Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,978.

A lot of times I get a question, I get the question, where do these episodes come from?

The ideas, the principles, the stories. And to be honest, a lot of them come from daily experiences I have with executives and with coaches on the different

phone calls that we have. And a couple of days ago, I was on the phone with an executive and we

were talking about a principle that really stuck with me. I've been thinking about it a lot ever

since. Now, for those of you who know, whether you are an executive

or a coach at a very high level or at any level, it is really busy. Your time is getting pulled

every which way. You're putting out fires. It seems like the line between work and life and family is so blurred.

And as she was describing her situation to me, one of the things she realized is that in her

pursuit for excellence, in her pursuit for helping the organization and helping those who report to her,

she had forgotten to stop and to find joy in the journey, to be able to stop and realize all

of the good that has been happening. And we stopped our conversation. I asked her, what are the things that you

are grateful for? And as she began to list the things that she is grateful for, it was amazing to

see what it did to her body language, what it did to her breathing, what it did to her entire

perspective on the situations that she was going through.

And it was so empowering to her that she decided to bake it into her daily schedule.

To be able to take time in the beginning of the day to pause as she walks into the office

and to make a list of the things she's

grateful for. And as she does that, what she hypothesizes is that it's going to reset her focus,

help her realize and remember to remember all of the good that's happening. Because again, as highly competitive leaders, executives, athletes with type A personalities who are pursuing greatness,

it's often very hard to pause and to stop because we're constantly pursuing, constantly chasing,

constantly running around.

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