Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2014. Today,

I want to share with you an exercise that I love to do with groups. And we call this Resilient Mountains.

Now, resilient mountains are those mountains that you've overcome, those difficulties in your life that you have overcome.

I have said many times that success isn't just a collection of things you've achieved, but a collection of the things that you've

overcome. We've all gone through very difficult times. And what I'd like you to do is just to reflect

back on some of those of those things. Reflect back on some of the hardships, some of the struggles that you have overcome.

They have made you a better person.

Now, you don't want to relive them again.

You don't want to experience them again, especially the devastating ones.

However, they taught you a lesson. Now, this is the second part of the

activity. What is the gift or the lesson that you learned from that mountain, that difficult time?

So part one is identifying them, maybe even write it down. Number two is what is the gift or the lesson that

accomplishing or conquering that mountain? What did it give you? What did it teach you? And those are the

things that you can carry along in your journey today. Maybe you're facing something difficult today

that you can go back to and realize you remember the resilient

mountains you've overcome and you can think back what is something I learned there,

there and then that I can apply here and now. As you think back to those things, you might take

a look inside yourself and realize there are some things you learn from your

past that can help you today. Have a great day and we'll do this again next time.