Part 3 - The Simple Daily Habits That Transforms Your Mindset

Welcome to this edition of the million Dollar Mastermind podcast. This is where we pick the brains of high achievers from all walks of life and get their hard earned real world insights on winning. I'm your host, Larry Wydell.

And when you do the journal, what, what have you noticed from your journaling, your manuscripts and talking to people about that, the interaction that what comes up more than more. Like you say people are doing great and everything. What are the kind of improvements in. People can kind of guess some of this. They're getting specific, they're getting more organized. But what have you noticed from your vantage point, the biggest advantage for people who get involved in this activity and why is it's so advantageous for them to spend that five or 10, 15 minutes to kick off the day like this? How, how does it transform? What, what do you hear from your.

End, like 100% of the time? Someone that's used the journal for at least a week, even it is, holy crap, my mindset, my mood has drastically changed because all of a sudden they went from, you know, being impacted every single day or spiraling in their own negative thoughts to, oh my God, I can do this. I am the creator of my life. I can take the steps to make changes. So the mindset shift is huge. And that's like, if you think about it every single day, it's not that we're battling the outside factors, we're battling this between our ears, right? Like this, this is our biggest battle because this tells us exactly how, how to think, how to feel, how to react, all of that. So when we can get our minds right, like, that's what makes you truly unstoppable. So that's the biggest thing that I hear. And then of course, when you're in that positive mindset, that's when you start taking the action. And then guess what happens when you take the action. That's when you start seeing results. That's when you see success. Like, so it's this ripple effect of really starting with, you know, the, the whole journal is about like, you know, achieve your dream life, like, manifest your dream life, achieve your goals and all that. But honestly, like, that's just the hook because that's what's, like, that's what people want. But ultimately it's, it's the self development, it's the mindset shifts that happen in here that make the external changes and results.

Well, I think we all want to do great things with our life. And that means you're going to, you know, be performing at an Elite level. And you hear this in sports all the time, that what separates the elite people, you know, like in golf, you know, the top 140 players in the world that are qualified for the, you know, the PGA Tour, they'll say that 120 of them have the fundamentals on the swing down to be in the top five, you know, but, you know, what separates them is what's going on in their mind. You know, that's why when we're in athletics all the time we had coaches, we're telling, get out of your own way, you know, but, you know, we don't know what that means. But the battle for really the top elite performer, performance in everything comes into what's going on in your head. I used to tell all of our leaders that you're the rest of your life, you're going to be your biggest enemy. It's not going to be things. It's not going to be, you know, we were all worried about the Middle east, we're worried about politics, we're worried about this. But in our life, the thing that we need to be focusing on is ourselves. And the thing is that journal can help in the manuscript, it can help you keep coming back and centering on that, you know, that you stay organized. What's the priorities? What, you know, matters most to you about, you know, what, what comes to you that you feel like needs to be done today. And what can you move? How can you move the needle for? You know, always say that success is not guaranteed, but one thing you can do is continue to stack the odds of success in your favor. You know, you can start changing it percentage wise and keep doing that. And eventually, while it's not guaranteed, it will be inevitable, you know, and so you, you know, you can influence results by your behavior, but not if you don't stay on track. And that's why I think you're on to a. Continue to make a bigger and bigger impact with this. And so I'm happy you found it. What do you find out on your. So when I say that to you, all of that, blah, blah, blah, I'm really endorsing what you're doing. How, how does that resonate with you? Because you live this life.

Yeah, yeah, that's. That's exactly 100% of it. And I just wish that my wish for like humanity in general is to, is to somehow learn this and apply it to their life. Because every single day, you know, there are tragedies happening, there's things happening that are not great. And you Know, that all just lowers our energy, our frequency, our thought, our drive, all of that. And really just learning to take care of yourself. Right. Like mentally, emotionally, all of that. Because I truly believe that everyone on this planet, on this earth has some sort of gift and purpose to share.

Right.

But people don't ever wake up enough to tap into it.

Yeah.

And that's, that's, that's the real shame. So everyone has a really, everyone has their light. And I just hope by them tapping back into themselves and clearing out all the junk and really tapping into their true purpose and getting their mind right, we could create some really beautiful things on this planet.

