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

2009. Have you ever had someone try to push your buttons? You know it. And you just felt

yourself getting worked up. Maybe they said something rude. Maybe they said something that

was judging you, harshly misrepresenting you, misinterpreting your actions,

or just flat out wrong.

They were just completely wrong on what they said or what they did.

Here's the thing.

Being offended is like someone handing you a heavy bag.

You don't have to pick it up you can just let it sit there most people

are going to say things some will criticize you they're going to misunderstand you and they might even

try to get under your skin but their words only have power if you give it to them being easily

offended drains your energy and it keeps you distracted.

A phrase that I've been thinking about a lot lately is being unoffendable. And when you're

unoffendable, that makes you dangerous because it means you're in control. It means you're locked in

and you are focused on what is productive.

Or in other words, what actually really matters.

And then the question becomes, okay, how do you do it?

My invitation to you is to consider a phrase that I learned during my time with the Tampa

Bay raise, assume positive intent.

Before you react, you want to pause and you want to ask yourself, is there another way to look at this? Because the reality is most people aren't

trying to attack you. They're just speaking from their own perspective, their own experiences,

and projecting their own insecurities on you. But when you assume positive intent, you take back control.

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