Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,722.

One thing that elite athletes always talk about is this notion of not forcing feelings, but allowing feelings.

You're going to have moments just like these elite athletes where you may not feel at your best.

You might not feel confident.

You might not feel focused.

You might not feel like you can go out there and be successful.

But rather than force yourself to feel a certain way, can go out there and be successful.

But rather than force yourself to feel a certain way, force yourself to feel a certain way to do something, whether it be mechanical or whatever, maybe forcing anything, doesn't enhance

performance. It creates more tension.

It creates just a greater desire to force results and focusing on things you can't control.

And what bothers a lot of people is they try to force things that they think they can control,

but you can't.

Sometimes you can't even force your thoughts.

Sometimes you're just going to be negative.

You're going to have all these flow of negative thoughts and you're going to beat up on yourself because you're thinking yourself, I should be able to control my thoughts.

I should be able to control how I feel.

Some days you can't.

And that's okay. Take a lesson from these elite performers and allow rather than force, trust, rather than fix. Now, this comes with

putting in a lot of work beforehand, a lot of preparation and being in these situations before.

But every single time you show up to work, to school, to a meet, to a game,

and you don't feel your best, remind yourself, I don't need to force it.

I just need to trust it.

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