All right, all right. Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I'm glad you're joining me today. I want to send you off into the weekend with a few thoughts, but I hope you've had a great week so far. And, you know, even if you got a little off track, just remember it's a new day, it's a new challenge, and it's a new opportunity for you to create your best life ever. I want to revisit with you a topic that started this entire podcast and everything that I'm focused on right now in my life, and that's the power of the mastermind. Now, I know you've heard that term thrown out a lot. You've certainly heard it a lot if you've heard our podcast, The Daily Mastermind. But the idea here is that I wanna talk to you today about the topic of the power of the mastermind. And it's pretty exciting because it's the whole reason I created this podcast. It's the whole reason I created the community, the Daily Mastermind community. And also much of the driving force behind what we're going to be coming out with in the fourth quarter here with our academy, which is the mastermind group, as well as CEO Mentoring and some of the other resources that we're going to make available. But many of you have heard of the mastermind, but my goal today is to really just kind of take a relook at what it is and how it works and how it can be applied in your life to help you to create more and to create the best version of everything you want, whether it's yourself, your relationships, your business, and everything else. And it helps sometimes to go back. So I first learned about the mastermind from reading Think and Grow Rich. How many of you have actually read Think and Grow Rich? A lot of people I know have skipped through it, have read it a little bit, but how often and how much do you go back to it? You've got to realize the power of what's going on here. Think and Grow Rich was written by Napoleon Hill and it's 100 million copies sold over 80 years. And it was written, and it still is, on the bestseller list. So that says something for you. It's really a cornerstone and kind of a foundational book for personal development. Now, I've read it in the past, but when was the last time you actually have reread it or studied it or applied its strategies? Because they're time-tested. I personally read and continue to study it all the time because there's different phases of your life that you go through. But let me tell you a quick story. About, oh, I don't know, about eight years ago, when I was really struggling to find some direction in my personal and business life, and I had had a lot of success. I mean, I was having really good success, but I think as many of you know, you can have a lot of success and not necessarily feel that fulfillment, purpose, and desire to drive forward. But I remember sitting down one night when I couldn't sleep. And I'm sure many of you have had those same type of experiences. I talk to people more and more every day that just can't sleep. Anyway, I was listening to an audio book by Napoleon Hill that had made a pretty big impact on me And it just goes to show when you go back to a subject and study it he was talking about how he had actually had a similar point in his life where he was struggling. He had written the laws of success and achieving success and all of this personal development content. But then there was the Great Depression and he actually lost everything, His 600-acre estate, the bank had closed. He had lost all his money. He'd lost his confidence, his drive, and even his determination. This is Napoleon Hill we're talking about. And he was questioning himself, just like you do sometimes, just like I do when I struggle. And he was saying things like, you know, how could he believe and teach principles that he knew he himself was actually struggling with? How could he do things that he was having trouble with? Plus, how could he be doing it and how could he ever make a change during a great depression when everything was going wrong? I mean, does it sound kind of similar to you right now? All the changes, all the difficult things happening in life. Do you ask yourself, how can I even get ahead when so much craziness is going on? I mean, think about it. What it must have been like during a depression to try to motivate yourself to create success. And then a thought and a realization came to him. And I remember him saying, he remembered a couple important principles. And I want to share those with you today because he remembered and reminded himself that number one, every obstacle carries within it the seed of an equal or greater opportunity. Every obstacle carries a seed of an equal or greater opportunity. He realized that he had actually been handed the greatest gift of all. to prove his strategies in a time when it was undeniably the worst on human mindset he had ever witnessed. He could actually show how people could use their thoughts and create a better life. And the second thing is he realized he had not been applying the principle of the mastermind, the very thing that he had been a proponent of his whole life. He had been going about it as a lone wolf. How many of you are trying to do things and you feel like you're just on your own? You're a lone wolf. No one would understand me. Nobody gets it. I'm in my own little bubble. I've definitely had that. I feel like, especially recently, when you're working on your own, you just get used to it. Because most of my companies, I've gone from three, four, 500 employees to virtually none, all outsourced. And Zoom doesn't quite do it, right? But you may feel like you're grinding alone. So he realized every obstacle contains a seed of an equal or greater opportunity, and he had been not applying the principle of the mastermind. And so what about you? Have you felt alone in your entrepreneurial journey, like the pressure was all on you and only you, and you're the only one that can fix it? Have you ever felt like there's no one that really understands or supports you or maybe you feel like your circumstances are impossible and there too much stacked against you Well I can relate and I sure Napoleon Hill can relate