Episode 757 · Apr 3, 2023

Stop Trying to Do It On Your Own: Why Success Is a Team Sport

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George Wright III opens this episode of The Daily Mastermind with a challenge that lands harder the longer you sit with it: the reason so many entrepreneurs stall is not a lack of effort or intelligence. It is the quiet belief that they have to figure everything out alone. In a world of Zoom calls, social feeds, and endless Google answers, it has never been easier to isolate yourself and grind in silence. George argues that this instinct, however noble it feels, is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make.

Drawing on takeaways from a recent Mastermind Academy event, George lays out a practical case for surrounding yourself with the right people, letting the market tell you the truth, and getting on the path before you think you have it all mapped out.

Why You Need to Stop Doing It Alone

The daily battle of the mind is real for entrepreneurs, high achievers, business owners, and investors. George has felt it himself, and he keeps returning to the same realization: progress is not about being unable to do the work, it is about who and what you surround yourself with.

It's not about needing help or asking for help. It's about surrounding yourself with the right people, the right energy, the right knowledge, people that know more about it than you do.

When you isolate yourself and try to dig deep alone, you sign up for the same long learning curve everyone else endures. The faster route is to work with people who have already walked it. Reaching out for help puts you in a very small percentage of people who actually do, and that alone gives you an edge.

What It Means That Success Leaves Clues

One of the two big takeaways George pulled from the event is simple: success leaves clues. The same principles and strategies come up again and again because they work. The most effective marketers he knows do not waste energy reinventing the wheel. They find what is already working and duplicate it.

That includes studying your competitors. When was the last time you actually looked at the ads your competitors are running to see what resonates? Too many entrepreneurs burn time and money trying to invent something new and unique when the smarter move is to master what the marketplace has already proven.

Why the Market Doesn't Care What You Think

The second takeaway is a harder pill to swallow. You can be convinced you have a brilliant idea, but the market is the only judge that matters.

The market doesn't care what you think. The market will tell you whether your product works. It'll tell you whether the campaign resonates.

George's standard response to a great idea is not debate, it is action: let's try it, let's test it. Your best laid plan might flop and your least polished one might take off. A true marketer cares less about what they think and more about what the market thinks, then keeps testing until the data points the way.

How the Path Reveals the Strategy

Many people freeze because they want to map the entire route before they take a step. George flips that on its head. The path is the execution, and you learn it as you go.

You don't just find the strategy until you're on the path. When you're on the path, that's when you find solutions, you find answers, you attract resources into your life.

You can set a strategy, but stay fluent enough to pivot and resilient enough to handle what comes. Borrowing from Robert Kiyosaki's idea of failing faster, George reminds you that failure is not the absence of success, it is the ticket through the gate. No one fails who does their best.

Where the Power of a Mastermind Comes In

This is the whole reason George built The Daily Mastermind. When two or more people align in harmony around a common cause, an indirect benefit emerges that lifts everyone involved. Mentors, partners, associates, and mastermind groups give you ideas, energy, and resources you simply cannot generate alone. The goal is not to create every opportunity yourself, it is to put yourself in the right rooms with the right people.

Action Steps

Identify one area where you have been grinding alone and find a mentor or peer who has already solved it.
Study the ads and strategies your top competitors are using, then model what is clearly working instead of starting from scratch.
Replace internal debate with testing: when you have an idea, run it and let the market respond.
Take the first concrete step on your path now, before the plan feels complete, and let solutions surface through action.
Join or build a mastermind group of two or more people aligned around a shared goal.

