Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,893.

This episode is for those of you who are ruminating on a thought, a memory that you just can't get out of your head.

Maybe you're giving a lot of attention to the past or you're giving a lot of attention to the future

or maybe you're giving a lot of attention to something that's happening in the present moment

that is taking up a little bit too much of your time and your energy.

The thought of the day is to pause to consider if the amount of attention you're giving

to something is equivalent to its importance.

Don't let small things derail you from the big picture.

This is important because sometimes we waste so much time ruminating and fussing over something that really in the big

picture in a big scheme of things does not matter that much or the attention that we're giving

to something is not equivalent to its importance now it may be very difficult to realize it in a moment.

We might be tangled up in it in the moment, but in order to get out of it, sometimes you need

an outside perspective. Sometimes you need someone to bounce these ideas off and someone you

trust can look at it and say, hey, that's not that big of a deal in the big scheme

of things. Now, it might be hard truth to swallow at first, but maybe it'll accelerate the

process for you. So my question to you is this, the thing that is on your mind, the thing that

is taking up a lot of real estate in your mind and a lot of your

attention, a lot of your time, the question to ask yourself is, is the time and attention I'm

giving to this thing equivalent to its importance? Is it the main thing? And if the answer is no,

then that's your signal to redirect your attention and refocus,

let the storm pass and focus on the things that matter most.

We've said it before.

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