Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,817.

I read an article the other day talking about the difference between pursuing success and putting yourself in a position to be successful.

Now, those weren't the exact words, but it was those two concepts. A lot of times we try to force

success. We try to force the results. We try to make things happen. And a lot of times it's met with

frustration because the reality is there are other people competing against us. There's you

competing against yourself. There's you competing against yourself.

There are so many things that make the odds of success less likely.

And especially when you're competing against other people who are just as good, if not better, than you.

And not only in a sports realm, this is true in real estate and in school and whatever you do.

Rather than pursuing success, you want to ask yourself, are you doing the things that you need to do in order to deserve success?

Or in other words, are you doing what you need to do to increase the probability of success?

Because at the end of the day, you're going to be asking yourself, did I do what it takes to be

successful? And if you answer yes, that's all you can ask of yourself. Because a lot of times,

there are things you cannot, so many things you can't control that

if you dictate success strictly by outcomes, you're going to set yourself up for failure,

a lot of failure.

But if you rewrite success to be the effort you put in to prepare,

if you redefine success as

executing and establishing, establishing and executing a routine day after day, regardless of how

you feel, embracing the boredom of consistency, having a great attitude, showing up every

single day and giving the best of what you

have that particular day, then what you do is you don't guarantee success, but you increase the

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