Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2086. As we all know,

life doesn't go exactly as planned. And we set goals, we make plans, we put in the effort,

but then all of a sudden something happens when we least expect it. It could be a setback, a mistake, an unexpected

challenge, just something doesn't go according to plan. And then at that moment, you have two choices.

You can make excuses or you can make adjustments. Excuses, they feel good in the short term because they protect our pride, they justify

the outcome, and they shift the blame from ourselves to something outside of ourselves. But the

problem is they don't change the situation. They don't move us forward. It actually diminishes our accountability. It hinders our ability to learn from the situation. Adjustments, on the other hand, they require awareness, humility, and this propensity to take action. Making adjustments force us to see things clearly, to pause to see things clearly,

to own what's in our control, and adapt.

Make changes.

Anyone who's ever been successful in life in whatever domain, sports or business or

life in general relationships, they don't have perfect

conditions. Things don't always work out for them. But they have the ability to adapt faster

when conditions aren't perfect, when things don't go their way. And so if you're finding yourself in a

situation where things are not going as planned, my invitation is to ask yourself three questions.

Number one, what can I do right now to adjust? Number two, to ask yourself, what can I control

right now? And number three, what's the next best step? What is the next best thing or next best

decision I can make right now? Because progress that you're pursuing isn't about waiting for

things to be ideal or things to be perfect. It's about making adjustments and finding

solutions in less than ideal circumstances, which is

daily life happens all the time because the people, the coaches, the leaders, the players who

make excuses, they're the ones who are stuck. But the people who make adjustments,

they're the ones who get better. They're the ones who move forward. They're the ones who are

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