Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,813. I was recently reminded of a story of a wise, experienced hiker and a young, inexperienced one. They were traveling and they came across a river, a river that was raging. There was no ferry. There was no boat to carry them across, so they decided to build a raft.

They collected the materials and spent days constructing a vessel that would carry them across

this river safely to the other side.

When they were ready, they set out.

The river raged, threatening to drown them, but the raft remained faithful to its purpose.

When they got to the other side, safe and sound, they were filled with gratitude and fondness,

and they were so grateful that the raft held its integrity and kept them safe.

And so the wise man asked the younger inexperience hiker,

so does this mean that we're going to carry this around the rest of our lives, the rest of the

trip? The rest of the trip. And the young hiker said, no, of course not. We're going to leave it

behind. And the wise man said, yes, exactly,

because there's no reason for us to exhaust our energy carrying something that already served

its purpose. And I think it's a powerful story because a lot of times we try to apply

tactics, strategies, processes, principles that served us in the past.

But as we hold on to them, as we go to approach a new obstacle, a new river, a new situation,

and we try to apply the same principle, the same process, it doesn't work out.

And another thing, sometimes we care around these beliefs, these these heuristics, these rules of

thumb that are so heavy and it wastes energy trying to carry.

It's important to let them go, let our guard down, and trust that we can construct a new

vessel or problem solve according to the new situation that we are facing. And so my invitation to

you today is to consider old beliefs that might be holding you back. Things that helped you

before that might not help you today.

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