Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2160. I've been thinking

about a concept lately. It's been coming up a lot in coaching staff rooms and amongst players.

And it's this concept around our reputations. It's something that follows us everywhere, whether we like it or we don't.

It's compared to being a silent resume that will carry with us into every room. And sometimes it makes it to rooms that we don't even

know about. And it happens. our reputation will precede us before we even open

our mouths before we get to the area before people have already formed ideas about who we really are

our reputation is built on our actions in the past what what people say about us, what they think about us.

And it's not built in one grand moment. Yeah, you're going to have moments where trust takes long time to build and you can lose it quickly.

But reputation is also built in the small, tiny little things, how you treat people, how you, whether you follow

through or not on your word, how you, the kind of effort you give, how you handle adversity,

what you do when no one's watching, how are you in a locker room as opposed to out in public?

How are you at home as opposed to being at public or in work?

It's those quiet, consistent actions. And they're like deposits. Deposits in a bank or trust

deposits that accumulate over time and start painting the picture of how you really are. And then they

add up. And this becomes your influence. This

becomes your reputation. And the thing is, a good reputation, it won't necessarily win a game

for you if you're an athlete. And a bad reputation won't necessarily lose a game,

but it will increase or decrease opportunities

that you are extended based on your reputation.

And so my invitation to you is to think about your reputation.

What is it?

What do you think people are saying about you?

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