All right, guys, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Listen, your life is not built by intentions. Let me say that again. Your life is not built by intentions. It's built by habits. And the reality is success rarely comes from one massive decision.
It comes from a lot of small actions that are repeated constantly and consistently over time. And the thing that you do Um, daily. It, it determines the life that you're gonna eventually create. And most people, they just never build the results they want because they rely on their motivation instead of systems.
They wait until they feel inspired, they wait until the timing feels right, and they wait until they're ready. But habits do not care how you feel. Habits are what create momentum automatically. So today I wanna talk to you a little bit about building habits, and over the last several weeks we've been sort of building a foundation.
We started with clarity, knowing where you wanna go, and then talked about focus, directing your attention towards what matters, and then discipline, creating consistent, you know, rituals regardless of how you feel. Last week we talked about identity, who you believe you are, and today I wanna connect all that together through this idea of building habits, how your identity will make your habits become, um, you know, automatic.
And your habits are these daily behaviors that are gonna reinforce the person that you are becoming. And if you want lasting transformation, it has to move from conscious effort now into automatic behavior. Habits is gonna be the key. So here's where most people struggle. They try to change outcomes without changing their patterns.
They want different results, but they keep repeating the same routines, and most of their routines are happening subconsciously. That's the dangerous part. They don't understand it. You know, bad habits don't usually destroy your life overnight. They slowly pull you off course over time, and good habits work the same way.
Most people sort of overestimate the intensity and underestimate the repetition part, but they think one great day changes everything. But your future is created by what you repeatedly do, not occasionally do. That's why inconsistency will take away your momentum, and it's why your habits will ultimately determine your future more than your actual goals do.
So let's, let's sort of define this clearly and then break it down for you. Habits are automatic behaviors repeated over time. Your brain is constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. We talked about the fact that you have tens of thousands of thoughts, so when you repeat something every time, your brain sort of creates a shortcut.
It, it, it automates that behavior, and that's why habit shaping is a really big part of your life. You know, you need to do this in your health, your productivity, your finances, your confidence, and your relationships, by the way. All of it influences, um, your day-to-day patterns. But here's the truth most people miss.
You don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your habits. Does that make sense? So let me tell you why habits create results and why, you know, uh, outside the obvious, right? Small actions They're gonna seem s- insignificant in the moment, and this is the part that we really struggle with.
Um, but repeatedly, it is the small things that will compound over time. You know, one workout doesn't transform your body, one sales call doesn't build your business, and one positive thought doesn't change your mindset. But repeated consistently, all of those things make a difference. That's the power of habits.
And good habits are gonna create momentum, they reduce the resistance, and they eliminate all that decision fatigue. You know how you're constantly trying to decide what you're gonna do and how you're gonna do it. Because one behavior that becomes automatic automatically makes other behaviors fall in line, if that makes sense, right?
Because bad habits, they work the same way. They're gonna make you drift through life, get distracted, stay stagnated. But, um, this is the reason why I believe habits either move you toward the life you want or they quietly take you away. You'll never just be stagnant. You're always, you know, gonna go backwards if you're, if you're not developing habits.
So there's this thing we talk about called the habit loop, and the habit loop... Because every, every habit that you have follows a loop. This is something that a lot of people, if you're trying to build habits, haven't broken down, and this is why I bring it up. The first thing you have in a habit, whether it's a good habit or bad habit, is there's always a cue.
The cue, um, as a lot of, you know, bestselling authors have described now, is that trigger that starts any kind of behavior. This is why you might have cues whether they're good or bad. It could be the time of day, an emotion, a location, a memory, an existing routine. But this is, this is really important.
Your habit or your, your environment, it will shape your behavior more than motivation does. That's why if you're cued up by things in your surroundings, it's gonna make things really difficult for you. So once that cue happens, then there's a routine. This is the actual behavior itself. It, it gets repeated.
You know, this cue comes up. You're gonna end up doing the same thing consistently over time, forming good and bad habits. But the, but the third area is the key. There's always a reward. See, your brain reinforces what it feels is rewarding. So that reward could be comfort Progress, relief, accomplishment, laziness, whatever the reward is, once the brain connects the cue and the routine to that reward, a pattern shapes.
That's why being aware of your patterns really matters because once you understand the loop, you can intentionally redesign that pattern. You can re- you can break that loop. So how do you build better habits? Well, start small. This is where most people fail. They try to change everything overnight. Look, I, I'm, I'm that way.
