Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Increasing Rain Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,801.

It is very easy to be negative. And when I was with the military, one of the first tools, not necessarily the first, but one of the most memorable tools and most practical and beneficial tools that we used with the soldiers is a technique called

hunt the good stuff. What they would do is we would, whether it be a one-on-one session or in a

group, we would take some time before any training session and hunt the good stuff.

Now, hunting the good stuff is a simple practice. It's combing over your memory for the past 24 hours,

of the past 24 hours, and highlighting something good that happened. It could be anything.

It can be something you're grateful for, something you learned, something good. Now, when you first

introduces to people who are constantly beating up on themselves,

who have a hard time seeing the bright side or the positive or the productive side of things,

this is a very difficult exercise.

It is very difficult.

I can't tell you how many people struggled to find something good because their mind is wired for the bad, the deficiencies, the

negativity. And I'm not saying to completely shy away from those things because sometimes it's

very important to be able to look at those things. However, you don't want it to,

you don't want it to completely cloud your mind. And so that's why it's important

to hunt the good stuff. And the reason we say hunt the good stuff is because you literally

have to go looking for it sometimes. The bad stuff comes easily. It hunts you. It haunts you

sometimes. And so hunting the good stuff means pausing and really going out

and looking for the good. As you practice hunting the good stuff every single day, your brain's

going to do something really cool. Your mind doesn't start scanning the environment,

scanning your experiences for good things to share. And so find a partner,

find a friend, and for the next week, maybe for the next weekend, next few days, shoot him a text

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