given his situation but he made a choice He made a choice to move forward and apply some principles that have been time tested. Think about it. A hundred million copies in 80 years over time. And I decided to do that same thing by creating the Daily Mastermind. Now here we are, we're on, you know, episode 858. I can't even believe it. And I'm creating one of the world's largest communities of entrepreneurs focused on personal development, financial education, and working to create their ultimate destiny, the one that they deserve and should be living. And guess what? I believe it's time for you to start tapping into your greatness at a higher level and apply the amazing principles of the mastermind as well and take your life and business to the next level, but not on your own. So what is the mastermind and how can it help you? Well, first of all, you got to understand the mastermind is not a get rich quick, you know, law of attraction, just things come to you. You're not going to be sitting by your mailbox and have checks come in. It's not how it works. It's creating a definite purpose and aligning other people to help work towards the same purpose. So Napoleon Hill defines the mastermind in Think and Grow Rich as, I'll just give you the definition, a mastermind alliance is the coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or more for the attainment of a definite purpose. I highlighted definite purpose. And there are several benefits that you can get from a mastermind. No two minds, he says, ever come together without creating a third invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind. And when a group of individual brains are coordinated in a function of harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to everyone in the group. That increased energy is what a lot of us need in our life. And finally, he says, when two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work towards a definite purpose, they place themselves in a position through the alliance to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of infinite intelligence. So think about that for a second. You know, a mastermind is not you by yourself. It's not you just coordinating with some podcasts. It's a coordination of people working towards a definite purpose, but you can get a intangible force that you normally don't have. You can increase your energy and you can set yourself up to attract that which you need in your life. And so the Daily Mastermind podcast has that same purpose. It's to provide resources, knowledge, support, experience, and that spark, that creative genius I know that's inside of you. It's just to spark that for you. And I want to assist you in creating whatever it is you want to create. I believe that you were born to be incredible. You got things inside you that you can share with the world that you can share with your family your relationships And the purpose of this podcast is I want to challenge you to stop trying to do it alone and stop drifting You know this idea of drifting is that you're not focused on a definite purpose. You're just going through the motions and maybe you're crushing it. You know, I had much of my life, I was just crushing it, making more money than most people would believe, right? But the purpose and passion have to be aligned with something that you feel you're gonna be really, truly creating and fulfilling your destiny. And so stop focusing on just grinding and start tapping into the power of a mastermind, a mentor, community, because I know you can do it. And I know you can dig deeper into your mastermind and into this concept of the mastermind, but I think it will also help you to create more fulfillment, more purpose, and more impact on the people around you. Because you may be getting to a point right now where your purpose is no longer yours. It's your kids. It's your family. It's creating legacy. Your purpose may be that you want to share something that's going to outlast or outlive you. So these are all concepts I think the power of the mastermind can help you with. So let me give you a couple of steps to start with. Number one, take it upon yourself to study the mastermind principle. Think and grow rich, chapter 10. Just start there. Chapter 10 and think and grow rich, the power of the mastermind. Number two, identify two or more people that you can align with to form your own mastermind. Positive, dependable, loyal, happy, successful people. They don't have to be doing the same thing you're doing, but they might be trying to accomplish the same impact and legacy in the world. But it's not a support group. Remember, this is not people that are just going to listen to your problems. They're focused on a common purpose. So don't worry about being perfect. Your group will change over time, but find a couple people you can align with and have some consistency talking to. And then, you know, create and maintain. And this is a key. You've got to identify a definite purpose. Your vision and clarity is so important for you. And once you do that, you can continue to elicit the help and the support and the feedback from people in your mastermind and people around you. So I appreciate you taking time. Congratulations on, you know, focusing on, you know, creating your life, taking a little bit of time to focus on you, because I think that time is going to be well put into everything else in your life. Because I know you're a busy entrepreneur, business owner, you know, high achiever, but tapping into the principles and powers that are truly going to drive you that 20% of what you may be tapping right now that's going to create 80% of the results. I challenge you to continue to work towards your goals and to dig into this power of the mastermind and continue working on your definite purpose. And that's my message for today. I hope it gives you some food for thought over the weekend. My name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind, and I appreciate you tuning in. Do me a favor and share this show. Push it out there. Tag me in it so I know what you're up to. And I look forward to talking with you more on Monday. Have a great day.