Well, that's why, you know, the daily journaling and manuscripting is so important, because there's only so much you can change or so much that can, you can absorb and process on any give given time. And so doing it, making it an everyday. What I find is that people in their life, they either do something all the time or never.

Yes.

You know, I'm saying it's like if, you know, if, if you want to play the guitar you got, if you're going to be really good, you got to play it every day. You got to, you know, it's got to be an everyday type thing. And even people like Eric Clapton will say that if he doesn't pick up the guitar for several days, it's just, you know, it takes him a while to get it back into it. Tiger woods at the peak of his career would say that if he got involved in traveling and some events and it was two weeks, he was two weeks away from the golf course when he came back, he would be a 20 handicapper for about a week or 10 days before he worked his way back into the groove. And so whatever you got to be elite at, you got to do every day. And that's why this falls right in line with that, because you don't expect too much of yourself. You don't expect an overnight change. But I don't know if you've used this, but it's the thing that if you improve 1%, you know, like 1% better every day, it doesn't seem like much, but over a month, a year, it just is astronomical. And people are saying, how did you change? What did you do do? Well, you're just doing one extra, you know, and it, it, it adds up. So as you go, what are, how long you been doing your podcast?

Only a couple months. Just finally launched it, so brand new.

What was your thought behind the podcast? And you know, how did you Put it together. And what. What's your. What. What's your experience from two months in?

Yes. So most people ask me, like, why did you wait so long to start one? Like, you're so good at everything else with social media, with building a business, like all these, like, old sorts of tech and everything. And I waited so long because I didn't have the time and space for it. As, you know, podcasting, people think, oh, you're just recording a video. There's so much behind the scenes that goes into it with plan planning, with organizing. And it's something that you have to be like, what you said, it's a consistency, right? Like, you got to put out an episode every single week, whether you bulk record or not. But it's a big commitment. So with me starting it, I was finally ready to jump on a new platform and start sharing different things about my life. It's called Money, Mindset, and Manicures. It could have been called manuscripting. And I was like, well, I don't want to just talk to. To a certain type of group of people, right? Like, I really want to share a lot of things throughout my life. So that's why it's called Money, Mindset, Manicures, because we talk about really, like, so many different things. And just diving into it, Podcasting, for me, as crazy it is to maybe hear it was a scary platform to jump into because it's a different thing. It's just your voice, right?

Yeah, it.

It's. It's totally different. And even though I have been doing lives, I have spoken on stages, I've been interviewed on podcasts. Like, I've done it for so long. But it was really interesting that stepping into podcasting was really scary for me. And then that's when I dope and I was like, that means I need to do it. Because I always. When I want to do something and there's fear behind it, it's like, okay, you need to overcome this fear. Let. Let's dive into why that fear is there. And then as I put out the first few episodes, I was like, oh, my gosh, what are people gonna think? Are they gonna love it? Are they gonna hate it? Am I gonna be canceled? This, that, and the other. Right? Like, just all these emotions. And sure enough, the feedback's been amazing. And it's something that I really love to do because unlike watching a YouTube video or watching a live or reels or Instagram stories, like, I love that I can connect. And this is the last one thing that I've heard back from my audience and I'm sure maybe you have as well, is that when you can speak to someone for an hour, hour and a half, even if it's a 20 minute quickie episode, they love the intimacy feeling of it. And I always get the feedback of, oh my gosh, Sam, I love these episodes. Like I feel like my best friend is talking to me and you, you are able to connect with your audience on such a deeper level, which makes me really excited. And that's what I love about podcasting because I'm a huge podcast podcast listener. Like I love listening to podcasts, especially when I'm driving or on a walk or even when I'm just like cleaning the house and just like have one playing in the background. I truly love it. So my inspiration behind it is to create a further impact and help inspire people and teach people, you know, their true purpose and how to go after those things that they want. Through my episodes.

For those of you who are sick and tired of fooling around and are dead serious about wanting to move up fast, I've got something especially for you. I've combined the best insights from over 40 years in business and making $70 million in income and compressed them into a free webinar. That's right, it's a free resource. If you want to find out exactly what the concepts are that I use in coaching million dollar earners, Register now@widelonwinning.com you'll discover the five part framework used by so many to reach their financial, personal and professional goals. You can find that link in this episode's show Notes.

