Episode 521 · Jan 28, 2022

7 Habits to Create a Lifestyle of Success and Happiness

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Most people put their happiness on hold until they reach some future goal. In this episode of The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III challenges you to start building the quality of life you want right now, before you hit your targets. As George opens the episode with a Wayne Dyer quote:

Go for it. The future is promised to no one.

That framing matters. You cannot live in the future. The life you want has to be built in the present, through the habits you practice today.

George shares seven habits you can start using immediately to shift your focus from chasing future destinations to actually living the life you were meant to live.

How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Accelerates Growth

Gary Vee talks about "hacking people," and George echoes that idea in this episode. Technology can help you move faster, but it cannot replace the human element. When you try to do everything yourself, you cap your own potential. Seek out successful, high-quality people who can help you accomplish what you cannot do alone. Your network is a multiplier, not a luxury.

Why Quality Sleep Is a Performance Strategy

Entrepreneurs often treat sleep as whatever is left over after the work is done. George argues for a different approach: make sleep deliberate. Build a pre-sleep routine, reduce light and screen time, lower the temperature in your room (science supports it), and invest in a good mattress and pillows. Stop stressing about hours and focus on quality. Your body will adapt, and your performance will follow.

How Creating Memories on Purpose Raises Your Quality of Life

One of George's most distinctive points in this episode is this: schedule memories, not just activities. When you attach strong emotion to an experience, it becomes embedded in your mind. George suggests keeping a physical book of those memories that you can revisit when you need motivation, inspiration, or a lift out of a low point. The emotional connection to those moments can pull you back into a resourceful state faster than almost anything else.

Why a Meditation Practice Changes Everything

George keeps this simple on purpose. Whether you use a guided app, nature sounds, or unstructured silence, the goal is the same: slow down the 50,000 to 100,000 thoughts running through your head each day so you can find a center of peace instead of being pulled in every direction. Find what works for you and start. Even ten or twenty minutes makes a measurable difference in clarity and calm.

How Time Blocking Helps You Feel and Be More Productive

Toggling between tasks kills momentum. Time blocking dedicates extended stretches to a single priority. George recommends about 90 minutes because that is where real synergy builds. He also shares his acronym for FOCUS:

FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful.

You rarely hit your best ideas in the first hour of working on something. Give yourself the runway to get there. When you see consistent progress on what matters most, the feeling of overwhelm shrinks and the sense of success grows.

Why Making Decisions Faster Reduces Stress and Anxiety

Over-planning and over-thinking are where stress, anxiety, and even depression take root. George's rule is direct:

Just say yes and then figure it out.

Once the decision is made, your brain can shift from deliberation to problem-solving. Most of the mental weight comes from the indecision itself, not from executing on the choice. Remove that hurdle and you free up enormous energy.

How Journaling Trains Your Brain for Success

George has a specific approach to journaling: do it with intent, not just as a brain dump. At night, he writes down three things he is grateful for, the day's successes, and any memories worth keeping. This trains your subconscious, right before sleep, to focus on wins, gratitude, and forward direction. In the morning, journaling sets your thinking on the right track before the day's noise arrives. The goal is to actively wire your brain toward positivity and success, not simply to fill pages.

Action Steps

Identify one person in your life or network who could help you move faster toward your goals and reach out this week.
Build a 30-minute pre-sleep routine: dim lights, no screens, lower the thermostat, and treat sleep as a performance investment.
Schedule one experience this month with the deliberate intent of creating a lasting memory, then write it down afterward.
Block 90 minutes on your calendar for your most important task and protect that block from all interruptions.
Each evening, write down three things you are grateful for, one success from the day, and one memory worth keeping.

