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

2006. I recently heard this story of astronaut training. There was this young rookie astronaut

named Mike, and he was doing a drill in the pool. Now, at this time, he had to learn how to do a series of tasks and not get tangled in his

tether or this leash that was around him.

And as he was going through the drill, he noticed that he was starting to make some mistakes.

And he didn't want to bring undue attention to himself.

And so he tried to get rid of the mistake quickly but what ended up happening is

the tether started to take get wrapped around his helmet and then his work instruments and then his

body and what started as a simple little tangle turned into him getting completely engulfed in his tether. And so his partner,

his partner name is Jim. Now Jim is an experienced astronaut and Jim is examining his

entanglement, so to speak. And he said, how did you get so tangled up? This is one of the worst I've ever seen.

And Mike says, well, it didn't start out really bad, but then I rushed and I didn't ask for help,

and it just got completely, got much worse. And then Mike said, you need to remember Hoot's Law.

And Jim goes, what's Hoot's Law? And he says, it's something Hout Gibson used to say during his

astronaut days. And this is Hutz law. No matter how bad things may seem, you can always make it worse.

I'm going to say Hutz law again. No matter how bad things seem, you can always make things worse.

And then Mike goes on to write and to say that it would have been better to slow down,

take a minute, appraise a situation before speedily acting on.

In other words, it would have been better to do nothing until he figured

out what had happened before he rushed into action. And I find that such a powerful lesson.

And I want to read that Hootslaw once again. No matter how bad things may seem, you can always make it

worse. And so as you look at your

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