Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcasts. I'm Justin

Sua episode 1,867. Today I had a good conversation with a conversation with an

elite CrossFit athlete and we were talking about purpose. Now oftentimes you'll

hear me say doing things on purpose, do things on purpose with purpose and what

I mean by that is have meaning to what you do and we had recently had a podcast

episode on that point but the thing that he they're really resonated with him

was the fact that you don't need a capital P purpose for your life but it's

also to find purpose in the little things that we do and we were talking about

recovery days. A lot of times the top performers in the world struggle with

recovery days struggle with the day off the day for your mind and your body and

your spirit to rejuvenate to get you ready to get back after it the next day in

training or in performance but sometimes there are certain athletes that find

that very difficult to do because they believe that if they're not doing

something physical they're not doing something to get better than they're

getting worse because then they go online they go on social media and they see

their competitors doing something and so they have this action bias that if

I'm not to take an action then I'm getting worse and what this athlete goes on

to say he says that he finds a lot of power in attaching a purpose to the

activities he does on his activity day a purpose for resting a purpose for

eating what he eats a purpose for reading a book versus going to the gym a

purpose for going out with a significant other than staying and doing and going

into the weight room whatever it may be to train and he found that when he

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