When Nothing Is Working… Adjust the Plan

What do you do when nothing is working?

In this episode of Finding Your Innergator, RB Wright shares a powerful, real-life story from a recent trip to Bermuda—one that started with high expectations… and quickly turned into frustration, setbacks, and uncertainty.

From rough seas and broken equipment to empty waters with no fish in sight, this wasn’t the perfect trip.

But what happened next holds the lesson.

Through adjusting the plan, relying on relationships, and staying disciplined under pressure, everything changed—from no action… to blackfin tuna and a 50-pound wahoo… and an unforgettable evening with great food and even better perspective.

This episode isn’t about fishing.

•  It’s about life.
• It’s about business.
•  It’s about what happens when things don’t go your way.

 What You’ll Learn

•  Why “no results” doesn’t mean the goal is wrong
•  The difference between amateurs who panic and professionals who adjust
•  How tracking and awareness guide better decisions 
•  Why relationships matter when you need them most
•  The power of reflecting and resetting to improve performance 
•  How structure—not motivation—is the key to long-term success 

 The Innergator System (Preview)

RB also introduces the upcoming Innergator System—a structured approach to turning intention into consistent action.

Because let’s be honest:

• Hearing it is one thing…
• Doing it every day is something completely different.

The system is designed to help you:

•  Get clear every morning 
•  Act with intention throughout the day 
•  Track what actually matters 
•  Optimize your relationships 
•  Reflect and reset for continuous improvement 

 Key Takeaways

• “Just because the plan isn’t working doesn’t mean the goal is wrong.”
• “You don’t need everything to go right to win… you just need to stay in it long enough to adjust.”
• “The people who win aren’t the ones with perfect conditions… they’re the ones who adjust when conditions aren’t.”

Your Challenge This Week

When something doesn’t go your way—and it will—

•  Don’t quit 
•  Don’t panic 
•  Don’t abandon the goal 

 Adjust the plan.

If This Helped You…

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Because greatness isn’t found in perfect conditions…

It’s built through discipline, intentional action, and the ability to adjust.

