Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Let's get you going this morning with The Daily Mastermind quote of the day. It's from Warren Buffett, and the quote is, in the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love. This is a billionaire saying, in the world a business, the people who are the most successful are the ones doing what they love. Think about what you're doing right now on a day-to-day basis. Think about what it is that is your unique talent. We always talk about that. You're something you're passionate and you're excellent at. And so doing what you love usually falls inside that target. I encourage you to really think about how you can spend more and more of your time inside that area of business and in your life. If you do, I think you're going to find you're going to be more productive, more excited, more passionate, and you'll get more results. So let's get back to the topic we had earlier this week, and that is happiness. And, you know, we talked about on Monday, the idea that happiness and success are not the same thing. They're different emotions. And most of us kind of go throughout life thinking if we have a certain degree of success, we're going to have happiness. But at the end of the day, we kind of find that that doesn't necessarily bring it. And that's because these things are mutually exclusive. Happiness and success are not the same thing. even chasing happiness, we determined, is not necessarily going to get you that, because happiness doesn't necessarily like to be pursued. It likes to be attracted by the person that you become, by your growth. So I asked you a few questions, like, what do you want? And is there a difference between short-term pleasure and happiness? And is achievement going to give you the happiness you want in your life? And ultimately, we ended up with this idea of where does happiness come from? and we talked about the fact that happiness comes from designing a plan and executing on that plan but then I mentioned to you before we left that there's a formula that one of my mentors Robert Stuber gave me a while back and it's the get happy formula and get g-e-t is an acronym for three core elements that I believe and he has kind of talked about will help you to create the ultimate level of happiness and and this is the equation so if you're if you're not driving just maybe want to write this down. Happiness equals genetics plus environment plus thinking. That's G-E-T, genetics, environment, and thinking. And I think these three components are ones that if you break them down for a little bit, it'll make a lot of sense to you and it'll help you to understand that, look, I understand that genetics is something that we all automatically get when we come into this world. We get a certain degree of genetics. And I do believe that there's a certain happiness level that you sort of get genetically, but make no mistake. I've learned this in my life. Science has proven this, that you can influence all three of those states, genetics, environment, and thinking. You may think that you can't control your genetics, but you absolutely can, in certain degrees, influence it. You may not have a whole lot of control over your environment, but rest assured you can influence your environment and then that factor of thinking is one that no question about it you can control and direct your thinking especially influence that on a day basis So when you work on all three of these things when you work on all three of those things your genetics, your environment, and your thinking, and you work towards influencing them on a day-to-day basis, this is going to increase your happiness level. And this is what I talk about when I say creating a plan and executing on it. happiness is not something that you find happiness is something that you do happiness is something that you do you create the plan and you execute on it and that plan is going to involve influencing these three areas now how do you do that well the key is to control and influence the set points on each of these areas and what do i mean by set points what i mean is the input that goes into those specific areas the things the factors the um the types of influences that you can work on that are within your control that you can influence. The factors within your control that you can influence, the set points you can influence to direct them. So let's talk about each for a second. Genetics. You may not control your genetics. However, you definitely can control the set points. I'll give you a ton of examples. Your diet. Your diet is absolutely going to affect your happiness level and your genetics because your physical form is going to be determined by what you put in your body. You know, the nutrition, the supplements, the vitamins, the minerals. Do you eat fast food or do you eat, do you, there again, are you specific with your intent in your diet? Or are you just eating whatever's convenient? Do you use the excuses that I don't have a choice, I don't have the money, I don't have this, I have that? The bottom line is this, you can eat healthy, you can eat intentional at any budget, trust me. What about exercise? Exercise is something that will affect your genetic makeup. Nutrition. Nutrition, the type of food you put in your body will affect your makeup. Your lifestyle. Do you have a sedentary, I think that's how you say it, lifestyle where you're kind of sitting all the time and you're working on a computer? Or do you get up, walk around? Do you take breaks? Do you move? Do you move your body? What type of lifestyle do you have? What type of extracurricular activities do you have? And coaching. Coaching, absolutely, without a doubt, can help your genetics. I'll give you a great example. Your genetics will influence the way that you think and act and react and all kinds of things. But with coaching, you can hone in on your unique talents. With coaching, you can focus on cognitive behaviors that you can recognize and change. So coaching can also help you in the gym. It can help you in your personal, your communication, everything that you do that you may feel as a result of your genetics. The key here is this. Listen to me closely. You can't live your life reacting to the hand you felt you've been dealt. You've got to proactively make decisions to influence the areas that you can. Okay, that's the difference. Victim mentality says, I can't control it. I don't have a choice. It's just happening to me. A proactive, abundant mentality says, I'm going to work towards making a difference. I'm going to influence the things I can. So genetics was the first area. The second area is environment. Now listen, I get it. Some of us are in a bad environment Some of us don have positive influence Some of us don have things that can help us Some of us are in countries where we don have the same rights and privileges that you might have in other countries Maybe your