Living With Intention: How to Create Your Best Life Every Day

Welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education to start your week. I hope you had a great weekend. And I want to get you started with a thought. I really had quite a bit of thoughts this week on what I could do to kind of get your week started for you. And as many of you know, I have been in and out of the studio, also with, if you're watching us on YouTube, my arm surgery. And so I'm feeling pretty excited and pretty energetic about the week, despite other things that have been going on and the busyness of our schedule. But this week, I want to talk to you about the idea of intention and what you're doing to drive clarity in your day-to-day life. This whole concept and idea of intention, I think, is a unique one because you've heard it around a lot of different, you know, aspects of business, whether it's Wayne Dyer talking about the power of intention or whether it's productivity experts talking about being intentional with your activities. But I want to ask you, are you living your life with intention, your day-to-day, not just with overall goals, but are you living your life with intention? There's a great quote that says, I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters. And so I think it's very powerful for you to remind yourself that you do have control over your intention. But are you? Or are you just going throughout the day? Do you get up in the morning and look at your schedule to determine what it is you're focused on? Do you go to your email first to determine where you need to spend your time? In other words, if you're being intentional with your life, what you're doing is you're creating your life. You're creating the focus of what's important to you, and you're spending your time doing the things that are going to create the life you want. If you're like most individuals that are entrepreneurs and high achievers, you're probably, at the end of the day, wondering where the day went. and you're wondering how it got hijacked because so many times our days are hijacked by unimportant and urgent type tasks. But the more and more you bring yourself back to intention the more and more you going to have a life run according to the terms that you dictate And I promise you most people that I work with now or that I talk with that I'm around are living their life in response, not proactive, but reactive to everything that's happening in their life. So I want to go through a couple of ideas with you, things that I think will help you to create more intention. But also, you know, there's another perspective I want you to apply to this. You know, Dr. Wayne Dyer had some great thoughts on intention. In fact, he wrote a whole book on the power of intention. And he says, you know, intention's a force in the universe and everything and everyone is connected to this invisible force. So what does he mean by that? Well, you know, intention is generally viewed by this kind of like aggressive determination, taking you towards success at all costs and not giving up and working hard and the grind. And in this view, your attitude, it's basically one of hard work and excellence, and that's what's going to drive you to success. And what I love about Wayne Dyer and the philosophy and kind of the filter he puts on intention is he says that intention's a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. and I really love that because when you start to realize that your will and your habits and your discipline and your force can be combined with the act of creation in the universe and I'm not saying this to be you know all woo woo I'm just saying that there are a lot of things that open up to your life when you open up the possibilities when you first have directional intention with everything you do. And then second, you allow yourself to capitalize and take advantage of other things that can help you to create that life. So let's talk just about a few activities this week. I want to give you a couple of things that I know you can do to really, you know, stay on track and stay intentional. And it always starts with the same thing. What's your vision and clarity for your future? See, we don't put time and effort into something that's ambiguous, That's unknown that's in the future and because of that we are constantly every day just going down whatever path life job kids Co you know environment neighbors take us in and that is not living intentional If you create your life and you believe you want to have your best life ever you got to create a clearer vision of your future. And this starts with just writing it down. You know, we talk about having a perfect day. We talk about having, what do we want in our life? What do we want our life to look like? Write it down. Because if you have a working model, you can always tweak it. You can always change it. You can add to it and subtract from it. But if you don't write it down, you're never going to have clarity for your future. Now, if you have done that and you've created a more clear vision and blueprint for your future, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about when I say, the next thing you need to do is you need to identify the activities that matter. If you're living intentionally, you have a list of activities that directly take you in the purpose, passion direction of what you're trying to accomplish and the activities that don't matter I'm not saying you don't have to do at times but when you clearly identify what activities you're working on that matter and the ones that don't and you're conscious of that you're going to begin to do less of the activities that don't matter so it's important for you to know what activities do matter and push those up into the beginning of your day always start with the most important things, not the boxes you can check off quickly and easily. If you do that, you're going to be more intentional. Work on the activities that matter. The third thing is you've got to have tracking and potentially systems because what you focus on grows. And if you're tracking it, you know that you're going to be thinking about it. And when you're tracking your KPIs or you're tracking your goals or you have just a couple of things that you keep tabs on that are supposed to take you towards your, you know, ultimate objectives, that's going to keep you intentional. That's going to keep you focused on the right activities. So tracking, now that might be a scoreboard. It might be your journaling. It might be, you know, your reports. It might be, you know, an evening assessment, but track the most important activities and track the goals that you're trying to set in your life. If you don't track it, you're not going to stay focused on it and you won't be living intentional. Another thing I want to talk to you about when it comes to intention is to just focus on getting better every day people underestimate the value of growth as opposed to destination or as opposed to you know the the little wins or the big wins in other words get obsessed with the progress Get obsessed with the progress Some of us are obsessed with the path and that good But if you're making progress on the path, it's even better. And so be focused and conscious on better every day. The next thing I want to talk to you about, if you're living intentional, you're going to be more mindful. Mindfulness, now I'm not talking so much about meditation and things like that right now, But mindfulness is what's going to take you into the present moment where you can focus on what's going to take you to the next level. So being intentional means you're not distracted. See, distraction is what takes you away from mindfulness in the present moment. And let's be honest, you're going to have a much more fulfilled quality life, even whether it's work, relationships, or anything, if you're more mindful of living your life. You've got to have intention, but that does require being mindful. And then finally, I just want to add this point. Make sure that you're doing something that creates impact, that has purpose, that gives you some passion, because that'll help drive you, fulfill you, and keep you intentional when you know that the things that you're doing are creating impact for people around you, for people outside yourself, for in your life. Because having intention is important, but having a life of intention is the ultimate goal. So that's my thought for you today. Understand that if you're not living with intention, you can start right now. It's never too late to start living the life that you want to live, that you should live, that is your best life possible. That's why we do the Daily Mastermind, to keep you focused. It is a daily battle. But if you will continue this week to live with intention, develop that clarity, focus on the activities that matter, track them, work on the progress, be focused on mindfulness and impact. those things are going to give you massive success but they're also going to give you some amazing fulfillment and feelings of impact in your life that's my message for today do me a favor and share this show if you haven't already hit subscribe so that you don't miss any episodes we've got a great interview coming out tomorrow and a couple of other real content strategy pieces for business that i think you're really going to like so share the show my name is george wright this has been the daily mastermind talk with you again in the morning .