Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2171.

First of all, I want to say thank you to the many of you who reached out via email or direct message to check in on me.

It's been a little while since I've posted an episode and I just want to thank you so much.

And it's really cool to hear how many of you have made

this podcast, as short as it is, part of your daily routine. So we're going to pick up on it,

pick it back up and keep going with it. Today I want to talk about the storms of life. My family and I

live in Florida, as many of you know, and we are in the middle of hurricane season.

It's always nerve-wracking to be in hurricane season because you never know when it's going to pop up.

But we have spent all year preparing.

Many of us Floridians are ready.

We have our shutters ready.

We have our emergency kits ready.

We are watching the weather.

We are ready to turn on a dime.

And it got me thinking about storms. And what storms do, they do two things. Number one, they reveal things that are stable and they expose things that are unstable. And I started to think about the storms of life.

And it does the exact same thing.

As storms come into our lives, in any form or fashion,

they will reveal the things that are stable and they will expose the things that are unstable.

And so it can come down to our relationships, our habits, our emotional control.

The tough times and adversity will reveal and expose the things that are unstable and reveal

the things that are stable. If you think back to some of your best relationships or some of your

most memorable moments, it's the people

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