Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast, Justin Suitt here,

episode 1,715. Today is a reminder that the physical feeling of being nervous is very identical,

if not exactly the same as the feelings of feeling excited.

So when you're excited and when you're nervous, your body is going to have many of the same physiological experiences. Your heart rate's going to go up.

You might sweat.

You might breathe heavy.

Your arms and legs might feel tingly because the blood is rushing to those limbs.

And what happens sometimes is people will interpret the nerves as bad. You'll interpret the nerves as

anxiousness and a feeling that is so uncomfortable that you need to avoid and you'll tell

yourself, calm down, calm down. And then you'll try to calm yourself down and then what happens, it gets worse.

And now you are nervous and anxious because you are nervous and anxious.

Something you can try today, instead of telling yourself to calm down, tell yourself,

I'm excited. Reframed those feelings from negative and anxious to

I'm excited. This is my body getting ready. This is my body telling me that it's preparing

itself for competition, for the speech, for the performance, for the project, for whatever

performance you're going into, your body is helping you out. It's okay to have butterflies just

as long as they're flying information as someone has once said. When I worked with the U.S. military, one of the things that we taught the soldiers was this phrase,

embrace the nerves.

Having nerves is okay.

Feeling the nerves is part of the process.

Don't try to push them away because the things you resist to persist.

Embrace them. You're excited. That's okay. And so as you go throughout your day today,

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