Now on your podcast, do you have guests or you are. Are you the talk? Are you the talker?

So far today it's just been me. That's how I wanted to launch it. I really wanted to like hone my skill as a host. Like I mentioned, like it's a little bit different than everything but there will be guest interviews coming in the next coming months.

So by January, what did you talk about last time?

This last episode that I actually releasing this week, it was all for solo, solo entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs. I get a lot of questions from newbie entrepreneurs on how did you start your business? Like what are the key things that you did? What did you not do? So it was just a really fact based kind of my story. Plus I wouldn't want not do.

Let's give them a preview. So what were the big takeaways that you wanted them to get from that? That how much scripting did you do before you started or did you just start off the top of your head, have a few notes and just take off?

I always kind of script the structure of the episode because I'm one that I, I could, I could talk for hours so that you sort of topic that I'm passionate about. So I always give myself some structure with some main bullet points and then I, you know, go off script. I'm not sitting there reading any sort of thing that I've pre written. But the top things for entrepreneurship is the first one is. And because this is what I hear all the time, it's like I'm not seeing the success, I'm not seeing the results. And it's a reminder that it's going to take time and consistency. We live in a world right now where social media shows the highlights. It shows people having quote unquote overnight success. And people get really discouraged if within the first month they're not making 10k or within the first year of launching their business. They're not breaking six figures, they think they're a failure. And I shared a lot of my stories and reasonings. It's like, well, you know, look at that entrepreneur that's sharing. Oh, whether they did a 10k month or a hundred k month, I guarantee you behind that, oh, this was my first month in business, I did this. They have a ton of quote unquote failed businesses. They have a ton of failed launches, they have a ton of previous experience where now all of a sudden they're doing this one and they're like, I made it right. So I think even though social media is so inspirational, it is also so discouraging for the newbie that thinks that's how it should happen for them. And then they get discouraged and they want to quit and give up because it didn't happen that way. So I really love to shine the light on the truth of like, hey, it's gonna take consistency. You have to show up every freaking day. Even when nobody's watching, nobody's liking, no one's buying. Like, you have to keep going. I had plenty of days in my first year where we didn't make any sales. Did it stop me? No. Did it make me think, oh, is this the right thing? Of course. But I knew deep down inside I had to do it. And when you create a company or a business with a full alignment, and this is another thing that I see a lot people starting businesses because they see so many other people on social media doing it and they think, oh, all these people are successful. That means if I started, I'm going to be successful too. So they're chasing the wrong way, goal or mission, because they see others doing it thinking they can do it too. And even as a coach, I saw all the time at the beginning of a cohort I had, you know, class of Whether it was 10 or 15 or 5 or whatever, I would see right away who was going to be a success and who was here just thinking they could go through this program, launch something and make a lot of money. I knew who had the real heart in it and who didn't. So really getting again, coming back to that, like, what's your true purpose? Like, what is it that you really want to do? What are you actually chasing, if anything, and understanding that it all comes down to consistency. It all comes down to putting those systems in place. And if you don't have the drive, like a lot of us have our visionaries, right? So we have the vision, we have the thing, but we don't know how to implement the systems and put those things in place. Okay, if you're one of those types of people, you would be the one that maybe has to hire a coach or hire help in order to put those systems in place. So really just sharing a lot of, like, the real truth, especially with starting manuscripting, because that was a pure example of, hey, I started this from zero, zero experience even. Like, I've been in the shoes of, like, really understanding nothing about this type of industry. And those were the things that I did. So that's the episode that's coming out next.

Well, you know, like when that. I don't play video games, but, you know, you remember, what was it? Angry Birds. That was just a sensation. It was. Everybody played Angry Birds and I would always think to myself, boy, whoever wrote that really hit it big, you know, like, wow, they hit the jackpot. I'm thinking of Jackpot because I've got a huge painting downstairs that we decided to name Jackpot. But anyway, they hit the jackpot. And then I found out that this was a company out of the Netherlands or someplace up there called, and they had 59 other games out.

