Good morning and welcome to the Increase Reimpaq Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1239. This story comes from

the book Hidden Genius by Polina Maranova Pompiliano. And she's talking about Bob Bowman, who's the

longtime coach of Olympic legend Michael Phelps. And it says this quote, Bob Bowman says you need a system of tiny short

goals that are achievable. For example, if your goal is to go to the Olympics, you need to figure

out what you need to do in the next year. That means breaking it down into very specific events,

including the exact times you want to get. The basis of Bauman's program is that the process of

success is more important than any outcome. In other words, if you focus on the process, the results

will take care of themselves. Bauman often quotes legendary college football coach Nick Sabin,

quote, don't look at the scoreboard, play the next

play. The thoughts you think, Bauman emphasizes, affect how you perform. He says that I tell them,

gold medals are out of your control. Another swimmer may simply be better than you are on the race day.

Bauman writes in his book Golden Rules, but if they

set their sights on breaking a record at nailing the best time possible, then they can visualize

something that's tangible, achievable, and within their control, close quote. This is my answer to the question that I always get.

When people ask me, what do I always talk about with these elite level athletes and coaches?

It all comes down to the systems that they create in order to get from where they are to where they want to go.

And this is so true. We often reverse engineer success. We are to where they want to go. And this is so true. We often reverse

engineer success. We identify where do you want to go? How do you want to be? What is your identity?

How do you want to be remembered? And then what are the things in your control that you can do every

single day that will get you to that? Now the three things that we really focus on is building

systems around their three finite resources, their time, their energy, and their attention.

And so my invitation to you is what does that look like for you? What are the things you have

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