Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1778. Today, this episode is dedicated to those of you who may feel a little rushed. You may feel like your situation is speeding up. Your heart starts to race. You may feel like a fraud or experiencing the imposter syndrome you may be

worried that your skill level does not match the challenge that you're currently facing the athletes

that i work with are constantly bombarded and and feel the stress of the pressure, pressure that they can't fail, the pressure of letting people

down, the pressure performing at a high level with thousands of people watching.

These athletes who have the chance to work with are constantly bombarded with negative comments and horrible things

from people who decide to have decided to say terrible things on social media.

But one thing that separates these trained elite athletes from the average person is that they have trained themselves to slow down.

They understand that in order to be your best, you need to be where your feet are.

You need to have a quiet mind and quiet thoughts when it matters most.

And how do you do that?

You train for it.

And one way to train for it is to slow down your breathing.

And so the exercise I want to invite you to do today is to set a timer for one minute on your

clock and see how few breaths you can take in one minute.

Now, it might be good to have a baseline measure.

Just see how many breaths you take in a minute, just normally.

Don't change your breathing.

Don't accelerate it.

Don't slow it down.

Just get a little baseline of how many breaths you take in a minute.

And then let's see how low you can get that number without holding your breath.

One minute, slow inhales, really slow exhales.

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