You are not doing this alone, and you do not have to. Surround yourself with the right people, let the market guide you, and get moving on the path before you have it all figured out. It's 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 with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you're having a great week already. I hope you started out well, and I appreciate you being here with me on the podcast today. I know that it takes discipline, consistency, mental strength for you to be able to operate as an entrepreneur, high achiever, whether you're a business owner or you're an investor, you're just someone trying to get through life, that daily battle of the mind is the reason we do the Daily Mastermind. And I'm here to be able to help you, support you. And so I wanna hear from you. If you have something you're working on or something you need help with, hit me up at the Daily Mastermind on Facebook or Instagram or email me at george at g3worldwide.com. You would be surprised how many times I throw that out and very few people take me up on the offer, But I can guarantee you that when you reach out and ask for help from individuals that have done what you are trying to do, that you are going to be in the very, very small percentage of people that actually look for help. And we're going to talk a little bit about that a little bit later today. But let me get you started with the Daily Mastermind quote of the day out of the Daily Mastermind mobile app. And if you haven't downloaded the app, it's free. There's nothing for sale in there. E-books, audio books, inspiration, motivation. You've got actually all kinds of programs and meditations and blogs, articles, videos. So use that. It's your on-the-go resource to keep you focused and moving forward. But the quote today is, No man fails who does his best. No man fails who does his best. I think sometimes as entrepreneurs, we give ourselves too much of a hard time. I think you've got to make sure that you give yourself credit and you recognize the hard work that you're putting in and know that failure does not mean you didn't hit your goal. Failure is just a lesson that you will learn. It's sort of the gateway. It's the ticket through the gates to success is failure. Robert Kiyosaki says fail five times faster. He wasn't kidding. I mean, the faster you fail, the more you're learning, the more you're growing, the more you're moving forward. So just get it done. So I want to recap a couple things with you as we start the week here. We had a great Mastermind Academy event last week. We had some phenomenal speakers. My buddy Justin from Kimbrey Capital talked about how you can get funding for your business. You'd be surprised at the type of funding sources that are available right now if you want to grow your business. And he gave some tips on what banks are looking for and what you need to do Max Oliver awesome awesome awesome content from Three Second Media I gonna have to get him on a podcast as well but he talked about ways in order to create viral videos And if you are an entrepreneur, business owner, sales exec, high achiever at all, you're looking for new leads all the time. And there's no better way than through social media. And he's been able to get hundreds of millions of views for his clients free. you know what you'd normally spend millions of dollars doing for marketing and understand that there's a difference between organic social media and paid social media PPC type marketing and that there's no reason you have no excuse not to grow your business through social media even if you don't have a big budget even if you don't have a big budget but he went through some great stuff also he talked a little bit more about how you can convert your followers to customers Remember, so many of you are so caught up in just having a social media following that you forget the whole reason you should be doing it is to gain customers. That's the point of it. So those were great conversations. And then TJ Menlove, a good friend of mine, talked about the prosperity pillars and ways to create a strong mental discipline. Those are all great things. I'm going to probably try to drip some of that content out here through our podcast, but I'll also put it on our YouTube channel. So make sure you go to the George Wright III YouTube channel, and we'll put that on there. But there were a couple of takeaways from this event, which is why I wanted to mention it to you. It's primarily for a high-end paid mastermind I do that you probably have never even heard me talk about on the podcast because that's not the reason I do it. But we opened it up for free. And what was interesting to me is some of the comments that came out of it. People were just blown away by the knowledge and expertise that people have had in the industry. And I make the comment to them, Who is it that you're talking to? Who is it who's helping you in your business? Are you around people that can truly, truly help you? Because you've got to stop doing it alone. And so many of you are just trying to figure it out. Because Google's made it so easy for us to learn things online that you think you can just go learn. And you can. You can. But then you'll go through the same learning curve everyone else does. And why not work with individuals that have been through that learning curve? But there was two key points I really pointed out after this event to a couple of my partners. One was that success leaves clues. Success leaves clues. And what you've probably noticed is that many people talk about the same principles and strategies, but that's because