Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,785. And the rest of

this week, I'd like to share with you something that you probably don't hear too much from me,

but happens all the time. I want to share with you some of my favorite failures. I struggle not only in my

career, but as a father, as a husband, just like anyone

else. I have ups, I have downs, I have things that I regret, I have things that I do, I have things

that I don't do, and by sharing some of my failures, I don't know, Maybe it might be helpful for some of you out there.

The first story that I can remember, I mean, I can remember a lot of them. But one story in

particular that really touched my heart was early in my career. My son was in fifth grade.

He's currently a junior in high school. And I was gone a lot.

I was going through school. I was working. I had a number of different jobs trying to support my

wife and three kids. And it was very stressful, very stressful. and i remember coming home one day while everyone was

asleep my kids were sleeping my wife was awake and i'm eating food and me and my wife Melissa are just

talking and she has a a white paper a drawing and she slides it to me on the counter and she says, take a look at this.

And I'm looking at it.

And it's a drawing from my son at his kindergarten class.

And I examined the drawing and I looked at it and it broke my heart.

And I said, how do you explain this?

And what do you have to say? And she goes, no, like you need to ask him. Ask him tomorrow. I said, okay. So he wakes up in the morning,

and I couldn't wait to ask him about the drawing. I show him. I said, hey, Jerem, how many people are in

our family? He goes, five. I said, okay, how many people are in this picture? And he looks at the

picture. He says, four. I said, yeah, there's mommy. There's you. There's Maya. And there's

Daddy. And the words he said said pierced my heart back then and they still impact me today.

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