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Episode 833 · Aug 24, 2023

Aligning Your Resources to Build the Life You Want

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George Wright III is back with episode 833 of The Daily Mastermind, continuing his five-part series on the CRAVE formula for creating your best life. Step 3 focuses on the letter A: align your resources. This is where vision and commitment meet practical strategy, and where many people quietly hold themselves back without realizing it.

If you have followed along, you have already worked through step one (create your vision) and step two (resolve to manifest your blueprint). Now it is time to take stock of what you have, clarify what you need, and develop the confidence to attract both.

Why Aligning Resources Is More Than Counting What You Have

Most people approach resources from a scarcity perspective. They list everything they do not have: not enough time, money, or connections. George challenges that framing directly. Resources are abundant. The mindset you bring to the inventory shapes what you are able to see and eventually acquire.

"You are not limited by the amount of time and resources you have. And you can't attract that stuff into your life if you don't begin to think positively about it."

Aligning your resources means two things at once: identifying what you currently have to dedicate toward your goal, and identifying what you still need. Both halves of that equation matter. Skipping the second half means you are working without a complete picture.

How to Take an Honest Inventory

Start with a real brainstorm. Write down the time you can genuinely commit. Note the financial resources available. List the skills, relationships, and tools already in your corner.

Then look further. Friends, family, mentors, and mastermind groups are resources. Free platforms are resources. As George points out, online learning has made almost any skill accessible to anyone willing to put in the time.

"You can learn just about anything and everything you could ever want to do, even if you don't have the talent now, just by using that funny Google thing on the Internet."

Joint ventures, partners, social media, and free design tools like Canva have leveled the playing field. The point is not that these tools replace hard work; it is that the barrier to getting started is lower than most people assume.

What Your Unique Talent Has to Do With It

One of the most underutilized resources you own is your unique talent. George references the work of his partner Robert Stubberg, who has worked alongside Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, and others, and whose training centers on this idea.

Your unique talent sits at the intersection of two things: something you are genuinely excellent at and something you are deeply passionate about. When those two overlap, you have identified a resource worth building your entire strategy around.

Take the time to identify that combination. Then align it with your blueprint. This is not a productivity hack; it is the foundation of sustainable effort. Passion without skill runs out of steam. Skill without passion produces results you do not care about. Together, they create the kind of focused energy that compounds over time.

The Role of Faith in Resource Alignment

George is honest about his own history with anxiety. He has worried, many times, about obstacles that had not yet arrived. His conclusion: spending mental energy on future shortfalls you cannot yet address is not a productive use of your time.

"Many, many times over the course of my career, I have stressed and had anxiety about things that might happen...the crazy thing is they did happen. And thinking about them didn't do me any good at the time."

The practical alternative is not to ignore reality. It is to work confidently with what you have now, while holding the belief that the resources you need will come as your plan develops. That belief is not passive; it keeps you moving forward rather than frozen.

How Promoting Your Vision Attracts Resources

One of the more counterintuitive points in this episode: when you promote your vision confidently in your inner circle, you attract resources you did not even know you needed.

George has seen this happen repeatedly in his own career. Confidence in your vision signals to others that you are serious and worth supporting. People step in with offers, introductions, and tools that you were not expecting. This is not magic; it is what happens when your focus and conviction become visible to the people around you.

The practical takeaway is simple: talk about your vision. Not as a wish or a hope, but as the direction you are moving with intention.

Action Steps

  • Write a two-column list: resources you currently have and resources you still need. Be specific and honest in both columns.
  • Identify your unique talent by finding the overlap between what you do best and what genuinely energizes you. That intersection is one of your most valuable assets.
  • Shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. The resources available to you right now are greater than you think; the goal is to see them clearly.
  • Share your vision confidently with people in your inner circle. Speak about it as a direction, not a dream.
  • Trust that gaps in your current resources will fill as your plan develops. Do not let uncertainty about future needs stop you from moving on present ones.

Aligning your resources is not about having everything figured out before you start. It is about being intentional with what you have, honest about what you need, and confident enough to let your vision pull more toward you. As George reminds his listeners: it is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

