Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Wow, we've got a midweek treat for you today. I've got a really, really good thought, a really, really good audio I want to play for you. But for those of you that are here for the first time, welcome. You are the average of the people that you hang around. And today you're hanging around with me. You're hanging around with the community, the Daily Mastermind. So I hope you're having an amazing week so far. But today I want to talk to you about your perspective. You know, Wayne Dyer talked about when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And I think it's very difficult sometimes for us to take really bad situations in our life and turn them into a positive. And, you know, if you're a high achiever, you're a motivated individual, you're probably finding ways to go to the next level. You're finding ways to motivate and inspire yourself. but sometimes the best thing we can do the thing that will fuel that fire inside of us is to take the worst experiences we've had in life and learn to use those as fuel learn to use those as the drivers and finding a way to create a perspective that those those difficult situations were really for our benefit so i want to share an audio with you today from tony robbins tony robbins is one of the masters at this and he talks about how you can make your worst day your best day. And I think it's a difficult conversation. So I really love how he put it. I want to play this short audio for you. I hope it's something that will inspire you. I hope it's something that will help you to readdress maybe a situation in your life you've been hanging on to or something in your past you thought you've forgotten about and you've just decided, I'm just going to put that out of my mind. What I'm saying is maybe what you ought to do is look at reframing that situation, not try to bury it deep down, but to basically refocus on how that impacted your life. And I think Tony does a really good job of doing this. For those of you that are listening to this and getting value, please do me a favor, refer this show. Share this show with someone so that they can help to get the same message as well. You're the main way that we grow this show. We don't do marketing advertising for it. So do me a favor, share the show. And I hope you enjoy this today. My name is George Wright III, and this is The Daily Mastermind. Let's get right into it. My life is shaped by a lot of events. One of the most powerful was somebody doing these kind acts for my family. When I was 11 years old, we had a really, really tough Thanksgiving where there was no money and no food, and we wouldn't have starved. We always found a way to get something, but we weren't going to have a Thanksgiving dinner, that's for sure, certainly not a feast of any sort. And my mom and dad at the time were fighting like cats and dogs and saying things that once you say them, you can never take them back, you know the kind of stuff I'm talking about? and my mom was screaming at father about how he couldn't even take care of his own family and it was horrible and i have a younger brother and younger sister i'm the oldest so i was trying to keep them from hearing this conversation and then a miracle happened bang on the door i'm the oldest they're screaming so i go answer the door and i answer the door and standing there is this giant man i was this little boy and he's holding this huge box of food and beside him on the ground was a black pot with an uncooked turkey in it. And he said, is your father home? And I said, just one moment. I was like, unbelievably euphoric. I thought, this is a gift from God. This is going to change it all. This is going to make my mom and dad happy. It going to be unbelievable So I go and my father is screaming at my mother through a closed door to the bedroom door And I said Dad Dad there a guy at the door And he goes you answer the door I said I did He got to see you I kind of teased I said, Dad, you've got to come. So he said, fine. He made one last yell at her, and he walks through the door. And I'm waiting there, just can't wait to see his face. And my dad opens the door, and this man's standing there with this big box of food. And my father did not get happy. He looked at this man and he raised his voice to him and he said, Look, we don't take charity. And then he took the door to slam it in the man's face. But the man was a good-sized man. He put his foot there and smacked his foot and bounced back open. He said, Sir, Sir, this is not charity. Everybody has tough times. Somebody knows you're having a tough time. And they want you to have a magical Thanksgiving. I'm just the delivery guy. He said, Please take this. And my father said, We don't take charity. He went to slam it again. and this time the guy put his shoulder against it so he couldn't do it. And my father's staring at him. It's like these two males starting to get in this intense mode and one's just trying to give a gift and I'm freaking. And then the guy said something that I'll never forget in moments I wish he hadn't said, but he found a way to force my father. He's holding this thing and he looked at me and then he looked at my dad and he said, don't make your family suffer because of your ego. go. Now my dad's level of energy increased, but he was also trapped. You get it? So he took the food, slammed it on our table and slammed the door in the man's face and never even thanked him. And I didn't know what to do. Part of me wanted to cry. Part of me was crushed. And I watched my father storm off and went on back to scream at my mother. and I remember that day just thinking you know I don't understand and years and years later I began to understand a little bit what I began to understand is that you look at a person's life and it's like so much in life you could be joyous about like I wanted to smile you know I mean even now I can remember it I wanted to smile about this great gift but now I couldn't even smile because it would make him angry and then I thought you know years I figured out our whole life is shaped by decisions. That's what we've talked about today, right? But there's three decisions you're making every moment you're alive. And the way you make these three decisions shapes your destiny. First decision we're all making every moment is what are you going to focus on? What are you going to focus on? And I realized that my father's life and my life ended up very different because we made that day three decisions very differently. He decided to focus on the fact that he has not fed his family. and the second question you got to decide every moment you're alive including this moment what are you going to focus on second question is as you're focusing on what does this mean what does it mean and the bottom line on meaning is if you think about it you get to make up the meaning and most people pick the worst one don't they that day my father decided to focus on like he hadn't fed his family and i know what meaning he gave because he said it out loud over and over again. That he was worthless because he had not taken care of his family. And then the final most important decision you make every moment you're alive. