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Episode 794 · Jun 13, 2023

Pushing Past Fear: How to Take Action Despite Doubt and Discomfort

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George Wright III opens this episode of The Daily Mastermind with a personal introduction: T. Harv Eker is a mentor who traveled the globe with George and whose work shifted him from financial education into personal development. Harv is the author of *The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind*, and in this episode George shares an audio segment of Harv teaching one of his most powerful lessons: how to push past fear and take the action that connects your inner vision to outer results.

The core insight from Harv is that fear, doubt, and worry are not the problem. Everyone has them. What separates people who build wealth and success from those who don't is whether they act anyway.

Action Is the Bridge Between Your Inner and Outer World

Harv opens with a principle at the heart of his teaching: your thoughts lead to your feelings, your feelings lead to your actions, and your actions lead to your results. Thoughts and feelings belong to the inner world. Results happen in the outer world. That makes action the bridge connecting the two.

You can think about wealth and success all day. You can meditate, visualize, and affirm. But Harv is direct about this:

I've meditated for 25 years. But I've never been meditating there and had a bag of money drop on my head. I'm one of these unfortunate souls that actually has to do something in the real world to get any other stuff.

Without action, nothing crosses from the mental and emotional world into the physical one. If you want physical results, you have to move into the physical realm. That requires doing something.

Successful People Have Fear Too

One of the most freeing ideas Harv teaches is this: rich and successful people are not fearless. They have the same fears, doubts, and worries as everyone else.

It is not necessary to try and get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear. Rich and successful people have doubts. Rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let those feelings stop them and take them out.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is not the presence or absence of fear. It is the response to it. Unsuccessful people let fear paralyze them. Successful people feel it and act anyway.

This reframes the whole challenge. You do not need to eliminate your fear before you start. You need to practice moving forward while it is still there.

The Practice of Acting in Spite of Fear

Because we are creatures of habit, the key is practice. Not a single breakthrough moment, but repeated, deliberate action in the face of discomfort. Harv is clear: practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort.

That word "practice" matters. You are not waiting until it feels comfortable. You are training a new pattern. Every time you choose to act when your instinct says stop, you make it a little easier to do it again.

Harv also points out that we were all unstoppable at one point. Then we were taught to stop, supposedly for our safety. That conditioning spread from actual danger into everything, including the risks worth taking. Recognizing that pattern is the first step to overriding it.

Why Your Comfort Zone Is Keeping You Stuck

Harv challenges every audience with a question: when you are comfortable, what zone are you in? Your comfort zone. And in your comfort zone, are you growing or shrinking?

The answer is you are shrinking. The only time you are growing is when you are uncomfortable. This is not a motivational cliche; it is a practical description of how people develop.

Harv is direct about inconvenience: if a four-hour flight is going to stop you from doing what it takes to succeed, then anything will stop you. You are either a person who will be stopped, or a person who will not be stopped. You get to choose, and then you have to train for it.

The Mindset of People Who Take Shots

Harv shares a pattern he has observed among very wealthy people: they are willing to take a shot. Present them with a viable idea and their response is not a list of reasons it might fail. It is curiosity and a willingness to try. Their attitude toward risk is: what is the worst that can happen? We lose a little, then we try something else.

Most people ask what could go wrong. High performers ask what could go right, and then they find out.

How Your Mind Works Against You

Harv explains that the mind is a protective mechanism. Its job is not to help you succeed or be happy. Its job is to keep you safe. So when you are on the edge of growth, your mind will manufacture feelings of discomfort to pull you back. Understanding this changes your relationship with that feeling.

The discomfort is not a warning that you are on the wrong path. It is a signal that you are growing. Knowing that gives you the ability to move through it rather than retreat from it.

Action Steps

  • Identify one area where fear or inconvenience has been keeping you from acting, and take one concrete step this week.
  • Practice the declaration Harv uses: "I act in spite of fear. I act in spite of doubt. I act in spite of worry. I act in spite of inconvenience. I act in spite of discomfort."
  • Seek out one uncomfortable situation this week and lean into it rather than avoiding it.
  • When your mind tells you something is "not the right time," ask whether the real blocker is safety or comfort.
  • Study the mindset of people who take shots: when you get a good idea, ask "what's the worst that can happen?" rather than waiting for certainty.

