Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcasts. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,823. I recently heard a story about Steve Jobs how he saw a cabinet. He was fascinated

by it. He thought it was beautiful. And then he decided to do something to test how beautiful

it really is. He looks behind the cabinet. It's like a big desk. And he notices that it

wasn't finished or at least the people who created it didn't think anyone would look behind

and they didn't really finish the job. You can see the plywood. There was no painting. It wasn't

the back wasn't as beautiful as the front. And Steve Jobs goes on the say that that cabinet

wasn't beautiful because whoever created it got sloppy with the part that they thought nobody

else would notice. They were only focused on the outside part where everyone could see. But they

didn't pay attention to them, give attention to details on the part that not everyone sees.

And he goes on the say that the entire product is beautiful which is why it led him to

making the inside of an iPhone or a computer beautiful the way they design the inside. Take

any Apple product apart and you should see beauty, sophistication, cleanliness. You should see

all of that. And as I was thinking about that, I thought about that with our lives. A lot of times

it's easy to show the public facing side the best version of ourselves. We want to show the fans.

We want to show our friends. We want to show the people that work our best sides. However,

in the quiet, private lives that we live, in the quiet, private chambers of our own heart,

we can sometimes get really sloppy. And we can sometimes not give our best efforts. And we think

to ourselves, oh, nobody's watching. The fans aren't watching. Coach isn't watching. Mom's not

watching. The parents aren't watching. And we cut a lot of corners because we think no one is

watching. But at the end of the day, the person who's keeping score is you. You know you're cutting

corners. You know you're not giving your best. You know that in the private time of your lives when

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