Good morning and welcome to the Increaser Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,866. This episode is for those of you who are going through a difficult time. No matter how bad things have been up to this point, you still have the ability to choose how you're going to respond. The things that you try to control but can't end up

controlling you. And some of you may be listening to this and you're in a very difficult situation

because you're trying to control the results. You're trying to control the past.

And it wasn't ideal. It wasn't what you expected. But all you can do now is choose

your response to what happened. Yes, it's easier said than done. Yes, there are things that you

cannot control. But now you need to reconnect and recalibrate and refocus on the things

you can control. And some of those things that you can control may be different now than they

were 48 hours ago, 24 hours ago. And you just need to focus on that. Controlling your emotions,

controlling your focus. Your mind's going to get

tugged to the left, to the right, to the past, to the present, to your failures, embarrassment,

what other people think. Turn the volume down on all those things by choosing your response.

By looking in a mirror and asking yourself, okay, what am I going to do about it?

Now, you're not going to minimize your situation.

You're not going to feel sorry for yourself, but you're going to stare at the brutal facts in the face.

You're not going to hide anything.

You're going to confront the elephant in the room.

And you're going to say, okay, how am I going to choose to respond to this? And so for those of you who are writing a new

journal, pull out that journal and append or get ready to type it, and I would like you to write

down your current situation and what is under your control.

And in addition to that, how are you going to choose to respond to your current situation?

Write it down, look at it, think about it, then execute.

Have a great day. And we'll do it again tomorrow.

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