Prosperity Pillar 1: How to Consciously Create Your Life

All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. It's Monday morning. I hope you are off to a great start. And if you're not, then right now is the time to make that happen. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever looked up after weeks or months of just working hard and grinding and thought, you know, where did the time go? you know time seems to be just this elusive thing lately you know you're busy you're productive you're doing what needs to be done but sometimes things feel off it feels like life is moving fast or moving too fast and you're reacting instead of directing and for entrepreneurs founders and executives this is one of the biggest hidden problems that we face we know how to make a living but very few people ever stop long enough to consciously design their life and that's what I want to talk to you about today. It's Monday morning, and on Mondays, I like to cover principles that you can use throughout your week, usually timeless principles of success, things that you can apply throughout the week and throughout your month. And then as we get into Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we'll talk business and strategies. I'll have some guests. If you didn't check out the episodes last week from Stephen M. R. Covey and Ben Carr, I encourage you to go check those out. But let's talk today about the prosperity pillars. I've covered these. They're kind of a foundation that I've covered over the last six years of doing this podcast, because I really have found over the last 30 years that these principles are the foundation for creating your best life. You know, years ago, one of my greatest mentors, Jim Rohn, said something that stopped me in my tracks. He says, we all have two choices. We can make a living or we can design a life. Think about that for a minute. Because most people, they spend their entire lives, you know, doing the first one, right? You know, just making a living. They make a living, they pay their bills, they stay busy, they get by, and they never intentionally design the life that they were meant to live. And that might be why you're kind of wondering why time's going so fast. But that's why the prosperity pillars are so important. And pillar number one is literally the starting place. Pillar number one is I create my life. Everything else builds from there. You know, are you creating your life or are you just making a living? Are you just living? So let me ask you directly, are you consciously creating your life right now or are you just going day to day? Are you just living, living your life? Because whether you realize it or not, something is being created every single day And your focus determines your results Your clarity of your direction determines your destination And if you not consciously creating your life you still creating one just by default. You know, I don't know about you, but I don't want my life being built on default. I want it being intentional. So how, you know, let's put it this way. Here's the truth that's been recognized across personal development, philosophy, and psychology for generations. Your thoughts creates your life. So let's break that down, you know, kind of practically for you. Your thoughts create feelings. You've heard me have this equation before. Your thoughts create feelings. Your feelings will drive your actions and then your actions produce your experiences. And those experiences reinforce your beliefs. It's kind of a cycle that we live every day. Your thoughts create feelings, drive your actions, produce experiences, and then reinforce your beliefs. So the real question becomes, how consciously are you directing your thoughts? Because if you're not paying attention, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and one day you wake up wondering where your life went. And creation is going to require some awareness every single day. So step one, the very first step in creating your life is belief. You've got to believe that you can do it. Another mentor of mine, Les Brown, says, you have greatness within you. And I believe that's true for every one of us. Every one of us has the capacity to create a life of meaning, fulfillment, and success. But belief doesn't always come naturally. And if you're struggling with belief right now, that doesn't mean something's wrong with you. It just means that you've been conditioned and belief can be rebuilt. But nothing changes until you decide that first principle. I can create my life. So once you have made the decision to believe that you can create your life, Step two would be to create daily activities because belief alone isn't enough. You've got to support that belief with daily actions and activities. I call them daily rituals. And creation happens through habits. So daily rituals, daily focus, daily reinforcement, that might be motivation and inspiration from podcasts or reading. It might be learning and growing or doing affirmations or meditation or reflection or just your workouts. anything that helps you stay focused on designing your life rather than just drifting through it needs to be part of your daily activity because success isn't created one big moment at a time it's created small consistently through daily rituals and so daily rituals and what I would do is I'd recommend you take something that appeals to you you know if you're if you're you know for For me working out gets my day going gets my body going For you it might be journaling It might be you know meditation It might be at the end of the day visualizing where you want to go But make sure those daily rituals are anchored in stuff that is specific to you, to your energy, and to your needs. Because energy matters. You can't create high levels without energy. And that means in a mental, emotional, and physical state. So when you're looking at your daily rituals, try to do everything you can to kind of pattern those after the things that help you the most. you know what those are, and also during the time of day that helps you the most. So that's really important for daily rituals. So first, you got to believe you create your life. Second, create those daily rituals. And, you know, affirmations are also a very critical thing. You know, when you're trying to create your mental, physical, emotional state, this is why affirmations matter. They're not just slogans. They're identity statements that you're making to yourself. When you repeat yourself consistently, certain words and phrases or affirmations, we call them, whatever you want to call them, your mind's going to begin to accept things as truth because repetition and frequency will establish that for you. So go ahead and just say it to yourself. I create my life. I create my life. That statement is going to empower you and it puts you in the responsibility seat and possibility seat. And it's back where you need to be when you focus on your day-to-day. So utilize affirmations if you can. Don't get caught up in the latest personal development craze of whether affirmations work or not. The bottom line is frequency and consistency will definitely affect your mindset and your beliefs and your actions. So affirmations is powerful as well. I would encourage you to have one of those as part of your daily rituals. Now, let's talk about goals. Most people ask the wrong questions. They ask, you know, what do I want to do? You know, what job do I want? What results do I want? But I believe that's really backwards. You know, a mentor of mine told me a while back, it's not as important to know your thoughts as to know how to ask better questions that create your thoughts. Does that make sense? it doesn't, you know, trying to control your thoughts, create your thoughts is the presupposition to that. I guess the way to say it is to ask better questions. So instead of asking, what do you want to do or what goals do your business want to make? Ask yourself, what do I want my life to be like? What emotions do I want to feel regularly? What kind of lifestyle do I want to live? What do I want Who do I want in my life What kind of memories do I want to create Because when you design what you want first then the actions and goals and strategies and tactics to get there will fall in line And there be a little bit more specific to what you trying to do And so as we kind of end this episode today, I want to give you one suggestion, something that for me has made my life more intentional and has kept me more focused. And that's this idea of creating memories intentionally. You know, some of the most fulfilled people I know are intentional about creating memories, not the some days or not, you know, laters, but now, you know, memories right now in your life. Think back on moments in your life where you felt the most alive, the most fulfilled, the most proud. Those memories are what shape who you are. Now ask yourself, what memory can I intentionally create right now in my life this week? When you consciously create experiences that craft the narrative to shape your beliefs, but also lock in the meaning that you get out of life, those memories will drive your activity and behavior, and it'll definitely drive your fulfillment. It'll lead to tons of fulfillment. So this is how successful people become more achieved or successful or fulfilled in their mind. It's how prosperity can become personal. And it's how success becomes more than just achieving your next goal. It's creating memories. So I hope that might be something that, I don't know, might be something you could try or that you can experience. But let me just leave you with this, because everything geared around I create my life, which is the first prosperity pillar, is, you know, whether you realize it or not, you are creating your life every day. The only question is whether you're going to do it consciously or unconsciously. And I really believe it's never too late to start living the life that you're meant to live, but it takes first that step of belief that you create your life. It requires daily rituals and then it requires intention. And then everything starts from that basic first pillar of I create my life. So do me a favor, let me know what your thoughts are on this topic. Like, get me some feedback at The Daily Mastermind on Facebook, Instagram, hit me up on my email address, and share the show. If you would share the show, that would mean the world to me. It would make a big difference for other people in their lives to just have these timeless principles put into their mind on a daily basis, including and more specifically to the first of the week. So that's the message for today. Have an amazing day. I look forward to talking with you soon. Once again, my name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. you