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? And I'll tell you what he decided to do. He decided to leave our family shortly thereafter. Which at the time was it was the worst experience of my life. It was the most crushing experience I felt. It been so many years now I don have the same feelings and part of it is three years ago he passed away But at the time I knew no greater pain My family knew no greater pain I couldn't understand why he would leave. I loved him so much. And my life turned out very different than him. I was the only one to go to his funeral. No one else in the family would go. Nobody wanted to be part of it. He died alone of a disease called connective tissue disorder. and I can tell you right before his death he got the lesson because he looked at me and he said son he said I was a bastard I didn't connect with anybody and look what I'm dying of it's unbelievable so that same day I made three different decisions I decided to focus on the fact there was food what a concept I like that but what changed my life was the meaning I gave it I decided that day that what this means is that strangers care and if strangers care about me and my family, I decided what I was going to do is I was going to care about strangers. And that completely changed my life. I promised myself someday I'd do well enough to do this for other families like it was done for me. And I didn't wait until I was wealthy to do it. I did my first one when I was 17. I remembered I was 17. I had my own car. I had some money. And I decided to go on the greatest shopping spree of my life at that point. I said I was going to go shop for two families for Thanksgiving. And I was going to go do for families that was done for me so many years before. It was the most euphoric experience. I took two baskets. I went to the manager of the place. I told him what I was going to do. And I said, I want you to give me a discount. You be my partner. Give me 10% cheap bastard. But it was so cool. I got two of everything, right? Because I wanted to get enough food for a family for two or three days and have an unbelievable feast. Then I called this church in the barrio area. And I said, listen, I want to go take care of some families that are too proud to come to the church and get food so they might suffer can you recommend some families and they gave me two families so then i wrote a note because i thought you know what i'm going to put on old jeans and a t-shirt i'm going to deliver this i'm not going to get the acknowledgement but i do want to see their faces right so i'll go as the delivery boy which is easy i look like one and but i wrote this note i wrote i don't want to get upset like my father did. So I wrote this note and I said, this is a gift from a friend. Please know that you're loved. I want you to have an extraordinary Thanksgiving. You deserve it. Please accept this gift. And then I put under it, I said, if you can someday do well enough to do this for one other family and pass on the gift. And I put love a friend. And then I realized I was going to an area that was more Latino and I don't speak Spanish. So I thought I got a friend to write on the back in Spanish so I could flip it around if there was a challenge. So I got one of my buddy's old vans, because I need a little room, put all the groceries in, and I drove to this house. And it was not what I expected, it was more. I got to this house, and I got two bags of groceries, and I banged on the door. Door opened, and this woman about this tall stares up at me like this, right? And I said, hi. And it was very obvious, she didn't speak any English, and she was She laid out a scream when she saw the food. And by the way, this woman had five children and a husband. What I didn't know is the husband had left her three days before with no money, no food, and five kids. So I got these bags. So she screamed and she grabbed me and started pulling my neck and like kissing me, right? And I said, no, no, no, no. I said, I'm the delivery boy, delivery boy. And she didn't understand a word I was saying. So I reached in my pocket and I gave her the note, flipped it over. She read it in Spanish. And then she started to bawl. So then she came and started kissing me again I said no no I the delivery boy I trying to show her and she goes no no gift from god gift from god so i trying not to ball so i like you know where do i put this and i'm doing everything i hold it together like smiling but i want to cry and she just pointed me listen a big house it's like a room so i went over and i put the stuff on there and just as i'm trying to put stuff on there i hear these screams and all of a sudden bam bam two boys hit me one leg then the other these two little guys just tackle me right? When they saw the food, they went crazy. When I saw the pumpkin pie, it was over. So I said, come out with me, come out with me. And so they came out and we kept bringing these groceries in. And I'm telling you, it was like, I don't know how to describe it. It was the most euphoric, fun, passionate, loving. It was like they're my little brothers, you know? And so we brought all the stuff in and they were laughing and they were lit up. And then, you know, I'd done it all and it was time to go and I didn't want to go and they didn't want me to go. This one little boy just wouldn't let go of my leg and he just kept looking up to me, hugging me, and I was like, you know, but I had to go make the other delivery. So, I turned to this woman, I said, you know, I've got to go, you know, and she said, okay, whatever her language was, I didn't know what it was, but I knew it meant okay, right? So, I went to go leave, and then she grabbed my arm, and she started to have tears in her eyes, and I, and I said, I wanted to say, you know, happy Thanksgiving, but I didn't Spanish so I went Feliz Navidad. Figured it was close. And she started laughing. She went from crying to laughing right. And she grabbed and gave me this big hug and the kids gave me these hugs. I remember I got out and I walked off and they were all standing on the porch. And I got in this little van and I drove it out and I turned it around and as I went turn around I looked in the rearview mirror and I was feeling all this emotion building in my body. And I looked in the mirror and I saw mama standing on the porch with her kids, all the kids smiling. Mama's sitting there crying hysterically and smiling from ear to ear. And I couldn't keep it together. I just, I was right there, stopped in the street, and I started bawling uncontrollably. And I remember just thinking, you know, this is a beautiful thing. You know, why is this making me cry? And, you know, why is this a great thing? Why am I so emotional about this? and then I got it. I realized in that moment that the worst day of my life, my father leaving, had actually been the best day of my life because if I hadn't had that experience, I wouldn't be here today. And now because of that, I'm getting to live this life and I have the desire and the drive and the want to give in this way. And so I really realized that the worst day was the best day, that that was God's gift. The gift wouldn't have been there if he would have stayed. There's an old country song that says, thank God for unanswered prayers. It's a story about this man who wants his prayer and finds out later on it wasn't fulfilled, right? So, so I tell you, I tell you the story for a couple reasons. One is, if you want to change your life, figure out how your worst day was your best day. You'll change everything. Because it is if you look for it. If you find the deeper meaning it is. You know, there's something in you that wouldn't be there without it. Andmake Except WordPress.
