Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,97.

There is a quote I came across today by George Mack, and it says this, I'm astounded by how people who want to be spectacular in life, but also want to be normal.

Being normal, you are by definition aiming for average. Normal to be normal. Being normal, you are, by definition, aiming for average.

Normal people get normal results.

Exceptional people get exceptional results.

You literally can't do what everyone else does and expect to not get what everyone else has got.

By doing what everyone else does, you guarantee average results.

Close quote. And the reason this hit me so much, I believe, is because I have been

privileged to be around some of the best in the world at what they do.

And a common conversation we have is the odds of them getting to where they are

and how low the odds were and the sacrifices they've made and the things that they did,

which were uncommon to the average person,

the decisions that they made to get where they are. Yes, they have been blessed with incredible

athletic prowess. Yes, there are so many things that they had no control over that

enhance the odds of them getting to where they are. However, we cannot underestimate and overlook

how hard they work to get where they are, how many decisions they made to refrain from things

that everybody else is doing. So the reason I say this is because as you are pursuing your goals,

as you're pursuing to the greatness or trying to

achieve things that nobody else has done, you need to make decisions that the average person

doesn't make. You need to make sacrifices that the average person is not willing to sacrifice.

And that's how you get those outstanding results and outcomes that Mac is talking about.

And so my question to you is, in what aspects of your life do you need to start to make

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