Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. This is Justin Sua, episode 2014.

I was recently reminded of this little story I heard, story of a man. Shortly before 9 o'clock,

this man with a red hat, he would stand in a square and he would begin to wave his cap around wildly.

And after five minutes, he disappears.

And he kept doing it day after day.

He stands inside of this plaza, this square.

And he just starts waving his hands crazy.

The man with a red cap.

And one day a police officer comes up to him and he asks,

what are you doing?

And the man says, I'm keeping drafts

away. And then the police officer says, but there aren't any drafts here. And the man says,

well, I must be doing a good job then. And we go on to talk about how this is the illusion of

control, which is our tendency to believe that we can influence or control something, but in reality, we have

absolute no control over it. Once again, that's called the illusion of control. And there are a lot of

things in our life where we think we're controlling it, but we aren't. We can't control the past.

We can't control the future. We can't control other people. And a lot of times this falls into superstitions. We're in that lucky piece of article clothing, standing in a certain spot because something is going to happen. And it becomes a trap. We start focusing on things that we can't control. We start majoring in

minor things. And so the key is to focus on the things that we can control, to focus on the things

that are within our power, the things that we can really influence. And for everything else, we just need to

trust and allow and trust our ability to focus and be resilient for whatever happens. And so,

again, I can't tell you how many times we said this, the things you try to control but can't

end up controlling you. And my question is, is there something that you're trying

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