Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. Justin Suitt here, episode 1,679.

Today we're talking about an important principle. You have to be willing to be bad in order to be good.

A lot of people stop short of becoming great, becoming elite, because they cannot tolerate struggling.

They cannot tolerate failure.

They cannot tolerate the embarrassment of making mistakes in front of a crowd or in front of other people.

They care too much about what other people think.

But you, if you're on this journey, just know that in order to be great,

you have to be able to be bad. And instead of beating up on yourself over things that you,

quote, unquote, should be able to do, just know that that's part of life. You're going to have

struggles along the way. And you're going to fall short of things that you should be able to do.

And so just remind yourself as you struggle, as you make mistakes, you need to be bad in order to get good.

Now, I'm not saying make the same mistakes all the time.

We've said it before.

Making progress is making new mistakes or making new mistakes is making

progress in disguise. Now, if you're a leader of people making mistakes, it's imperative that you

keep that in mind as well. People aren't trying to suck. They're not trying to be bad.

It takes a little patience, takes a little training, takes a little coaching up,

and understanding that, hey, I'm here. If I'm a leader, I'm a parent, I'm a coach, I'm a

teacher, I need to model emotional control as they struggle and fumble and bumble along the way.

And so here's to struggling, here's to failing, here's to sticking with the process

and knowing that you're going to be bad before you get good.