Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,957. Today I want to share with you

a list of four things that we discussed, we being a group of friends and I, discussed on things that

hinder relationships. If you want to be great, it will require building relationships so strong

they can bear the weight of truth, something we've spoken on many, many times on this podcast.

However, there are certain things that will inhibit relationship building or inhibit your

ability to be the best version of whatever it is you do.

These are the four things we discussed. Number one is you can't make excuses. No excuses. When you're

performing at a high level in a high performing environment, there's no time to point fingers or to make excuses for

lack of performance. You just have to get, you just got to get the job done. And rather than make

excuses or come up with reasons why it didn't happen, you just need to take ownership,

take accountability, say this is what I did, this is what I should didn't happen, you just need to take ownership. Take accountability.

Say, this is what I did.

This is what I should have done.

And you just go be better next time.

So nobody wants to hear your excuses on why something happened.

You want to take ownership.

You want to take accountability.

No excuses.

Number two goes along with this.

No complaining.

You want to minimize and eliminate,

eliminate complaining. Everyone has a hard job. There's reasons why there everyone can give a reason or complain about how hot it is or how tough it is or how difficult things are. When you're

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