Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua. This is episode

1712, and I'm going to read to you an excerpt from an article from the Farnham Street, and it's talking about focus.

Now, this section of this article, I'm not reading the entire part, but the entire article, but this little part called energy Into Results is something that really jumped out to me.

It says, quote, if you look around, you'll notice the people and organizations moving the fastest.

The fastest are the focused ones.

Not only do they focus on a few ideas, but within the scope of those ideas, they are able to focus on the key variables.

Identifying the variables that matter comes with focus.

Focus turns energy into results.

Why would you spend any time on your fifth most important idea?

All of the energy that goes towards anything that is not the most important thing

comes at the expense of the most important thing. Close quote. I want to read that again,

all of the energy that goes toward anything that is not the most important thing comes at the expense

of the most important thing. We talk about the most important thing often on this podcast.

Now I want you to ask yourself as you're driving, as you're walking, you're sitting here, pondering, looking at your life, looking ahead to this beautiful, wonderful day you're about to embark on, what is the most important thing?

Where should your focus be? Chances are it's on something you can control.

And focusing on what matters most requires you to say no to everything else.

Even if it's a good opportunity, even if they're good people, even if it's something that's not

necessarily harmful, it can still pose as a distraction. What do you need to say yes to? Those are the most important things,

but probably just as important and in some cases even more important, you need to identify

what you need to say no to. Have a great day. I want to do it again tomorrow.