Boy, have I missed you. Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm

Justin Sua for episode number one of 2024. Many people have asked, and thank you for all of you

who have asked where I have been this year for the past two, three weeks. And it has been

quite the whirlwind. My family and I got back from family vacation two weeks ago.

I was sitting on a couch when all of a sudden I couldn't breathe. I did not know what it was. I thought it

was COVID. I thought it was just a flip of a switch strong, heavy congestion. No clue what it was.

Ends up being a collapsed lung. So long story

short, after a lot of procedures, a long stint in the hospital and critical condition in ICU,

I made it out. Thankfully, it was very painful. It was, there's a lot that went into it and I've just been recovering

and resting my lung for the past 14 days or so. And now we're ready to get back after it. But

the lesson for me that I had a lot of time to think, a lot of time to think, a lot of time to

reflect. And there are two things in particular

that I just wanted to bring to your all attention. If we can pull some lessons from this

hardship. And there's a lot that went into it. But here's the two lessons. Number one is not taking

the little things for granted. Not taking little things for granted. Being able to breathe,

that was so difficult for about six days where I needed, I needed technological support to breathe. I needed machines to help me breathe.

And it's not until you go through situations like that. I'm sure many of you have gone through

situations where your life

was turned upside down and the little things that you took for granted, all of a sudden you're

incredibly grateful for. And so my question to you is, what are little things that you might be

taking for granted that you need to pause and express appreciation and gratitude for?

That's the first one. And then the second one is the power of

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