Episode 755 · Mar 30, 2023

Accountability and Adjustments: The Final Steps to Massive Growth

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George Wright III wraps up a week-long series on the Daily Mastermind with two of the most overlooked steps in any growth journey: accountability and adjustments. You can build resolve, sharpen your focus, and execute at a high level, yet still fall short if you are not tracking your results and willing to pivot when something is not working.

The message is direct: owning your outcomes and staying flexible enough to correct your course are what carry you over the finish line.

Take Personal Responsibility No Matter What

George opens with a challenge to a common trap: blaming external forces. The economy, the marketplace, the circumstances. He frames personal responsibility as pillar number one of the prosperity pillars, and the reasoning is straightforward.

The environment is not going to get any better. It's not going to get any better for you in the short run. So you may as well take responsibility and decide right now.

You cannot control every variable in your business or your life, but you can always control your actions in response to them. The moment you stop waiting for conditions to line up is the moment you start moving forward.

Why You Need a Scorecard

Accountability is more than a mindset shift. It requires a system. George makes the case for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) as a non-negotiable habit for anyone serious about growth.

Are you measuring revenue? Tracking close rates? Monitoring how your numbers compare to your goals week over week? If you are not keeping score, you are playing a game with no scoreboard.

What you measure grows. What you focus on will grow.

This applies across every domain: health, finances, relationships, and business. Without a scorecard, there is no feedback loop, and without a feedback loop, there is no real progress.

Recognizing When an Adjustment Is Needed

The fifth and final step in George's framework is adjustments, and it may be the trickiest to execute well. Many people push forward long after the evidence is telling them to change course, simply because they are committed to the original plan.

Success requires adjustments. If something is not working, you do not keep doing the same thing. You identify what needs to change, make a small tweak, and keep moving toward the goal.

George points to Facebook as an example: the platform did not launch as the social network it became. It started as something far simpler and evolved through iteration. Most successful businesses follow a similar path.

Avoiding the Shiny Object Trap

There is an important distinction here. Making adjustments does not mean abandoning your goal every time something looks more attractive. George calls this the shiny object trap: jumping from one direction to another because the current path feels hard or slow.

The goal is to make small, deliberate changes within your existing plan. Adjust your approach, not your destination. Tweak the process, not the purpose.

Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty and Change

Two internal shifts support the ability to adjust effectively. First, you have to get comfortable with uncertainty. The need to know exactly what will happen, and when, is one of the main reasons people stay stuck. Comfort zones feel safe, but they block the evolution that growth requires.

Second, you have to learn to embrace change. When you do, you are saying that you are constantly growing, constantly evolving, and constantly moving toward the next level.

When you embrace change what you're saying is I am constantly growing, I'm constantly evolving, I'm constantly going to the next level.

These two mindset shifts, accepting uncertainty and welcoming change, make it possible to respond to real-world feedback rather than being paralyzed by it.

Action Steps

Claim full personal responsibility for your results, regardless of external conditions.
Build a scorecard: identify three to five KPIs for your most important goal and track them weekly.
Review your results regularly and ask honestly whether something in your approach needs to change.
When you need to adjust, make small, targeted tweaks rather than scrapping your entire plan.
Practice sitting with uncertainty: recognize that not knowing every outcome is part of the process, not a reason to stop.

