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Episode 829 · Aug 17, 2023

Stack Wins to Build Real Confidence That Lasts

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George Wright III opens this solo episode of The Daily Mastermind with a direct challenge: stop waiting for your mindset to be perfect before you act. Confidence, he argues, is not something you think your way into. It is something you build, one stacked win at a time.

If you have been spending your mornings doing affirmations and personal development work hoping that confidence will eventually show up, this episode is a reset. George makes the case that action itself is the most reliable path to the confidence most people spend years chasing.

Why Mindset Work Alone Is Not Enough

George cites a success principle he attributes to Alex Hormozi: most people let their mindset determine their actions, while successful people let their actions determine their mindset. The order matters enormously. When you wait until you feel ready, you are letting your current beliefs set a ceiling on what you will attempt.

Most people let their mindset determine their actions. Successful people let their actions determine their mindset.

That reversal is the foundation of everything in this episode. You do not need perfect confidence to start. You need action that generates evidence, and the evidence builds confidence.

How the Belief Cycle Works Against You

George walks through what he calls the belief cycle: your beliefs shape the level of action and resources you invest in something, and those actions and resources determine your results. The trap is that humans are wired to validate their existing beliefs, even when those beliefs are limiting.

Imagine someone tells you to try a new approach. You say okay, but deep down you do not really believe it will work. So you put in minimal effort, get minimal results, and your original belief gets confirmed. You never gave it a real chance, but your brain logged it as proof that it would not work.

If your actions don't reflect what you say you believe, then you don't believe it.

The way out is to push past your belief by pouring more action and more resources into something regardless of how confident you feel. When you do that, results follow. And results change your beliefs faster than any affirmation ever will.

What Real Confidence Is Built From

George draws a clear distinction between real confidence and what he calls artificial confidence. Artificial confidence comes from validation by other people or from acting as if without the underlying wins to back it up. It feels good until it gets tested, and then it collapses.

Real confidence comes from a genuine stack of wins. Walk into a room knowing you have gotten up early, trained, prospected, made the calls, and done the work, and you carry a different kind of certainty. Nobody can take that from you because it is built on evidence.

How to Start Stacking Wins Today

The key word in George's advice is start small. The goal is not to manufacture huge wins on day one. The goal is to train your brain to recognize that you are winning. Small, real wins compound.

You got up before the alarm. Win. You worked out, even if it was not your best session. Win. You reached out to someone you care about. Win. You prospected. Win. You did the extra rep. Win. Each one is a data point that your brain begins to trust.

Over time, those stacked wins rewire your beliefs from the inside out. More wins lead to more action. More action leads to more results. More results lead to more confidence. The cycle becomes virtuous rather than limiting.

Why You Need to Track and Celebrate Your Wins

Stacking wins only works if you recognize them. George encourages tracking them explicitly: journal the wins, notice them, let yourself feel them. Most high-achievers are so focused on what is missing that they blow right past the evidence of progress already in front of them.

Recognition is not vanity. It is data collection. Your brain needs the evidence to update its beliefs. Give it that evidence deliberately, and your confidence grows on a foundation that holds up under pressure.

Action Steps

  • Flip the sequence: commit to action first and let the results shape your mindset, rather than waiting until your mindset feels ready.
  • Start small and track daily wins, no matter how minor they seem: early wake-up, workout, good nutrition, a meaningful conversation, prospecting.
  • Identify one area where you have been letting a low-confidence belief limit your effort, and double your action and resources in that area for the next two weeks.
  • Celebrate wins explicitly. Write them down. Let your brain register them as evidence of capability.
  • Watch for artificial confidence (validation from others) and replace it with earned confidence rooted in real results.

Real confidence is not handed to you, and it is not manufactured through positive thinking alone. It is built by stacking evidence. Take the action, collect the win, and repeat. As George Wright III says, it is never too late to start winning the life you were meant to live.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

