Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Reimpact Podcast. I'm Justin Suta episode

1,798. Today's principle is to praise with precision. And when I'm talking about

praising with precision, not just other people, but yourself praising yourself

with precision. And the precision that I want to really highlight is the

precision of your process. When you do well, it is not only important to catch

yourself winning, catch yourself doing well because it's very easy to beat

up on yourself. It's very easy to neglect the good that you are doing because

you're so focused on your deficiencies. You're so focused on the things that you

need to improve, pause and catch yourself winning. But also, when you succeed,

don't just celebrate the results. Praise with precision by taking a look at

your process. Look at the controllables. What were the things that were in your

power that led to the results? Because if you only praise yourself on the

results, on the outcomes, then when you don't get the outcomes, it's going to be

very difficult to notice the good that you're doing. Sometimes you're going to

have bad luck. Sometimes things outside of your control is going to not render

the results that you would have had had the ball bounce in your favor. And so

praise with precision, focusing on your process. When you celebrate today, when

you do good today, look at the things you're able to control. Celebrate your

process. Highlight the things you can control so that you can replicate that

effort. Replicate that process and catch yourself winning because it didn't

happen by happens. It didn't success and come by happenstance. It became, it came

as a function of you focusing on the things that you can control. Now, when you

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