Growth does not happen on a straight line. Resolve gets you started, focus keeps you on course, execution builds momentum, and accountability ensures you know where you actually stand. Adjustments are what keep the whole system honest. Put all five together, and 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 with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Man, today is the day. I'm super excited. If you have not already, you already know what I'm talking about and you've already missed out. So if you haven't registered for the event tonight, go to jointheevolution.com. Jointheevolution.com. We have a Revenue Mastery event tonight. If you have a business, if you're a high achiever, if you're an entrepreneur and you're looking to grow your revenue, tonight's event you do not want to miss. This is normally a paid event. This is normally our Mastermind Academy mentoring group, but we're doing it live in Lehigh, Utah, and we are going to be live streaming it as well. So you actually have the opportunity to listen in on the group mentoring tonight. We're going to be talking all about business growth. We're going to be hitting mindset. We're going to be hitting top AI tools for entrepreneurs. We're going to be hitting ways to grow your social media with viral and also turning your followers into customers. We're also going to be talking about how to get business funding. My buddy Justin Eli of Kimbrey Capital will be there. He'll be talking about ways to get funding for your business within 24 to 48 hours. And, you know, I'm super excited to be able to do this event. Look, we do not normally do it live. It's normally virtual, and it's also normally paid. So take advantage of it. If you miss out on this event, you're just missing out. So go to jointheevolution.com, register for the event. You'll get the link to the live stream. It starts at 6 p.m. Mountain Time. For those of you international, it's going to be an all-nighter, but it'll be worth it, I promise. So let me get you started with the quote of the day. The quote of the day is by Theodore Roosevelt. and the quote is aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world and I'll tell you what I'm going to bridge off that quote just a little bit but fighting for the right to live the life you were meant to live. That's what this podcast, that's what the Daily Mastermind is all about. So it's time to take it to the next level. Now earlier this week we talked about some steps that you can use to truly make change, to truly pivot, to truly grow, to grow your business, your life, and create this business mastery. We talked about creating a level of resolve, not just a decision and a commitment, but resolve to follow the path that you're following. And then we talked a little bit about focus because if you can follow one course until successful you are never going to be successful So focus is key And then we talked about execution On Wednesday we talked about ways that you can execute like a boss And execution is really what it going to boil down to. But now I want to talk to you about two last things. I was going to save one of these for Friday, but I'm going to hit them both today because tomorrow I've got something special for you. So I want to talk to you about the last two steps and really, truly creating massive growth, change pivoting your business and that is you've got to have a level of accountability and you've got to be able to adjust pivot create resilience so let's talk a little bit about accountability for a minute and we're going to be really drilling into this a lot tonight as well but part of being able to take accountability for your action your business and everything else because this is what I find a lot of people are full of excuses a lot of people blame the economy A lot of people blame the marketplace. They blame the circumstances. But as you know from the prosperity pillars, pillar number one is I take personal responsibility. You take personal responsibility no matter what because you can't control the things in your life, but you can control your actions towards them. And assuming responsibility for you, your business, your life, your relationships, that's what's gonna take you to the next level. Because if you don't believe that you can control the destiny of your life and you don't take responsibility, then guess what? You're not going to. You're going to be basically fulfilling other people's dreams. You're going to be doing everything for everyone else. You're going to be always waiting for situations to line up, things to happen, the environment to be the right environment. Let me tell you something. The environment is not going to get any better. It's not going to get any better for you in the short run. So you may as well take responsibility and decide right now, this is what's going to happen. I'm going to take responsibility. I'm going to determine what I want. I'm going to focus and I'm going to execute on that path regardless. And you're going to see some things happen in your life, but it takes taking a level of responsibility. The other thing about accountability, this fourth step, the other thing about accountability that most people, most businesses, most individuals that I've met don't do is they don't have a scorecard. They don't have KPIs. What's a KPI? A key performance indicator. So if you are trying to grow your revenue, are you tracking your revenue? Are you tracking the number of customers, the dollar per head, the percentage close rates you have, the amount of revenue that's growing, the percentage revenue, or do you have a goal? Are you tracking your goal? Are you under over on your goal If you don keep score that would be like professional sports just not having a scoreboard Think about it for a minute How successful would a professional athlete be without having a scoreboard a scorecard tracking and measuring? Because what you measure grows. What you focus on will grow. So it's like anything else, whether it's your health, your business, your finances, your relationship. If you don't measure how you're doing, you're not going to have progress. So part of having accountability is going to the next level of being responsible for what the results are and tracking the results. I can't emphasize that enough. You've got to track your results. And we could go way down this path for a while, but the last and final step in this growth pattern is adjustments. Now, I think one of the things that a lot of people fail to do is they fail to recognize when they need to pivot. They fail to recognize when something's not working. Because we get so ingrained in creating a decision and focusing on what we want that sometimes we don't realize that success takes adjustments. Success will take adjustments. If something's not working, you don't just keep beating your head against a wall until it works. you make adjustments so you have to recognize when an adjustment is needed now i want to caution you here because most entrepreneurs are shiny object uh entrepreneurs and what do i mean by that what i mean by that is like this looks really good i'm going to focus on that i'm going to go go go and then if it's not working i'm going to go over to this thing or i see something better come along it's very important that you recognize that i'm not saying when you have to make adjustments that you look for something better. What I'm saying is that you can make small tweaks and small changes and small things to adjust your course until you can accomplish your goal. Because sometimes the plan you put in place when you start a process is not the plan that you're going to take long-term. How many examples of businesses started out? Think about Facebook. Facebook didn't start out as the platform it is. It started out kind of as a hot or not, right? Right? You've got to find the ability in yourself to recognize when you need adjustments. And the best way to do that is to be keeping a scorecard and keep performance indicators. When you're not hitting your goals, you'll know maybe some adjustments are needed. But another thing you've got to do is you've got to get comfortable with a couple of things. Number one, you've got to get comfortable with uncertainty. See, so many of us get wrapped up in having to know exactly what's going on and when and where, that that one of the reasons we in this comfort zone We don want to make adjustments We comfortable with what we have We don embrace these changes that are needed And that's the other thing I was going to say. And that is you have to learn to embrace change. So to make really good adjustments, my recommendation is you've got to recognize when it's needed. You've got to get comfortable with uncertainty. And you have to embrace change. when you embrace change what you're saying is I am constantly growing I'm constantly evolving I'm constantly going to the next level and that's what's going to take me where I need to be so let me do a quick review for you here we've talked about you know kind of five steps basically that you can use to create massive immediate and quick and long-lasting change growth that's creating resolve, focus, execution, accountability, and adjustments. Those are the five things that I think if you dig down deep, those five simple principles will help you to get your business, get your life, get everything that you're working on to the next level. And so that's my message for this week. I want to end for today and I want to highly, highly, highly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to be part of our mastermind tonight, the Academy Live. It's at 6 p.m. Go to jointheevolution.com and register and get tickets because it'll sell out. We have a small, small group live, but we have a relatively small group. About 100 people will allow to live stream in. We don't want to have this thing be too big. We haven't advertised it. I haven't promoted it other than a couple of posts. And so typically, as you know me, over the years, we've had events with 500, 1,000, 10,000, 20,000 people. This is not one of those events. This is a small private mastermind. So take advantage of it. Be part of it. Share the show. Share it with your friends. I mean, it's going to fill up when it does. So first come, first serve. But I look forward to working with you. I look forward to talking with you tonight. And do me a favor. Hit me up on The Daily Mastermind, at The Daily Mastermind on Facebook or Instagram. DM me. Let me know what you're doing. You would be surprised how few people will actually look for help from individuals that can help them. And I'm offering it. So just hit me up. Let me know what you're up to. And I'll be happy to do whatever I can to support you. I've also always given out my personal email address, which is george at g3worldwide.com. So look forward to talking to you. Hopefully see you tonight. And once again, this is George Wright III, and this has been The Daily Mastermind. Have a great day. Thank you.