Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education so that you can create your ultimate destiny. Today we're on episode 122, and I want to give you a good couple of thoughts to carry yourself into the weekend. I'm going to start with the quote of the day out of our Daily Mastermind mobile app or also in Facebook if you're in our Facebook page. And the quote is this, plan your work and work your plan. Plan your work and work your plan. That's a great quote, it's an anonymous quote. And so I hope you're getting some value out of the Daily Mastermind mobile app. It's free, all the resources from meditation, affirmations, you know, all of your daily rituals. But I want to jump right to the message I want to share with you because I'd like you to be using this into the weekend and into your next week. And the topic I want to talk to you about today is one that I picked up from several different resources, but one most recently, great reminders of it, is a friend and mentor colleague of mine, Aaron Adams. He's a eight figure mentor, does over 50, 60 million dollars in real estate property on an annual basis. In fact, he's got a new book coming out that'll be hitting the Barnes and Noble stores here October 15th and the month of October. So his name's Aaron Adams. But he makes this statement a lot, and I really, really like it. Excuse me. I love it from a standpoint of direction, motivation, inspiration, everything else. And the statement's this, say yes, then figure it out. Say yes, then figure it out. He's a great example of that. And I've had that in my life, as well as many people that I associate with that are very successful. And, you know, what it boils down to is, do you ever feel that you're having a tough time just taking action? Do you get into that planning mode, that organizational mode? You know, maybe feel like you're not making enough progress, even though you're moving forward, but a lot of things are happening around you. Now, this could because that you may feel this because your conscious is telling you that you're hesitating too much, that you're not moving forward at your true potential. So I want to use an example of a movie that I really believe says it really, really well. And it's a funny movie. You may have seen it. You may not have seen this by Jim Carrey. It's called Yes, Man. And the movie is, it's one that I'll kind of set it up. It's really funny to me because it depicts a seminar company in the beginning. And, you know, I've done a lot of financial education events around the world. So it's sort of comical for me. And if you've ever been to an event, you'll know what I mean. But it also has an incredible message and meaning as well. So let me set the stage for you. In the beginning of the movie, Jim Carrey has a friend who is seeing a lot of success and things in his life. He kind of says, hey, man, what's going on in your life? And he says, oh, man, I went to this event, this seminar, kind of changed my life. You've got to come to it. So he totally talks, Jim Carrey, his name's Carl in the movie. He talks Carl into going to the seminar with him and it suddenly just makes a huge difference for him. Now, I don't know if you have someone in your life that you've kind of seen some changes in, you kind of wonder what's going on with them, and it makes you kind of curious like you did in this movie but I going to kind of set the scene for you So in the beginning part of this movie he in this big hotel room where there you know just maybe a couple thousand people and he sort of sitting in the back He a little hiding back there He he uh you know he doesn really want to be there He's going because his friend wants him to go. And, um, Carl, Jim Carrey in the movie is kind of struggling. He's got a bunch of things going wrong in his life. Nothing's happening. He's like, man, I'm going to, I'm going to go to this thing. You know, I may as well, I got nothing else going on and things are going bad for him. But this seminar guru kind of jumps up on the stage and the lights go and there's this huge crowd and it's all these positive people and things. It's so funny. And, you know, the first question that this guru Terrence asks is, who's new here? And it's so funny because the spotlight goes down onto Carl and his friend goes, he is, he is. And he points to him and he's like, oh, my gosh, he's trying to hide, you know, because he doesn't want to be having any attention sent to him. But not because he wants it to happen, but this guru jumps off stage and comes running down and he just sits right in front of him and everybody turns and all of a sudden the entire spotlight's on him. I mean, can you imagine, you know, when you're trying to just go through life and, you know, just not be noticed and kind of like hide in the crowd, this is the opposite of what you want to happen. So this guru jumps down, he goes down, he's right in front of him and he says, he says, Carl, you're dead, Carl. You say no to life. You make up excuses to appease people around you. You know, you, you're, you're stuck in the same dead end job. You have no girlfriend. Um, you know, most nights you're bored and lonely. Does this describe you, Carl? And, uh, and, and Carl's just sinking in the seat and he's like, uh, yes. You know, He just can't believe that he's totally depicting who he is because he could tell Carl was kind of evasive and didn't want to participate and he was sitting on the side. And the truth is that kind of describes most people, in my opinion. Most people do say no to life. Most people are stuck. Most people don't have much going on and they feel like they're just a face in the crowd and they don't want to be in the spotlight. They don't want to be put on the spot. right so so this guru is kind of putting him on this pressure um because he's trying to get him to make some some kind of transformation and he gets really close up to him he just gets super close and he kind of gets a little quieter and he's like he says we're gonna make a covenant carl do you want to make a covenant carl and and jim carrey's like uh uh he doesn't he he doesn't want to say no because he knows the crowd will just turn on him um but he but the guru says he says Carl, once you leave this building, every time an opportunity presents itself, you're going to say yes, no matter what it is. And this is where the best part of the movie is. He says, Carl turns to the guru and he says, well, what if I slip up and I actually say that other word? And he doesn't want to say the word no because he's going to get ridiculed for it. And the guru turns to him and he says, and this answer is pretty important. And he says, well, then you'd be breaking a covenant with yourself, Carl. And when you break a covenant with yourself, bad things happen. So I want you to stop and think about that for a second for a bunch of reasons. Number one, you know, do you find yourself in life just saying no to a lot of things? Do you find yourself telling people what they want to hear? Do you find yourself just kind of moving along with the crowd, with the herd, right? I want you to stop and think about what would change in your life if you started saying yes to opportunities and then figuring it