Hey, good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. Justin Sua here, episode 1,8505.

Today we're talking about building a system, and I recently came across the transcript of an

interview I saw between Tim Ferriss and Jerry Seinfeld. Tim Ferriss asks, are there any examples

that you would give from your operating system any guiding

rules or principles? And Jerry Seinfeld, the iconic comedian, says, well, my guiding rule is

systematize. My basic system is, if you're going to write, make yourself a writing session.

How long are you going to work on it? Don't just sit down with an open-ended, I'm going to work on this problem.

That's ridiculous torture to put a human through a human being's head. It's like you're going to hire a trainer to get in shape and he comes over and you go, how long is the session? And the trainer goes, it's open-ended.

Forget it. I'm not doing it. It's over right there.

You have to control what your brain can take. You've got to treat your brain like a dog you just got.

The mind is infinite in wisdom. The brain is stupid. It's a stupid little dog that can be easily

trained. Do not confuse the mind with the brain. The brain is so easy to master.

You just have to confine it. You confine it. And that's done through repetition and systemization.

Easy for me to say. What I love about this, it goes along with what we talk about all the time. Building systems,

building routines, building processes. What is your system for strengthening your mind? What is your

system for building confidence? What is your system for building a habit that you need to build?

Now, it doesn't come through, it doesn't come through these meaningless mantras that you might

tell yourself.

It is actionable items, behavior change that you do day in and day out.

And my invitation to you is they start simple, something really, really simple. And if you were to start

that, what would it look like for you? What habit do you need to build? And then what system can you

build in order to execute that habit? Once again, don't think big, think small. Shrink it down to an

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