I didn't know that.

But before, before Angry Birds hit, you know, so it wasn't like, oh, you know, you know, Bobby and Charlie thought of this great game and they just got lucky. No, no, they had a big, you know, business coders, you know, two or three floors of this big building and, and they, you know, they hit. But they were good at it. You know, the deal is.

Yeah. And that gives me the chill Just hearing that because one, I didn't know that backstory. And just a pure example of like the work that goes behind and the stories we don't know and the things that we don't see behind the scenes that are happening before someone big. Right? Like that's, that's unbelievable. That's cool.

Yeah. You know that there's a lot about being an entrepreneur where you just have to have the stomach to be bad before you can earn the right to be good. In fact, I was on the driving range on a golf course in some resort in Puerto Rico at a convention one time and I overheard the golf pro giving this lady a lesson next to me and he said, your ability to become a great golfer is based off your ability to stomach being hitting bad shots for a long, long time.

Yeah, it's so true. It's so true.

And so the thing that, that I find offensive about you is you started not knowing anything and then you figured it out. I'm one of those people that I've got to have someone at least give me some clues, you know, I've got, once I get some clues, I've got to have some role models, you know, that I can pick up generally how they did it and then maybe get it, you know, have a conversation with them, pick their brain a little bit. And then I try and use their ideas and to go out and beat them, you know, because the way I look at it, if they did it first, they're showing me the model, they're giving me the insights, I ought to be able to beat them, you know, because they already went first. You know, they, they, they hacked the path through the jungle already for me, so I should be able to get through it faster. But when you start fresh like that, and the one thing is you gotta be able to test ideas. Cause you don't know what is going to work and what's not going to work. How did you just write right out of the bat? I guess because out of your own experience, put out your journal based off what you knew worked for you or did you do, you said you had a group of 10 to 20 people that you tested it on. How did that, did you do that first or what?

Yes, yes, the first thing that I did because not only did I want to test the product, but also I just wanted to see like were people really interested or am I just kind of like seeing random DMS and not going to hear about this again? So it was kind of a two part process with getting kind of a list of People, hey, apply to be in this, in this cohort. Let's see how much interest there is. And there was decent amount. And then putting all those women in the group. And I literally just said, I said, we're. You're going to do this for free. You're basically going to get a month of, quote, unquote, not even coaching, but just a month. Please use this every day. And then every single Sunday, we had a zoom call where I would get on the call with these ladies and be like, what's going on? How's the week been? How have you seen any changes? I would just ask them questions for feedback. And then that's how I started learning, like, okay, they love this, this works, all these sorts of things. So that, that's how it all started. And then from there, I was like, cool, I have enough proof in the pudding right now to put out, create the first journal, go to, manufacture the first journal. And that's literally, that's how it got started. That's what I did.

Now, did you do that from your email list? You just sent out an email to your existing list of subscribers and said, I've got a new. I'm putting together a pilot project and if you want to get involved. How did you do that?

Yeah, actually, I didn't use my email list. I just promoted it on social media because my email, like, that was very specific. Right? That was for. Even though it was like, I totally could have, but that was like, you know, people wanting to be a business coach and all these sorts of things. And even though this would have been great for them, I wanted to just. I had a big following. So my current Instagram is a brand new Instagram account. I had a previous Instagram that had like 60,000 whatever, followers. So I just put it out there first, asking everyone, regardless, if you were interested in working with me or not. But I put it out.

I love it. I love how you, I love how you toss that off. Oh, 60,000 on my Instagram. Yeah, I've got that. I've got that too. And that's because I'm a former model myself.

Yes.

Well, 60,000 on your Instagram account and then you just started a whole new one.

Yeah, when I started this company, I had made that decision of, you know what? Because that Instagram account, like, that was forever, like, so old. It had. I'd gone through so many pivots on that account too. And I just made the personal decision of, like, you know what, it's time to start fresh. I, I have evolved I have grown people followed me on that account, you know, when I was in the fitness space and you know, when I was like any modeling and that sort of stuff, like I wanted a fresh start. And I basically just said to that account, hey, if you want to continue with my journey, like come follow me over here and if not, cool, that's fine. Like goodbye and good luck.

