Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1868.

Yesterday I was talking to an athlete and we were discussing how to deal with uncertainty.

He's going through a situation that's very difficult and his mind is starting to play tricks on him.

He's starting to make all of these assumptions and jump to conclusions and making up this

story that is not necessarily true.

And we all make stories up to ourselves, but this story that he's making up is full of negativity,

it's full of doubt, and is causing him to doubt his ability

and to form cracks in his confidence. And so we started to talk about the questions that he's

asking himself. These questions are not beneficial, and the answers to these questions are

leading towards that negativity and doubt. And I shared with him,

if you want better answers, start asking better questions. And then we went over five questions.

He can ask himself to neutralize his thought process. And these are the five questions.

Number one, what do I not know about my circumstance?

Number two, what is the best case scenario of how this plays out? Number three, what is the

worst case scenario of how this plays out? And then what would I do about it? Number four,

what can I control? And number five, if I'm not given any additional information, what am I going to do about my

situation? And what I invited this gentleman to do is to really sit and think about the answer

to these questions. Be absolutely honest and really take time. And what I told him is that

if he really tries to answer these questions, it's going to neutralize his thinking and his

motions. The situation is not going to change. It's going to be exactly the same when he wakes up in the morning.

It'll just turn down the volume of the mental grind that he's going through so that he'll be

able to process it, process it more accurately and make better decisions. And so if any of you

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