Rockstar Advice 3 Lessons I Learned from My 1 Year Old Grandson

Rockstar Advice 3 Lessons I Learned from My 1 Year Old Grandson

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Welcome back to the Daily mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I'm down in Las Vegas this week, so if you're down there, hit me up. I'd love to know what you're working on, but I wanna share with you a thought I posted on social this week. And it is just a random thought to give you a little bit more about me, as well as give you a few life lessons and some things to be able to help you to slow down.

So many people are grinding and grinding, working, creating success, creating your life.

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A Personal Anecdote: Lawson's Birthday

As I believe it's never too late to start living the life that you were meant to live, but this last weekend, my grandson, Lawson. He had his 1-year-old birthday, and my daughter did an amazing job of having a little themed rockstar tour, world tour type of theme.

So you have to go to social media and check that out. But it's funny because, he turned one this past week and. Before I even get started on that, like I said, online, it's let's just address the elephant in the room. Grandson. I know, right? It doesn't really make sense for me to have a grandson considering, how young I feel and look, right?

But somehow it happened and I love it. And now that I got that off my chest and address that from a lot of people. Let's talk about some serious and important life lessons because, as I watch and observe. This little rockstar Lawson. I gotta tell you, man, I've literally learned some amazing lessons and it's interesting what you can learn when you pay attention, right?

And I wanna just share a couple thoughts with you.

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Life Lesson 1: Stop Worrying About Others' Opinions

The first thought is this, stop worrying about what everyone thinks about you. Does that make sense? Stop worrying about what everyone thinks about you. So if you've seen my grandson Lawson, he has. This long hair. And my daughter had it all spiked up like a rocker for his party.

But when you see a picture of him online, you're gonna know what I mean. This kid, he just has hair everywhere and he just looks so cute. And as you can tell, he doesn't care. He doesn't give it a second thought. Who doesn't love just a kid that just does his own thing.

But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking he's one years old. And I hear you, but listen to what? Listen to this principle. All of our programming that has shaped our lives, our beliefs, our philosophies, our behaviors, all started at a young age. We talked about this the other day. You were born to win.

I. But you're programmed to fail, and so it doesn't really matter whether I'm talking about a 1-year-old or anything like that. You have to learn this lesson and stop worrying about what people think about you. Stop worrying about how you look, how you appear, what people think about you. Here's a crazy thought.

You have to eventually accept this. Nobody cares about how you look. They're too busy worried about themselves. They're too worried about how they look and how they're perceived. That's what most people are doing. So stop spending energy on stupid things like how you look. I can promise you focusing on spending your time and attention on what really matters, like your family, your business, your present moment, memories that you're creating, that's where it's all about, and that's what it's that's the focus you need to have.

Life is too short to get caught up in what other people think, period.

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Life Lesson 2: Stay Chill Amidst Chaos

The second lesson that I kinda learned from him is just chill. Lawson is a pretty chill little kid. We all know people like that. They're just like, man, they just, everything is going fine for them no matter whether craziness has happened or not.

Lawson's no different. His brothers, on the other hand, they are like little tornadoes. They just tear everything up within a 12 foot radius of everything in their path. We could have the most chill thing going on, and they've got Nerf guns, they've got, they're jumping off couches like it's crazy.

But not literally tearing things up, but you know what I'm saying. Some of the times it feels like that. But Lawson will just sit on the floor in the middle of the chaos and just take it all in. When he sees something he wants, he just goes over and gets it. It's that simple. They are running around and he just doesn't care.

He's just living life. And I think in life sometimes we let our environment, the people around us or our circumstances completely affect and shape how we behave and react. It's like a thermostat. When you're in a, when you're in a room and your thermostat is set to your environment, what's gonna happen is you are gonna adjust your actions and behaviors to everything going on around you.

So you could be very calm at first, but then you go to your work and everything's crazy, and all of a sudden your stress levels raise and you raise to the temperature. It's maybe a better example of that is when you put something in a pot of water to boil the temperature of that item is going to slowly warm up to the temperature.

