Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2052.

One tradition that we have in the family is we go on walks and I find myself going on walks with

individual one-on-one walks with my wife or with my daughters. My son, not my son, he's in Los Angeles living. But this past weekend, my youngest daughter and I were

out for a walk. And we were talking about life and her situation and things that were going on. And

she shared with me something that was helpful to her that I actually wanted to share with you guys.

And it came down to two basic principles.

She was asking me about a certain situation.

We were discussing everything going on in her life.

And I ended up sharing just two things for her to remember.

Number one, run your own race.

And number two, turn off the shot clock. What I mean by what I meant by run your own race, and number two, turn off the shot clock.

What I mean by, what I meant by run your own race is, in her situation, in many of our

situations, it's easy to get caught up looking at other people's journeys and thinking

that that's what we need to do. That's how we should do it. That's why we should do it. But the reality is

we're all on this earth running our own races, doing it our own way. And sometimes the worst thing to do

is to do what everybody else is doing. And then the second thing we discussed is turning off the

shot clock. In basketball, you have a certain amount of time to shoot the basketball

to put in a rim and i think we put pressure on ourselves to get to a certain point in our life by a certain

time we put pressure on ourselves to have achieve a certain goal by a certain age because of our own goals because of society's goals

and when we do that a lot of times we put undue pressure on ourselves especially when it comes

to things we have no control over and so that was the encouragement to her was to turn off the

shot clock you'll achieve it when you achieve it. And the timeline for her

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