Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Reimpact podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 1,9003.

Today's question is simple yet profound. And it might have you thinking about it throughout the rest of the day.

The question is this, what do you want? What do you want?

And the reason I believe that is so important is because when you know what you want,

it'll shape everything.

It'll shape your thoughts.

It'll shape your behaviors.

It'll shape your actions.

It'll shape the people who you surround yourself with.

It'll shape the environments that you want to be around, especially when you are convicted on what you want. When you know what you want,

you'll be able to see the things in your life that are obstacles, the things that and the things

that may be you're perceiving as obstacles right now,

but then you'll find creative ways to turn them into stepping stones.

When you know what you want,

you'll have the power and ability and the strength and the courage in some instances to say no to anything that pulls you away from that thing you want.

Another thing about knowing what you want, it protects you from two things.

It protects you from getting people to do what they want.

Because when you don't know what you want, people will get you to do what they want.

And the second thing is, when you don't know what you want, people will tell you what you should want

because it's what's right according to them.

Another thing is when you find yourself in an environment long enough, not only do you adopt

the collective beliefs and habits and actions of people and in response to stress and definition

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