Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. This is Justin Sua, episode 1,804. I've been listening to this podcast about Michael Jordan. And one thing that the host talks about that I've always known about Michael, but I call him Michael, like I know him, Michael Jordan, but I never really thought about until listening

to this is his ability to remember the pain. And what the host meant by that and what Michael

Jordan does is he remembers the moments in his life that were devastating, the moments that taught him lessons,

where he came up short, where he wasn't good enough, where someone was better than him.

And he uses those moments, he uses the pain as fuel to get better, to work harder, to become

stronger, to learn more. And for those of you who have

seen the Jordan documentary on Netflix that came out back in 2020, one of the things that he would

always say is, I took that personal. He would conjure up some ideas, some story in his mind about

something that happened, and he would always go back and say, I took that personally.

Now, we're not like Michael Jordan, but some of you listening to this might be looking at those

terrible moments in your life, the pain in your life, and you want to avoid it like the plague,

and it's painful just to remember it and think about it.

Depending on what it is, maybe you can use those moments as fuel.

Maybe you can lean in to the pain, lean into those tough moments and use it as fuel to get better.

Use it as that fire to burn inside of you to become a better version of

yourself just like Michael Jordan did the story you always hear is how he got cut from his high

school team and that moment became a defining moment for him as painful as it was

became a defining moment for him as he began to have

incredible success on and off the court. Have a great day. And my question for you today to

consider is, what pain in your life can you use as fuel to become a better version of yourself?

Have a great day. I want to do it again tomorrow.