Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,750.

First of all, I want to say thanks to those of you who sent me those questions from yesterday's episode.

For those of you who don't know, I asked to hear some of the questions or see some of the questions, self-reflection questions that you ask yourself that help you.

Stay on track, stay centered, stay, be where your feet are and heard some really good ones.

Today we are talking about the power of attention, specifically attention control.

Attention is one of those finite resources that we all have. And we've said it before,

but I'll say it again, where your mind goes, the body flows. Your energy flows. Your effort flows.

And so your attention, what you give your attention to is critical. What happens a lot of times is

your attention is on something, an event,

something external, something internal, and you're not even aware of it. You're not even aware of

the negative effects it is having on you because you're swallowed up in it. You're drowning in those

thoughts. You're pointing your those in your in those thoughts.

You're you're pointing your attention to those things and it has you trapped. The first step to

attention management or attention control as some people call it is to be aware. Where is your

attention going? What do you paying attention to? What are you giving your mind to?

What are you feeding your mind? And then pay attention to the subsequent behaviors and actions

and emotions that come with it. Because wherever your attention goes, your emotions are going to

go with it. Your actions are going to go with it. Your energy and your effort, like I just said. And so maybe today, my invitation to you is just take an audit of your

attention. Where is your attention going? Pay attention to it. And don't try to force it one

way or another. Just notice it. Notice its patterns. And one way to pay attention is look for the signal of your emotions if

you find yourself getting frustrated while you're driving or angry what are you focused on where's your

mind what are you paying attention to because usually your effort your mood your emotions are a

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