Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. Justin Sui here, episode 1,718.

This episode is for those of you who are running into tough times in your journey.

Now, I know we spoke about this last week, but today I was reminded about the importance of keeping the vision,

keeping your eye on the prize, and keeping your focus fixed on your North Star,

especially during the moments when it feels so far away.

Those moments where it feels dark, where you feel alone, where you are starting to contemplate

what's the use.

Those are the moments that you need to remind yourself of your why, your purpose, what's important now.

The storm is incredibly difficult and the loneliness and the tears and the pain.

It's hard.

It really is hard and it's painful.

But just like any weather pattern the hurricanes will pass the tornadoes will pass yes it will leave damage at times yes you're going to have to do

some rebuilding at times but it's going to pass and in those moments you just need to anchor down

and hold on to your go-to people you need to hold on to your go-to habits you need to hold on to your

why to your purpose you got to remind yourself why you do what you do.

And to even pause and to identify what you're grateful for,

even in the midst of the storm.

Because it's very easy to look at the negative.

It's very easy to identify all the reasons why you are unhappy, many reasons,

and it's very easy. But those are the moments you need to take a look and see what you can be

grateful for, the small wins, the tiny things that make a big difference. And so today I was reminded about the importance of holding on.

And that throughout the dark times, if you hold on to the good, if you keep putting one

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