The pot. We've all heard that analogy of boiling a frog in water. Like he he, if he just slowly goes and goes, he doesn't realize the temperature and eventually just, it doesn't work out right for the frog. But I think in life we've got to learn to sit back and take in the craziness and not let it affect us so much, or how you change your life and, ha have it change everything about you.

March to the beat of your own drum, do what you want. Find ways to create peace of mind so that you don't get thrown off course, because you can't control that batshit crazy group of people around you, right? But you can certainly choose how you're gonna react to them. And, a good example of this is I've always talked about that.

If you've ever heard me use that sailor analogy, it's not the, for a sailor, a true professional, like skilled sailor, it is the set of the sale. That determines their direction, not the way, not the direction the wind's blowing, not the craziness of the, weather around them.

That's why they say a good sailor say, someone who sails a sailboat can sail in the wind because it doesn't matter what direction the wind's blowing when you have your sail set and you know what you're doing. All the stuff around you doesn't determine your direction. You determine your direction and that's a really important process.

But I think if you just chill, you're gonna do better.

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Life Lesson 3: Enjoy Life and Create Memories

The third thing is learn to have fun and enjoy life. My daughter, like I said, she did an awesome job of making her boys. I. Enjoying life. She, she loves him unconditionally, gives him time and attention. And throwing a world tour rockstar birthday party is just one example.

And the point to note here is that Megan, my daughter, has all kinds of stuff. She's dealing with problems, circumstances, day-to-day life, right? But she made sure there was an awesome birthday, and guess what? Lawson wasn't caught up in all the events and stress and circumstances that it took to put on this party.

He wasn't, he just enjoyed his little party smashing cake, eating candy, open 'em presents and all that kinda stuff. And believe me, I know that we, that most one year olds are oblivious to the real world. But how often do we allow ourselves to get caught up in the drama of the circumstances around things in our life and the stress, and then miss out on the present moment?

Experiences that we could be having. Now, I'm not saying that we can be as oblivious as a kid, but we certainly can find times that we can set aside our external circumstances and problems and enjoy life a little bit more. Enjoy the present moment and when you have the intention of creating memories in the present moment.

You would be surprised what would happen when you create an intention like that. And when you learn to enjoy life a little bit more, it helps you deal with life even better. So learn to get grounded in the present moment at times. Create a few memories, enjoy life. Learn to find ways to offset that stress, work priorities and things you have.

Oh, and one more thing. I like to say this on my podcast a lot. Don't let your vision of the future rob you of the joy of the present moment, meaning. You may be driven and you may have amazing goals and lots of things that you wanna accomplish, but don't be so focused on that, that your vision of the future is robbing you of the joy in the present because really the only life you're living is right now.

Like listening to this podcast, this is the only life you're living right now. The past is over and the future hasn't happened, and too many of us listen to that stupid phrase, grind now. So you don't have to tomorrow do what most people don't do so you can live like most people want. That is a bunch of crap and I believe that you can have both.

I believe that you can grind and you can work and you can accomplish your goals, but you can also enjoy the present moment. Find time to do that, work hard and play hard, and learn to have a little bit of fun.

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Conclusion and Contact Information

Anyway, that's my message for today. I hope you, learn something from that. Find ways in your life that you can learn from.

Whatever it is that you are experiencing and finding, and I look forward to talking with you more tomorrow. Do me a favor and hit me up on the Daily Mastermind. You can DM me on the Facebook or Instagram page or you can even email me. In fact, lemme give you my personal email address. It's george@gthreeworldwide.com, g the number three worldwide.com.

I do that every once in a while. I like to see who actually goes outta their way to ask for help. Ask for assistance and let's see what I can do to help you out. Anyway, have a great day. I'll look forward to talking with you more tomorrow. Got a lot of great messages coming in from Las Vegas this week and I'll talk with you soon.