Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode 1,90025.

Happy New Year to everyone, wherever you're listening from. Today I want to read to you a little excerpt from the book, Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish.

I almost forgot the name there at first. Wonderful little excerpt about the main thing.

And here it goes. Quote, if you don't know what you're looking for, you're unlikely to find it.

Just as you're unlikely to hit a target, if you don't know what you're aiming at.

When you don't know what's important, you when you don't know what's important you miss things

that are relevant and spend a lot of time on things that are irrelevant close quote i love this

this little excerpt this little quote from this book because it's a reminder of the importance

of keeping the main thing the main thing i often talk to a reminder of the importance of keeping the main thing, the main thing.

I often talk to a lot of people about flow state and losing yourself in the moment.

And there are relevant cues and there are irrelevant cues.

Relevant cues are things that matter, things that are important to accomplishing whatever you want to

accomplish, to attain or to accomplish the task at hand. And then there are irrelevant

factors or irrelevant cues, things that don't matter. And oftentimes those things that don't

matter come in the form of things you cannot control.

The past, the future, other people, other people's opinions, the weather officials,

if you're an athlete, whatever it may be.

And what Shane is reminding us to do here is to simply know what's important and remind yourself

what's important even as far as writing down so you can

look at your look at the things that are important but i also love this other component he's talking

about know what you're looking for what do you want what are you looking for what are you

trying to achieve and so my question to you

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