The message George Wright III brings through this episode is one of the most liberating in personal development: you do not have to conquer fear to succeed. You just have to act despite it. 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, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Guys, today I want to give you a treat. One of my mentors that I've worked with for quite a while, in fact I traveled the globe with him, T. Harv Eker. He's an individual that got me shifted in my early business days from financial education into personal development. He wrote the book, The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, which was a true guide to understanding that your inner world does create your outer world. And Harv did a phenomenal job of helping people to understand that your thoughts lead to feelings, lead to your actions and your results. And yet he also gave a lot of inspirational words around how to push past fear and doubt. and he shares a little bit in a short audio I want to share with you today that I think will inspire you. I think it'll give you some thoughts and some ideas on how to push past your fears and how to connect the visualization you're trying to create on your inner world into your outer world and really creating some significant results. So I hope you'll enjoy this audio. I'm going to put a link to the original audio in the show notes, but feel free to sit back, listen, take notes, and I hope it'll help you. Let's get right into it. All right, this one is really, really important. Recall the process of manifestation. Say it with me. Your thoughts lead to your feelings, lead to, actions lead to results. Which one is the highlighted one? Action. How many people agree to succeed in the real world, you have to take what? Action. Let's see if that's true. Why is that? Thoughts and feelings, are they part of the inner world or part of the outer world? Inner world, thank you. Results, part of the inner world or part of the outer world? Outer world. And therefore, action becomes the what? The bridge between the inner world and the outer world. Do you understand? So you can think all you want about wealth and success. You can meditate. Listen, I've meditated for 25 years. But I've never been meditating there and had a bag of money drop on my head. I'm one of these unfortunate souls that actually has to do something in the real world to get any other stuff. A lot of people are very kind and generous and wonderful well people they just don do anything or they don do anything at a high enough level or take enough massive action to get anything done they just talk about it they think about it they meditate it but nothing actually happens in the physical world and if you want physical money you'll need to transfer into the physical realm, from the mental, emotional, spiritual sides. And the way to transfer from those three invisible to the visible, from under the ground to above the ground, into the physical realm is through the process of action. True or true? That's why action is absolutely critical. Let me say this right now. My friends, listen closely. Listen closely. Are you're listening. It is not necessary to try and get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear. Rich and successful people have doubts. Rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let those feelings stop them and take them out. Unsuccessful people have exactly the same feelings, but they let those feelings stop them, paralyze them into thinking, oh my God, what will happen? And they're done. True or true? A lot of people believe that rich people don't have fear. That's ridiculous. Ridiculous. So how many people agree we're creatures of habit? Yes? And therefore the secret is to practice. What's the word? Practice acting in spite of fear. Practice acting in spite of doubt. Practice acting in spite of worry. Practice acting in spite of inconvenience. Inconvenience. If your life is about convenience, you'll never be rich. Let me say this right now. It's not always convenient to do what it takes to get rich. And practice acting in spite of discomfort. It's the same thing as I said earlier. I'm going to challenge you right now as I do with all of my students. Are you willing? Are you willing? I want you to find uncomfortable situations and move into them. I want you to look for uncomfortable situations and get involved in them And when something becomes uncomfortable for you that when you go into it You understand that Why Because let me ask you a question We talked about it earlier. When you're comfortable, you're in what zone? You're in your what? Your comfort zone. And in your comfort zone, are you growing or dying? You're going down. So you've got to get uncomfortable until you're uncomfortable. You're not growing. Are you willing? So the only time you're growing is when you're uncomfortable say the only time i'm growing is when i'm uncomfortable pat someone in the back no you're growing man you're growing you can always tell rich people you can always tell middle class people you can almost always tell broke people by what the actions they're willing to take and not a how how much comfort or convenience runs their life you know one of the things we talk about is that at the end of our programs usually we talk about the three-day millionaire mind intensive and very often someone will stand up and say something like they'll say well you know it's not being held in in the city that we're in right now and i'd have to like take a flight and fly for four hours and you know get a hotel and and you know with this and that and it's it's just so inconvenient and have two words you're broke you're broke you have to be broke if a four-hour drive or a four-hour flight or a four day flight is going to stop you from doing whatever it takes you have to do to succeed then what else will stop you here's the easy answer anything anything will stop you why because you are a person that will be stopped now you choose either you are a person that will be stopped or you are a person that will not be stopped. One or the other. And here's the thing. You have to train yourself to not be stopped. It's a practice. You have to train yourself to not be stopped. Because it's easy to be stopped. And most of us were unstoppable at one point and then day two of our lives happened. And we got taught. We got what? to stop for our safety supposedly but we generalized it to everything true or true look you can throw my philosophy right out but here my philosophy If it isn going to kill you physically do it Just do it. One of the things I've been noticing lately with a lot of the rich people I've been dealing with, very rich people, is they're willing to take a shot. It's amazing. I'm a lot less risk prone than they are. But I also see where I am and where they are. Now, I do pretty well. These guys are amazing. And it's like you give them a proposal and they go, that makes sense. That could work. Yeah. All right. Let's give it a shot. And I'm going, well, I'm not sure it's going to work. I know, but let's give it a shot. Well, I'm not sure. I know, but let's go for it. Let's give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen? We lose a few bucks. We try another thing. Well, okay. You understand what I'm saying? They're willing to go for it. And we, like if someone's going to get a little upset with us. No, I don't want to do that. What if I lose what I've got? I'm going to keep it simple. If it's not going to kill you physically, do it. You'll be so much better off in the end than waiting for the exact right moment and time to whenever, by the way, when's the exact right moment in time? When you feel comfortable. Notice it's got you coming and going. And so it doesn't let you be comfortable so that you can make sure it keeps you out of harm's way because your mind is a protective mechanism. Its job is to protect you, not to help you succeed or be happy. Did you know that? Good or good? All right, good. So please stand up for the declaration. One more here. I act in spite of fear. I act in spite of doubt. I act in spite of worry. I act in spite of inconvenience. I act in I act in spite of discomfort. I act in spite of discomfort. I act in spite of anything. I act in spite of anything. I act in spite of anything. Turn to somebody, give me a high five and say, you have a millionaire mind.

About the host
George Wright III, host of The Daily Mastermind

George Wright III

George Wright III is an entrepreneur, investor, and the host of The Daily Mastermind. Over more than two decades he has founded and scaled several multimillion-dollar companies and built a renowned seminar business that put some of the world's biggest names and brands on stage. With 25+ years across marketing, sales, and executive leadership, he's made a career of turning bold ideas into results — and momentum into lasting growth.

Today his mission is singular: empower driven entrepreneurs everywhere to master their mindset, unlock their potential, and live their ultimate destiny. Through The Daily Mastermind, George shares the Prosperity Principles and strategies that help people create massive change — in their business and in their life.

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