Episode 434 · Sep 10, 2021

Surround Yourself With Positive People: Why Your Circle Determines Your Future

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George Wright III opens this Daily Mastermind episode with a simple but powerful truth: you are the average of the people you surround yourself with. It sounds like a motivational cliche, but George breaks it down into practical strategy that you can act on today, not someday.

Three forces shape the life you are living right now: your thoughts, your genetics, and your environment. You cannot do much about your genetics. Your thoughts take constant, deliberate work to reprogram. But your environment is something you can change starting now, and that change begins with the people you allow into your circle.

Why Your Circle Has More Power Than You Realize

George identifies surrounding yourself with positive people as Prosperity Pillar Number Four, a cornerstone of personal development he returns to repeatedly. The reason is straightforward: the people around you are constantly transferring energy, belief, and focus to you, whether you are aware of it or not.

"You have to have belief, you have to have faith, and in order to do that you surround yourself with positive people. Positive, successful, happy, prosperous people."

That belief transfer is not passive. It compounds over time. Every conversation, every shared workout, every podcast episode you consume from a high-performing person is adding to the sum of what you think is possible.

How Your Environment Shapes Your Thoughts

George draws a direct line between environment and thought. Your thoughts create your life, and your environment directly shapes your thoughts. This means the people around you are not just pleasant or unpleasant company; they are actively writing the code that runs your daily decisions, your ambitions, and your ceiling.

If you are surrounded by people who drift, complain, and settle, your baseline for what is normal and acceptable drifts right along with theirs. If you are surrounded by people who are focused, driven, and optimistic, that becomes your normal.

How Positive People Fuel Focus and Ideas

One benefit George highlights that often gets overlooked is focus. When you spend time with success-minded people, you naturally stay locked onto what matters.

"When I'm around successful, positive people, I stay focused. I don't let distractions happen. I don't like negativity as much."

Beyond focus, there is a creativity boost. George notes that ideas come more readily when your energy is elevated by being around ambitious, forward-thinking people. You do not just borrow their ideas; you generate more of your own because you are operating at a higher level.

How to Build Your Circle Even When You Feel Stuck

A common objection is: "I don't have positive people around me." George pushes back on this directly. That excuse no longer holds in a world with podcasts, online communities, video content, and virtual mentorship.

He names people like Ed Mylett, Andy Frisella, Russell Brunson, and John Lee Dumas as figures he surrounds himself with through podcasts and programs, even when those people are not physically present. The point is intentional consumption. You choose whose voice fills your mind during your commute, your workout, and your downtime.

The people around you will also begin to shift as you shift. As you become more positive and success-focused, you naturally attract people who operate at that same level. George frames it like deciding to buy a specific car and suddenly noticing that car everywhere. Once you decide to pursue a circle of positive, driven people, they start appearing.

What Happens When You Make a Conscious Choice

The key word throughout this episode is conscious. George is not asking you to wait for better people to wander into your life. He is asking you to deliberately construct your environment.

This means making a real list. Who are the three to five people you intend to surround yourself with? They may already be in your life. They may be people you need to seek out. They may be voices you access through content. All of that counts.

Action Steps

Write down the names of three to five people, including mentors, peers, and content creators, who lift your energy, challenge your thinking, and model the outcomes you want.
Audit your current media diet. Replace low-value content with podcasts, books, and programs from people whose results you want to replicate.
Stop waiting for your circumstances to produce a better circle. Make the decision first, then watch the environment respond.
Look at the people already around you. As you grow, some of them will grow with you. Be the catalyst.
Take action today, not this week. George's challenge is to make this list before the day is over.

Your environment is not something that happens to you. It is something you build. The friends you choose, the voices you consume, the conversations you allow into your day: all of these are inputs that directly determine your output as a person. When you make a conscious, committed choice to surround yourself with positive, success-minded people, every area of your life, your finances, your relationships, your fulfillment, begins to respond.

It's never too late to start living the life you were meant to live. Start with your circle.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