I'm like, "All right, I'm gonna hit all these daily rituals," and then, and then nothing happens. Start small and, um... But, but, but when you start small and, and you try to change these things, they, they will, they will begin to take effect. It's much easier. You know, you have less resistance. You have... It's easier to stay consistent with small things.
So, um, attach... What, what I recommend you do is start small, but attach your habit to some daily routine. This is why you hear this term habit stacking. Connect a new behavior you wanna do to something you already do, like after coffee, journal. After a workout, review your goals. After dinner, plan your day, um, for the next day.
The, the easier the connection, the, the, the more the association, the stronger the habit will become. So this is just another suggestion is attach any habits you wanna create to new routines. So start small, attach them to your already daily routines. And then another suggestion is you gotta learn to control your environment.
Make good habits obvious and easy, and make bad habits difficult. One of the reasons I set up a, uh, multiple podcast, um, stations or studios for myself outside of our big in-house studio is so it would be simple. And, you know The other thing, maybe the opposite you could think of, is make your bad habits difficult.
This is why if you, if you don't like, you know, eating bad, make it really difficult to get that kind of food. You know, if your phone distracts you, remove it. If unhealthy food isn't, you know, isn't available, you're not gonna eat it. If, if your phone's not right there, you're not gonna scroll. If your, you know, workstation that you have creates a distraction, change it, simplify it.
Environment will always beat willpower, in my opinion. Um, so control your environment. Now, another suggestion is you've gotta track it. Don't obsess over perfection or things like that, but just track what you're doing. Track your activity. It's even more important than tracking the results sometimes.
Track your activity because what gets measured get, gets improved. And, um, the last thing I wanna kinda mention as a suggestion with, with new habits is reinforce your identity. In other words, every habit is a vote for the person that you're becoming. And so every time you do a workout, for example, it reinforces that you're somebody who is in shape and, and takes care of their health.
Every, you know, task you finish that you've told yourself you're gonna do is another validation that you are someone that follows through. Habits, this is a really important thing I want you to understand, habits will strengthen your identity over time, but they also will destroy your id- identity over time.
So if you constantly break promises to yourself, it's gonna, it's gonna destroy your identity. And identity, like we've talked about, is so critical. So let me point out a few things that, uh, you know, sabotage people at times, right? They, they, they try to change too much. They rely on motivation instead of systems.
They set unrealistic goals. They quit, uh, because they miss one day. They, they feel like they, they've already lost. Listen, missing once is not failure. Stopping is actually failure. And this is something I want everybody to think about because a goal is not, you know, the, the, the outcome, it's the behavior you're doing.
So the goal of what you're trying to do should be reflected by the behavior, um, because behaviors will eventually get you your outcomes, right? So here's the shift that I want you to make. Habits are not restrictions. They're not gonna, you know, destroy your freedom because once a positive behavior takes shape and it's automatic, it's gonna totally increase your, your identity.
It's gonna get you your results. Um, but, but the key is not intensity, not hype, not temporary stuff, consistency over time. Your future is hidden inside your daily routine. So I'm gonna challenge you to at least, at least identify one habit that... And this is important, it's not easy. It's, it's a habit that will improve your life right now.
Just one. Take that one habit, that one thing you wanna do, attach it to something you already do every day. Track it every single day, not for protection, uh, perfection, but just for repetition. And then ask yourself two questions: What habits are creating my current results? So find a good habit, but what habits are creating my current results, good, better, and different?
And what habits would create the future I actually want? And when you ask those questions, you're gonna find a habit that you could jump into that will make a difference. It's something that will definitely, you know, affect your current results and create the future that you want at the same time. So let's kinda bring this all together.
Identity shapes your behavior, habits automate your behavior, and habits create long-term results. So your life is being built daily, whether you're doing it intentionally or not. So what you're gonna do this week, you're gonna find at least one habit starting today, commit to it for the next 30 days, attach it to something that you already do.
Uh, because I know it sounds simple, but the small things you do eventually will build the big things you want in your life. And you know, ne- next week, I'm... Next Monday I'm gonna talk to you a little about neuroplasticity, 'cause I've learned a lot about neuroplasticity. You know, the neurons that fire together, wire together.
But... 'Cause your brain is constantly rewiring itself. But here's the message I want you to get from what we're talking about today. If you want to become the person you want to become, and you wanna live the life that you're meant to live, because it's never, ever too late to start living the life that you're meant to live, it's gotta start with your habits.
It's gotta start with your behavior. So do me a favor, um, really think about this. Think about what you could do to change your life when it comes to your habits. And, uh, that's my message for today. So share this episode. Let me know what you're up to. Hit me up on The Daily Mastermind. Um, we actually had our, we...
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