Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 1,933. This excerpt comes from the book called Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish. And this episode is dedicated to those of you who might feel stuck because you don't really know where you're going.

You might feel stuck because you're not quite sure what matters and what doesn't.

Here's the 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 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 miss things that are relevant and spend a lot of time on things that are irrelevant, close quote.

I love this because it's a simple reminder, things that we all know, but we don't practice.

Common knowledge isn't always common practice.

Reminding yourself what you want.

That is one of the most important questions and one of most common questions that I ask people that I work with.

I stare them in the eyes and I ask, what do you want?

That question cuts through the noise and it can change from time to time because when you

truly answer what you want, it will, you also realize that what you want might not be what

you want now might not be the same thing you wanted a year ago 10 years ago so it's

very important to always ask that question and when you know what you want it will help align or

clarify your priorities and help you understand what is important versus what is not what is

relevant and what is irrelevant again if you don't know what

you're looking for, you're unlikely to find it. My question for you is, what do you want?

What do you want right now? And I'm not saying that you're going to achieve your goal right now,

at least know what you want right now.

What is your values?

What's your process?

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