You do not have to wait until everything is perfect to start living well. The future is not written yet, and the life you want is built in the present moment, through the habits you practice today. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III. I hope you're having a great week. We're going to be going into the weekend here, and most of you entrepreneurs, if you're like myself, are grinding all weekend long. So I want to be able to give you some thoughts on how to create a little bit of balance here. I want to talk to you today about maybe some habits or life hacks you can use to create better lifestyle while you're working and creating your future. But first, let's start with the Daily Mastermind quote of the day. The Daily Mastermind quote of the day is by Wayne Dyer and it is, go for it. The future is promised to no one. I think that just goes to really reiterate the fact that the future isn't written yet. You can do whatever you want. You can create the life you want. It's not too late to do that. So let's talk today just shortly about some habits to create a better lifestyle. What I want you to do is I want you to focus on creating a better quality of life rather than waiting until you hit your goals and getting what you want out of life. A lot of us have heard that old saying, you know, live today like most won't so tomorrow you can live like most can't. But I'll tell you what, you can't live in the future. You absolutely can't live in the future. And one of the lessons I've learned is that you've got to create your present life because that's the moment you're living in to be the life that you want to live in. So I have seven habits or seven things I just kind of wrote down that I feel like could really help you create a better quality of life. And they're in no particular order, but I'll just kind of buzz through them to give you a few thoughts going into the weekend so that you can start to create more of a life for yourself. Number one, I love the idea that Gary V talks about with hacking people. What he means and what this point is all about is that technology isn't always the key. Sometimes we feel like we can do more, better, quicker without people, and technology does help. But Gary Vee talks about the fact that the human part is an absolute must. If you're doing everything yourself, you're just not going to get where you want to be. When other people are doing it, a lot more things can get done. So I really want you to think about how you can surround yourself with better quality people, successful people that can help you do what you need to do, and not always try to do it on your own. The second one is to get quality sleep. Now, I know a lot of entrepreneurs will suffer from insomnia and their heads going a million miles an hour so they don't sleep well. But what they don't think about is they don't focus on trying to create that better sleep. In other words, don't let sleep just become a default thing you do when you get tired. Make sleep a deliberate thing. Create a routine prior to your sleep. Know that you've got to turn your phone off. You've got to slow down. You got to get rid of a lot of the lighting and stuff that you have Create and guide yourself into your sleep and then create a good sleep environment and conditions Now science has proven that the colder the temperature the better you'll sleep. I found that to be true. Make sure you have a good mattress, good pillows. You know, really invest in your sleep because it's where you spend a great chunk of your life and the better you sleep, the better you're going to perform. And also, don't get caught up in the timeline. I tell you, there's so many times people think that, they stress because they haven't had enough time to get sleep or they got to get up early. Your body will adapt. You don't need to worry about whether or not you get enough sleep. Just do the work, focus on the priorities that you have, and focus on having quality of sleep. Like anything else, it's not about quantity as much as quality sometimes. The third thing I wanted to talk to you about is I've found that when you deliberately create memories, your quality of life goes up. Nothing increases that quality like creating a memory. So schedule and plan out not just activities and events, but memories. And what I mean by that is work to create emotions with events and things that you do. When you tie an emotion to a thought, it's embedded in your mind. That's why both positive and really negative traumatic experiences are so embedded and so easy for you to recall. That's why these negative emotions get going. When you tie an emotion to an actual event or a thought, you're going to create a better memory. And then maybe create for yourself a book of these memories because you can use that in your daily routine. If you find yourself needing motivation or inspiration or happiness or pulling yourself out of a funk, this book of memories will help you to do that because it brings back all that emotion. And your emotions tied to your physical body as well. And that helps you to be able to do the things you need to do. So create memories. The fourth one that I had was you've got to just find a way to start a meditation practice. Now, I don't want you to overcomplicate this because I'm not trying to get too detailed into the specific methods because they all work in my opinion. Now, there is a difference between mindfulness practices, meditation, visualization, and things like that. But find what works for you. The whole goal here is just to slow down those 50,000 to 100,000 thoughts a day that you're having so that you can create more of a center and peace instead of being pulled in every direction no matter where you go. So that's my thought for you is learn to create some type of meditation practice. It might be to download that free meditation app, Calm, or there's so many of them out there. That's just one that I use or Headspace. But if you start a meditation practice, and here's another example of the Daily Mastermind mobile app, because I have inside the