Good morning and welcome to the Increased Reimpaq Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,8. I want to read a

quote. I just read from James Clear. He says this, quote, big wins tend to be accompanied by

some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.

If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of

highs and lows, mentally, emotionally, financially.

You can't avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level close quote. I love this. And I believe it to be

true. The bigger, the higher the stakes, the better the competition, the more difficult it's going to be.

It's going to be faster. There's going to be more impact. There's going to be more at stake.

There are going to be more eyeballs and the failure is going and the margin of air is going to be razor thin.

And so what does that mean? It means it's not for the faint of heart.

If you find yourself swimming with big fish in a big pond and competing against the best in the

world, if you're trying to pursue that or trying to do that, you need to expect that the punches

are going to hurt more. The competition is going to be faster, smarter, better.

And I completely agree with what James Clear is saying here. You better get comfortable with

higher highs and lower lows. You better get comfortable with people criticizing you.

You better get comfortable with this high standard of excellence.

And you better be prepared for the angst and the feeling and the pressure that you might feel

as you as you do your craft and strive to get better every single day. And so if this is what you want to pursue,

I want you to remember that it's supposed to be difficult. It is supposed to be hard. And any

endeavor, any endeavor that you're trying to pursue that is going to take you outside of your

comfort zone, it is going to be riddled with uncertainty. You're going to get

punched in the face. But if you stick with it and you remember why you do what you do and you can

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