Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode 1,9001. This excerpt comes from Mark Cuban. And Billy Oppenheimer from his newsletter is the one who put this on my radar. Here it is. Quote, the entrepreneur Mark Cuban, is frequently approached by people who are stuck.

They're stuck in a job they don't like, Cuban says.

They're stuck working for a boss they don't like.

They're stuck on the team they don't like.

I just tell them, be great.

The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job.

You can't just always go to your boss and say, give me the promotion,

or I'm out of here. So when you're stuck, you've got to find it within yourself to say,

okay, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great. The benefit is,

first, it always feels great to be great. And second, if you're great great at your job typically other people and companies find out so it creates opportunities close quote what i really like about this excerpt

and what mark cuban is saying he's talking about focusing on what you can control. You cannot always control your

environment, but you can control how you respond to your environment. Some of you listening to this

might be in a very similar situation. You're thinking to yourself that you want to get out,

you're stuck, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Now, if I were to ask you to apply Mark Cuban's mentality, his approach, how would you answer this

question? Okay, there's your situation. What can you do to be great? Given the fact that you're in a

situation you don't like, you might not feel like you have a lot of autonomy, you might not feel that you're in a situation you don't like you might not feel like you have a lot of

autonomy you might not feel like you're in a position to succeed given all of that what are you

going to do to be great what can you do to be great think about it chew on it and if you think about

that enough and you really pause to consider that question and you're honest with yourself and you're truthful with yourself, you're going to find little ways to perform at the best of your ability.

You're going to find little ways to stack small wins.

You're going to find small ways to stack small winds. You're going to find small ways

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