Good morning and welcome to the increased impact podcast. I'm just in 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 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 the 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 and executing a routine

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