Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Suta episode

1,800 and nine. Today we're talking about the quality of your process. And if you want

quality results, you need to start examining the quality of your processes. As a child

Steve Jobs was fascinated with electronics. He would grab household items like radios

and remote controls. He would take them apart, explore how they worked, and then he would

put them back together. Jobs' ability to deconstruct and then reconstruct electronics ended

up helping him learn how each component interacted with one another. At the time, little did

Steve Jobs realize that he was learning a powerful key to success. He was learning that

everything is made of systems. And before you can improve something, you must understand

how the system works. And the same is true for your performance, for my performance, for

any human performance. The first step to improving results is to examine the system driving

your outcomes. The effectiveness of one element of your system doesn't guarantee success,

but the failure of one element can derail everything. So I want to give you some questions

to reflect on to assess how your system is running. So question number one, how is the

quality of your sleep? Number two, how is the quality of your nutrition? Number three,

what's the quality like of how's the quality of where you're spending your time? How's

the quality of your key relationships? How's the quality of your thinking? How's the quality

of your focus? How's the quality of your training or your practice? How's the quality of your

attitude? And finally, how's the quality of your stress response? Maybe write those questions

down and think about them throughout the week, the quality of your system. As you're looking

at results, it might not be the results you need to look at. Take a step back and take

a look at the quality of your process or the systems that you are operating, which by design

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