Episode 491 · Dec 8, 2021

How Clarity Creates Massive Results in Your Life

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George Wright III, host of The Daily Mastermind, delivers a focused and practical message on one of the most underrated drivers of high performance: clarity. In this episode, George walks you through why clarity is not a passive state you stumble into, but something you actively create. If you have been feeling overwhelmed, directionless, or stuck despite working hard, the missing piece may not be effort. It may be clarity.

This episode is part of George's eight key success factors series, which covers vision, clarity, decision, certainty, action, discipline, accountability, and persistence. Yesterday was vision. Today, clarity takes center stage.

Why Clarity Is Rarer Than You Think

Most people acknowledge they need clarity, but few actually do the work to build it. George references Brendan Bouchard's book *High Performance Habits*, which opens with seeking clarity as the first habit of high achievers. That is not accidental. Without clarity, even the most driven people stay stuck in motion without real direction.

"The big problem that we have with high performers or producers or active personalities is when you don't have clarity, it becomes a huge problem because you just stay busy because you're used to working and grinding."

The result is internal chatter: unresolved thoughts, unsettled feelings, and an inability to fully commit to any one path. Over time, a lack of clarity erodes passion, drive, confidence, and self-esteem.

The Three Dimensions of Clarity

Drawing on Bouchard's framework, George outlines three areas where you must get clear:

1. Clarity on who you are. Your identity is the foundation. Unclear identity creates confidence problems and undermines everything else. 2. Challenging and clear goals that align with your ultimate vision. 3. A clear plan for how you will achieve those goals.

Put simply: know who you are, know what you want, and know how you are going to get it. These three elements give you the platform to stop reacting to circumstances and start building toward a defined future.

How to Define Your Identity with Specificity

George pushes you to move beyond vague self-concepts and name the person you are becoming. Instead of saying "I want to be better," he asks you to define three specific characteristics that will define you.

Examples he offers: "I am a motivating, inspiring, and confident person. I inspire the people around me. I am clear on what my goals are." Write those characteristics down. Repeat them. Ingrain them into your subconscious. The goal is to see yourself as the future version you are growing into, not just the person you are today.

The Role of Emotions in Creating Clarity

Here George introduces a layer that goes beyond goals and plans. He references Robert Stuberg's Lifetime Success Process, which teaches that emotions and feelings are the real drivers behind your thoughts and actions. You need clarity not just on your identity and goals, but on the feelings you are pursuing and the ones you are trying to avoid.

"It's identifying those key emotions and values that you're trying to get. Do you want to feel healthy? Do you want security, safety, appreciation, recognition, happiness, peace of mind?"

George also encourages you to identify the emotions you have been avoiding, because that list can reveal something important. He shares a personal story: when he was CEO of a multi-hundred-million-dollar company, he told his mentor Robert Stuberg that he wanted to avoid stress and pressure. His mentor helped him see that stress is synonymous with growth. Avoiding it meant avoiding the very discomfort that leads to success.

Reframing Stress as a Gateway

George draws on Wayne Dyer's insight: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." By reframing stress not as something to escape but as the doorway to growth, he found it easier to move through difficult periods with confidence. This reframe is practical and available to anyone willing to examine their emotional avoidances honestly.

"When I started to see stress as the gateway and the gatekeeper and the key, the doorway to getting what I wanted in growth and success and happiness, I reframed what I was going to be experiencing when I had stress. And all of a sudden, it became easier for me."

Clarity Does Not Mean Having All the Answers

One of the most important points George makes is that clarity is not about perfection or certainty. It is about clearing up your direction, defining your identity, and aligning your goals with who you are becoming. Be patient with yourself as you do this work.

If you are struggling to find clarity on your own, talk it through with a trusted friend, a mentor, or a mastermind group. Clarity often comes from speaking your thoughts out loud. Most of the time, George says, we already know the answers in our hearts. We just need to do the work to surface them.

Action Steps

Define three specific characteristics that describe the person you are committed to becoming. Write them down and repeat them daily.
Write out your top three to five key emotions and feelings you want to experience in your life (security, recognition, peace of mind, etc.).
List two or three emotions you have been actively avoiding and examine whether that avoidance is holding you back from growth.
Create or revisit your goals to make sure they are both challenging and clearly aligned with your vision.
If clarity feels elusive, schedule time to talk through your direction with a mentor, friend, or accountability partner.

