Episode 332 · Feb 3, 2021

Stop Living in Fear: How to Create Your Life on Purpose

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Fear is a powerful force. It shapes decisions, clouds judgment, and keeps you stuck reacting to circumstances instead of building the life you actually want. In this episode of The Daily Mastermind, host George Wright III breaks down exactly how to recognize when fear is running your life and, more importantly, what to do about it.

George opens with a quote from Vishen Lakhiani: "You gotta dream bigger." That challenge sits at the heart of everything he covers here. Because if fear is the lens through which you see the world, your vision of the future shrinks. And a small vision produces a small life.

Are You Operating from a Place of Fear?

The first step is awareness. George asks a direct question: are your decisions being driven by fear and scarcity? Most people don't realize how deeply their mental and emotional state shapes everything downstream. Your thoughts shape your feelings. Your feelings shape your actions. Your actions create your results.

If you are operating out of fear it's time to stop. It's time to take control of the trajectory that you have in your life.

That's not motivational platitude. It's a systems observation. When fear is the input, fear-based outcomes follow. The good news is that the input can change.

The Difference Between Creating and Reacting

George draws a clear line between two ways of living: creating your life versus reacting to it. Reacting means being pulled around by events, news cycles, other people's panic, and the weight of past failures. Creating means setting a direction and moving toward it regardless of the noise.

The distinction matters because most people think they are making deliberate choices when they are actually just responding to whatever pressure feels most urgent. George challenges you to look honestly at which mode you are operating in right now.

How to Shift Your Momentum

George offers concrete strategies for moving from fear-based living to abundance-based living.

Shut out the noise. Cut social media, news, and negative conversations. Most of what you consume in those spaces feeds anxiety, not clarity. Step away deliberately, not just when you feel overwhelmed.

Overwhelm yourself with positive input. Fill the space with podcasts, books, videos, and time with people who are winning. Even in difficult seasons there are people thriving. Find them and get close.

Use repetition of thought. Affirmations, vision boards, and notes placed where you will see them daily are deliberate reprogramming. What is on your phone screen right now? Your dreams or your distractions?

You can only move forward with confidence when you have a strong vision of the future.

That future vision is not optional. A vague or fearful view of what is ahead leaves your brain defaulting to the past. The more vivid and compelling your picture of the future, the more energy naturally moves toward it.

Take the focus off yourself. When you are trapped inside your own circumstances, the world gets very small and very heavy. George notes that service, gratitude, and contribution break that cycle. When you stop making everything about your situation, your situation stops feeling so overwhelming.

Why the Past Keeps You Stuck

George identifies the root mechanism of fear clearly: most fear comes from focusing on past experiences and wanting to avoid repeating them, or from being tuned into the negative signals of the present moment. Both keep you locked out of your future.

Here is the key insight: the past is over and the future is not written. The only place where genuine optimism is even possible is forward. You cannot change what already happened. You can only shape what comes next, and that shaping starts now, with the thoughts you are choosing today.

You Are Not Your Circumstances

George is direct on this point. You are not your mistakes. You are not your environment. You are not the sum total of everything that has happened to you. Paraphrasing the Rocky films, he reminds you that what defines a person is not how many times they get knocked down but how many times they get knocked down and get back up.

You are what's inside your true core. You are the best version of yourself that hasn't been released, that hasn't been revealed. It's time to make that happen.

The best version of you has not been fully expressed yet. That is not a consolation. It is a fact about potential, and potential only moves when action begins.

Action Steps

Name the fear. Ask yourself honestly: are your decisions driven by fear and scarcity, or by vision and abundance? You cannot change what you have not named.
Shut out negative noise every day. Turn off news, limit social media, and step away from conversations that rehearse problems without solving them.
Build a visible future. Put your goals and positive images somewhere you will see them daily: your phone screen, your car dash, your fridge.
Fill your mind with positive input. Seek podcasts, books, mentors, and people who are winning. What you consume shapes what you believe is possible.
Shift to service. When you feel most stuck inside your own head, look for a way to help someone else. It breaks the cycle faster than almost anything.

Fear shrinks your world and your future along with it. Abundance thinking opens both back up. It is never too late to stop reacting and start creating the life you were meant to live.