work environment is no good But listen to me very carefully here. You absolutely can influence things. You can influence the people that you're around for the most part. In other words, you don't have to hang around with those negative people. You don't have to hang around with people that even though you think you're not participating, you're listening to the negativity all day long you can choose to not be around that you can also choose to surround yourself mentally and visually with positive people that's why there's this crazy thing called the internet right um you know i have people that will message me all the time i had an individual shout out to uh ivan as well as uh you know a couple of others that listen to the show that just stumbled across the podcast um when they were doing some google searches or on spotify or Google Play. Listen, you can inundate yourself with positivity, with the right learning, with the right growth through audio, through video, through podcasts, through books, through learning, through mentors. There's all kinds of ways you can increase and influence the people in your life. And you're working your job. Listen, I don't care where you are. There are opportunities. There are opportunities to earn a living. There are jobs where you can be proactive instead of settling for the job that you happen to have, or you're working in areas that you're maybe competent or even incompetent at, you can focus on finding ways. We all have time. I haven't met someone yet that hasn't, if they made the decision, been able to identify opportunities, if they've worked hard enough and long enough to try to figure them out. Your living arrangements, what you listen to, what you focus on, what you read, what you surround yourself with. Are you constantly on your phone? Are you constantly scrolling social media? You can control your environment because your environment is nothing more than what you allow to be around you. And so you may not control all of it, but you can influence your environment, no doubt. So that's genetics and environment. And what I'm encouraging you to do is find ways you can influence it. All of you are in different situations. Find ways that you can influence those three areas because your genetics and your environment will determine your happiness levels. No question. And then the final one, the one you have the most control over, even though you may think you don't, is your thinking. And, you know, Robert used to talk about this being your philosophy, your filter on life, how you view things, how you think about things. Remember, we all can perceive situations differently. Events in your life don't have a meaning. They only have the meaning you give to them. And so you have to decide how you're going to approach life before you can control your thinking. Do you want an abundant mindset? Do you want to look for the solutions? Do you want to find the best in any situation? Are you grateful? Are you service focused? Your thinking and your approach to life is going to absolutely affect your happiness level. So how do you influence it? Well, daily rituals. What do you do every day? You know, if you're thinking and focused on positive things, you're going to be positive. If you're thinking and focused on the past or on problems or on situations, you're going to be negative. Your happiness level is going to go down. So you have to create daily rituals that help you to do that meditations affirmations reading exercise whatever those daily rituals are that will affect your thinking your discipline is also a real important key to your thinking discipline actually applies to all three genetics environment and thinking because your discipline level will influence all of those but also with your thinking i'd like you to think real carefully about what you're reading are you reading maybe journaling a focused on gratitude do you have a A practice of gratitude, not just an attitude of gratitude, but a practice of gratitude. Do you take time to identify and acknowledge the things you're grateful for? Do you have a service attitude? And what's your perspective? Like I said before, do you take your philosophy of life in an abundant way or in a scarcity way? Things don't usually go my way. I've got a hand that was dealt to me. I always have bad situations or I got to deal with problems. And you don't understand, George. or these problems or things that I can control. Yeah, you may not control your problems, but you can control how you deal with them. It's your perspective and that's your thinking. So just to review, what is going to create and ultimately build your happiness level? It's genetics, environment, and thinking. Genetics, environment, and thinking. And you absolutely can influence those by controlling and influencing the set points that lead to those three areas. And if you focus on that, I know you're gonna make some changes. Now remember, happiness is not having what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have. And remember, like I said before, happiness is not something you get, it's something you do. So, just as a review, you may not control what you think you want, but what you think you want may not make you happy anyway. You may not control what you think you want, but what you think you want may not make you happy anyway. So clarify what it is that's going to help you to be happy. And I think you're going to find it's emotions, it's values, it's that state of being, it's the quality of life that you can create. And I'm telling you right now, when you recognize and identify that you can influence, you're empowered. All of a sudden, you now take responsibility for your life and you're empowered to make a difference in your life. I think you're going to find your happiness levels are going to go through the roof. and ironically enough, as your happiness levels increase, so does your success, so does your productivity, so does your attraction for the right people and things just start to snowball and compound in your way and for you and things happen for you, not to you. That's my thought for today. I hope you have an amazing day. I look forward to talking with you tomorrow. Actually, what we're going to do tomorrow is I'm going to talk to you about the four happiness components you can really directly control and influence your physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual areas. And I think those things will also be great suggestions for you on your happiness level. And then we will carry it in towards the end of the week. So that's the message for today. Refer this podcast, share this with somebody. If you think it's something that brought value to you, and if it didn't, then you won't be listening anymore. So if it brought value to you, do me a favor and share it. I'd really appreciate it. It means the world to me. And I hope you have an amazing day. I'll talk with you soon. Thank you.
