All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. My name is George Reich III. I'm your host. And after the past 25 years of working with big brands and businesses and growing their businesses, I've had a chance to work around a lot of thought leaders, celebrities, experts, individuals that have achieved huge success in business. And that's the reason I created the Daily Mastermind, so that I could share some of the lessons that I've learned, some of the stories, and help individuals, entrepreneurs, and high achievers like yourself achieve your true potential. But you know what takes, in order to create your best life, you've got to focus on this full package, right? You've got to focus on your mind, your body, your money, your business, your lifestyle. And the Daily mastermind is going to help you to do that. We've got to have consistency, mental discipline, and grit. And I think that having that consistent exposure to the daily mastermind will help you to do that. So, you know, some days I'm going to be going through five, 10 minute thoughts of my own others, like the series we're going to launch here upcoming. I'll be interviewing guests that are successful and experts in these key areas of your life, sometimes going behind the scenes and sometimes just getting the strategy and tactics. But today I want to continue this conversation about habits of high performance. And the idea that I love, love, love this book by Brendan Bouchard, High Performance Habits, how extraordinary people become that way. And clarity is something that I think most of us want more of in our life, but few of us put the time into finding. So I'm gonna spend some time with you today and talk to you about clarity. Now, I don't know if you ever have those days where you wish you had more direction or where you wonder if you're on the right path or when you ask yourself if you're choosing the right things or chasing the right dreams, but maybe you just feel confused sometimes. Why do these circumstances, events, or people in your life continue to cause you stress and anxiety? Well, ultimately, when we're faced with decisions, difficult circumstances, and even critical choices in our lives, this is when the need for clarity becomes so important because it becomes sort of a gauge or a litmus test for making big decisions. And in the book High Performance Habits Brennan talks about one of the first and most fundamental priorities for or let say characteristics of high performers it clarity So if you struggling with direction uncertainty difficulty making decisions, or maybe you're making the wrong decisions consistently, then it's highly possible you lack clarity in your life. And so I want to talk to you a little bit about clarity today and some strategies to help you gain more of it. So first and most importantly, clarity isn't something that you have. It's something that you generate. So even if you don't have clarity right now, you can generate more clarity. And the key to this is by asking great questions. Just like we talk about if you got to change your thoughts, if you want to change your life and how do you change your thoughts with great questions, it's the same with clarity. So you've got to ask and really think through who are you? What do you want? How are you going to get there? You understand what I'm saying? The second thing is clarity will have, and this is a very important thing. I want to make sure that I have you really truly hear when I'm saying this. Clarity is going to have a direct impact on your self-esteem, both positive and negative, and your confidence levels, even though there's two different things. Think about when you're the clearest in your life about direction and decisions. It really gives you this sense of self-esteem and positivity, whereas if you're lacking clarity, you're lacking direction, it's going to cause a lot of negative emotions in your life. So the goal is to create unambiguous and yet challenging goals in order to increase your self-esteem as well as your performance. And, you know, you've got to know who you are. You got to know what exactly you want and how you're going to get it. When you have those things, you'll have more clarity. So I'm not going to get into a ton of detail, but Brendan's book talks about three things needed, or they're kind of like these traits and these areas of focus that high achievers, that they've identified with high performance, high achievers. The first is envisioning your future for, which I'll get into in a minute. The second is determining the feelings that you're after, that you want. And the third is determining what's meaningful for you in your life. So let's break that down for a second. The future four. So high performers, they get clear on what they want for themselves, their social world their skills and their service to others All four of those things They get clear on what they wanting in the future for themselves their social world their skills, and their service to others. Now, I'm going to let you read for yourself more details. There's a great, great strategies, tips, stories, and things in the book. But the key here is to determine very clearly and precisely, what do you want in each of these areas? What do you want to manifest in your life in these areas? For example, when someone describes you, myself, for example, I want them in myself, I want them to say motivational, inspirational, confident. Those are the things that I want to get clear on for myself and the future version of myself. And you don't have to be worried about whether or not you're already there. The point is you're aspiring to get clear on this future version of yourself that you're getting to. Or like with social, I would like people to describe me as caring and present and inspiring. And for those of you that know me, you know I'm not always present. My mind is going a million different directions. But I'm aspiring to create the future of my social interaction to be more caring, more present, more inspiring. And then you do the same thing for your skills and your service to others. You get the point. But the real point here is that you've got to get clear on those four areas of your future life. The next thing is that you want to and you need to determine what feelings you want. What feelings you want. Now, my mentor, most of my life, Robert Stuburg, always used to have me and others go through this values exercise. What are the things you value? Is it peace, happiness, love, recognition, success, accomplishment, and maybe even areas that you value that are negatives? Like you value not having stress, not having anxiety, not having conflict. But when you get clear about what you value, it also sheds light on this area of determining the feelings you want. Because sooner or later, we all recognize that it's not the things that we want. It's not the house, the car, the job, any of those. It's the feelings that the things will give us in our lives. You know, it's not having a relationship. It's having the feeling of love and companionship and support and loyalty that you're looking for. So you need to determine what feelings you want to create in addition to getting clear on your future for. And then finally, Brennan talks about developing clarity by determining what's meaningful in your life More importantly and he asked over 1 high performers how do they determine what was the most meaningful for them And here basically what they said And it kind of an equation, but I'm going to break it down for you. The first thing that determines meaningfulness is enthusiasm. They want to work on the projects they have passion around. So getting enthusiasm will create more meaning. Connection is another one to others outside of themselves. Without Without connection, meaning in your life is not going to be as significant. Another part is satisfaction. And satisfaction obviously will create meaning in your life. But that satisfaction he goes on to talk about is when you combine passion and growth and contribution and all these things, you get the sense of satisfaction, which will create meaning in your life. And then finally, coherence. Does what you're doing and how you're living your life make sense? Does it make sense overall? So ultimately, these four things go together to create strong meaning in high performance, enthusiasm, connection, satisfaction, and coherence with that meaning. And this leads to clarity. So let's just review here real quick. And then I'll let you go. Clarity for high performance, high achievers is created by envisioning your future self, your social, your skills, your contribution, finding the feelings you truly want, and determining what has meaning in your life. When you do those things, your sense of clarity will go through the roof. So I hope this is a topic that's helped you to create some more awareness, highlighted the focus on the need for clarity in your life and business. And I highly encourage you to check out the book. I mean, let's work on being more intentional with your life this week. After all, a life worth living is a life worth planning and being intentional with. 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