Clarity is not a luxury reserved for the highly successful. It is the foundation that makes success possible. As George Wright III says, it is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live. Do the work, define who you are, and let clarity do the heavy lifting.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

Welcome back again to the Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. So you can crush your goals this next year. That's the objective for why I'm here. I'm excited because we're in this series of eight key success factors for results in your life. It's the vision, clarity, decision, certainty, action disciplines accountability and persistence that you need in order to really really make a difference in your life and create that life that you're meant to live and my goal is to be able to work with you you know motivation inspiration and stories strategies and stuff over this next couple of weeks to do this and today we are talking about clarity today we're talking about clarity which is something very very few people have in their life and so before I get started with that I want to give you the quote of the day from the Daily Mastermind mobile app and the quote of the day is do what you can where you are with what you have and that's a quote by Theodore Roosevelt so Theodore Roosevelt said do what you can where you are with what you have that's a great bit of advice that is for sure so let's talk a little bit about clarity I want to talk to you about clarity because I think it's something that you know everyone knows that they need to have but very few people have it's one of those real ambiguous type things that we need to get detail and drive deep into so this becomes a really big reason that you may or may not be getting the results you're wanting you know you might be crushing it right now but you want to go to the next level or you might be really stuck but clarity will help you with that because, you know, the things that, now just to clarify, by the way, yesterday we talked about vision, having a picture of where you're going, but clarity is the detail and things that you need to go to the next level. And, you know, a great place that I go to when I kind of study and get deep in clarity is Brendan Bouchard. He wrote that book, High Performance Habits, and his number one first thing he talks about is seeking clarity because clarity is going to help give you so many things that we're going to talk about today, not just a vision of where you're going. And the big problem that we have with high performers or producers or active personalities, like many of you that are listening to this podcast, is when you don't have clarity, it becomes a huge problem because you just stay busy because you're used to working and grinding. And so you just keep at it. And this can become overwhelming when you don't have proper direction and clarity because what it does is you start to get all this internal chatter. Your thoughts and questions and unsettled feelings and tasks you can relax because you got too many things to do and the stuff you working on you working on one project but you know there 10 other things you should be working on because you don have clarity in the path and direction and things you going So ultimately, a lack of clarity turns into unresolved feelings. And you start to feel a lack of passion for what you're doing, no drive. And it really wears out on your confidence and self-esteem as well. And this is no bueno. This is not a good thing. So bottom line, you've got to have clarity in your life. and high performers have clarity, period. You know, if you don't have clarity, you need to realize that clarity is something that you create. Clarity is something that you generate. So how do you do this? You know, what are the things that you do? Well, Brennan suggests, you know, three things in his book. He talks about you've got to have, number one, clarity on who you are, who you are, because this causes, if you're not clear on your identity, who you are, this causes confidence issues and ultimately self-esteem and all kinds of other things that hurt your productivity so number one you got to have clarity on who you are number two you've got to have challenging and clear goals challenging and clear goals that align with what your your ultimate vision is third you need to have a clear plan to get what you want you've got to have a clear plan to get what you want so once you can kind of drill down in your your identity your goals and your plan basically you know who you are what you want and how you're going to get it and those are the things that you've got to get super clear on and and those are the things that are going to take some time to create to create right now the ultimate high achiever they also have the ability to see past their circumstances their current circumstances and they see where they're progressing to and they even can visualize what they are now is the future version of themselves that they're growing into. I hope that makes sense to you. In other words, most people get, even achievers, they get caught up in their circumstances. And your key is to take the thing we talked about yesterday, which is your vision, and take what we're talking about today, which is clarity. Clarity of knowing who you are, where you're going, what your plan is, what your goals are, and focus on that and get outside your circumstances. So today, what I want to do is I want to talk to you about clarity so that you can begin to build your confidence and that clarity will help you build your confidence. But most importantly, you've got to get crystal clear, like I mentioned first, on who you are. And more importantly, who you know you are inside and who you will be. So this future version of yourself and be able to see yourself as that future version. So ask yourself a couple of questions. Now, this might be whether you have clarity or not right now in your life. Ask yourself these questions. Do I know the person