Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 1,996. I am a fan of self-reflection questions. I've always loved them. And the reason I like self-reflection questions is because it causes you to look within and to find answers to your own questions. I recently heard of a reflection

question that someone asked themselves that just really piqued my ears perked up and it piqued my

interest and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. This person asks himself

after a performance, what things out of my control

contributed to my failure? And after a win, he asks what things outside of my control contributed

to my success. I think it's really easy to point the finger and to blame umpires, blame the economy,

blame people for our failures. But what we don't take into consideration a lot of times is

the good bounces, the favorable bounces that happen outside of our control that contributed to

the winning. Daniel Connman, an economist who passed away recently, said this. Success in equation,

success equals some talent plus luck. Great success equals some talent plus a lot of luck. You'll hear some people who get offended when they say, when you say you got lucky or you're lucky. Well, that may be the case. I can see why some people would be offended because that person might be neglecting the hours

and hours and years and even not decades of hard work they put into it. However, a lot of people

who are very successful, I've heard them say, I had a lot of luck. There's a lot of things outside

of my control that contributed to success.

If I wasn't born to this family or grew up in this place or met this person or had this

type of technology that came out or been in the right place at the right time or have

had this thing happen, I wouldn't be as successful as I am today.

And so this episode is a question for you,

something to consider. What are the favorable balances that you've had in your life that has led to

success? Things that you had no control over, they just happened and you capitalized on it. Or you positioned yourself to get lucky or positioned

yourself to be in a spot where the ball was likely to bounce, but you happen to be in the right

place at the right time. The question of the day is, what are things that are outside of your control?

What things outside of your control contributed

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