Good morning, my friends. Welcome to the Increasing Impact podcast. Justin Stewart here, episode 1,7505. I have missed you. I've missed you. It has been way too long. And I want to thank all of you who are reaching out. And wouldn't you notice it? We got police sirens going on in the background but uh as

you know we do not edit we do not cut we keep this show rolling i want to thank you guys for reaching out

it has been way too long and let's just put it this way i had a lot of health complications

in the last uh oh long time long. And so got to the point to

where I wasn't able to do it, but we are back in business and I cannot wait to get after it.

And today what we're going to talk about is, is our goals. And we have the new year coming

around the corner. And we're're gonna be talking about goal setting

a little bit later on, but I've been thinking about

the fact that before you set goals for where you wanna go,

you wanna embrace the hard truth of where you're starting from

and the circumstances that you'll be navigating.

Now doing this will help you manage your expectations and be honest with how hard it will be and how long it will take.

Before you start going and making all these plans and before you start deciding on who you

want to be and where you want to go,

you need to pause and look where you're starting from because there is a gap between where you're

going and where you are. But a lot of people don't look at where they are. They don't look at

their own circumstances. They don't look at their own patterns. They don't look at their own habits. They don't look at where they are. They don't look at their own circumstances. They don't look at their own

patterns. They don't look at their own habits. They don't look at their own uncontrollable factors.

You may have all these amazing dreams, but there might be some things that are completely out of

your control that are going to hinder the process.

Now, I'm not saying don't have those goals.

I'm not saying don't swing for the fences.

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