Episode 617 · Jul 13, 2022

How to Eliminate Fear, Doubt, and Indecision

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George Wright III opens this episode of The Daily Mastermind by picking up where he left off the day before. After exploring the power of persistence, he turns to the second half of the same lesson: identifying and clearing out the three biggest internal enemies that keep most people from achieving success. Those enemies, drawn straight from Napoleon Hill's classic "Think and Grow Rich," are indecision, doubt, and fear.

This is not a theoretical discussion. George walks through the framework Napoleon Hill built over decades of studying successful people, adds his own hard-won commentary, and gives you a practical path to reclaiming control over your mindset before these enemies quietly shape your life without your consent.

The Six Basic Fears Napoleon Hill Named

Napoleon Hill identified six fears that, in some combination, every human being wrestles with at one time or another. George reads them aloud and repeats them so they land:

"Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are the fear of poverty at the bottom of most of one's worries, the fear of criticism, the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of love of someone, the fear of old age, and the fear of death."

Look at that list honestly. Most people can find themselves in at least two or three of those categories on any given week. The fear of what others think, the fear of financial ruin, the fear of losing someone you love: these are not abstract concepts. They are the invisible anchors that drag on your decisions every single day.

Fears Are States of Mind, Not Fixed Realities

One of the most liberating ideas Napoleon Hill puts forward is this: fears are not facts. They are states of mind. And states of mind are subject to your control.

"Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind. And with this control, every person may open his mind to the thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice."

You are not a passive receiver of fear. You are the gatekeeper of what gets in. That shift in understanding changes everything.

Reframing Uncertainty Instead of Fighting It

George pauses to add his own perspective here, and it is one of the most practical points in the episode. Rather than trying to eliminate fear outright by sheer willpower, he suggests slightly reframing the thought underneath the fear.

Take the fear of uncertainty. If you treat uncertainty as an enemy, you will spend your energy fighting something that never goes away. Instead, recognize that uncertainty is where growth happens. Then remind yourself: you have handled every difficult thing that has come your way so far. You will handle what comes next, too.

That small shift does not deny the challenge. It places you back in the driver's seat.

You Are Always Creating Your Life

George makes a point that catches people off guard. If you choose not to take active control of your mind, you are not avoiding creation. You are outsourcing it.

"Your life is either being created proactively by you or it's being randomly created in ways that you will not like, believe me."

The environment, other people's opinions, social media, and fear-based news: all of these are constantly programming your subconscious whether you are paying attention or not. Becoming proactive about your thoughts is not optional if you want to live on purpose.

The Power of Success Consciousness

Napoleon Hill's concept of success consciousness is a turning point in the episode. George quotes him directly: "Success comes to those who become success conscious." Then he adds the flip side that most people miss. If you are not actively building a success mindset, you are, by default, drifting toward a failure mindset. The mind does not stay neutral.

This is not about toxic positivity or pretending problems do not exist. It is about where you place your sustained attention and intention. What you rehearse in your mind, you tend to move toward in your life.

Building Faith Through Affirmations

The practical tool George recommends for clearing out fear, doubt, and indecision is affirmations. Not vague positive self-talk, but specific, decisive statements about who you are and what you are choosing to build.

Napoleon Hill describes faith as "the eternal elixir which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought." George adds that belief and faith are choices. You can build them deliberately through repetition, the same way you build any other skill.

The goal is to make your affirmations concrete, personal, and consistent. Say them daily. Write them down. Let them become the loudest voice in the room.

Action Steps

Write out your own list of the fears that show up most often in your life, using Napoleon Hill's six as a starting point.
For each fear, draft a reframe: a true statement that acknowledges reality while placing you in control of your response.
Create three to five specific personal affirmations tied to your most important goals. Make them present tense and first person.
Set aside quiet time this weekend to sit with your affirmations. Read them slowly and let them land before you move on.
Practice daily, not just when you are struggling. Consistency builds the success consciousness Napoleon Hill describes.

