to actions get you results in your life and the way they think and the way successful and I'm talking about in business relationships communication, whatever it is you're looking at, the way they think or perceive their problems, opportunities, and life, that is going to be the difference maker. So I want to talk to you this morning on Monday morning with just a few different things that I've noticed over the years. And I've been in the industry of personal development, financial education, and business for over 25 years. And one of the things I've found is that success leaves clues. and that the way successful people think is different than the way the average person thinks and so I you know just even this morning at the gym I was thinking about this and I thought let me give you a couple of ways that I noticed that successful people think differently Some of these might be things you already heard but some of these things may be not being applied in your life. That's why it's always back to the fundamentals, right? So I wanna give you some ideas of ways that you can tighten up how it is that you think so that you can think differently than most and you can accomplish the goals you want. The first thing that successful people do differently, the way they think differently, is that they're specific with their life. In other words, they have clarity in their business, personal life, weight loss goals, whatever it is. They don't say, I would like to lose weight. They say, I need to lose 10 pounds by this date. They don't say, I want to make more money in business. They say, my goal is to achieve this specific revenue goal in this specific time. or my goal is to hit these milestones within this period of time so that I can push closer towards my goal. See, successful people have clarity, and because they have clarity, they think more specifically about things in their life. So that's a big one. The next thing is successful people have a sense of urgency. And when I say urgency, I'm being very literal. Successful people have urgency down to the minute, down to their schedule. Take Elon Musk, for example. Elon Musk creates a regimented schedule breaking down things to five-minute time slots. Tony Robbins talks about time chunking, time blocking, these 90-minute time chunks. If you're not being specific and having specific intent on how you execute on your schedule, then you're never going to accomplish your goals. So have urgency down to the minute in your scheduling. A third way that successful people think differently is that they're teachable and coachable. They have this principle of lifelong learning like we talk about in our prosperity pillars. Successful people make time to read. They attend classes. They take workshops. They learn. They don't see that as a waste of time. They know that enhancing their skills and developing new skills is how they're going to master the game of business, the game of life. So be teachable. Be coachable. Learn. Find opportunities to learn. And that attitude will also help you to find learning moments even in failure. And so that's a real key principle. Another thing that successful people do differently is they think, they prioritize their attitude. Attitude is the little thing that makes a huge difference. Attitude is a reflection of the way you perceive things. Are you looking for the positive or do you see the negative? Are you looking for solutions or do you focus on the problem? Are you an abundant thinker or a scarcity thinker? attitude is that little gateway that little ticket into positivity and optimism and attitude is something that you got to adopt as a priority if you want to think differently than most people another thing that successful people do when they think differently is they don make excuses You know for many years I worked with T. Harv Eker, who wrote the book, The Millionaire Mind, The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. And he used to always say, and I love that saying, is you can have reasons or you can have results. And there's really no in between. You know, you can have reasons that this happened and reasons that that happened or excuses that this happened or excuses of why this always happens to you or you can have results you can take responsibility you can be personally responsible for your life see a lot of times you know i've heard people say you know man those things they're outside of your control there's nothing you can do about them but see here's the difference successful people realize that there's a lot of things outside their control but they still take personal responsibility for their life. They don't make excuses. They just focus on solutions. So just realize that you can have an excuse of things happening to you, or you can find a reason they happened for you. Does that make sense? So don't make excuses. Also, successful people think differently because they prioritize their health. Now, this is not a common one you're going to hear people talk about, but in my opinion and in my personal life, I can tell you that when you prioritize your health, a lot of other things come along for the ride. When you prioritize your health, you're going to have more energy. You're going to have more clarity. You're going to feel better about yourself. You're going to feel more accomplished. You know, the thing about working out and eating right and nutrition is that's the type of thing that is a thousand percent in your control. I don't care if you don't have access to a gym, if you don't know where to go, anyone can stand to do jumping jacks or sit-ups or push-ups. Anyone can decide not to eat that pizza, not to eat that donut, but to eat healthy, nutritious foods. I'm telling you, when you prioritize your health, you will act and think differently than most people. So prioritize your health. And the last idea I wanted to share with you is that successful people know what they value. They know their values. And I don't just mean your morals. I mean, a mentor of mine, Robert Stuburg, used to say, he used to have me sit down and list out what I value. Now, what he'd have me do is both what's positive and negative. In other words, what do you value most in your life? Because there's so many things you can value. Health, wealth, security, recognition, validation, family, friends. You know, there's so many things that you can choose to value in your life, but it's a healthy exercise to list those things and then prioritize them. Because when you know what your values are, then when opportunities or situations or obstacles come in your life, you have a very clear filter. In other words, when you have a decision to make, whether you're going to spend time with your family or work whether you going to spend time with doing this or that when you know what you value most and you clear about that those decisions are easy The problem that many of us have is we not clear on what our values are We also need to list out what we don't value. In other words, if you want less stress, if you want less peace of mind. See, I'll give you an example. Stress is something that I used to have as a very, very high negative value. In other words, I wanted to eliminate stress in my life until one day I had that epiphany moment when I was in a mentoring session with one of my mentors, a nine-figure earner. He said to me, he said, George, why would you not want stress in your life? I said, well, man, why would anybody want stress in their life? And he says, you don't understand. Stress comes from operating outside your comfort zone and success comes from operating outside your comfort zone. It's not about having less stress. It's about being able to handle more stress without it affecting you. And when I got that principle, that's when I realized that understanding what I value and don't value and understanding the reason behind it, that I could create empowering thoughts that would help me with those values. In other words, it wasn't about the amount of stress in my life. It was about how I was going to handle it. And I redefined how I handle stress by saying to myself, as long as I do something towards obstacles or problems in my life, within my control, then there's no reason to stress about it. And when I let things go that are outside my control, then there's less stress as well. So there's ways for you to think differently. But in order to do that, you've got to recognize how your thoughts are being directed in your day-to-day life. And I don't mean on a weekly. This isn't the weekly mastermind, the monthly mastermind. This is the daily mastermind. The reason is it is a battle every day for you to stay focused, to stay aligned, to stay basically driven towards what you're passionate about. And the only way you do that is to constantly work at it because your mind is designed to protect you. It's designed to see the negative. It's designed to work and identify those things in your life. So it's up to you because you're not your mind. It's up for you, up to you to direct that mind. And so that's my thought for today. I hope you have an amazing week this week. We've got a lot of really good things coming up for you. And ultimately, just keep in mind that if you haven't already, like and subscribe the podcast. But remember that it's never too late to start living the life that you are meant to do and the meant to live. You've just got to make the decision today to move forward. You can't affect the past. You can't even affect this last weekend. All you can do is make the decision right now, right this minute, to move forward towards your goals. And I know you can do that. I have confidence in you. And it's like Les Brown always says, you have greatness inside of you. You just got to let it out. So that's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing day and I will talk with you tomorrow.