that I want to be that I plan to be that I have faith that I becoming Do I know what that person looks like Because you got to get clear And when I say clear I mean name it define it Examples let me give you some examples I'm a motivating, inspiring, and confident person. I inspire the people around me. I am motivated. I have passion. I have direction. I am clear on what my goals are. You know, why don't you do this? Define the three characteristics that you've decided would ultimately define you as a person and write those down. Focus on those. You know, if you want to be a motivating, inspiring, and supportive person in business and life and relationships, then put that down. If you want to be healthy and vibrant and energetic, put those down. But get super clear on those. Get super, super clear on what those things are that you're going to define yourself as. And then put them up. Write them down. Repeat them to yourself. Get that ingrained into your subconscious mind. Now, I want to divert this conversation on clarity just a little bit to another area, key area of clarity that I think is super important. It's something that Robert Stuber talks about in the Lifetime Success Process. I believe in order to have clarity and also create results, you've got to identify and define the key emotions and feelings that you're wanting in your life. So obviously we know that our thoughts create our life and the thoughts come from these questions that you ask yourself, but your thoughts are really driven primarily by the emotions that you're looking for, you're chasing or you're searching for. That recognition, significance, health, life. What I want you to do is take a few minutes and I want you to just really think through and get clear on not just your identity, but now the emotions that you're trying to create in your life because ultimately that's what makes your life. the feelings and emotions that you have. So do you want to feel healthy? Do you want security, safety, appreciation, recognition, happiness, peace of mind? You know, you get the point. It's identifying those key emotions and values that you're trying to get. But I also think it's important and helpful for you to identify the key emotions you're trying to avoid. Because when you write down the things you're trying to avoid, you can dig deep and understand those a little bit more. I remember a while back when I was CEO of a couple hundred million dollar company, not one that I owned, but a company that I had a lot of responsibilities with. I was in one of my mentoring sessions with Robert Stuburg and I told him one of the things that I wanted to avoid is stress and pressure, you know, these responsibilities. And I didn't realize until I really dug into it that the whole point of growth is getting outside your comfort zone. So if I was trying to avoid stress, which is literally synonymous with being outside your comfort zone then I was depriving myself depriving myself hope I said that right of the benefits of growth And I needed to actually rather than avoid those emotions and feelings I needed to lean into them. I needed to embrace them because when I changed my perspective, like Wayne Dyer says, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And I started to see stress as the gateway and the gatekeeper and the key, the doorway to getting what I wanted in growth and success and happiness, I reframed what I was going to be experiencing when I had stress. And all of a sudden, it became easier for me. So today, I really want to just drive home that point that it's important for you to identify the key emotions that you want as well. Now, you need vision like we talked about yesterday, but you need clarity as well. Clarity of who you are, what you want, what your goals are, and how you're going to get there. and obviously you need to spend some time on this and you know in the short time we have i hope i've at least generated some thoughts and you know some basically some inspiration to get you prioritizing this in your life because that first step was was vision the second step is clarity and you need to have clarity and obviously you know what what what you're looking for in your life you're the one who can answer these questions. But if you're having trouble, just ask. Ask a friend. Ask a mentor. Engage in a mastermind. Talk through this out loud with somebody because that's how you gain clarity is by spending time and attention on something. But generally, we know the answers in our hearts and in our desires. We have the answers of what we're looking for. We just need to do the work. And I encourage you to do the work and really identifying and getting specific on the clarity that you have in your life. It's really, really important that you do that. But also it's important to be patient with yourself. Be patient with yourself. Because remember, I never said clarity was having all the answers. I'm not talking about having all the answers. I'm just talking about clearing up the direction and vision and really identifying who you are and who you believe you are and those things that you're striving to become. And so that's my message for today. I hope that's something that's helped you. I also encourage you to jump inside our Facebook page, the Daily Mastermind Facebook page we're going to be streaming live there every Wednesday at 8.30am mountain time doing some Q&A and some thoughts we're going to have some more stuff that we're going to start dropping in there in addition to the quotes and the messages and the blogs and the content or send me a message in the mobile app or DM me inside the Daily Mastermind Instagram page because I want to hear what it is you're struggling with what is it that you're working through on clarity what can I do to help you with that and what can we cover in these podcast episodes to help you with that. So that's the message for today. My name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. Have an amazing day and we'll talk with you tomorrow.