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 is going to be a great day. I want you to be able to get a lot of things accomplished in your life, but I want to talk to you about something I think is really important. I had a great workout this morning with my workout partner and we had a lot of great conversation going on, but one of the common topics that kept coming up is that you're the average of the people you surround yourself with. And this is something I think you need to do something about today in your life. It's time to level up. It's prosperity pillar number four. I surround myself with positive people. Here's the bottom line. Life is going to be created and three things are going to influence it. The first thing that's influencing it is your thoughts. We talk about this all the time. Your thoughts are going to create your life. So you've got to constantly work on programming your thoughts and programming what you want to do to accomplish in your life. The second thing I think is genetics. I think there's a certain amount of genetics that's going to determine what your thoughts are and where you are and what's happening in your life. And that's something you can't really do a lot about. But the third thing is your environment. And here's the thing. In your environment, you absolutely need to stop making excuses. You can control what's happening in your environment and you can control that by surrounding yourself with positive people. So let's talk about why you need to do this. There's a lot of reasons why you need to surround yourself with positive people and we've talked about this but your belief is going to go up. In order to be successful in life you have to have belief, you have to have faith and in order to do that you surround yourself with positive people. Positive, successful, happy, prosperous people. They're going to increase your belief both just through association, through belief transference. But here's another thing, energy. You're going to feed off the energy of positive people. So when you're having a tough time you having a rough day and there not a lot you can do about it the energy from positive people is going to make a huge difference from you And that another reason why you need to surround yourself with positive people Another reason is focus When I around successful positive people I stay focused I don't let distractions happen. I don't like negativity as much. And so being around positive, successful people is going to be a way to help you stay focused on what you want to accomplish and what you want to do with your life. Because I can tell you this, positive, success-minded people are going to be focused on what they're trying to accomplish. They're not going to be drifting through life. They're not going to be thinking about things that don't make a difference for them. They're going to be focused. Another benefit of having positive people around you is ideas. I'm constantly coming up with more ideas, and it's not just ideas given to you by other people, but you're more productive, and you're at a different level, and you're at a different energy when you're around successful, positive people, and you will be surprised how many ideas and things you come up with by surrounding yourself with positive people. You need to start to change your environment. You need to start to make differences that are going to make those slight differences, that'll make huge differences down the road by surrounding yourself with positive people. Now, here's the thing. I think we need to stop making excuses. I know there's a lot of people out there that say, oh, I don't have a lot of positive people around me. I don't have a lot of influence around me. With the power of the internet and with the abilities you have today, there's going to be a lot of ways that you can affect it so we need to stop making excuses about the people around us the environment around us the circumstances around us and we need to make changes here's the bottom line the friends you have will begin to change as you're more positive as you surround yourself with positivity you'll be more positive you're going to find that people around you are also going to be more positive so things are going to change with the people that are around you have you ever noticed that when you're in a bad mood and you feed off the energy of other people, your mood slightly changes. Well, that's what's going to happen with people around you as well. So just know that there are people around you that are going to become more and more positive the more you are And that begins with you creating success and positivity around yourself Another way to do this look if you don have a lot of successful people around you a couple reasons for that Number one you haven't developed that success mindset and you haven't surrounded yourself with successful people. Birds of a feather flock together. You are going to have more and more people around you the more and more you make it a point to do it. It's not about getting the result after you do the activity. You've got to do the activity to get the result. So it's all how you focus and what you focus on. And here's the bottom line. I surround myself with positive people every day that I may not be able to be around through podcasts, through books, through association online. Right now, today, between podcasts and videos and things, you can totally engulf your mind in positivity if you just choose to do so. Don't make excuses for the people that happen to be in your direct environment because you can surround yourself with some of the greatest thought leaders, success-minded people. If you're not subscribing to podcasts, which I think you probably are if you're listening to this, maybe you're listening to this online, but you need to. You need to inundate your mind with positive, successful people. I have probably three to five key podcasts that I listen to, and occasionally I listen to others, but I get in a rhythm of following certain people. But here's another thing. When you make the choice to start surrounding yourself with positive people, it's going to happen. It's kind of like when you make a decision to get a car, all of a sudden you see those cars everywhere. We talked about the fact that the mind will be focused on what it's looking for. When you make a decision to surround yourself with positive people, positive people will appear. Positive people will start entering your life. So make a decision to consciously create this environment, to consciously create a list of people that you're going to be around, and you're going to have success. Here's the bottom line. I want you to today, not this week, today, I want you to make a list of the three to five people you are going to surround yourself with. And this is the bottom line You may have those people already in your life You may not But make the decision Know who they are Surround yourself with those people And I give you a great example So with myself I surround myself with positive people all the time and now I having more and more of them in my day life but some of these people aren in my day life but I surrounding myself with people like Alex Morton, Brandon Boyd, Ed Milet, Andy Frazella, Robert Stuburg, Christopher Terry, John Lee Dumas, individuals like Russell Brunson. How am I doing that? I mean, think about those names for a second, Ed Milet, Andy Frazella, Russell Brunson, Brandon Boyd. How am I doing that? Well, how I'm doing that is through podcasts, through mentoring, through programs, and I'm constantly surrounding myself with people like that because that's what I choose to do. Now, many of those people are in my life on a day-to-day, live and in-person basis, but that didn't happen because, well, bottom line is it happened because I made the choice to surround myself with positive people and as a result you will become what you think about you'll become what you think about so just remember besides genetics and your thought your environment will directly affect your thoughts which are creating your life so you have to make a conscious effort to direct your environment and that is surrounding yourself with positive people i really believe that you can do this it can be something that you change in your life create that circle of friends and influencers that are in your life, make that list. Family, relationships, your kids, individuals that you feel like can influence you because those positive influences will affect every part of your life, your finances, your relationships, your fulfillment, and everything out there. So I want you to take that. I want you to use that strategy today. I want you to make the decision to be a conscious creator of your environment by surrounding yourself with positive people because you are the average of the people that you surround yourself with. That's my message for today. I'm so glad that you spent time with me today. I hope that I can bring some of that into your life and I look forward to talking with you a little bit more tomorrow. My name is George Wright III and thank you for tuning in to The Daily Mastermind. Have an amazing day.