Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Stewart, episode 1,767. As you know,

I love to ask self-reflection questions and one that I would invite you to consider asking yourself

when you're going through a difficult situation is the following. Is my attitude helping or hurting the situation? Once again,

is my attitude helping or hurting the situation? Now, obviously, if you are in the red,

if emotions are high, we don't even have the self-awareness to pause and ask that question.

But if it's a prolonged, sustained storm of a situation that you're in, you're going to have

these small pockets, these windows of reflection, these moments where you can sit and take

a look and assess how you, what you're thinking, how

you're feeling, what your body feels like. And it's in those moments that I would invite you to ask

yourself. That question is my attitude helping or hurting this situation? Now, if you're

truly honest with yourself, you're going to be able to make the

adjustments. Now, easier said than done. I completely understand that. It's not as easy to wave

a magic wand and say, okay, let me be positive. Okay, let me have a good attitude. It starts

with awareness. And then you're going to be able to make those adjustments maybe you're

going to have to change your perspective maybe you're going to have to focus on what you can control

maybe you're going to have to focus on asking for help maybe you're going to have to focus on

fill in the blank now i'm not saying again necessarily that everything's sunshine and roses and everything's

great and everything's awesome when it is clearly not. But your attitude could be a simple change of

focus. Change your focus. Change your attitude. Change your attitude and you change the way you

respond to the adversity you're facing have a great day

and we'll do it again tomorrow