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Transcript

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Finding Your Innergator Podcast, where we talk about discipline, relationships, and the habits that release to greatness that is already inside of you. I'm your host, RB Wright, and I am so glad that you're here. In each episode, we'll explore powerful lessons, real life stories, and practical strategies to help you live intentionally, build meaningful relationships, and unlock your full potential. But greatness isn't something you stumble into, it's something that is built every single day. So let's get started and begin the journey to finding your innergator. Hello, everybody. This is RB Wright, and I am so glad that you are here. This is the Finding Your Innergator podcast. And I I gotta tell you, I am literally just getting back uh from Bermuda. Uh we went down uh or across there. It's about 700 miles from where I live, right off the coast, and I had never been there. Uh we went uh just to get away for a few days, a little Wednesday afternoon through Sunday trip, and I'll go ahead and tell you. Um it was amazing, amazing, but it wasn't all sunrises and perfect fishing. Now don't get me wrong. Every morning coming across the great uh Bermuda Sound, we got to walk out on the back deck and watch the sunrise come up. It was amazing. We had water that I could never describe to you. How and I've been in a lot of places. Nothing, the watercolor, nothing looked like this. We had the whole deal. But we also had one of those days. You know, I don't know if you ever have those days. In fact, I know you have those days. Originally, uh the Airbnb we had uh was owned by a lovely couple, it's called Master View, and it's called that for a reason. Uh but there was uh a guy there that's a third-generation uh commercial and charter fisherman, and he and his wife owned the Airbnb, and you can also work out a deal to go charter fishing with them. We had originally planned to do that on Thursday, right? Uh the winds there were, oh wow, 30 some miles an hour. The seas were anywhere from five to eight feet, and so we said, nah, we're not gonna do that. Now, one of the things we've done is is kind of planned out what we were gonna do each day. So we we had to adjust our plan. So we ended up walking around on the some of the areas called the dockyard, find a couple of places to eat, just explored a little bit on Thursday, decided not to go to the beach. Friday, we decided we'd go to the beach. It was rainy Friday morning, all of a sudden the sun came out. We got out to the this place called Horseshoe Bay, pink beaches, beautiful coves, volcanic rocks coming out. You could see sturgeon swimming in the water, you could see these big parrot fish and snappa went snorkeling. The cool thing is the cruise ships had come in and they all leave, so Friday did not know this. Friday, it was pretty much an empty beach, us and some locals. Had we gone on Thursday, it would have been packed. So we felt like we had a private little cove. We timed that right, didn't mean to. Uh, enjoyed it so much. We stayed a little bit later, canceled our restaurant reservations, ended up uh grilling out, sitting there watching the sunset, little boats going by on the water. It was it was incredible. And then came Saturday. Saturday morning we were at the dock ready to go about 15 minutes early, got on. The boat's going out. I'm up there talking with the captain, great guy. And we got trolling a little bit, but we're looking for Wahoo. So we had wire leaders on looking for Wahoo or tuna, nothing, nothing. An hour and a half goes by, nothing. And I'm I'm looking over, there's four of us on the boat. All of us are thinking the same thing. But nobody's saying it, right? We're thinking, we just wasted some money, uh, not even getting a bite. I'm looking at the the sounder, I don't see a sonar, I don't even see any bottoms at all. Then all of a sudden there's this big vibration that starts taking place, and pull up the hatch on the bottom of the boat, and there's smoke billowing out. We're probably 18 to 20 miles offshore. A bearing had broke loose, and once we figured out what it was, we knew that it would be okay, just it makes you a little bit uneasy. So captain does a little stuff under the boat, up under the the uh, went into the hatch working on the shaft, and we decided to change course again, right? Change course again. All of a sudden, uh the smoke's gone. We he's greased it enough to to make it work throughout the day. The birds, you start seeing them, they have these beautiful birds. They're called uh Bermuda longtails, I believe. Got some incredible pictures of them. You see these white birds working, you see the water getting disrupted, and you realize there's schools of tuna around this. Well, the next thing you know, we're catching blackfin tuna. We switch all the rigs to go to blackfin. Wire you fish wire uh leaders for wahoo because of their teeth. You fish mono uh when you're pulling for tuna. So we put the whole spread out for tuna. Well, the lions start screaming. Uh Jennifer gets in the chair, and she catches a 45-50-pound wahoo on mono, which was amazing. That night we had wahoo, we had tuna, and we sat back on the patio and ate again. We went out and our expectations were very high as Bermuda. We're thinking Wahoo, tuna. And instead, for a while we had nothing. I mean nothing. No birds working, no bait, no life, and on top of that, we had the issues with the boat. That's always fun, right? Instead of forcing it, and instead of getting frustrated frustrated, think about this. We'd slow down, reevaluated, we adjusted, we looked at the conditions, we changed the plan, and we'd stayed with it. Because that's the difference. Amateurs panic in your business. Amateurs panic. Professionals adjust. Remember that just because the plan isn't working doesn't mean the goal was wrong. We got the boat right. We reset, we adjusted the spread, and then it happens. Blackfin, blackfin, wahoo, and just like that, the entire trip changed. I'm sitting here thinking. Now I was thinking about it on the plane back, right? That's exactly how life works. You