Discipline Is the #1 Thing That Guarantees Your Success

All right, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. And I hope you are having and off to an amazing start of the year. I'm glad to be back. I took some time off and got some really good strategy done. Most of you that know me know that at the end of the year, I really take solid time to plan out what we're going to be doing and you're really going to be excited about the stuff that we have coming down the pipe. If this is your first time listening to the podcast, make sure you like and subscribe so that you don't miss anything. You know, I want to start you out this year just reminding you that Napoleon Hill defined a mastermind as the coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people who work towards a definite purpose in the spirit of harmony. And the Daily Mastermind was created, the reason I started this podcast three years ago, was to provide you with the daily inspiration, motivation, and education you need to unleash your best version of yourself, your true potential, and to create the best life you could possibly live. And to do this, it's a grind. It takes daily focus. It takes focus every day to win the day and to do the things and stay on the path committed to creating your best life. And the Mastermind podcast and mobile app are designed to just give you those tools and resources and support you need to make it happen. So if you haven't downloaded the Daily Mastermind mobile app, do that because it's absolutely free. And what I'm going to do and what I've planned out this year especially is to hit you with topics, ideas, and strategies that are going to keep you sharp. They're going to keep you focused. They're going to keep you working on the fundamentals while you're creating and getting great business and mind and body and money ideas to drive your best life. No matter who you are, no matter what your background, your environment, who you're around, that's the power of the internet today. is that you can tap into resources like the Daily Mastermind. So before we get going too far, let me start with the quote of the day. It's from Bob Proctor. And the quote of the day is, you can't win if you quit. You can't win if you quit. And I really just want you to take this opportunity at the beginning of the year to make a decision that you're going to be resolved to work towards creating your best life, no matter what happens, because you've already won if you decide you're never going to quit. So what I want to do each week is I'm going to focus on at least one prosperity pillar. For those of you that are new to the podcast, I have 12 prosperity pillars that I've created from 20 plus years of working with some of the biggest thought leaders, successes, entrepreneurs, athletes, experts in their fields. I've created 12 principles that I believe are the most critical things you can have as your foundation. and the prosperity pillar number one that I wanna highlight this week and I gonna remind you of it throughout the week is I create my life I create my life It the foundational principle you need to understand is that you are the one who creates your life. You can create your best life if you believe that and you execute a plan. And in order to do this, you have to understand that your thoughts are going to create your life as well. So you do create your life, but your thoughts will drive that. So you have to direct your thoughts and you have to be very specific with your intent. what I'm trying to emphasize with you right now is that set yourself up to understand that your surroundings, the people you're around, the focus you have, the productivity, the schedule, the daily rituals, all of these things are things that you actually can direct in order to create your best life. And so throughout this week, we'll be talking about ways that you can create your life. And today I want to talk to you about the concept or the principle of discipline because I believe without a doubt and I've seen this in my life and you know it in your life that the number one thing that you need to be successful the number one thing you need to create the best version of yourself and in relationships and communication and business and anything in life is to have discipline and more specifically mental discipline because where most of us fall short where most of us struggle is in this idea and this concept that we do not maintain mental discipline we do not continue to focus on the things that are the most important to us because we get wrapped up in the emotions and the environment and the marketplace and the people around us and the negativity we get wrapped up in that because we don't have enough mental discipline or the discipline of habit or the discipline of doing things that you need to do even when you don't feel like doing it. And so what I want to basically put out there for you is that no matter what your New Year's resolutions are, whether it's health or getting in shape or eating right or accomplishing certain things in business or getting out of debt or making money, it doesn't matter what any of those things are. I hope that you have created and outlined things that you believe will take you to the next level. But no matter what, I want to recommend that you put on your list the desire to create more discipline in your life. Because all of your goals, all of your aspirations, and all of your, the absolute best version of yourself, lie just on the other side of discipline. Just on the other side of discipline. Because discipline is going to take over when your motivation and your inspiration are failing. So there's a couple key points on discipline. I want you to think about number one, and this is very, very important for you to understand. Discipline is not something you born with It a skill In other words discipline is a skill not a trait We talked about