All right, all right. Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I'm putting this podcast out late in the day. I apologize for that, but I've got a lot of business going on right now and there is a lot of moving parts. As many of you know, I do this podcast because I love it. It's primarily for myself, but I hope it brings you your daily dose of inspiration and motivation and even some education and strategies you can use for your business. So if this is your first time listening, do me a favor, subscribe to the podcast, share it. Let me know what I can do to help you because this is done entirely for your benefit. I'm going to start you out, but I want to talk today with you about how you can create opportunities in the marketplace despite what's going on around you. So before we get started with that, let's talk about the quote of the day. The quote of the day from one of my favorite all-time past mentors, Robert Stuburg. And the quote is, all progress begins by asking a better question. All progress begins by asking a better question. I definitely find that if you start to ask questions, you're going to find that you're going to make changes in your life. It's when we get into routines and we don't stop to think about what we're doing, how we're acting, what type of activities we're doing, what type of productivity, that we become complacent or we become too regimented in our day-to-day. But just to kind of give you an update, look, I mean, I know this topic is kind of a difficult one because a lot of people are overwhelmed. You're overwhelmed with the marketplace, what's happening in the marketplace, whether it's finances or politics or business. there's a lot of things going on right now, but I want you to know that there are so many opportunities out there. You know, I sometimes feel like I put too much on my plate, but you know, this week we've got so many things going on and it's what made me really think about talking about this with you today, because you know, I don't generally talk about the type of businesses owner that I'm launching, but you know, this week alone, we're opening next week a clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. We've got, you know, men's clinic there. We're launching a brand new apparel company with a friend of mine that owns J5 Print. They're the ones that do the printing for, you know, Yellowstone and Bucked Up and a whole bunch of other, you know, big brand names, the Cowboy Store. We've got a new fitness and nutrition program that's coming out with a good long-term, long-time friend of mine, Jeff Cameron. He's my personal trainer, but also the individual who is the double for Tom Cruise and Top Gun Just a phenomenal guy has a wealth of knowledge that he to start sharing with you He be a guest on the podcast We got gosh I taken on clients in the restaurant sector in real estate in Shopify e investing And ultimately in fact, one of the things I'm the most excited about is that we're going to be offering some additional business development opportunities for you, for the listener. I want to take some of the resources and contacts and things that I've had in the past for strategies, marketing, and sales, and help you to grow your business. I don't want to just give you the knowledge and strategies. I want to maybe connect you with some resources. So stay tuned at the end of this podcast. I'll kind of talk to you about how we could do that. But there's a quote that I talk about once in a while, and it's one of my favorite quotes from Jim Rohn. And I'm probably going to butcher it here, but he says, it's not the direction of the wind that determines where you're going. It's the set your sail. So the quote kind of goes, it's not the direction of the wind, but the set of your sail that determines your direction in life. And I think it's such an appropriate quote for right now, because so many people are feeling like they're being moved the direction that the marketplace, that the consumers, that the politics, that the government, that everything else in your outside world is determining what kind of opportunity you have. It's determining where you're going and what's happening to you. Listen, I get it. I feel the same way sometimes, but I want to tell you that if you'll do a few key things, that you will be able to set the direction of your sail. And what that quote kind of means is there are experienced sailors that literally can sail directly into the wind, not the wind taking them whatever direction they want, but they can sail directly into the wind. And the reason is because they have the skills to sort of zag into the direction of the wind. And it proves this idea that it's the set of your sail, not the direction of the wind that takes you. If you know what you're doing, if you can set certain strategies in place, it reminds me of another analogy where back in the olden days, way back when sailors used to be sailing the ocean and they would see these giant icebergs and these giant, giant icebergs would be moving the opposite direction of the wind. And they never could figure out what that was. It just baffled them. And science later proved that if you haven't heard this before, 90% of the size of an iceberg is actually underwater. Even though these are monster icebergs that are in the ocean, in the colder parts of the ocean, obviously, that 90% are underneath the water, under the surface. And it was the directions of the currents in the ocean that we actually moving these massive structures And I think that is what I trying to communicate to you is that if you will create some