Good morning and welcome to the Increaser Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1230. I was asked yesterday

by an athlete about problem solving and decision making and we're trying to find solutions

around a problem that he's currently facing. And what we ended up deciding is that

it isn't a lack of effort. It isn't a lack of, it isn't a lack of want, of competence, of time.

It's a lack of clarity. That's what his biggest problem is. And we ended up realizing

after a conversation that he needed to get clear on what problem he's actually trying to solve

for. Get clarity on what he's going to do, why he's going to do it, get clarity on how he's going to

spend his time at practice.

Get clarity around what his why is. And as we discussed each of these elements, you just noticed

that the scales of confusion just started to fall off. And as his clarity began to increase, his worries and fears began to decrease.

There were still things that he didn't know. There's still things that he was uncertain about.

There's still things that time will tell what's going to happen. But when he paused and he asked himself what he needed to get clear on, his clear actions, his clear behaviors, he started sharpening his focus and it started to cut through uncertainty, cut through doubt, cut through fear.

And so if you're listening to this, my invitation to you

is to do the same thing and to get clarity around what exactly is the problem you're trying to

solve for. Get clarity around what are you going to do about it? Get clarity around what is your

actions today. What are you going to do today? Clarity around who's helping you versus who's hurting you, who's helping you find answers and

who's actually making the problem worse.

Once you start to find clarity on these things, you'll notice that your actions will be

more decisive.

Your fear will start to be turned down.

And you'll be able to focus on what you're going to do rather than what's going to happen to you.

So my invitation to you today is clarity.

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