Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I have been studying thought experts for 25 years. I've been growing brands and businesses with some of the biggest celebrities and experts in the world, and I created The Daily Mastermind so that I could share with you some of these lessons. If you're an individual, an entrepreneur, a high achiever, you know, my goal is to help you unleash your true potential. But in order to do that, you've got to create consistency, mental discipline, daily rituals. You've got to focus on growing all aspects of your life, like your mind, your body, your money, your business, your lifestyle. And the Daily Mastermind is here to help you do that. So today I have a short segment for you on a thought that I have. Some days I'll do a five, 10-minute segment and other days I'll interview guests experts in those areas that I was talking about in order to help give you some of the behind-the-scenes stories strategies inspiration things that will help you take your business and life to the next level so today I want to talk with you about well let me start with the quote I'm gonna give you a quote of the day and the quote of the day is by Martha Beck it's one you've heard me probably say a million times times and that is how you do anything is how you do everything. So how you do anything is how you do everything and you know a mentor of mine T. Harv Ecker used to say this a lot. We used to do events all over the world and when he was training and when he was working with people you know if this would come up he would say how you do anything is how you do everything and that speaks to the place you are in your life, the results you've had and the life that you've created and so I really love this quote and I challenge you to say it to yourself often so that you can push yourself to new levels in your life and this and this you know this idea that if you're not going and giving it everything you've got then you're not going to get the results that you're looking for and it leads me to the topic I want to talk to you about today but let me start before I get into this topic with a question for you when you approach listen to this question when you approach any area of your life, any area of your life, are you all in? Are you all in or do you sort of give everything your best try? Do you leave projects unfinished? Do you start, you know, projects and business ventures and maybe sometimes you're giving it a ton of energy and sometimes you're not? Do you find ways to sort of throttle back a little bit if you not as excited about something Or maybe you start books and you never finish them or you start a challenge and you don complete the challenge I talking about everything from relationships business job you know, even business relationships. But are you all in or are you just giving it your best shot? Talk about your New Year's resolutions. How many of them have you stuck through and stuck it out and given it everything you have? Here's the thing. I got thinking about this topic the other day because I read this article and it talked a little bit about this same topic. And ever since then, it's kind of been floating around in my mind. And I've been thinking about, you know, am I all in when I'm doing things, whether it's a podcast episode, whether it's work, whether it's a relationship, whether it's spending time with my kids. Are you all in? Am I all in? And I think at the end of the day, I think we're all guilty of not necessarily giving 100% effort on things all the time. But I guess what I'm talking about is commitment level, effort, and many areas of your life. I want you to think about the areas of your life that are significant. And have you made commitments? And when you make a commitment or when you make a decision to do something, are you all in? Do you give it your focus, your obsession, your attention? Do you give it the same level of energy as when you made the decision? So, you know, of course, it's easy to tell myself. myself, I'm sure you tell yourself that quote above, how you do anything is how you do everything, and it'll kind of get you to step up. But I'm really talking about, and I want you to start thinking about this topic, because for some reason in our lives, we tend to cycle through these phases where, you know, we make decisions on areas that we all know we want to create in our life, success and results and better our lives. But at different times, why do we step on the gas and then sometimes let off the gas? Why are we accelerating and giving a ton of attention and commitment and then sometimes we're not? Or maybe like when you learn to drive, you're riding with one foot on the gas pedal and one foot on the brake and you're kind of going back and forth at the same time. And look, obviously it's not a very good strategy to go on and off. And without going all in, you're going to limit your growth. You're going to limit your potential or even the results obviously so I want to talk to you about this idea of going all-in and first I think it's very important for us to recognize why we don't go all-in and everybody's a little bit different but at the end of the day sometimes committing and then going all-in to something it's it's hard it's gonna take work it's scary and maybe we doubt our abilities and our self or our our confidence and we sort of hedge our bets or our options and or maybe you fear getting hurt in a relationship or failure of a project or the pain of having something happen but it's important for you to understand why you don't go all in and as we get older and older I had this conversation with a buddy just the other day as you get older and older and you have these stories that you tell yourself because you now have experience right and your experience might not have been positive on certain things and so you sort of expect the worst or you expect things to happen and so you don't go all in you make the decisions I want my life to be better I want to create this result I want to have this success but we don't totally go all in because we have doubts and fear and it's important to recognize that that's legitimate, right? We're trying to protect ourselves. But it's just as important to recognize what you're sacrificing by not going all in. You're sacrificing your best life. You're sacrificing, especially in the important areas that you're committing to in your relationships, in your business, in your health, your fitness. And it's important to recognize the stuff you're sacrificing. And it's also important to recognize the benefits when you do go all in. Because when you go all in with life, you know, you're going to stand to benefit a ton of different ways, like a deeper commitment. It gives you bigger, better trust, you know, and ultimately you get better results because better outcomes only come from better effort. And your growth and transformation is going to come from going all in because you're going to push yourself. You're going to jump in and over the fire, even though you have doubt with the situations you have. And I really like this commencement speech that I've gone back to a few times with Jim Carey, where he said, you know, fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much it's a player. You get to spend your whole life imagining ghosts or worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening right now. And the decisions we make in this moment, which are either based in love or fear. And what he's saying is you can choose to get wrapped up in the fear or you can make the decision to go all in. It is a decision, but it's also a commitment. And he kind of went on to say that he's learned a lot of great lessons from his father. And I've used this in some of my talks. He says he learned a lot of lessons from his father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance at doing it what you love and I think that really a great piece of advice If you thinking about things and you thinking about whether to go all in you know, ultimately this episode, what I wanted to do is bring awareness to you about how you're playing in the game of life right now. And also I wanted to encourage you, encourage you to go all in. Because you can harness the power that comes from putting your complete focus, attention, desire, and obsession on things that you are passionate about and that you're excellent at. Those unique talents that I often talk about. After all, if you haven't heard this before, I'm sure you have. If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right, which means going all in. Now, I want to leave you with a simple thought. It's a poem that, you know, I've had Les Brown speak for me for many, many years, and he would end almost every single one of his speeches with that I've heard it a million times and I could hear it a million more. And it's a short poem that I'm gonna share with you. And I don't know what the title is. I think it's like if you want something bad enough. But I'm gonna just read it to you as kind of our final thought here today. 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 the opposition for it if you simply go after that thing that you want with all your capacity, strength and sagacity faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity if neither cold, poverty, famine nor gout sickness nor pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want if dogged and grim you besiege it and beset it with the help of God you will get it And I think that just is a great way of saying, go all in. I want you to go all in with the things you're working on in your life. Don't half-ass it. Make a commitment and give it your all. And let's start living the life you were meant to live. Becoming the person you were meant to be. It's never too late to start living the life you're meant to live. So that's my message for today. Do me a favor and share this episode. share it on your social media page share it with a friend tag me in it at The Daily Mastermind on Facebook or Instagram and I'd love to hear how you're doing I'd love to see what I can do to help you out as well once again this has been The Daily Mastermind my name is George Wright III have an amazing day and I will talk with you soon
