Good morning everyone and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Suah 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 use 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 coming over your memory for the past 24 hours of the past 24 hours and

Highlighting something good that happened. It could be anything. It could be something you're grateful for something you learned

something good

Now when you first introduce us to people who are

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 hunts you sometimes and so hunting the good stuff meaning means

pausing and really going out and looking for the good as you practice hunting the good stuff every single day

Your brain is going to do something really cool your mind isn'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 and say okay. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna hunt the good stuff every day

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