Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 1,725. Today's invitation and reminder is to catch yourself winning. It is very difficult to be successful. Because of the negativity bias that we all have, it is easier to see your weaknesses, your

deficiencies. It's easier to be hard on yourself. It's easier to compare yourself to other people. It's

easier to compare yourself to other people and to your old self. I'm sorry. It's easier to

compare yourself not only to other people, but to your old self as well.

So what do you do? Catch yourself winning. You want to stack those small wins every single day.

So how do you do that? You need to gather some data. And what data are we talking about? We're talking

about anything you can do to win on your personal scoreboard.

So imagine a scoreboard.

And on this scoreboard, you can count whatever you want, whatever you want.

Now, one of the keys is you want this counter or this scoreboard to count something that you have 100% control over

and something that you can rack up the points with. You want to make sure that the feedback loops

are tight, meaning that you can stack these wins every single day. You don't want a lagging

system. You don't want something

that you could only achieve once a week, once a month, once a quarter, whatever it may be.

You want to be able to go to bed at the end of the night and look at that personal scoreboard of

yours and say, I got seven points today. I got five points today. I got 10 points today. And then add to it the next day. And add the next day and add the next day. And do it for a week. Try it for today. Do it for one day. Do it for 24 hours. Today make a decision. What is your personal scoreboard going to be it could be something as simple as

complimenting people it could be something as simple as how many ounces of water are you going to drink

today you don't even have to set a goal don't even set a goal the only goal you need is to write it down

put a tally mark next to it keep score that's That's your goal. Keep score. And then tonight,

at the end of the night, you go on your personal scoreboard and see the progress you made.

You may have failed in some other things. You may have struggled in some other things.

We're not perfect. But today, you're going to count one very specific thing that you can control that you're in charge of

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