Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2,101.

A common theme in my conversations with athletes and coaches right now is we're talking about pressure.

We're talking about the weight of performing at the highest level and how much stress that creates.

And there is this common belief that if we could just remove pressure, we would feel better.

If we eliminate the chaos, the uncertainty, the hard conversations we need to have but don't

want to have, then we could thrive.

But the truth is, life doesn't usually get easier if those things are gone.

Those things just keep coming, which means that the key isn't avoiding the weight.

It's changing the way we carry it.

And the example that keeps coming up is the analogy is that of a camera.

So the scene might be the same, but when you change the lens on

the camera, all of a sudden, the picture shifts. Details are more clear. The light hits different.

You start to see things that you, that were there all along, but you didn't notice when you had a

different lens. That's perspective. That's how

perspective works. Pressure doesn't always mean something's wrong. It could be a sign that you're

doing something that matters and that is part of the process. As Billy Jean King says,

we've said it many times on these episodes, pressure is a privilege.

And that sign is right there when you walk into the tunnel at the U.S. Open at the stadium over

Billy Jean King over in New York City.

It's really cool to see.

And I see this with the athletes I work with.

One week they're overwhelmed, they're stressed, and then the next week they're

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