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All right, all right. I hope you're having a great week so far. We are on, let's see here, it's day four of this five-step formula that I wanted to talk with you about for creating your best life. I can't believe it's episode 833, but I'm super excited to share with you today this concept and continue our discussion. So let me give you the quote of the day. It's from Washington Irving and it's, little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes, but great minds rise above them. Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them. I want to remind you that if you want to get these quotes of the day, feel free to check them out on the Instagram or the TikTok channel for The Daily Mastermind. But today we're going to get right into aligning your resources so that you can create the success with the plan that you're putting together. So let's get right into it. Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education so that you can create your ultimate destiny. I hope you're having an amazing day. We were talking about the crave formula for creating and craving your best life. You know, what is it that you want your life to be like? What are you trying to accomplish? Because without having that best life picture, it's really hard to get you going. That's why step one was to create the vision of your life. What do you want your life to be like? Create that vision, a detailed vision that will motivate, inspire you, and drive you. It'll be your litmus test to be able to gauge your activities against so you know you're doing what's needed. And then the second, because CRAVE is an acronym, C for create your vision, and the second letter R stands for resolve to manifest your blueprint. Create a deeper, much deeper level of commitment towards your best life. You know, getting a decision and a commitment is great. Adding structure and accountability is even better. And what it'll do is it allow you to create a resolve, a confidence that you are going to create your best life. And that leads us today to the third letter in Crave, which is a letter A, and that represents align resources align your resources in order to accomplish your goals Determine what resources you going to need to make your plan happen It much like a blueprint You got to have the supplies and the tools or the equipment or let say the talent that you need to build your best life your blueprint So I want you to think about it because sometimes we just go with what we have, but we don't think about it. We don't get strategic about what we do. You want to start to have specific intent with everything that you do in life so that you know that you're accomplishing something. You can look back and feel good about it. You also know that you're in the moment doing the best possible thing you can for your relationships, your business, your personal development, whatever it is. Specificity is very helpful, but you don't have to know everything that you're going to need to get there. What I'm actually saying is that putting thought process and time into it is the key, but it does help to identify what resources you currently have to dedicate towards your goal. because some of you might say, look, I don't have a lot of money. Maybe I don't have a lot of time. Maybe I don't have a lot of talent. Any one of those three things you can overcome, because if you have time, then, you know, you need to put that into your into your life. Right. If you have the money, if you have the resources, if you have the talent. But listen, everyone has resources. Don't get caught up in using that as an excuse. I hear so many times people say, well, I don't have the time. I don't have the money. I don't have the talent. I don't have those same connections that you do. Listen, you have to start with what you have. Don't be in a scarcity mentality. Work with what you have because over time and as you develop your plan and as you grow your plan, it will evolve. You will gain more resources. You will gain more time, energy, and talent. So let's brainstorm for a second. What is it that you can do with your current resources? And maybe through the thought process, you can leverage other resources you didn't think were there. Maybe it's friends, it's family, it's mentors, it's a mastermind. Maybe it's online resources. You can learn just about anything and everything you could ever want to do, even if you don't have the talent now, just by using that funny Google thing on the Internet, right? You can get what you need. But there are joint ventures. There's partners. There's social media. There's ways to create content now that cost you absolutely nothing. I was just talking the other day with some of the people on my team. I mean, we used to pay designers thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, and now you can use tools like Canva. You can use tools like Headliner tools on the Internet that are absolutely free that will allow you to create content information resources and tools And so I encourage you to really brainstorm what you need in order to make your dreams a reality in order to make your blueprint come to pass. And just keep in mind and have that knowledge that resources are very abundant. It doesn't matter whether you think resources in the universe are abundant or not. It doesn't change the fact that they are. I'm here to tell you that if you will think abundantly, If you'll think through an attitude and a lens of abundance, you will have far more than if you have a scarcity mindset and think you are limited to your time and resources that you have. You are not limited by the amount of time and resources you have. And you can't attract that stuff into your life if you don't begin to think positively about it. So aligning resources is a matter of identifying what you have, but also identifying what you need. And once you have that out there, you can work towards getting it. And also have faith that these resources and believe that the resources will come about. There's a lot to be said for identifying those resources and then believing that there'll be a way for you to be able to have them come about. And if you can do that, if you can have faith and you can focus on the resources you do have, then you don't need to stress about the rest. Many, many, many, many times over the course of my career, I have stressed and had anxiety about things that might happen, that will happen, that most certainly happen. You know, the crazy thing is they did happen. And thinking about them didn't do me any good at the time. When they happened, we made it through it. We did what we needed to do. We got the talent, skill, resources, time, energy we needed. But thinking about it when you don't have those resources is not a good, effective use of your time. So focus on having faith that things will come to pass. Right now, I want to focus on one more thing, and that is I know that all of you, all of you have a number one thing, a resource, a top resource that you may or may not be making the most out of. And that is your unique talent. And one of my partners, Robert Stubberg, has had some massive success in this industry, worked with amazing individuals, everybody from Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer and Tony Robbins and many, many, many, many others really focuses a lot of his training and education along this. and he's taught me quite a bit. Your unique talent is that which you have skill in, that you are excellent at, but you also are passionate about. When you passionate and you excellent at something that your unique ability That your unique talent You need to spend time and develop and understand and identify what that unique talent is because all of you have unique talent. All of you have certain skills. Take those skills and talents and then align them with the things that you're passionate about and recognize that that's one of your most unique abilities and one of your best resources to help you bring about the game plan and the blueprint that you're trying to create for your life. So I encourage you to do that. I also want to give you another piece of advice, and that is through your confidence and belief and daily rituals, look for ways to promote your vision very, very confidently. Because if you have, like we talked about, you've created a solid vision and you have basically resolved in your mind to get it done, your confidence will be higher. the more you promote publicly around you in your inner circle what your vision is in a confident way, you will attract resources and talent to you. I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me, where with your confidence and your vision of what you want to do, you can attract the resources, talent, time, energy, money, and even money and even specific things that you may need that you don't need right now, or I'm sorry, that you don't realize you need right now because of your confidence and your vision. So my advice would be to promote around you. And this, this just reinforces the fact that you are living and thinking and eating and drinking and sleeping your vision and your best life. But if you are to promote that confidently around you, you will attract more resources and talent into your life. So this is a, this is the topic for today. I wanted going to talk about aligning your resources by, as a quick review, identifying what you need, taking an inventory of what you do have and what you do need to get, having some faith, identifying your unique talent, and then positively and confidently promoting that unique ability and your vision in order to attract resources into your life. That is the third step in the CRAVE formula. Tomorrow, we're going to talk about the V and the E, which is valuing your time and execution. You are going to love these topics and this is going to close out the loop for us on Friday. I look forward to talking with you more about that. Please share this episode with anyone that you feel might benefit from it. I look forward to talking with you tomorrow and have an amazing day.