Good morning, my friends. Welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,8007.

Many times I will ask people to fast forward in their minds two, three, four, five, six months.

And the question I ask them is, what is a reminder you want to give to your future self? What is a reminder that you want to give

to your future self? A message for you by you. And I have them think about it a little bit.

And the reason this exercise is so good is because it causes them to think about the success they want to have, the process they want to establish, and to understand the adversity they're going to face.

I remind them to not underestimate how long it's going to take and how hard it's going to be.

And then I ask them again, what advice do you want to give to your future self?

And the answers that they give themselves are signals of what they need to remember.

It's a signal and it will reflect the things that matter most to them, the cues that are most

important to them. I've heard people say to have fun. I've heard people

remind them say that they want to remind themselves to not be so hard on themselves. I've heard

people remind themselves to stay in the present, to trust their training. And then the

follow-up question, why that? Of all the things you could have asked yourself, of all the things

you could have told yourself, why did the things you could have told yourself,

why did you share that thing? And then I'll ask, what's the opposite of that?

And then they'll go on and they'll talk about it. And so my question to you is this,

I want you to fast forward two, three, four, five, six months down the road. Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you do.

And I want to ask you, what do you want to remind yourself of in the next two, three, four, five, six months?

What reminder do you want to give to yourself, for yourself, from yourself? Reflect on it. Think about it. And then the follow-up question is,

why? Why that of all the things you could have said? And then what does the opposite look like?

As you explore all three of those questions, you're going to find some interesting patterns, some

interesting principles, and some new information, maybe that's hidden right beneath the

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