Fear, doubt, and indecision are not going to disappear entirely. But you do not need them to disappear. You need to stop letting them make decisions for you. 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. My name is George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education so that you can create your ultimate destiny. Man, what a beautiful week. Today's Friday and I'm excited to give you the second part of a concept I was talking to you about yesterday. Yesterday we discussed the power of persistence in helping you to create your ultimate destiny. We also discussed the fact that persistence is the hidden key to unlock and actually open the doors to massive wealth and prosperity in your life and that it will, you know, without it, it will not give you what you need to achieve success. So persistence is key. But today I want to continue this thought by talking about the second part of this, which is persistently studying and eliminating the biggest enemies or challenges you will face in your life that are keeping you from success. And we're going to talk about indecision, doubt, and fear. So I'll go back to the words written by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich. And I'll remind you that Think and Grow Rich has been around over 80 years and has had over 100 million copies. That's right, 100 million copies sold. Most every successful person, entrepreneur, individual that I've met is familiar with the book and studies its concepts. So we're going to go back to that as a guideline, and I want to talk to you a little bit today about the second part of persistence, and this is what Napoleon Hill says about it. You'll also understand the necessity of persistence in carrying out instructions. It begins with study, analysis, and understanding of three enemies which you shall have to clear out. These are indecision, doubt, and fear. Six basic fears. So he says, there are six basic fears with some combination of which every human suffers at one time or another. Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six. Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are the fear of poverty at the bottom of most of one's worries, the fear of criticism, the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of love of someone, the fear of old age, and the fear of death. Now I'm going to stop for a second. I'm going to go back and read those one more time for you because I think we all suffer from these, but these are enemies to your success and you need to find some ways to get through them. We'll talk about that. It's the fear of poverty, the fear of criticism, what people are thinking, the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of love, the fear of old age and the fear of death. He goes on to say, fears are nothing more than states of mind. One state of mind is subject to control and direction Don forget that Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought So following this fact may be explained by the statement that every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind. And with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the thought impulses which are being released by other brains or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice. That's real key, right? And he goes on to say some solutions, which are master the fear of loss of love by reaching a decision to get along without love, if that's necessary. Kill the habit of worry in all of its forms by reaching a general blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry. And I'm going to take a second there and just comment on this because I think it's not just what we do with our thoughts, but our perception. And sometimes it's easier to slightly change our thoughts rather than to try to eliminate certain thoughts. So when you have fears of uncertainty, then you can create and define what creates uncertainty in your life. Because if you feel like uncertainty is a bad thing, that's not going to help you because uncertainty is the area you grow in. What you need to do is you need to redefine it to say, I've been able to handle everything in my life so far, and a lot of things have happened, and I've always gotten through them. So I will always be able to get through areas of uncertainty as an example. Now I want to continue back on with Napoleon Hill. He says, you may control your own mind. You have the power to feed it whatever thought impulses you choose. So with this privilege goes along the responsibility of using it constructively. You are the master of your own earthly destiny, just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts. You may influence, direct, and eventually control your own environment, making your life what you want it to be. Or you may neglect to exercise the privilege which is yours to make your life to order, thus casting yourself upon the broad sea of circumstance where you will be tossed hither and yon like a ship on the waves of the ocean. Now, I mentioned this in another podcast, but remember that you have the power to create your life. But don't assume that if you don't use this power that you're not creating your life because your life is either being created proactively by you or it's being randomly created in ways that you will not like, believe me. And if you let the environment influence your life, your mind is going to pick up these things, whether you're consciously doing it or not. So the problem most of us don't understand is that our mind and our lives are being shaped They just not being shaped by us So make no mistake your life is being shaped But you have to become more proactive because as we talk about eliminating these fears they constantly being inundated into your mind You got to be proactive about shaping your thoughts to deal with them and handle them. So let's go back to Napoleon Hill again. You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the one thing, by the way, I'll just digress for a second. This is the one thing you do have absolute control over. You don't have control over your environment, but he says you have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Know what you want and have the determination to stand by that desire until you realize it. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. When riches begin to come, they will come so quickly in such great abundance that one wonders where they've been hiding all of those years. So it's important to realize that you have to be able to continue to persist even in spite of failure. And he goes on. Success comes to those who become success conscious. This is the next thing I really want to highlight. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. If you're not becoming success conscious, you're unconsciously becoming failure conscious. That's a strong thought. He goes on, every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as burning desire to win. Put yourself in those circumstances, right? And that's a burning desire to win essential to success. He goes on, success requires no apologies. Failure permits no alibis. If the thing you wish to do right and you believe in, go ahead and do it. Put your dream across and never mind what they say if you meet with temporary defeat. for they, quote unquote, perhaps do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of equivalent success. Repetition of affirmations of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith. And faith is the eternal elixir which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a magnetic force which attracts from the vibrations of the of the other similar or related thoughts So this is important because he talks about you got to not only eliminate these areas these three enemies, which include indecision, doubt, and fear, but he talks about the fact that you have the power in your mind to do so. And you also have absolute control over that one thing, which is your mind. And then he continues by one of the real key principles here, which is success comes to those who create success consciousness. And I can't emphasize enough, if you are not working on your mindset for success, then you are indirectly working on your mindset of failure, because that's what life is going to send us the direction of. So yesterday we talked about the need for persistence. We also talked about the four steps for creating persistence and creating and following through with your affirmations. Today, we just added that you need to eliminate those three common enemies to your success, fear, indecision, and doubt, by working on your mind, and you can eliminate them by controlling and influencing your thoughts. But the real hidden gem in these thoughts, in my mind, the real hidden gem in these thoughts are through your affirmations. You can do all of the above by creating your affirmations, by being decisive and specific and persistently saying your affirmations and strengthening your faith, because faith is a choice, but is absolutely, belief is a choice too, and over time your faith will grow. So I would highly recommend that you take this weekend and sit somewhere quiet and slowly and methodically create some powerful statements for yourself in your life, some affirmations or consciously putting together some programming that you can call affirmations so that you can consistently and persistently add those to your life. You know, I hope this information has been helpful for you and that it may be something that you can share with others and help them as well. I would love to hear from you. So if you wouldn't mind, please message me on Facebook. It's under George Wright III, or you can send me comments or message me on either the Facebook or Instagram page, which is The Daily Mastermind. So it's just The Daily Mastermind spelled out for Facebook or Instagram. Also go download the mobile app and you'll be able to use it this weekend. You get free audio books, free eBooks. We also have affirmations, meditation, the blog, podcast, quotes, inspirational quotes. It's all free. And you can use the book Think and Grow Rich in there as well as many other classics. That's why I created it for you. So please use it. But this is our thought for today. I hope this will guide you into the weekend. My name is George Wright III, and I know that you have greatness inside of you. I know that it's never too late for you to begin living the life that you were meant to live. And I hope you have an amazing weekend. I'll look forward to talking with you next week.