set the goal, you go out with the plan, and then what happens? Something breaks, nothing works, and you don't get the result you expected. Most people will quit right there. They say it's not working. This isn't for me. Maybe I was wrong. The truth is they just didn't adjust. This is the cycle we talk about all the time with Gator, right? You gotta get clear. Act with intention. Reflect and reset. You know what's also funny about that? I'm sitting here thinking. When we talk about in a gator, we talk about getting clear, acting with intention, tracking, optimizing relationships, and then reflect and reset. We got clear, we acted with intention. But part of the story I didn't tell you is that I was looking and talking with the captain about he's on the water. He's on the water two hundred days a year. He knew where the fish had been, and he's talking and he's he's trying to figure out why the fish have moved. He's been tracking those results. He starts looking at the water temperature, saying, you know what, this was my plan today, but we need to adjust and go to the other direction because the conditions had changed. The storms that had came through had cooled the water down in the area that we were fishing. The other thing, I didn't tell you this. I talk about optimizing relationships all the time. He didn't have his grease gun on the boat, and he needed that grease gun to help cool this bearing and give it some lubricant uh to make certain that uh there was no additional issues with the shaft. He's on his radio, and he told me, he said, I always have my grease gun, but I don't need it this far out ever, so I just kept it in the dot box. He gets on his radio, his marine radio, and he's talking. A guy twenty miles out, they turn around, they meet each other, the guy backs his boat over and throws over a grease gun. Relationships, right? Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy? And then the reflect and reset, that's what most people skip. You see, that's what this Bermuda trip was for me. Yeah, it was great. When I say that, it's hard to describe the words. You know, you have those vacations that just fly by. This one seemed to be paced perfectly. Paced perfectly. It was relaxed, gave me a chance to reflect. It was a reset. It gave me time to sit there watching the moon reflect off the water and ask, where am I off? What do I need to adjust? Am I executing at the level I say I am? I tell you something else. What I experienced on that trip was getting clear, adjusting my plans, staying disciplined, reflecting, resetting the relationships. I'm I'm in Horseshoe Bay, and I hear this lady talking, and she's right behind me. I would been snorkeling, came up, and we were talking about a big parrot fish that was feeding on the coral. And I just said, Where are you from? She said, North Carolina. I said, Funny. We are too. Got to talking, and she has worked for eight years with a really, really good friend of mine. I'm in Bermuda. Having a conversation with someone who knows very well and works very well with someone that I consider a very close friend. I thought that was crazy. And I also experienced a reflecting and a resetting, and that's not by accident, it's a system. You know, very soon, very soon, we're going to be releasing the inner gator system. It's a system designed to help you do exactly what we talk about every week. Every single week. And let's be honest, hearing it is one thing, but doing it consistently is something completely different. This system is built to help you get clear every morning. Act with intention throughout your day, track what actually matters, optimize your relationships, and reflect and reset so you keep improving. The difference between people who want more and people who actually get more is structure. And let me just say this: I get a lot of feedback, a lot of feedback. It says, oh my gosh, thank you. It was so motivating to hear what you say, or you inspired me. You breathe life into something. That's all good. But motivation and inspiration does not last without action. Without action. You've got to do the work. And you're sitting there looking saying, I want to accomplish A or B, whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish, and you build out your plan and you have to deviate a little bit, the path from A to B is not always a straight path, right? We just talked about that. But the key is structure. What are you doing every single day? What system are you following every single day that almost makes it seem easy? It's not gonna be, but it makes it feel that way. Structure. I'm excited to share that with you very soon. Listen to this you you you don't need everything to go right to win. You just gotta stay in it long enough to adjust. This is really the highlight of what we're talking about today. You don't need everything to go right to win. Because it's not, I promise you. But you gotta stay in it long enough to adjust. So what I want you to do this week, when something doesn't go your way, and I promise you it's gonna happen, don't quit, don't panic, don't abandon the goal. Adjust the plan. I tell you all the time that inside of you, I know there is greatness. You know it too. But greatness isn't built when everything goes right, it's built when things go wrong and you choose to stay in it. The people who win aren't the ones with perfect conditions. They're the ones who adjust when the conditions aren't. Thank you for being here. I hope that you find it doesn't have to be Bermuda. Take 30 minutes. Remember, I talk about it, take 30 minutes at the end of the day, reflect what you did right, what you did wrong. Where did you win? What are you gonna do to win tomorrow? I hope that your week is fantastic, and I look forward to talking to you next week. Now go get it right as your day. Everybody, thank you so much for listening to the Finding Your Inner Gator podcast. You know, if today's episode helped you, share it with someone who needs to hear this message. Remember, greatness is achieved through discipline, intentional action, and optimizing the relationships around you. I look forward to getting with you next week. Now, go Gatorize your day.