How to Create Certainty in an Uncertain World

Okay, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope that you're having a great start to your week. A little late today with the podcast, I was flying back into LA from Salt Lake City, spent some time with the kids, and got a little bit of time off, and I don't take that very often. So today I want to get with you and give you, let's start with the Daily Mastermind mobile app quote of the day. It's a Russian proverb, and it is, a kind word is like a spring day. A kind word is like a spring day. That's kind of nice. So that's the mobile app quote of the day, and I encourage you to download that mobile app. We're going to be putting some really good stuff in there, but right now you've got e-books, audio books, meditations, guided and unguided. You got the blog, articles, all kinds of stuff in there. It's all free. I don't charge anything on that app. So download that when you get a chance. Today, I want to talk to you about a thought I had over the weekend because there's so much uncertainty in the world. And I know that there's a need. Look, Tony Robbins talks about the fact that there's a need for certainty in your life, and there's also a need for uncertainty. Obviously, if you have too much certainty and there's no adventure or change or creativity, you get stagnant as well. But there's so much uncertainty in the world right now that I want to help you to understand that you can create much more certainty than you think. Because we've talked about this before. Your thoughts create your life. Your thoughts create your life, and you control your thoughts. What you focus on is going to grow. Did you know that a sailboat can sail against the wind? Have you heard that quote by Jim Rohn one of the all greats He said it the set of your sail not the direction of the wind that determines the direction you going in or something like that right Here the bottom line Sailboats can actually sail against the wind. It's a sailing technique called tacking, where an experienced sailor can zigzag 45 degrees against the wind and literally sail into a headwind, a strong headwind. But it requires some skill, right? And of course, sailboats need wind, but the wind doesn't determine their direction. It's the set of the sail that determines where and what the direction is that that sailboat's going to go in. And so ultimately, it is the captain who controls the sail, the sailboat, right? And we're all the captains of our lives. We're the ones that we have way more control over our lives than you think. You know, as the captain of your life, you get to set the destination, the route. You get to set the set of the sails. You get to determine where you're going to go. Now, obviously, we can't control the wind, and there's a lot of it right now. You know, your experience, your life in general, there's all kinds of circumstances that come about. You've got past, you know, issues and, you know, future worries and stress. I realize there's a lot in life that you cannot control, and that's the wind. but the wind seems to matter a whole lot more than it really does if you think about it. So many of us put so much emphasis on everything in our outer world that we don't realize that that wind and that noise it doesn't have as much impact as you think unless you let it. See a skilled sailor back to this analogy of a sailboat a skilled sailor can use the wind to their advantage. A skilled can use that wind that it needs, even if it's blowing headstrong against them, to help them be successful and sail the direction they want to go And successful people CEOs like myself and many of you they don let the wind determine their direction It the set of their sail that determines their direction. But here's a problem that a lot of us have. A lot of us believe that it's easier to wait for a better wind to come along. They believe that it's better. And some of us sometimes in our lives, we believe that if we wait long enough, the wind will change directions. Or if we wait long enough, the wind will blow our way, right? How many times have you thought about that? You know, if I wait long enough, maybe something will change, or I don't know what to do because it seems like such a strong headwind. Do you ever think like that? Do you ever wait and hope or feel like you don't want to take a chance, you know, and spend too much effort? Well, listen, I get it. I know that sometimes that's because of fear. It's because of doubt. But like anything else, your greatest success, your greatest life, your greatest growth is going to happen when you step into your fear, when you step out of your comfort zone, when you go into the wind. We can't let fear stop us, and we can't let the wind in our life change our direction. We absolutely control our direction, and we control our direction by the set of our sail. And for those of you that are having trouble with the analogy, the set of your sail really comes back to your personal philosophy. As my partner Robert Stuburg talks a lot about, your personal philosophy is how you think. You can't control the wind, but you can control how you think. Now, you may not think you can because you are just letting your thoughts go wherever they want to go. But what you focus on will grow and you can create your life with your thoughts. But you have to be willing to set the sail. You have to be willing to take control of the direction of your life by setting your intention by setting and filling out your personal philosophy This concept we have of inner world and outer world you got to stop letting the outer world determine the direction of your life. And you have to start setting the direction of your life. And you've got to do that through your daily rituals. You've got to do that by focusing on the things that are in the direction you want to go. Right now, many of us are just, we're being thrown back and forth by the winds because we're surfing social media, we're watching Netflix, we're just doing whatever happens to be around because we're sort of biding our time. What you don't understand is that if you're not programming your mind, your mind's getting programmed anyway. It's just not getting programmed by you. And so I wanna encourage you this week to take ownership, responsibility, and believe and make the decision that you can set your sail, you can determine your philosophy you can control your thoughts by directing them by setting a clear course that's the thought I want to leave you with today and I think if you do that you'll find there'll be so much more certainty that you can create in your life because certainty comes from acting on things that you know you can control like your thoughts like your daily rituals like the practices you need to get you further in life that's my message for today and I want you to take that throughout this week and find ways to create the direction in your life. Set your sail, focus in on your personal philosophy, and I think it'll serve you well. And I'd love to hear back from you and hear what you think of that. We have several cool things coming up this week. I encourage you to listen each day. We've got a couple of interviews and we've got some other really cool things we're gonna drop on the podcast. And once again, I'd love to hear from you. Hit us up on The Daily Mastermind on Facebook or Instagram. And I look forward to talking with you more later this week. once again this is George Wright III and this has been The Daily Mastermind have a great day