Daily Mastermind mobile app free meditations. Now I use that when I want just a 10 or 20 non meditation because I put in there sounds of nature and you know the ocean and campfire and rain storms things like that They all free inside the Daily Mastermind mobile app, these meditations. So use those if you need to just get a distraction or use a guided one if you need a guided one or use an unguided one if you just want to clear your mind. But start some type of meditation practice. It definitely will increase your quality of life. The fifth one is time blocking. Learn this technique of time blocking because so many times we toggle between tasks and we're going through our priorities and you don't block out time for most important activities and so your quality of life is always chasing things or feeling like you're not getting things done. I was talking with a partner of mine the other day about how you can get so many things done but still feel like there's so much more to do. That's why they can't relax when they have had a very productive day but still have a lot to do. Time blocking allows you to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. And usually a 90-minute period of time is the best because you get the most synergy after you've get into a topic. I don't know if you've noticed this or experienced this, but usually you don't come up with your best ideas in the first 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 minutes. It's usually towards the end of amount of time you've been focused on something because all of your energy remember focus is an acronym for follow one course until successful follow one course until successful and success in my opinion is breaking through and creating results so time block important activities in your life and you'll find you'll get more progress and more progress and advancement will help you to be and feel more successful. Number six is make decisions faster. See, a lot of our day-to-day routine is caught up in decision-making and planning and organizing. And you'd find that you just have more peace if you just say yes and figure it out. Just say yes and then figure it out. Because once you've gotten past that mental hurdle of making the decision, that's when you can go to work on solutions rather than you're trying to decide, do I want to do this? Well, how would it work? If I did this first, would it work better? You know, when you're caught up in the decisions, the detail and the planning, and you're an over planner or an over thinker, that's where you get the most stress and anxiety in your life or even depression, right? So the key for me has always been say yes, then figure it out. And then the big obstacles out of the way and you can move forward. Then the last one, the last suggestion that I have for you is journaling. And you heard me talk about this over and over and over but maybe you haven heard me talk about having a journaling practice for specific intent I feel like you can create a huge increase in the quality of your life when you train your thoughts to be differently And that's what journaling is in my mind. Journaling has a lot of benefits. We can go through those and you talk about being able to get your thoughts out on paper so that you can release a lot of those thoughts. We talk about you can practice gratitude in your journaling by writing down things you're grateful for. but ultimately you're training your brain for positivity and success. You're journaling, I don't believe should just be random stuff. I would journal out thoughts you've got to get on paper. I would journal out in the evening, for example, for myself, I always write down three things I'm grateful for. I write down any successes of the day and I write down any memories. And what you're doing is you're training your brain before you go to sleep if you do it at night to be successful. If you do it in the morning, you're getting your thoughts in the right direction. I'm a big believer in doing journaling at night because I think you can sort of evaluate your day and what you did, but identify the positives and the successes you had. And that will help you to really have your subconscious go to work on knowing that you're grateful and you're focused on the wins and you've got direction for tomorrow. So journaling is the other. So, you know, that's the seven ideas I had. You know, hack people, get quality of sleep, create memories, start a meditation practice, time block, make decisions faster, and journal to create more focus. Ultimately, I'm a big believer that if you shift your focus to creating the life you want and the quality of life you desire, you're going to accomplish that goal. Sometimes we're too focused on the things or goals and things we're trying to accomplish rather than just living life. We need to remember that we're here to live life and create life. and we need to stop just chasing points in the future for destinations. Creating the life that you're meant to live is simple if you just start focusing on attracting what it is you want in your life and doing those activities. So I hope that's something that's helped you, give you some good thoughts, taking you into the weekend. I encourage you to spend time really focusing on your vision and your daily rituals over the weekend. Don't get too lax. And I look forward to talking with you next week. We have a lot of really good things that are going to be coming on board. with my new partnership with Robert Stubberg and the Stubberg Mentoring Academy. We'll be announcing that where we've merged the Daily Mastermind with Stubberg Mentoring Academy. We'll have all kinds of new things available for you. But I'm looking forward to talking with you and I really want to get your feedback. So please hit me up. I read all the comments and messages on Instagram and the Facebook page for the Daily Mastermind. So look forward to talking with you more and have a great weekend. Once again, this is George Wright III and this has been the Daily Mastermind. Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada