Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1842.

If you were listening to this, chances are you are pursuing the best version of yourself.

You're either a student or in your career or an athlete or a leader of some kind and you are pursuing a goal.

Now in pursuit of this goal, it is probably very stressful.

There's a lot of uncertainty.

There's a lot of chaos.

There's a lot of ups.

There's a lot of downs.

You may be feeling like you are chasing greatness and at the same time being chased by other people, being chased by insecurities, being chased, chased by doubt.

And oftentimes when we are pursuing a goal, all we can think about is get to the destination, get to the destination.

Be the best we can. about is get to the destination get to the destination be the best we can you are constantly bombarded with these expectations not just by other people but by yourself as well chances

are you're really hard on yourself you beat up on yourself and you can't seem to shake the fact that you're never quite good enough

or you could always be better today's invitation to you is simply this give yourself

permission to enjoy the journey. That's it. Give yourself permission

to enjoy the journey. A question I often ask athletes who are competing at the tip of the spear.

I often ask facetiously sometimes, are you allowed to enjoy this part?

To which many of them say, you know what, I am.

I am allowed to enjoy this part.

I'm just not giving myself permission to do so.

And that's my invitation to you.

Give yourself permission to enjoy the journey.

Now, for the journal prompt for the day, if you're taking notes, pull up your journal

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