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Episode 376 · May 18, 2021

Stop Making Excuses: Choose Results Over Reasons

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George Wright III opens this Daily Mastermind episode with a challenge that cuts straight to the core of why so many people stay stuck: you are either collecting reasons or collecting results, and you cannot have both at the same time.

The insight comes from a mentor George worked with closely for years, T. Harv Ecker, who built an entire coaching and mentoring program around this principle. The title of that program says it all. And paired with a quote George credits to Jim Rohn, the message lands hard.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

That single line is the filter for every decision you face today.

Why Your Thoughts Are Running Your Life

George makes a direct argument: if you are not getting the results you want right now, your thoughts are the first place to look. Not your circumstances, not other people, not bad timing. Your thought patterns.

This is Prosperity Pillar number one: "I create my life." The belief that you are the author of your experience is not wishful thinking. It is the prerequisite for every other change you want to make. Without it, you are waiting for someone or something outside yourself to shift first.

The 12 Prosperity Pillars: A Framework for Daily Living

The bulk of this episode introduces a framework George has used personally and refined over years of studying and working with top thought leaders. He calls them the 12 Prosperity Pillars, and he plans to spend the next 12 episodes going deeper on each one.

Here is the full list:

1. I create my life. 2. I take personal responsibility. 3. I act in spite of my mood. 4. I surround myself with positive people. 5. I focus on solutions. 6. I create an attitude of abundance. 7. I choose to be happy. 8. I always think win-win. 9. I am committed to lifelong learning. 10. I create daily rituals. 11. I attract success. 12. I visualize and manifest my life.

These are not motivational slogans. George uses them as daily affirmations, keeps a poster of them in his line of sight, and returns to them as a grounding practice whenever he needs to recalibrate. Each pillar is a specific belief you can choose to hold, and together they form a complete operating system for building the life you want.

Acting in Spite of Your Mood

Pillar three stands out because George calls it the one he personally struggles with most. Successful, happy, and fulfilled people do what they need to do regardless of how they feel in the moment. That means showing up when you are tired, distracted, or unmotivated. The mood will often follow the action, not the other way around.

If you wait until you feel ready or inspired, you will spend most of your life waiting.

Why Win-Win Thinking Changes Everything

Scarcity thinking tells you that for someone to win, someone else has to lose. Pillar eight rejects that entirely. George frames win-win thinking as a practical tool, not just a nice idea. When you approach every negotiation, relationship, and collaboration looking for a solution that works for everyone, you open up possibilities that zero-sum thinking closes off.

It also keeps you focused outward, on value and contribution, rather than inward on self-protection and competition.

Visualization as a Decision-Making Tool

The final pillar, "I visualize and manifest my life," is about clarity. George argues that most people struggle with daily decisions because they lack a clear picture of where they are headed. When you do the work of getting specific about what you want your life to look like, every smaller decision becomes easier to make. You have a reference point.

When you're clear on the purpose and visualization of your life, the decisions you make on a day-to-day basis are much, much easier.

This is not mysticism. It is a practical consequence of having a defined destination. Clarity reduces noise.

Action Steps

  • Write out the 12 Prosperity Pillars and put them somewhere you will see them every day.
  • Identify one thought pattern that is producing excuses instead of results and commit to replacing it this week.
  • Choose one pillar that challenges you most right now and use it as a daily affirmation for the next 30 days.
  • Start your day with one intentional act that triggers a positive chain reaction: a workout, journaling, meditation, or a gratitude practice.
  • Ask yourself honestly at the end of each day: did I collect reasons or results?

The life you want to live is available to you. It starts with deciding that your thoughts, your choices, and your daily actions are what create it. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT

Welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you had an amazing weekend and I'm glad to be back with you. It's been a few days that I've been traveling and working on some big things we're launching here towards the third and fourth quarter of 2021. But let's go ahead and get you started today with the quote of the day. It's from Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn says, if you really want something, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse. I really love that quote. Let me say that one more time. Jim Rohn said, if you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse. That's so true. You know, when we want something bad enough, we do everything that it takes. And it reminds me of another mentor of mine I've had over the past from T. Harv Ecker, who I've worked with T. Harv Ecker over the years many, many times. And I helped him to build his coaching and mentoring program. And he had a saying that I really loved. He said, you can have reasons or results, not both. I think that's why he named his mentoring program reasons or results. But I'll tell you what, you can have only reasons or results. You're not going to have both. So as I've been talking about launching our new mastermind program with my partner, Robert Stubberg, and we've been kind of going through various conversations. I tell you what, I think that it's real important at this time to maybe go back to some of the fundamentals. And I want you to ask yourself, are you finding more reasons in your life or results in your life? Are you finding that you're getting where you want to be? Because if you're not where you want to be right now, there's a reason for that. And what you need to do is you need to check and see where your thoughts are leading you. Because if you're not getting the results you want in your life, it's more than likely that your thoughts are not the right thoughts. My partner, Robert Stubberg, always talks about your thoughts control your life, right? And one of our first prosperity pillars, in fact, the first one is, you know, I create my life. And I really believe that your thoughts are going to create and control your life. So if you're not getting the results that you want right now, you have to go back and you have to look at where your thought patterns are. You have to look at what you're spending most of your time on, what you're focusing your energy on, what your thoughts are focused on. I remember you know you looking at your cell phone every day You you going through social media You at your office You in your business you in your relationships at home And the bottom line is your thoughts what you spend a majority of your time on are what going to create your life And so I want to get back to the fundamentals. And many of you that have been part of the Daily Mastermind, and if this is the first time you're listening, I appreciate you being here. I look forward to kind of working with you and helping to mentor you on a day-to-day basis. But many of you know that I put together this poster that has 12 prosperity pillars on it. And these 12 prosperity pillars are really the best of the best thoughts that I've come up with over time from all the mentoring that I've received. This is my personal experience with some of the best thought leaders out there. And the prosperity pillars are the things that I believe are fundamental values and principles that you need to have in your life in order to grow and unleash your true potential and create the life that you're meant to live. And so this week, what I'd like to do is I'm going to start a series each day of covering one of these prosperity pillars. And each of these prosperity pillars, I have, you know, experience and life lessons with. And so I want to share some of those with you because I believe that you've got to have a fundamental understanding of what you believe to be the keys to creating a successful life. And there are several programs that we're going to be going through over the next little while that my partner has developed over, you know, decades of working with thousands and thousands of individuals. And those programs are ones that are going to give you specific strategies on how you can apply them in your life to create the life that you were meant to live. But I want to take a minute and I want to go through over the next even 12 days, these 12 pillars, because these pillars that I believe are foundational to my life are ones that I think you can benefit from as well. So let me just kind of review those with you real quickly here. And for those of you that have not seen the poster, I've created this poster 100% just so that I had something in my line of sight, in my vision all the time that I could reference even when I wasn't thinking about it or using it as affirmations. But I have used these pillars as daily affirmations. I've used them as ways to get grounded and come back to where I feel I want my thoughts to be. So I'm going to review those with you and then I'll give you a link if you want or you can email me and get you a free PDF of the poster because I think it's something that you could really benefit from. So let's go through those. The first pillar is I create my life. I create my life. You've got to believe that in order to feel empowered to make the decisions and choices and thoughts that you need The second pillar is I take personal responsibility Taking personal responsibility of your life is a key key fundamental principle that we talk in detail about later this week. So it's I take personal responsibility. The third pillar is I act in spite of my mood. Now this is the one I struggle with. A lot of people have struggled with. You know, the bottom line is successful people, wealthy people, happy people, fulfilled people act in spite of their mood. They, you know, nobody wants to do the kind of things that they need to do. when they don't feel like it. So successful people act in spite of their mood. The fourth pillar is, I surround myself with positive people. And it sounds like a strategy, but I'm telling you, it's such an indirect method to be able to acquire, you know, belief and, you know, positive attitude when you surround yourself with positive people. And that's why that's there. The fifth pillar is, I focus on solutions. And I focus on solutions because I know that focusing on the problem is going to keep me in the wrong state of mind. Focusing on solutions is an abundant mentality, and that's one that is going to help you to create in your life rather than respond in your life. And then the sixth one is I create an attitude of abundance. I create an attitude of abundance. Living from abundance is going to be a key. Number seven, I choose to be happy. I choose to be happy. And that's such an important concept for you to be able to apply as well. Number eight, I always think win-win. I always think win-win. There's always a way for us to work together in a win-win situation rather than feeling like that scarcity mentality of there's always a win-lose. Number nine, I am committed to lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is something that many of us are not open to because we're so busy trying to figure out how we can be right. I think I am committed to lifelong learning as a key fundamental principle for being successful. Number 10, I create daily rituals. Daily rituals are the way that you're going to keep yourself in the state that you need to be in and keep you moving forward towards the goals that you're trying to accomplish. I create daily rituals. Number 11, I think I'm on the right number here. Number 11, I attract success. Now, I attract success is not only a thought process. It's a frame of mind. It's a belief. It's an abundant philosophy. but I attract success is key to being successful in your life. And then the final one, the 12th one, is one that is both a practice and a mindset, and that is I visualize and manifest my life Do you visualize and create a vision for your life Do you get crystal clear on what the clarity right of where you want to go what you want to do and how you want to do it Because when you're clear on the purpose and visualization of your life, the decisions you make on a day-to-day basis are much, much easier. How many of us struggle with making decisions because we don't know what the best direction is or what to do or how to do it, but when you visualize and manifest your life. You're creating clarity for yourself. You're creating that litmus test that you're going to measure everything else against. And that's key. So those are the prosperity pillars. I create my life. I take personal responsibility. I act in spite of my mood. I surround myself with positive people. I focus on solutions. I create an attitude of abundance. I choose to be happy. I always think win-win. I'm committed to lifelong learning. I create daily rituals. I attract success. And I visualize and manifest my life. Those are key, key principles I've learned, and I hope will help you as well. And listen, if you want a poster of that, I think the easiest thing at this point is just email me and I will send you a PDF download. You can just download the PDF, print it off, put it on your wall, your desk, whatever you need. You know, I've sold thousands and thousands of these posters, but if you're listening to this episode and you want to get a head start and you want to just email me, I'll send you a free PDF you can download and print off. And just email me at probably the best bet is my personal email address, which is george at g3worldwide.com. So email me at george at g3worldwide.com. If you do, I'll know you listened to this episode. I'll send you a free PDF. I hope it's something that'll help you. I want to give you one other strategy I think you ought to do. I want you to do one thing today that's going to start your day right. Because I've found that starting the day right helps you to win the day. Find that one thing each day that is the best for you. It might be working out. It might be doing meditation. It might be journaling. It might be practicing gratitude. But find the thing that you know always triggers the domino effect so that your day starts to go right. And do that one thing today. Do that one thing and let's see how the rest of the day goes. That's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing day. I look forward to talking with you throughout the week on the pillars, the prosperity pillars. And if you have any questions, hit me up on the Daily Mastermind. And once again, if you have, you know, I don't have sponsors or anything on this show. So if you would share this episode, like, and subscribe the podcast, mean the world to us here at the Daily Mastermind. And I look forward to talking with you soon. Have an amazing day.