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how to stop living in place of fear i tell you what your decisions are shaping your life right now are you living in a place of fear um you know there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world yeah some of it's totally unbelievable but the thought that you have um and the thoughts that you're going through right now these are the decisions that are making changes in your life they're shaping your life moving forward and if you're not operating out of positivity and abundance if you're operating out of fear it's time to stop it's time to take control of the trajectory that you have in your life so today on the daily mastermind we're gonna be talking specifically about that so anyway welcome back to the daily mastermind I'm George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration motivation and education I want to start out today with the you know daily mastermind quote of the day I think the quote of the day is a great one because it applies to what we're gonna be talking about it's by vision Lakhiani and it's you gotta dream bigger you have to dream bigger and if you don't have that on the Daily Mastermind mobile app I encourage you to get that because that's free quotes and thoughts that you can have every single day anyway this is a great quote because it'll apply specifically to how you can start to change what you're doing the bottom line is this do you feel like your life is is out of control do you feel like you're you know everybody around just kind of losing their minds and just crazy stuff is happening. Well, I definitely have felt that. And I know a lot of people I've talked to have felt that as well. And there's just a lot of crazy stuff going on, you know, talk, events, you know, things going on that are just a little unbelievable to be, to say at the least. But it's time, if that's the case, if you're really feeling that way, it's time for you to stop and really make a change and start to do something different with your life. You've got to start creating your life and not just reacting in your life. So I want to talk today about fear. You know, you've got to ask yourself that question. Are you operating out of a place of fear and scarcity? Are you operating? I mean, you've got to become aware of this. You know, a lot of us have just been kind of pulled into this because of the quarantine and COVID and things. We've been pulled into this little isolated shelter. You've got to figure out what you're making your decisions based on and where you're coming from. And if you are operating out of a place of fear, you've got to accept that and you've got to make a decision to move on because your best life is really only going to come from operating out of a place of abundance, you know a place where you can really get solutions What you focus on grows right What you think about you going to attract And your perceptions and your thoughts they shaping everything you have going on because your thoughts are shaping your feelings are shaping your actions, and those are creating the results you're gonna be getting. And if you are having a lot of fear and uncertainty, you're going to be shaping your future with those thoughts. And I'm talking about if you feel like it's a little helpless and situations aren't going your way and work's not well or finances are down. And listen, I get it. There's a lot of struggle going on right now. But just because you have struggle doesn't mean that you have to operate from that place of struggle. I'm talking about are you operating out of your dreams and goals and your direction or are you operating from your circumstances? If you're operating and you're living and you're reacting out of all those circumstances, you've got to break that cycle. you've got to stop doing that and you've got to start doing something different with your life and so I want to give you just a few suggestions I want to give you a few solutions to maybe help you just shift your momentum a little bit shift your focus of your thoughts and your energy I think it's very very important that you learn to do this and so Wednesdays we always talk about a little bit more motivation and inspiration and so I want to give you some ways to do that The first is you've got to shut out the noise. You have to stop listening to social media and email and news. I mean, I would say shut news off completely because half of it, most of 99% of it, you can't believe. And you've got to get away from negative people and your past failures and other people. You've got to get away from talking to people about what happened that went wrong and things like that. You've got to shut out the noise. and then you have to overwhelm yourself with positive you know there's a lot of ways to do that you can just even if you don't have it in you you can start pushing positive in you got podcasts you've got videos you've got books you've got positive people get around people that are winning i can promise you this there are a lot of people winning right now when covid and all the restrictions and lockdowns came down i mean i i run marketing for a lot of events and we had to stopped doing live events. But guess what? We pivoted into virtual events. Most of you have probably been on a Zoom recently, and we've gone from having 100, 150 high net worth people flying in to over 500 people at our events or more. We've had thousands of registrations. We're doing weekly webinars that are bigger than most of our big stage events that we are doing with some of the biggest names out there like Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki and guys like that But you got to overwhelm yourself with positive and you can do that because you have the internet You can have mentors literally on your phone and there so much going on with podcasts and videos and YouTube. Another suggestion is repetition of thoughts. Your repetition of thoughts would be like your affirmations or notes or vision boards or you know what do you look at every day on your your phone that you have. You've got a screen there and if you look at the number of times you look at that, do you have your dreams on there? Do you have your goals on there? Are you visualizing positive or do you have just apps and social media? You've got to make a change and repetition is the key. Put pictures up on your dash of your car, your fridge, or your mobile phone. Get things in front of yourself. The other thing, and this goes back to our quote from earlier, is dream big. You can only move forward with confidence when you have a strong vision of the future. You have to have a vision that's clear or, you know, even if you don't know exactly what you want, that's positive and clear moving forward. Because, you know, most of us are focused on our situation or things that have happened in the past. So I encourage you to look towards the future more. And another suggestion, another strategy for you would be to take your focus off you. I know that whenever I get sort of stuck in my circumstances or stuck inside my head, it's because it's all about me. And for those of you that know me, because I'm a pretty strong personality, a lot of times it is about me. And what I got to do is I got to catch myself. And the way you do that is you start focusing on service or gratitude or contribution or learning to connect with other people. And when you do those things and you don't make it about you, all of a sudden, you know, your circumstances and negativity and stuff don't become as big. So take the focus off you. Now, here's the thing I want to kind of really point out here because you're, you know, the reason a lot of times we have fear and we get overwhelmed or stuck in our head is that we're focused on our past experiences or behaviors and they create our beliefs, right? Or events. And we just don't want those to happen again. And we judge ourselves because of them, or we're tuned into negative stuff in the present moment but both of these circumstances are keeping you outside the bright future and the key is you've got to be focused more on the future and what you're looking forward to and stop focusing on those. Now the reason we do this quite honestly is because it more clear and absolute in the past and the present than it is in the future So you have to purposely force yourself to build a better future to clarify your future And you do that by inundating yourself with the pictures and the people and the vision and the affirmations you have of the future. Because you got to remember this, the past is over and the future isn't written. So the only thing you can have optimism about is the future. And it's time to start looking at your future because your future is bright. So what will it be? Are you going to be starting to create your future life and focus on what's in front of you instead of looking down or behind you? Or are you going to continue to keep living in a reactive way? It's really up to you. It's your choice. You do have the choice to decide how you're going to respond to circumstances in your life. And it's like Rocky said, it's not how many times you get knocked down in life, it's how many times you get knocked down and get back up that are going to define you, right? And so you are not your mistakes. You are not your circumstances. You are not your environment. All those things happen no matter what, but you are not the sum total of everything happening in your life. That's why there are people crushing it despite the economy, despite COVID, despite things. And trust me, there are a lot of bad things that happen to people that are doing big things in their life, maybe even sometimes more. I don't know if you wanna believe that or not, but you are not your mistakes. You are not your past. those are just things that are going to help you to grow you got to change that perspective and you are what's inside your true core you are the best version of yourself that hasn't been released it hasn't been revealed it's time to sort of make that happen it's time for you to make that change in your life and start to move forward and it only happens through action not even so much decision sometimes we haven't quite got the faith and the belief and the decision so it's action and it's my hope that you're going to turn your challenges into opportunities. It's my hope that you'll turn all the negatives into positives. And through action, you can do that. It's my goal to be able to help you to do that. So let me know what I can do for you. Hit me up on the Daily Mastermind on Instagram. Hit me up on Facebook or just email me. I've had several people this week just email me at george at g3worldwide.com. I give out my personal email address. Sometimes it takes me longer to get through it and sometimes it doesn't. But thanks for listening today. Do me a favor. share this podcast with somebody else that you know just with one person it'll mean the world to me it'll make a difference for somebody else and I really look forward to helping you and I appreciate you tuning into the podcast my name is George Wright III and this has been the Daily Mastermind have a great day

About the host

George Wright III

George Wright III is an entrepreneur, investor, and the host of The Daily Mastermind. Over more than two decades he has founded and scaled several multimillion-dollar companies and built a renowned seminar business that put some of the world's biggest names and brands on stage. With 25+ years across marketing, sales, and executive leadership, he's made a career of turning bold ideas into results — and momentum into lasting growth.

Today his mission is singular: empower driven entrepreneurs everywhere to master their mindset, unlock their potential, and live their ultimate destiny. Through The Daily Mastermind, George shares the Prosperity Principles and strategies that help people create massive change — in their business and in their life.

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