Good morning and welcome to the Increase Re Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1857. Today we are

talking about, it's a quote that I really liked by Arnold Schwarzenegger and he was talking about

the difference what separates him from his competitors. We obviously know that Arnold is

one of the most prolific bodybuilders of all time, went on to have a good acting career and did some things in politics as well.

But I want to read to you a quote that he said about training. He says this, they, meaning his competitors, weren't mentally prepared for intensive championship training. They weren't thinking about it. I knew the secret. Concentrate while

you're training. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. When I went to the gym, I got rid of

every alien thought in my mind. Close quote. And the reason I really like that. I wanted to share it

with you today is it's the importance of attention control,

being where your feet are, doing what you do on purpose with purpose. And so how can this apply to you?

Whatever you're doing, whether it be a meeting, writing an email, doing a drill in practice,

imagine the added focus you can have, the added

intensity, the added enhanced performance you can have if your mind is fully directed towards

exactly what you're doing. Not what other people are going to think, not about the score,

not about what you're going to do

when you're done, you're going grocery shopping or doing your laundry. No, you're focused right here,

right now, on the moment, putting in your mind where you need to be. And I love that. And my question

to you today, for those of you who are writing in the journal, is what aspects of your

life do you need to be more focused in? What times of the day do you need to have more focus?

Let's do that. What times of the day do you need to have more focus and be more present?

Write down your thoughts or just think about it. And then what can you do?

What parameters do you need to set? What you need to start doing, stop doing, keep doing in order to

have more focus during those times of the day. See what you think. Chew on it, think about it.

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