Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1788.

I was thinking the other day about some of the best lessons. I've learned in my life and a lot of

times it come from pausing to reflect on the good and the bad learning from other people

reflecting on time periods reflecting on experiences and singular moments and then broad moments

years and then and then five year spans and it's really neat to be able to pause and reflect

and ask your questions to be able to pull out those lessons and I can't remember if I've

shared this on the podcast recently but there was a an organizational psychologist who was

speaking to astronauts and to NASA. And they asked him,

what's a tangible tool that you can give us to be able to optimize elite performance? And he

talked about the importance of the debrief. He talked about the importance of pausing to reflect

to see how things just went.

And it's really easy to do that.

But it's so easy to do that it's easy not to do.

When was the last time after a workout, you pause and you really asked yourself,

what was good about that workout?

What did I do well?

What can I do better next time?

Where did I lose focus?

Where could I push it a little bit more? After a meeting, where did I do well? What can I do better next time? Where did I lose focus? Where could I push it a little bit more?

After a meeting?

Where did I get distracted?

Was I fully present?

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