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Episode 683 · Nov 16, 2022

How Thoughts Become Reality When You Get Clear on What You Want

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Most people chase the pieces of a life they want without ever knowing what the finished picture looks like. On this episode of The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III shares a powerful teaching from one of his mentors, Ed Mylett, on why your inner world creates your outer world. The core idea is simple but life changing: thoughts become reality, and the clearer you get on what you want, the faster you produce it.

If you have ever felt stuck, scattered, or unsure why your results never match your effort, this is the principle that reframes everything. You cannot build a life you have never clearly seen in your own mind first.

Why You Think in Pictures

The foundation of this entire idea is that your mind does not think in words, it thinks in images. Ask yourself to think about Christmas and you instantly see a tree, presents, family, or Santa. Ask yourself to recall the hardest day of your life and a specific picture appears. That is not a coincidence. It is how your mind works.

Once we grasp the concept that we think in pictures, the key to our existence and changing our outward existence is changing the pictures we hold inside our head.

When you take control of the images in your mind and make them repetitive and clear, you begin to express them in the outside world. For many people the outside of their life is a jumble of worries, fears, and small ups and downs, because that is exactly what runs through their head all day.

How Clarity Creates Transformation

Transformation starts with getting exactly clear on what you want. Not a vague wish, but a precise picture. The people who create real change in life consciously program clarity into their minds over and over, while everyone else drifts.

Most people start life backwards. They're in search of the pieces rather than getting clarity of what they want the picture to look like.

Think of a jigsaw puzzle. You could be handed every single piece, but without the picture on the box you can never assemble it. Clarity is the picture on the box. The more repetition you give that mental image, the more you magnetize the people, places, and things that make it real.

What the Reticular Activating System Has to Do With Your Goals

There is a part of your brain called the reticular activating system. Its job is to screen out everything unimportant and lock onto what matters to you. This is why the moment you buy a new blue Honda, you suddenly see blue Hondas everywhere on the road.

Those cars were always there. Your mind simply started finding references to support the image you were now holding. The same is true for great clients, great leaders, and great opportunities. When you hold the image, your mind goes to work finding the evidence. When you do not, those opportunities pass right by you unnoticed.

Why Most People Never Get What They Want

The reason most people stay stuck is that they cannot decide what they actually want. Ed Mylett illustrates this with a funny story about ordering at a restaurant his family has visited more than sixty times, where one person already knows exactly what they want while another agonizes over a menu they have seen dozens of times.

The lesson lands hard when you apply it to your life. If you walked up to the menu of life and said "bring me some protein," what would you get? Vague orders produce vague results. Saying you want to be financially independent or retire early means nothing until you attach a real number and a clear picture to it.

How Champions Get Razor Clear

Champions operate with a level of specificity most people never reach. When Ed Mylett talks about getting in shape, he does not say he wants to feel better. He knows the exact weight, the body fat percentage, the HDL and LDL numbers, and the ratios he is aiming for. It is specific, it is measurable, and he will know the moment he hits it.

That same discipline applies to money, relationships, and business. The question is not whether you want more, it is whether you can describe exactly what more looks like. Million dollars saved or five million saved. Five new recruits or twenty five. What do you want, and why?

Action Steps

  • Pick one area of your life and write down exactly what you want with razor sharp specificity, including numbers and measurable outcomes.
  • Build a clear mental picture of that result and revisit it daily so it becomes repetitive in your mind.
  • Notice the worries and fears that currently run through your head, and consciously replace them with the image of what you want.
  • Train your reticular activating system by looking for evidence and opportunities that support your goal instead of reasons it cannot happen.
  • Stop searching for the pieces before you know the picture; define the finished outcome first, then pursue the steps.

Clarity is the secret sauce behind a stronger body, a better marriage, healthier relationships, and a thriving business. Get specific, hold the picture, and let your inner world begin to shape your outer one. It's never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