All right, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. Let's talk about your confidence today and how we can help you to gain more confidence, stack some wins and create some results. My name is George Wright III. I am the host of the Daily Mastermind every day with your motivation, inspiration and education. I hope you're ready to get some real strategic tactical stuff today because I want to be able to really help you. I was thinking about it the other day and you know there's a lot of people talking about confidence right now. A lot of people talking about it which is good because obviously the things we hit on this podcast all create results for you. You know your daily rituals, your mindset, your strategies and tactics but nothing supersizes it like confidence. Ultimately to get to that level, that vision you want to create, it's going to take confidence. it's going to take more and more confidence. And you know this because as you've had success over the years, the more success you have, the more confidence you get, the better and bigger and more successful you can become in all areas of your life. It goes the same for confidence in relationships, confidence in communication, no matter what you do. The more success you have, the more results you get, the more confident you're going to feel. And so I want to talk to you about that today because what do most people do to boost their confidence? Well, they do affirmations and they do personal development and daily rituals and try to stay disciplined and work on their mindset. And all of those things are good. They're all good unless you're struggling, unless you're not doing them. And I'm here to tell you. So I heard this success principle the other day. I think it was Alex Hermosey that said it, but I've heard a few people talk about it. But Alex does a really good job of like kind of punching you in the face with stuff. And I really like that. He said, and listen to this principle. Most people let their mindset determine their actions. Most people let their mindset determine their actions. Successful people let their actions determine their mindset. So are you one of the people that like to work on your mindset and getting things lined up and get your discipline and rituals and then take action? or in order to create your solid mindset, you just start taking action and start working and working and working away Cause here the thing If you will just let your actions be the evidence to boost your confidence you going to win Look we all been there where we had to kind of act as if you know because the whole idea of growth and accomplishing things is doing things out of your comfort zone, doing things that are beyond your capabilities, doing things that are, you know, beyond your skill set. And to do that, you have to push out of your comfort zone and you have to apply confidence. that's not really there because let's be honest, confidence comes from your ability to handle things and it's also determined and shaped by your experience. And I tell people all the time, your beliefs will absolutely affect your confidence if you let it, if you let it, because you can go past that innate belief equals your confidence by action. And here's the thing, here's a good litmus test for you. You say you want this, you say you want to build your life, You say you want to be a better communicator, better at relationships. But if your actions don't reflect what you say you believe, then it's doubtful you truly believe it. Let me say that again. If your actions don't reflect what you say you believe, then you don't believe it. And why is that? Why is that? Well, there's this whole belief cycle we've talked about, right? The belief cycle is basically, and you've got to understand this. It's the idea that your beliefs, the things that you've gained from your experience, the things that you consciously and subconsciously believe, they will determine the level of action and resources that you put into something. And your beliefs will shape these actions and resources, and the amount of actions and resources you put into anything will determine your results. That's a fact. So why is it that we push on some things and we try to build and then we don't get the result we want? Well, a lot of times, I find more often than not, it's because people didn't take the actions and resources they need because they lack confidence. They lack belief. And the other problem that we run into, and this is a warning for you, we tend to like to validate our beliefs. We tend to like to hold on to those beliefs like they're immovable, you know, sacred cows. Like these are things that we just, we want to be. So even subconsciously, if you say, look, I believe something you really don't, or someone, you've all had somebody come up to you and say, hey you need to try this And you like ah that not going to work And they like no try it Believe me it happen And you like okay And you don really believe it subconsciously deep down So you don put much action into it You don put very many resources into it And guess what You got no result. And that's because you self-validated your belief. The key, the key to that belief cycle is to push past your beliefs by creating more action and putting more resources into something despite your belief. Because here's the facts. When you put more action and more resources into something, you're going to get more results. And guess what? That will increase your confidence. Nothing increases your confidence like wins. You can think your way into confidence. You can act as if. You can train your mind. You can do all these things. But wins and results will create more confidence. So it's a real challenge for a lot of people. You've got to push past your comfort level. You got to push past your beliefs. And what I'm saying here is don't have your actions be reflected simply by your mindset and your beliefs. Have your actions determine your mindset and belief. And you can proactively do that because when you create massive action and put resources into stuff, you are going to get more results and your confidence will grow. I mean even if you know look that equation is real. If you put a lot of action and a little bit of resources in you'll get results. If you put just a little action but a ton of resources in you'll get results. But if you're not leading your life and your strategy with actions and resources you're not going to get the results. Your confidence isn't going to grow no matter how much you study and think about it. So the goal here is this, be one of those individuals that lets your actions speak louder than your words. Let your actions create your confidence. So how do you create this whole idea of stacking evidence, stacking wins to boost your confidence? Well, here's a couple suggestions. Number one, start small. The goal here is to have a winning mindset, not to have huge wins. You've got to start to train your mind that you're winning. You're winning the day. You're winning the battle. You may not have won the war, but you got up early. You didn't hit the snooze bar Win You got to the gym You did a workout Maybe it wasn a great workout but you did a workout Win You got back and you ate right Win You made those messages and contacted those people you care about. Win. You journaled. Win. You prospected. Win. You got the extra couple of reps in your business taking phone calls. That's a win. Train your mind to stack the wins. Start with something. You are a winner. There's areas of your life you're winning in, but you've got to track and start recognizing the wins. Because creating a winning mindset is about creating a winning mindset. And so use those actions that you can take as wins. Start to stack them up. And as you gain more wins and you stack your confidence, you stack the evidence, your confidence will grow. And guess what? You'll do more action. You'll create more resources. You'll have more results. And your confidence will begin to grow and grow and grow. The bottom line is this. I would much rather walk into a room and have a whole stack of wins driving my confidence than having myself be confident acting as if being validated by other people see that's the problem most of you are getting validated by other people and you and your mind know that it's not a real win but you're using that and you've got artificial confidence and so when it gets pushed up against the tests of time and tests a business, it doesn't sustain you. So here's the bottom line I want you to walk away with. I want you to learn to not let your mindset and your rituals create your confidence. I want your actions, your actions to create your mindset and your confidence is going to come along for the ride. Learn to stack those wins. That's my message for today. I hope you'll share that message and I hope you'll hit me up. Let me know. I appreciate you being here. Listen, we're in it together and it's never too late to start winning the life and creating the life that you were meant to live. It's a journey, not a destination. Create that daily mindset of winning and you will stack your confidence. You will grow your confidence. You will create the life you were wanting and needing and deserve. I hate the word deserve, but if you do the actions, you deserve it. And that's the message for today. So I appreciate you being here. Hit that like and subscribe. I look forward to talking with you again once again. My name is George Wright the third. This has been the daily mastermind Talk to you tomorrow

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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