Don't Wait for the Winds to Change in Your Life TB

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Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you are having an amazing week. I had a message I wanted to share with you today, and it's a couple of different thoughts and things that I that I've been working on, but the title of it is Don't Wait for the Wind to Change in Your Life.

Don't wait for the winds to change in your life. Here's a, here's an interesting thought. I heard a quote by Jim Rohn and it's, it is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way you will go. I. So think about that for a second. It's not the direction of the winds, it's the set of your sail.

So what does this actually mean? This is very applicable for today because you may be feeling like everything is pushing you around in life right now. You may feel like life is happening to you. Rather than for you, or maybe you just can't feel, you feel like you just can't catch a break, or you are not making progress.

You're not moving forward. So many people feel stagnant in life right now. Or maybe you just simply don't feel like you have any control over the direction that you're going, whether it's your business, your personal life, your relationships, your fitness, whatever it is. So many things around you, you don't have control over.

Let me just use a couple of analogies to help you realize something very important and that is you have much more control than you think you have over the direction of your life. You definitely have the ability to make some change.

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Sailing Against the Wind: A Story

So I'm gonna tell you a story real quick or it's really more an example of sailing.

Now, I'm not a sailor. I've not you know what I'm talking about, sailing on the ocean in a boat with a sail. I've heard a couple of different interesting stories, and I researched this to see if it was true, but most people know that you can get in a sailboat and when the wind's blowing, it's gonna blow you in the direction that the wind's blowing.

However, an experienced sailor, someone who knows how to sail. They know that it doesn't matter where the wind is blowing, where it's coming from or what direction it's going in, because an experienced sailor can navigate any direction regardless of the wind's direction. In fact, they can even sail against the wind kind of going back and forth, and I'm not gonna get into the details of why and how, but they learn to navigate and set their sails in a way that it pushes them in a direction that allows 'em to come back and sail into the wind.

Back and forth into the wind. From this example that it's not the direction of the wind that takes 'em in the direction they want. It's the set of their sail. This is what Jim Rohn's talking about. This is a huge example of the difference between someone who's being blown about in life because of everything outside of them, and someone that learns to navigate life and go in a direction that they want to go.

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Ancient Sailors and Icebergs

Now I'm gonna give you one other example because this is. This is a really cool thing I heard a while back, but can give you another example of this and it's the story of ancient sailors. Now we're talking go way back in time. To ancient sailors that traveled, in the cold northern seas, they used to see something really crazy.

Now this is early on before we had a bunch of a lot of science and information that we have now, but the sailors would be sailing through these cold waters and they would see these giant masses of ice, which we know are icebergs. But these icebergs would be going in a different direction than the wind.

They would be literally going against the wind, these icebergs, and they would notice these massive icebergs and it just baffled them as to why they were moving the opposite direction. It was just crazy. And any guesses as to why you might be thinking in your mind? It's, most of us know that 90%, even though these icebergs were huge, 90% of their mass was actually below the water.

So these huge icebergs where only 10% was above the water, 90% were below the water, and we've learned over time that the ocean has deep currents well below the surface that don't travel in the same direction that we travel or the wind travels. So they've in fact, might be going the opposite direction of the wind, but because these massive icebergs.

We're mostly below the surface, they would be carried in the direction of the currents below the surface of the ocean. And this is an example, this is just another example of how, it doesn't matter what the wind is doing, if your current or if your sail is set the right way.

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Establishing Deep Currents in Life

And even more importantly, the reason I like this is if you can learn to establish deep currents in your life, they can carry you in the direction you want to go.

Regardless of what's going on outside of you and what are these currents when you establish these deep currents in your life, like your values or your goals or your passion, or even just the direction that you've decided in advance that you want to go and you're committed to it. These deep currents can carry you forward regardless of what's going on.

You know what? What does this mean? What doesn't matter? What's going on in your business? What's going on in your relationships, your life, and things like this? If there's situations that are coming up, it doesn't matter what other people think, what really matters. It's what's going on inside you, inside your mind, not outside around you.

You need to learn to ground yourself and commit yourself. To your values, your goals, your priorities and the direction you want to go. And you need to prepare ahead of time to be able to deal with these things that are happening outside of you. And, when you make decisions and commitments to your goals and values and you follow through on those, they will carry you through when motivation goes away, when other things come up in your life obstacles.

So let's just give you a couple examples of how you can change the direction.

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Practical Tips for Changing Your Direction

In your life, despite the direction the wind may be blowing for you. Number one, learn to focus on your perspective of situations rather than the situations themselves. Stop focusing on what is happening and focus on how you perceive what's happening.

Because when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And number two, stop focusing on the actual wind itself. Focus on. The goal that you have, right? So if you stop focusing on the negative or the circumstances or the situation, and you start focusing on solution, we talk a lot about starting from solution.

You'll be in an abundant mindset. You won't be in a scarcity mindset. Answer solutions, people, resources, they'll come your way. So stop focusing on the wind and the circumstances and start focusing on solutions. Number three. Surround yourself with positive people, positive environment. It doesn't matter if it's music podcasts, mentors, coaches, positive people.

Get yourself surrounded by a better energy of positivity when you're dealing with things in your life. And finally, number four, I always come back to focus intensely when the winds are blowing hard. Focus intensely on your key daily rituals. The things that you do for your mind, body, spirit, your social, your business, the rituals that are gonna happen no matter what is going on around outside you and those disciplines will take you forward.

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Final Thoughts and Encouragement

Those are my main suggestions for you to implement, but I want you to know that I believe you can steer yourself in whatever direction that you wanna focus on. You do have what it takes. You do have everything that is necessary. There's nothing outside of you that you need to be able to create the life that you want to live.

And it's never too, just remember this, it's never too late to start living the life you want to live. You were meant to live. So I hope that's something that will help you, give you a few little examples and analogies you can use to motivate and inspire yourself to create the life that you wanna live.

And that's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing day. Do me a favor and share and refer this podcast, send this message to someone you feel like needs it, help us make some change in people's lives and give back and create service around you. That's my message for today. As I said before, feel free to send me any comments that you may have.

My name is George Wright III and this has been the Daily Mastermind. Have a great day.

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