out later But more importantly I don want to breeze over the topic that when you make a covenant to yourself because many of us make these promises or these commitments to start working out or do better in our relationship or our business and all these kinds of things, it's important to understand that the only person that is going to get hurt when you break that promise is you. See, I believe most broken promises to ourselves are the reasons that individuals have such self-doubt, such a lack of confidence, and most importantly, a low self-esteem. When you have low self-esteem, your belief, your fulfillment, your passion, your happiness, everything suffers. So anyway, let me go back to this movie analogy. The guru turns to Carl Jim Carrey and he says, are you ready to make a covenant, Carl? You know, are you ready? And he totally hesitates. And the bottom line is he says, yes. And then the crowd goes wild and, you know, Terrence turns around and he's just a rock star and he walks back to stage like, I just changed your life, right? You made a decision. And I think that's important in the analogy because I do think the biggest step is for you to actually make the decision, right? Make the decision to make a covenant with yourself, but understand that when you make a covenant with yourself, it's not only important to keep that covenant, but it's also important to understand that when you don't keep those covenants, it can affect you dramatically, right? Now, I got to make a little note here. Carl feels so much better, I noticed, in this scene once he says yes, just because he said yes. And sometimes that's all it takes. But know that the entire movie is set around the struggle and overcoming and identifying what the true meaning of saying yes and figuring out later is. So let me give you a couple of suggestions. I want to help you to get some strategies that can allow you to implement this whole concept of say yes and figure it out later. And then I'm going to circle back around and we'll kind of cap off with a couple of extra thoughts. There's a few strategies that I use in order to get more progress quicker and not worry so much, but say yes and figure it out later. And a couple of those strategies are going to be this. Number one, don't be afraid to fail. You have to fail when you move forward. That's how you learn. That's how you know you're moving forward. If you never failed, then you're clearly not operating outside of your comfort zone. So learning to be okay with failure is a key. Also, number two, don't feel like you need all the answers to make progress. That's why most people are stuck. They want to have everything perfect. You got to understand that perfect indecision is way, way, way worse for you. Is that a good word? Way worse, way worse for you than imperfect progress. Imperfect progress is far better than perfect indecision, right? Number three, I want you to realize that confidence will come second. Don't wait for confidence to move forward because when you move forward and you get results, that's what builds your confidence. You've got to say yes and figure it out later. Also, finally, my last suggestion is just focus on the solution. Make sure when you're moving forward, when you're failing your way to success, when you're building your confidence through experience, that you're not focused on the problem, but that you're focused on the solutions. Because when you start seeing things go wrong, you get stuck, right? So focus on the solutions. Those are just a few strategies I feel like if you say yes and figure it out later you got to be willing to fail You got to be willing to you know figure out the answers as you go along you know build your confidence because it come second and focus on solutions not the problem Now if you do these things I know you make progress and I know you see success No question, no doubt it will happen. So let me get back to this movie analogy because it's, it's amazing. And you've got to go watch the movie if you haven't seen it, or maybe watch it again, because you'll see all these little messages in there now that you do it. But, you know, During the movie, Carl has this amazing life. He meets a girl. He learns to dance, learns to speak another language. He gets a Russian bride. He rides a Ducati. He just sees the world. It's all these things that all your wildest dreams could come true, right? But as he goes through the movie, everything starts to fall apart. It's like saying yes, got him all this stuff, but all of a sudden it brought with it a whole bunch of other problems as well. And he had to learn another important lesson. And that lesson is that you have to expect things to go wrong, right? You got to expect things to go wrong and know that that's okay. So during the end of this movie, he hunts down this seminar guru and he says to him, you know, just release me from this covenant. I don't want to have to do this anymore. And through this end scene, you know, he learns that it never really was about saying yes all the time. You know, the real meaning is that you can't please everyone. Now, some of you are trying to please everyone by just saying no all the time or basically not participating in life. And that's what I meant is like, you know, you're saying no to life. Right. But but saying yes and figuring out later doesn't mean saying yes to everyone. You know, there's a there's a very, very, very important part of that. You can't please everyone. You have to learn to say no. But when it comes to you and when it comes to your life and you know what those key things are that you need to start saying yes to, You need to say yes and figure it out later. Start living your life. Start living your life the way you ought to be living it. All of us know deep down what we need to be doing, how we need to be doing it. So let me just ask you this question. Are you ready to make a covenant with yourself? You know, are you ready to start saying yes to life and figuring it out later? Are you ready to start saying yes to opportunities? And most importantly, are you ready to start saying yes and just figuring out as you go and not worrying about the future, not trying to get caught up in what could go wrong? If you're willing to start saying yes more and figure it out later, you're going to be on a great adventure. You're going to have far more fulfillment and you will ultimately start living the life you were meant to be living. I promise you that if you say yes and figure it out later, that you're going to have imperfect progress. But you will have progress nonetheless. I hope that will help you. I hope it'll stir you to move forward, to start thinking more about making decisions to move rather than trying to make things perfect. And if that's something that you feel good about or you have some feedback for me, hit me up. DM me on Instagram at The Daily Mastermind or our Facebook page. Download the mobile app. Send me a comment in that. I look forward to helping you out. And I hope you have an amazing weekend. Once again, for those of you that are new, my name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind Podcast. Have an amazing weekend. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you.
