Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, and today we are talking about measuring the invisible. It is very hard to measure what you cannot see. However, there may be things that you cannot see that are affecting how good you are at your job, that are affecting how well you're

playing, how well you're leading the strength of your relationships. So we are going to put this

in the context of preparing for an event. It could be your test, it could be a performance,

a game, a presentation, you name it, whatever, something you need to prepare for.

Now, one thing to do to help you account for the invisible is to write down the ideal best

version of yourself as you prepare for a game. Make a checklist of the things that you must do

in order to prepare yourself for that game,

for that test, for that presentation. And don't make this list too overwhelming and don't include

things that are rituals for good luck that have no bearing on how you're actually going to do.

Only things that if you do them, you're going to be able to look in a mirror and say that you

have adequately prepared for that test, game, presentation, etc.

So write down on that list, what do you need to do?

And then by process of elimination, you need to go through that list and do you need to do and then by process of elimination you need to go

through that list and do it it may take a few rounds a few times though to really curate that list

that that checklist so that you know it's something that truly works for you and then what you're

going to do is you're going to go through it and then you'll be

able to see things that you must do that you need to do and things that you really don't need to do.

And that is one way to help you measure the invisible to be able to identify what do you need

to cut, what do you need to chop, and if you're not performing

very well, you'll be able to look back and say, oh, it was probably because I didn't do this thing.

It was invisible to you until you finally put it down on paper and are able to measure it to see

if it actually does make the difference that you actually think it makes. Or you'll be able to

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