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.

Determinal 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 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 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, and 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 critique. However, increase the ratio of the positive. See the good you're doing

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