there's a reason. Success leaves clues. And most of the most effective marketers that I know out there will just literally go out and find out what working and duplicate it You can get caught up in trying to reinvent the wheel trying to find a new better angle a new better way to do things I've had so many lessons in my life where I've tried to do things I thought were amazing and they didn't work. And things that I kind of stumbled across and they did work. And the bottom line, the lesson in that is that success does leave clues. Don't try to figure it out all on your own. Look for what's working. Look for the people that have done it. Look for the strategies and patterns. Look at the ads. Have you looked at the ads of your competitors lately to see what's working? You're so busy spending time and money trying to create new, unique, different ads. You should be trying to master what's working in the marketplace. And most marketers don't start with what's working in the marketplace. They go with what they feel they know. The second thing that this event really brought out is that the market doesn't care what you think. And it's a hard pill to swallow sometimes, but people are like, I think we should do this. And this is a great idea. And that's a great idea. And you know what my answer usually is? Okay, let's try it. Let's try that idea. Let's try that idea. Let's try that idea. Let's test, test, test, test, test. Because the market doesn't freaking care what you think. Your best laid out plan ain't going to work. And your least laid out plan might. And it doesn't matter to you. A true marketer doesn't care what they think. They care what the market thinks. And the market doesn't care what you think. The market will tell you whether your product works. It'll tell you whether or not the campaign resonates with them. And if it doesn't, then you've got to keep testing. So remind yourself of that before you go down this rabbit hole of what you think is the best idea out there. So from the event, really these couple takeaways. success leaves clues and let the market determine the success of your business. But I wanted to give you one other thought today. And this thought was one that's kind of been weighing on me a lot because I've listened to so many people struggling lately, struggling in life, struggling in business, struggling in relationships, struggling with communication. And I just want to put it out there that you're not alone. You're not doing it on your own. But you need, and listen to me very carefully when I say this, you need to stop trying to do it on your own. And what I mean by that is that we've gotten to a point where we're in social media, we're on Zoom every other day, and we've come up with this feeling that we could just kind of isolate ourselves and figure it out. Just dig deep and just figure it out. And I done that many times in my life And what I always come back to realize is that you know it not about needing help or asking for help It about surrounding yourself with the right people surrounding yourself with the right energy, surrounding yourself with the right knowledge, people that know more about it than you do. You've got to find ways in order to truly go to the next level without trying to do it on your own. So stop trying to do it on your own. And along that same vein, stop trying to figure out the path before executing. The path is the execution. You'll learn it along the way. You'll fail faster. You'll move forward, fail forward. But the bottom line is so many of you are trying to just create your own opportunities, not rely on anyone else and do it on your own. And it's a huge mistake. You need to seek out the help, whether it's, I mean, whether it's mentors, whether it's associates, partners, mastermind groups, whatever it is, find other people that can help you because there is a power in a mastermind. That's the reason I did this podcast. The power in the mastermind is that two or more people in harmony seeking a common cause, there's an indirect additional benefit that will lift you up, that will give you ideas. And it ties so closely to this not trying to figure out the path because I've learned over time that a lot of times your ideas and your strategy are only found on the path. You don't create the strategy. You can create a strategy, but be fluent in order to pivot and be resilient when things happen. But you don't just find the strategy until you're on the path. When you're on the path, that's when you find solutions. You find answers. You attract resources into your life. So that's my message for today. I really want you to think about, are you trying to do this on your own? Or are you surrounding yourself and looking for people to help you along the way? and don't get caught up in the path until you're on it. Get on that path and keep moving. And as you move along the path, you're gonna find things you never knew or even something you could put in your plan, but they'll come about and they'll manifest along the way, only through action though. So that's my message for today. I hope you have an amazing day. I'm looking forward to talking with you more throughout this week because we've got some really good content that we'll wanna be able to drop for you on marketing and growing your business and creating revenue and moving the needle. So hit me up on the Daily Mastermind. If this is your first time listening to the show, like and subscribe so that we can get you these episodes. You don't miss out on anything and share it with someone. Share the concepts. 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