depth in what you do how you do it why you do it then your currents of your philosophy and your faith and your decisions and your direction and clarity are going to take you in the direction you want to go, despite the wind, despite the circumstances, despite your environment. So let me talk to you for just a minute about how I think you could do that. I wrote a few notes down for you. I feel like if you're going to control your direction, you've got to take a good solid look at your philosophy. What's the filter you put on situations? Are situations happening to you or are they happening for you? Are you having things that are giving you setbacks or are these setbacks just setups for comebacks? How are you viewing things that are happening in your life? You've got to choose to have a positive philosophy. Another thing is, are you choosing to have faith in your direction. See, we talk a lot about the fact that your actions will create experiences which will validate your beliefs, right? Build your confidence. But faith is just a decision. When you believe, when you have faith that you're going to accomplish what you want, you're simply making a decision that that's going to happen. And as you do action, as you move forward, your beliefs will sort of reinforce that. And so choose faith in what your direction is, in your relationship, in your communication, in your team, in your obligations that you have. Another thing, and this is a big one, your discipline. I talk about it on the daily rituals. I create daily rituals on the mastermind pillars. I say this because your discipline will take you in a direction despite what's going on around you. I know that if you will create habits in your life, getting up, doing your workouts, doing your daily rituals of whether it's business or personal, finance, relationships, family, whatever it is, those disciplines are going to take you forward in life regardless of what's going on around you. Another thing you need to think about is confidence. Confidence is something that you can use to act as if until you do have the self-belief to do it yourself. And confidence comes through your actions. Taking action will build your confidence. I also believe, and I don't want to go without saying this, that your principles, not just your ethics, but your principles and your core, deep, foundational values and beliefs and your commitments to those beliefs will take you the direction you want to go. And you know when the world is kind of vacillating and going all over different directions or when maybe your employees or your relationships or your friends or family or the people around you are trying to convince you to go different ways stick to your beliefs stick to your values stick to your committed course of action. Because how you do anything is how you do everything. If you say you're going to do something, do it. Don't change just because something came up. Don't change just because you don't feel like doing it. Stick to your values. And last and most importantly, if you want to control the direction that you're taking in your life, you've got to take action. Because it's like Dan Sullivan and many others talk about, the answer is now, not how. Now, not how. It's not about how you're going to get there. It's now. It's taking action. Figure it out along the way. Take action because action is the only thing that's going to increase your confidence. That's going to keep your routine going. That's going to give you productivity. That's going to give you answers. You're going to get answers through actions. So take action. So let me sum this up for you. If you want to control the direction in your life and you want to create opportunities despite what's going on around you, you've got to check your philosophy. You got to choose to have faith, make that decision, create discipline and rituals, build your confidence, stick with your core principles and create action. And I believe that'll help you to make decisions, create opportunities and move forward despite what's happening around you. So that's kind of my thoughts for this week. I hope you'll take those into the week and it'll help you. And I want to give you another opportunity. So I believe that for you to be truly successful and productive, you've got to participate. So with this podcast, I've tried to do everything I can to kind of add strategies and thoughts and ideas, but I want you to do me a favor. Pick one thing. Pick one thing you're working on that you could use some help on and email me. I don't do this very often. In fact, I don't do this specifically ever. email me at george at g3worldwide.com. Let me know what you're working on. And if you'll do that, if you'll take action and you'll email me and tell me one thing you're working on, you could use help with, I'll send you a gift. I've got all kinds of stuff from the posters and hardcover books and all kinds of different things. But I want to see who's going to take this message and kind of respond and react to it. Email me, hit me up, let me know what you're working on. Give me one thing that you feel like you could use some help with. And let me see what I can do for you. I throw that challenge out there also because I feel like there's a lot of people out there struggling that just don't have the opportunity to connect with someone that has resources. So let me do that to help you out. That's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing weekend and I hope you have a great day. And once again, this is George Wright III and this has been The Daily Master. We'll talk with them. you