How much life speak, how much live speaking have you done and did you enjoy it?

Done quite a bit and I love it. I love it. There's something so magical being in a room with actual like humans right there in front of you to be able to see their expression, see their energy change, like meet them afterwards sometimes if possible by doing, doing live speaking is I, it's one of my favorite things to. Yeah.

And what do you, what, what do you find the main message that you try and you'll go into an event like that? What's the main point that you, you want them to walk out with when it's over? Because you know, we're always lucky when we speak if they remember us at all or if they remember what you know, the, you know is if they get one main takeaway from everybody they listen to and speaking. That's, that's a lot. And so what do you, what, what do you try and impact people with the most? When you're, you're live.

Yeah. 99 of the time, it is literally just driving in the point. Like you are the creator of your reality, you have the power to change it if you don't like it. And listening to your gut and intuition, like those are the three main points. And like after every single time I speak it, it's like, just like even though to me these, these points just seem very, you know, basic but to a lot of people it's just like these mind blowing revelations where it's like, oh yeah, like I'm the creator. Like it's, it's super empowering. So just to empower people with knowing and understanding. Like you don't have to do what you are told by society, by your parents, by X, Y and Z. Right? Like, no, like you have a purpose on this planet and learn to tap into that and understand that if there's something that you don't like about your life, you can change it. You don't have to be stuck there.

And so those three again is that you are the creator of your world. Go through them real quick.

Again, you are the creator of your reality. One, that. What were the other two? Sleepless tracks you're the creative reality.

You do what I do forget. Since you're much younger than me. That's very encouraging. Now I'm starting to like you. I've had so many things not to like you for, but now I'm starting to like you.

Yeah. So you are the creative, the reality. If you don't like something about your life, like, you truly have the power to change it. And then following your gut and intuition.

There you go, you remembered it. You have a few years. You have a few years left before you lose your mind. Good for you. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. Appreciate you having, having us share all of this with you. And we'll put the links to your website and your journal and all that. I always let my guests have the final word. And for the people listening and so what do you want them to take away from this?

Thank you so much, Larry. One thing I want to take away, and it literally comes down to those three points that I just shared. Like, truly, like, you have a purpose on this planet. You have a light to shine. Don't let someone dim your light. Follow your intuition. It is the most powerful brain that you have. Go after what you want. And if you don't like something about your life, you do have the power to change it, I promise.

Yeah. And the thing that I'd like to add is that don't feel like this is you being selfish. This is you being responsible for your life and the talent and time and knowledge, everything that you've been given so that you can be productive with it. And there's nobody else in the world who knows what is right for you at any given moment better than you, you know, and so that's why you need to be. It's not that, you know, worry about stepping on people's toes, but you've got to be assertive about getting yourself in a situation where you can be productive doing things that you're excited about. And you, you know, if you don't have a knack for doing in the beginning, you will develop a knack for. Because you're going to spend so much time doing it. And most things are not that hard to do, you know, as you. It's a matter of. It's hard when you don't know. But what I. I look like things are hard. Like, I can't get through that door. God, come out. I can't get through that door. But then someone gives you a key and you stick the key and turn the thing and, oh, I'm through the door. I just didn't have the cave. Yeah, he knew all I needed was a key. And so that's what hopefully people are going to get from this. Some keys that they can use to unlock doors, move forward in their life. It's been a lot of fun, Samantha. When you get sick of Austin now, you guys are going to have to call me and I'll tell you about Florida, okay?

Yes, please do. I will definitely give you a call.

All right, thanks so much. Good luck with your podcast and your. Your journal, your manuscript.

Thank you so much, Larry. This was so great.

Look forward to next time. Goodbye.

Thank you for listening to the final part of this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast. Great ideas, don't care who use them.

If you're motivated to move up in a big way. Right now, I've created a free training video to remove the mystery on how.

To set yourself up for big success. This is the information that has changed so many of our lives, and it can have the same impact on you.

And the video is completely free.

You'll find it@widelonwinning.com join us over there. And thanks for being part of our community.