George Wright III opens this solo episode of The Daily Mastermind with a question worth sitting with: are you only chasing success, or are you also focused on becoming the person who can attract it? It is a distinction that took George years to learn, and it is the kind of shift in perspective that can change everything about how you pursue your goals.
Drawing on insights from Jim Rohn, T. Harv Eker, Tony Robbins, and Les Brown, George makes the case that true fulfillment comes not just from hitting targets, but from the internal growth you do along the way.
The Problem With Only Chasing Success
For much of his career, George found himself in chase mode: grinding toward financial goals, relationship milestones, and lifestyle benchmarks. And while the action was productive, there was always another goalpost to move once he got there. Making more money and building a bigger lifestyle did not produce the lasting sense of accomplishment he expected. It just reset the bar.
The lesson he draws from this is simple but easy to miss: if you only chase, you will spend your whole life chasing. The feelings you think the achievement will deliver are available to you right now, before the check clears or the deal closes.
Success Is Attracted, Not Just Pursued
George credits Jim Rohn for the insight that reframed his entire approach:
Success is not to be pursued, it's to be attracted by the person that you become.
Personal growth is not just a nice complement to your ambition. It is the engine. When you work on yourself, you become more capable, more fulfilled, and more magnetic to the opportunities you want. The version of you who is constantly growing does more, works harder, and shows up differently than the version who is purely outcome-focused.
Leave Space for Attraction
T. Harv Eker put a practical frame on this idea that George has carried with him:
Take action but leave space for attraction.
This is not a call to slow down or wait passively. It is a reminder that relentless hustle without inner development is a treadmill. You need both: the discipline to take massive action, and the personal growth practices that keep you open to what is coming.
How to Create a Flow State That Works for You
Tony Robbins calls it creating a beautiful state. George describes it as getting into the frame of mind where your perspective, your gratitude, and your goals are all aligned so you can operate at your best. He calls it blissful dissatisfaction: grateful for what you have, but still hungry to grow.
What gets you there will be personal. For George it might be reading, working out, listening to a specific song, or reviewing a vision board. The point is to identify what puts you in that state and prepare for it ahead of time, so you can access it consistently rather than waiting for it to happen by accident.
When you are in that state, massive action becomes natural. The grinding and the attracting are not opposites. They work together when you are grounded and in flow.
A Poem That Creates Emotion and Motion
George closes by reading a poem he has long associated with Les Brown, a speaker he has known personally and used as a mentor throughout his career. He pulls it out when he needs a motivational reset, and he shares it here as an example of the kind of content you can keep in your arsenal:
If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it, if all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it, if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it and lose all your terror of opposition for it.
The poem goes on to say that if you pursue your goal with all your capacity, faith, hope, and confidence, and if nothing, not cold or poverty or sickness, can keep you away from it, then with God's help, you will get it. It is a powerful reminder that the intensity of your desire is itself a force.
Find your version of that poem. It might be music, a photograph, a journal entry, or a passage from a book. The vehicle matters less than the effect: getting yourself emotionally engaged with what you want and why you want it.
Action Steps
- Identify where you are on the spectrum: are you pure grind, pure attraction, or somewhere in between? Honest self-assessment is the starting point.
- Build at least one daily practice that reliably puts you in your optimal state, whether that is a workout, music, reading, or quiet reflection.
- Revisit the Jim Rohn principle regularly: work on becoming the person who attracts the success, not just the one who chases it.
- Find one piece of content (a poem, a speech, a song) that creates real emotion around your goals and keep it accessible for the moments you need a reset.
- Spend time this week clarifying what your best life actually looks like. You cannot pursue what you have not defined.
The pursuit and the attraction are not opposites. They are partners. When you commit to personal growth alongside your ambition, you stop moving goalposts and start building a life that feels meaningful every day along the way. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

