Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,975. Today I had a great

conversation with Eric Cressy from Cressy Sports Performance. Some of you may have heard of him, but we were

talking about having a process and exactly what it means, what does it look like? How do you design one?

And that was his question to me. How do you build a process? How do you know if your process doesn't

stink or if it's good? And we ended up having a good conversation about it.

Some of the things that we discussed is building a process around a number

of different things. So one place you can start building a process is around places or moments when

you notice that you regularly get emotional. It could be anger, it could be sadness, it could be frustration, and I'm mainly

talking about the sports context. If there are certain moments that happen in sports or in

performance where you lose control of your emotions or lose control of your focus,

that would be a good place to put a process in.

If you find a certain place in or outside a sport where you really need to be locked in,

it might be good to have a process right before that moment.

If there's a moment where you need to debrief an iteration, debrief an event,

debrief a game, debrief a meeting, that would be a good place

to have a process. It would be good to have a process in places where you have, it's consistent.

You're going to do it every single day. You learn, we were discussing, you learned from surgeons.

Surgeons have a process before surgery. Pil surgeons have a process before surgery pilots have a

process before they take off in their airplanes it doesn't matter if they've been flying for one

month or flying for 40 years they go through the same checklist have the same process every single time

is to make sure and increase the probability of consistency. And we also talked about

how do you know if it's if it's a bad process? This is where you bring other experts and other

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