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Good morning and welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. And today, guys, on the episode, I want to share with you a thought from Ed Milet, one of my mentors, one of the individuals that I have as a go-to. And I'm excited today to be able to share with you some ideas about visualizing your goals. I mean, see, the thing is, is in order for you to create something in your outer world, you've got to first visualize it clearly on your inner world. you know thoughts become reality and thoughts dictate our actions which are going to create your best life and so in order to do that you've got to get super clear in your mind on what it is that you want and ed does a great job of explaining what what that is and how it works and how to do it so without any further ado i'm going to introduce ed my let have a great day what we really all want is we want to transform our own lives don't we We have a life we have, and we'd like to transform it into a new one. We had a WFG, and we're transforming it into a new one. Life is about that transformation. I want to share a story with you. How do you transform something? I think the first thing you have to do when you're going to transform something is you have to get exactly clear on what it is you want. I know you've heard that before, but let me illustrate it for you. If I said, do you think about Christmas? Think about Christmas. Do that for me. Think about Christmas. Did you get it? Okay, what did you see? What did you see? Saw a Christmas tree? Anybody else? What did you see? See Jesus? See presents? See your kids? See Santa? You saw something, family. But did you see something? You saw something, didn't you? You want to know why you saw something when you thought? Here's a revelation for you. This is serious. You know why you saw something when you thought? We think in pictures. The only people who don't think in pictures that walk this earth are people who were born blind. Everybody else that walks this earth thinks in photographs, thinks in visual images. If I said to you, I want you to think about the worst day of your life, the tragic day of your life, the passing of someone you loved, an accident you were in, a divorce, something like that. Think about that for a minute. Do you have that in your head? Did you see a picture? You did, didn't you? You saw a person. See, here's the deal. Once we grasp the concept that we think in pictures, The key to our existence and changing our outward existence is changing the pictures we hold inside our head. When we can get, Hubert Humper used to call it dreaming, dreaming while you're awake. That's cheesy language for controlling the pictures in your head. When you begin to take control of the images in your mind, get clear on exactly what you want, and it becomes repetitive, you begin to produce it externally. The inside images in your head are what happens in the outside expression of your life. So for most people, the outside of the expression of their life is just a mediocre hobgob of worries, fears, some ups, some downs. Because that's the pictures that run through their head. The champions of life, the people who create a transformation in life, begin to be conscious of trying to program into their head over and over. It's just a thought thinking the pictures of clarity of exactly what it is they want. Does that make sense to all of you? Say yes In fact there a book Felton recommended to me that he going to give a presentation on so I not going to get into it today but it called The Healing Code I don know that I agree with all of it in there That okay Chris does But let me tell you what I love about the book. My primary takeaway from the book is that it says that we not only hold these visual images as everybody's always thought our thoughts are held in our subconscious mind, but that we may store them cellularly. They're stored on that deep of a level. We store them in ourselves, which explains Scripture to me. The Bible says the sins of the Father, right? You literally are transferring how you think your DNA into your children and grandchildren. That's how important these thoughts are. They're stored on a cellular basis. My dad was just found to have a very large cancerous tumor in his chest that he just had removed. Nine and a half hours of surgery. And what I learned about this tumor is this tumor was there and then it would regenerate itself and regenerate itself because the cells die. That's how the cells work. So these thoughts keep coming back and back. As you program new thoughts, you store them cellularly. You manifest them externally. It's so powerful you can manifest a tumor in your body. Is that not incredible? So that's how important it is to control what we think about. I say this all the time. If I gave you every piece of the puzzle, here's the script, here's the sentence, here's exactly what to do, a thousand pieces, but I held the picture of the jigsaw puzzle from you. You can't put all the pieces together if you don't know what the picture looks like. Most people start life backwards, and they start WFG. They're in search of the pieces rather than of getting clarity of what they want the picture to look like. And the more repetition with which you hold that picture over and over and over, you begin to express it and magnetize to you the things, people, and places that will make that a reality. There's a part of your brain called the reticular activating system. What that does is it screens out all the unimportant things to you and finds the important things. I say this in my CDs. That's why, for example, when you buy a new car, if you buy a new blue Honda, all of a sudden everywhere on the road there's blue Hondas, isn't there? Three lanes over, wrong side. hey, blue Honda. Why do you all of a sudden see these cars? They were always there. Because when an image is held in your mind, your mind goes to find references to support it. And if you don't hold it in your mind, the blue Hondas walk by you all the time. Just like great recruits, great leaders, and great clients. But when you hold them in your mind, you find your blue Hondas. This has been the key to me becoming a multi-millionaire. It's not rocket science. It's hold the pictures in your head you want. Get clear on what you want. Let me tell you how important this is. My wife and I, is that good stuff by the way? Yes. My wife and I, I love her, man. I met her in kindergarten, so she knows everything about me, right? And I know everything about her. I love her. In fact, I'm at a point in my marriage, honestly, where I'm more in love with this woman, more attracted to her, thinks she's sexier, hotter, smarter, cooler than I ever have. I miss her more when I'm gone. I can't even tell you. Use times in your marriage. I'm gone, eh, I'm a day or two. I miss my kids. Eh, I miss honey. I mean, my heart aches when I'm away from her right now. God just put this thing on our family. It's awesome. I love