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

1,828. For those of you who are listening to this, there is a chance that you

or someone you know is extremely hard on themselves and you might be extremely

hard on yourself. And some of the things you say to yourself, you would never say

to your best friend. You would never say to a family member. You'd never say to

your child or a teammate or any other person, but somehow for some reason you say

it to yourself. And it can be detrimental, detrimental to your confidence,

detrimental to your future performance, detrimental to your expectations for

yourself. It could cause irrationality and make things a lot more difficult

than it needs to be. Now if I were to tell you to be less critical of yourself or

to be less hard on yourself, that might be very difficult to do. And for some of

you, you might just meet it with an eye roll and say, yeah, you don't know me

Justin, which is true, which is true. So this episode is for those of you who

who have tried to be less critical. But for some reason, that's just how you're

wired. You're wired to be hard on yourself. You're wired to to push yourself to

have high expectations and to beat up on yourself sometimes. And you've always

been like that. And you've tried to be more gentle with yourself and more self

compassionate, which is, it's been very difficult. Now, I'm going to offer a

suggestion. Instead of being less critical with yourself, I'm going to ask you

today to turn the volume up on catching yourself winning. Turn the volume up

on gratitude. Turn the volume up on identifying the things you're doing well. So

you can have the same level of being critical on yourself, the same level of

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