Good morning and welcome to the Increase and Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,929.

Today's episode is dedicated to those of you who want to achieve your goals fast. You want to get to the

destination as quick as you can. Your focus on speed rather than progress. Your focus on on how quickly can you get there versus how

strong can you be on your way there. And I'm going to read a little, a couple of paragraphs from the

book, same as ever, by Morgan Howesel, and he's speaking to you. Quotes, most young tree saplings spend their early decades under the

shade of their mother's canopy. Limited sunlight means they grow slowly. Slow growth leads to dense,

hard wood. But something interesting happens if you plant a tree in an open field.

Free from the shade of bigger trees, the sapling gorges on sunlight and grows fast.

Fast growth leads to soft, airy wood that never has a time to densify. And soft airy wood is a breeding ground for fungus and disease.

Then he quotes the author Peter Wolibin.

Quote, a tree that grows quickly, rots quickly, and therefore never has a chance to grow old.

He closes the paragraph with this.

Haste makes waste.

That is so true not for not only for trees,

but for us as well. As we focus on the rush of growth, we were just like those trees and we end up falling and not having the chance to grow when we run into

adversity. The great thing about slow incremental compounding progress is that we become stronger

in the process. We become better in the process. As we're under the shade of mentors and our leaders and our friends and

teachers and coaches, we can learn lessons and pull from their power and their understanding

and focus on the growth rather than the destination. And so my question to you is,

what can you do to get the most out of your journey so that it is slow so that you can

focus on getting better versus getting there faster. The time's going to come. The time is

going to go no matter what, but rather than focusing on getting there fast, which will lead you to more stress, it'll lead you to focusing on what you can't control rather than focusing on being ready when the opportunity comes.

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