Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Sue

episode 1,788. 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 five-year spans and it's really neat to be able to pause and reflect and

ask your questions and be able to pull out those lessons. And I can't

remember if I've shared this on the podcast recently but there was an

organizational psychologist who was speaking to astronauts and to NASA and

NASA. I'm like what's the tangible tool that you can give us to be able to

optimise 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 there's a last time after a workout you pause and you really ask 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 get distracted? Was I fully present after a conversation?

And I'm not saying to do it for every aspect of your life but there are

certain parts of your life where you pausing and reflecting and pulling up

the lessons could be incredibly, incredibly beneficial. And so my question to

you to consider is what was there a time in your life where you can look back and

pull out lessons from that moment, that time, that experience that you still

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