How to Act in Spite of Your Mood and Push Through Hard Times

All right, all right. Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you are having a great day today. Let's get you started out for the week with the Daily Mastermind quote of the day from Tony Robbins. And the quote is, 80% of success in anything is your psychology. Your psychology, your mindset, the way you look at things, the way you are interpreting and applying that filter of meaning to everything in your life. So today what I want to do is I want to talk to you a little bit about a principle, one of the prosperity principles, number three, which is acting in spite of your mood. And I want to do this because still I think many of us get caught up in how we feel and we let feelings in our moments determine whether or not we're creating our best life. And here's what you need to understand, it doesn't matter what you feel like. If you have a goal and you have a desire of something you want to accomplish, you've got to act anyway. Successful, driven, positive people act in spite of their mood. And that's why over time I've developed that as one of the top prosperity principles. You know, look, I have a job. I don't like my situation. Things have been going bad. I had a flat tire. The weather is bad. People aren't helping me. You know, whatever it is, guess what? All of us struggle. All of us have problems at different levels, of course, but everybody has problems. You've got to learn to not let your problems interfere with the success you're trying to create in your life. And I'm going to give you some suggestions and some strategies today on what you can do to really act in spite of your mood and to push through that. Because I've talked about this before, but this is one of those things you've got to have a reminder of. Maybe it's quarterly, monthly, maybe it's even weekly for some of you. But I want to start out by telling you that one of the best ways to act in spite of your mood is to stop making the struggle about you Stop making the struggle about you We all have difficulties in our lives Nobody feels like getting up early in the morning Nobody feels like doing things when they don have the time Nobody feels like at the end of the day, after a long day of grinding at a job or whatever else, to spend the quality time with their family. The bottom line is this. You've got to be willing to do the things that are important to you. Failure, pain, struggle. they're a whole lot worse when you don't actually have growth and progress in your life. So stop making it about you. It's not about you. It's about the things that you're trying to accomplish. It's about the people you're trying to help in your life. When you take the focus off yourself and off your problems, it's much easier for you to move forward in your life. So how can you start to make and take actions? Take actions and push through the things that you want to push through. First of all, setting goals. I can't overemphasize enough that with clear direction and focus in your life, it's easier to push through things. When you have a clarity around the vision of what you're trying to accomplish, it's that motivation and fuel that you're going to use to be successful in your life. So having a clear direction with goals and milestones will help you with that. Another thing is make commitments ahead of time. See, the problem is a lot of us are trying to decide in the morning whether we want to go to the gym or not. We're trying to decide at the end of the day whether we feel like going out and doing our side hustle. We're trying to decide when we're having a bad day whether or not we have to make that extra sales call or do that one meeting. And so when you make a commitment ahead of time towards your goals, you're not just making a decision. You're making a commitment. Hear me when I say that. The commitment and the decision don't have to come up every single time something comes up. In other words, if you make a decision to go to the gym, it's one thing. If you make a decision to hold meetings, it's another thing. But when you make a commitment, you're not going to continue to question that every time the situation comes up. So it important that you make commitments in your life not just decisions Another thing I going to remind you about is that five rule Remember there a five period of time after which you know when something happens to you or when you got to make a decision there a five period of time when doubt and indecision enter your consciousness. Doubt and indecision enter your consciousness. And if you don't act within that first five seconds, taking action gets more and more difficult. You start to hesitate. You start to come up with reasons and excuses to not do what you know you need to do. So just make a decision that that five second period of time is when you're going to act. Act, act, act within that five second period of time. Another way to push yourself is through power statements and affirmations. Say it. Come up with something that you can say to yourself. I act in spite of my mood. I see my vision. I am successful. I plan to do what it takes to make my goals a reality. Make powerful statements so that when you start to doubt or your mind and your mindset start to wander, you can make that statement and it'll kick you back in line. Empower statements are a great way that I've found to really push yourself to the next level when you're not feeling like it. Another thing that I do, and all of us are going to be a little bit different with this, but learn to use tools and tricks and strategies to change your state. Meaning, as you start to get into a state of less energy or a state of overwhelm or anxiety or stress, or you're in a state of just being tired or worn down or distraction, use tools and tricks and strategies like music, books, pictures, the mobile app from the Daily Mastermind. You know, we all know that there are certain songs and music that will get our energy up. There are certain pictures or memories, there's certain people, there's certain dreams that we have. Use that vision board, use those, you know, your phone with the music or maybe there's a powerful video you've gotten on YouTube. Have those ready, have them there for you so that you can quickly, quickly use those to be able to change your state and be more productive and more successful and push right through And then find ways to create supporting habits or boundaries and barriers You know, if it's getting a mentor or a trainer to keep you on point, if it's getting certain meetings or milestones in your day that'll keep you focused, it's alarms on your phone to remind you to drink more water, it's certain sticky notes that you have up in front of you. find supporting habits and things that will guide you and keep you pushing in the right direction. But ultimately, the goal here and the reason I wanted to bring this topic up today is in order to act in spite of your mood, you've got to learn to be someone that's recognized as putting your money where your mouth is, putting actions behind your words. Don't just be someone who has words. Be someone who has got action behind their words. People know you as someone that executes on. When you say you're going to do something, you do it. How you do anything is how you do everything. And if you do that and you push through when you don't feel like it, that's when you're going to be successful. Everybody can do well when they feel like it. The difference maker is being able to act and do what you need to do even when you don't feel like it. So that's my message for today. I want you to do me a favor and share this podcast. If you haven't already, like and subscribe so you get all the content every single day. and the other thing I want to kind of hitch up with is if you haven't done so already, go over to the Daily Mastermind Facebook page and make a comment. Tell us what you're working on. Tell us what you're struggling with but also what you're successful and happy and doing well at because we want to be able to recognize you and be able to assist you as well. I have people hit me up all the time through the page and I love to get the feedback. I also love to give my input and do what I can to help you out. So if you'll do that, I look forward to seeing you over on the page. And once again, this is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. Have a great day.