Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Reimpact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,826. Today's reminder is the importance of minimizing your deviations. There is a

phrase in or a lesson rather in aviation that if you are off by one degree, if a pilot

is off one degree, that plane will be off by 60 miles for every mile flown, meaning

that a little deviation from where you're going and if you stay on that deviated course,

it'll take you way off from where you are planning or want to go. And not only does

that hold true for airline pilots, but also holds true for our own lives. Sometimes we

can get so swallowed up in our busy schedules, in the heat of the moment, in the stress

of life, that we begin to let our guard down. We deviate from the things that matter

most. We deviate from being prepared. We deviate from giving our best effort for things

that we sometimes take for granted. Another time we deviate or other moments we deviate

from the best version of ourselves or deviate from what we normally do is when we are in

new environments, when we are trying to impress people, when we feel rushed or hurried,

when you are exposed to a lot of new information, when you are trying to compare yourself to

other people or impress somebody. Those are all environments or situations where we are

susceptible to deviate off course. And so my invitation to you today is to pay attention

today from those deviations. Now in order to deviate from off the course, you need to have

a course to deviate from. You need to have a focus. And so one way to help you stay on track

is to establish your track. What are you trying to accomplish today? Where are you going?

I'm not talking about tomorrow. I'm talking about wherever you are, whoever you are today.

What do you want to get done today? Write it down. Plan your day. Schedule what you want

to do. And leave some room for flexibility. Know that there's going to be some unpredictable

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