Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,860.

I was listening to an interview by Michael Phelps that was done years ago and he explained the

importance and the power of visualization for him. He says this, quote, I spend a ton of time visualizing on how the race could go,

how I want the race to go, and how I don't want the race to go. So I'm already prepared for whatever

happens. I can accept it and move past it, close quote. The reason I really like that is because

there are some people out there who do not

want to visualize the bad because they think that they put it out there to the universe and they say,

hey, I don't even want to put my mind there and give my mind the thought to go there.

Now, the problem with that is, I see their point, but the problem with that is, is that

they're not going to be perfect. You can't predict how the future is going to hold and so

what the future is going to be. So if all you're doing is visualizing the positive and how the

good things that are happening, then when adversity strikes, when that person begins to struggle, when that person begins to run

into some things that they had not anticipated, nor did they want to anticipate, all of a sudden

they're going to respond to it with panic. However, if they're like Michael Phelps, they've already visualized that.

And not only have they visualized how they don't want the things to have their performance

to go, they've also visualized how they want to respond to it.

So my invitation to you today, for those of you who are writing in your journals,

is to think about something coming up that's important to you, a for those of you who are writing in your journals, is to think about something

coming up that's important to you, a performance of some kind. And if you're a coach, this might

be a good exercise to do with your students or a leader or whatnot, and ask yours, and write it

down. How do you want it to go? How do you not want it to go? And how could it go? Being able to put down all of the

potential outcomes will help you look at it clearly, help you prepare for adversity, and also keep

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