the fact that you can create your life You need to take responsibility for identifying and structuring and creating discipline in your life, habits in your life. Discipline is a skill that you can learn. It's something you can work on. It's something that you can master, but it only happens if you focus on it. So I want to recommend that you put discipline on your list of New Year's resolutions. Put discipline on your list of daily rituals because it is a skill. It's a skill that you can develop. The second thing I want to mention on discipline is that discipline, one of the big benefits of that is it leads to mental strength. Discipline in your structure, in your calendar, in your day, it leads to mental strength. And the mental strength is what you're going to need in order to overcome obstacles. See, a lot of people, they try to ask for less problems in their life or they try to get, you know, we have these things happen and we're like, man, I wish we had a different job. I wish I had different friends. I wish I had a different environment. I wish I had a different car. I wish I had a different body, a different shape, a different mindset. But the thing you have to understand is that you have to want and desire to be stronger to overcome those things rather than to get rid of the obstacles in your life. Because as you start to realize that the obstacles are what make you stronger and that the resistance is what makes you better. And that without those things, you can't evolve to become the best, most successful version of yourself. And I'm talking about even the most fulfilled and happiest version of yourself. You need to overcome challenges to feel satisfied and fulfilled. And so rather than trying to eliminate the challenges in your life, you should desire to be stronger than the challenges in your life. And that requires mental discipline, mental strength. And so as you start to structure the skill of discipline in your life, you're going to be able to punch through any challenge that comes your way. and that because of the experience is going to give you mental strength over time your strength and your mind and your ability and your confidence to be able to overcome anything will start to grow and pretty soon you won't worry about the problems in your life pretty soon you're going to want the problems in your life because you know you're going to overcome them and then you're knowing knowing that you're creating the best version of yourself because discipline is that leading indicator to results what do I mean by that I mean your discipline is a thing you can track that will surely and most definitely be tied right to results the results that you want in your life the leading indicator of that is your discipline so that the second thing the third thing I want to talk to you about with discipline and this is the part that a lot of people struggle with is their confidence I telling you right now if you will prioritize discipline in your life your confidence and your self are going to grow. Your confidence and your self-esteem are going to grow. And what happens when your confidence grows? All of a sudden, you can handle anything. All of a sudden, you're willing to do more. You're willing to risk more. You're willing to do more as a leader. And leaders require confidence and discipline will help you get there. See, every one of us has had times in our life where we have that kind of self-sabotage, that low confidence, low self-esteem, maybe even imposter syndrome you've heard, where you don't know if you're good enough to do what you need to do. And listen to me really carefully when I say this. Everyone has that when they're outside their comfort zone because none of us knows what we can handle until we go outside what we normally can handle. And that confidence is something that's going to grow. And you're going to find confidence as a skill as well. But if you structure discipline in your life, you're going to slowly but surely win the battle every day. You're going to accomplish things every day. So find ways. This is what I want to recommend for you to do. So I hope you, if you haven't taken notes, just think about those things. Discipline is a skill and it leads to your mental strength and it will help you to grow your confidence. So I want you to place this on your list of resolutions. Put it as your number one thing because if you have discipline, you're gonna get everything else accomplished that you want on your list. But if you don't have discipline, you're gonna be basically at the mercy of your environment, at the mercy of your own mind and the mercy of others. So place discipline high on your list and then make discipline a skill that you're gonna master this year. Create structure for doing this. Find ways to get more discipline. Set rituals in place. Set deadlines in place. Put goals and tracking or coaches and mentors. Put things in place that will help you to require your discipline until you are more disciplined yourself. That's my recommendation for you today. What we're going to be doing this week, I want you to make sure you don't miss any episodes because this week we're going to be talking about ways that you can increase your habits, your discipline, and that leading indicator, that skill set that you need to accomplish everything else in your life. And that's the message I have for you today. So listen, do me a favor, share this podcast, kick it out in your stories, tag me in your story if you do, because I wanna be able to see and comment and throw a shout out to you as well. But share this episode, and then every day I'm gonna join you for that five to 10 minutes, give you what you need for inspiration, motivation, and education. I look forward to talking with you more tomorrow. Have an amazing day. once again this is George Wright III your host and this has been the Daily Mastermind talk talk soon