Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1221.

I was recently talking with a coach and we were discussing all of our finite resources.

We have a limited amount of time, a limited amount of energy, a limited amount of attention.

And the key as a leader or a performer is to be able to

maximize and to use those the best you possibly can. And the analogy we were discussing was that of

a 10 ounce class. Now, I've used this analogy with our mind and our thoughts, and I think it also

works with leadership. So if you have a 10 ounce glass, I'm going to ask you, please give me your

answers in your mind or out loud, wherever you're listening to this. Imagine we have a 10 ounce

class and I pour 20 ounces into that 10 ounce glass. How much water is going to be in that 10 ounce glass if I pour 20 ounces

into it? And many of you, 99% of you said 10 ounces. And you would be correct. Now there is a few of you

out there who said 20 ounces, which you are incorrect. And then the next dumb question I ask is, why only 10 ounces?

And you would all say, because the cup is only 10 ounces, only holds 10 ounces. You're correct.

So where's the other 10 ounces all over the table? And the cup is like, it represents our mind.

It represents our energy. it represents our time, and we were

only and whatever is in the cup, whatever is in there will influence our emotions, our effort,

are the way we treat people. And my question to you is, what are you filling your cup with?

In other words, what are you feeling your time with? What are you filling your cup with? In other words, what are you filling your time with?

What are you filling your energy with?

What are you filling your attention with?

Now, we'll just talk about attention in the mind in particular.

By default, by default, we tend to be negative because of negativity bias.

We tend to think worst case scenario.

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