her. I dig her, man. But I don't like her all the time. First off, she wins every conversation because she's more certain. She can be completely wrong about something You take a Latino woman who completely sure she right about something Let me just tell you just surrender dude You losing the conversation okay It just kind of like the more certain person wins every conversation Let me give you an idea of my wife and this will make a point for you. It's pretty funny. You'd think once you get wealthy, you go to all these fancy restaurants. We do once in a while, but I got kids. Max is 10, Bella's 9. So we go to a place called Wood Ranch Barbecue. We've been there probably 60 times, okay? Maybe 65 times. So here's the way I am. I'm intense. Can you tell I'm a pretty intense person? I'm pretty intense. I like to get things done. Let's move on to the next thing. Rock and roll. Here we go. My wife is the baby of a family of seven kids. She just likes to take her time and chill. We're just, we're good balance, but woo! Can it bump sometimes, right? I'm very directed and certain, and she'd like to not have a plan, okay? So for example, like Hawaii's in two weeks. If you put a gun to my wife's head right now and said, how are you getting there, and which hotel are you staying at? In fact, what island are you going to? She has no idea. She will literally read this ticket, get on the airplane, and be shocked when she lands that someone's there to pick her up and take them somewhere, I swear to you. That's how much she doesn't like to plan. So here's the deal. When we're deciding to go to Wood Ranch Barbecue, because I've been there 60 times, I know the minute Max goes, let's go to Wood Ranch, I already know what I'm going to eat. It doesn't take a whole lot of decision. I don't need to be indecisive. I'm very clear on exactly what I want, aren't I? We've been there 60 times. They don't change the menu. My wife's a little bit different. So we'll get into the dadgum place, sit down, and I already know what's about to happen. Server will come over, ask a question. Go right to Max first. Max, what would you like? Max will say, I'll have the usual. Give me the ribs, mac and cheese, and a Coke. Done, right? Fire it over to Bella. She's kind of shy. We're teaching her to look people in the eye when she talks to them. Come on, boo-boo. I'll have a, which she always gets, I'll have a hot dog and mac and cheese and a Coke. yay bella good job all right here we go ma'am jesus lord have mercy here we go here it comes oh well why do you do this to me you're always in such a hurry why don't you just enjoy things i haven't even had a chance to look at the menu i'm like we've been here 60 times and not like they got chinese food or we're gonna get sushi or mexican come on they got steak ribs and some, you know, some chicken. Oh, God, I don't know why you're, oh, you're so, gosh, I hate when you're like this. Lord, please, patience, Lord, please. I'm going to, if I get a steak, oh, my God. You ever seen something like this? If I get a steak salad, can you put the croutons on the side? Yes, we can put the croutons on the side. Okay, great. What did I have? What did I have last time? It doesn't matter what you had last time. I think I had chicken. So what? What do you want right now? Let's go. Order it. Gosh, I hate this. I'll have a steak salad. Okay. Great, ma'am. How would you like your steak? Oh, God. Here we go. Well, is it medium well if it's a little bit pink? Or how do you guys do that? Honey, come on. You had 60 steaks here Okay I have it medium You know what I don even want a steak salad You know what Can you skip over me and go to him Oh my God Yeah man Here the deal I'll have the ribeye, medium well, fiery green beans, and some water with lemon in it. Back to you, babe. Oh, my honey. When we got here, it was light out. It's dark outside. All people came after us and have left during a home watching something on TV. Order the damn food. Okay, if I get the salad, oh my God. She's doing it. If I get the salad, I don't really like that lime ranch. Can you put a bit, and it goes to this whole deal. You don't even want to get into when she starts ordering a drink. You ever have somebody, what do you have to drink? What do they have? What do you think they have, like blueberry, splat? They got Coke, Diet Coke, root beer, and sprites, right? That's what every place has. Why do you need to ask them that? So it takes like nine hours before she orders. Drives me nuts. You know anybody like that? I do. You, in your life, off the menu of life, you can't figure out what you want with any clarity, which is why you don't get anything. I don't, well, I would like to, well, I don't know, well, maybe if I, you don't know what you want. As a consequence, you don't produce anything. By the way, don't take this personally. I didn't say your name. So if it tweaked you a little, it's true. You don't know what you want. You're my wife. I don't know. It's a steak. How would you cook it? What would it look like? how would I feel? I don't know what I had last time. That's what you do, don't you? By the way, some of you go, nope, that's not me. But what if when I ordered, I said, you know what, bring me some protein. Thanks. Is that very specific? What would they bring? That's what you do. Well, I want to be financially independent. I want to take care of my parents. I want to retire at 50. What the hell does that mean? Specifically, what's the number? What do you want? Hurry up and order. Get clear. But you don't. You're wishy-washy. Some of you think you have a plan. It's nowhere near the level of specificity and clarity that a champion has. Champions are, right now I'm trying to get in shape again. I'm in pretty good shape. But do you think I'm going, man, I want to feel better? I know exactly what I want to weigh. I know exactly the body fat percentage. I know exactly what I want my HDL and LDL to be. I know what I want the ratio to be. I know exactly what I want my testosterone level to be. It's specific. It's measurable. And I'll know when I did it. and I can hold that in front of me, the picture of what I want, and I can produce it. But most of us go through life and don't have any of that. I say this to you as a friend. You gotta get more clear on what you want. I mean, razor clear. Million bucks saved, five million saved, three million saved, 25 recruits, five recruits, four SMDs, what do you want? And why? So, have I made the point about clarity and making a transformation? Yes. Isn't it totally true? You know how I know it's totally true? I spent most of my life unclear. Once I figured this formula out, which I should be charging you lots of money to be giving you with the way I'm giving it to you, my whole life shifted. It's almost like a secret sauce of building a recipe of success in a body, in a marriage, and raising a kid in business. It's great clarity.

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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