Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2172. Today I want to read to you an excerpt from a book. I cannot remember the title of it, but the author is Dave Anderson. And this is the excerpt, quote, above the doorway leading to my personal office is a sign that says be the boxer, not the bag. It's a reminder for me to be proactive,

to hit the ground running and to set a productive tone for the day. And the only way I can pull

that off is if I know going into my workday what I need to hit so I can set the pace and have the

highest impact, create momentum, and continue the excellence and the

discipline of being in the moment that I began upon waking. Without this level of focus and resolve,

I'm likely to be more like the bag than the boxer. Reacting to the emergency of the moment,

doing damage control and sluggishly plodding through the day,

plugging holes and feeling like I'm coming from behind, making up or trying to make up for lost

ground. In that condition, I won't run the day. The day will run me, close quote. I really

like that because it aligns with what we talk about very often,

embracing the day and winning the morning in order to win the day. And so my invitation to you today

is to be the boxer and not the bag to have a target for the day. And we've talked about it

before, having a hit list, high important

task, H-I-T, having a hit list, knowing, lining them up and then knocking them down. When we don't have

priorities, when we don't have a hit list, we are the bag and not the boxer. We are the ones that hit.

We are not the ones that are being hit. And when we are in the driver's seat and in control of the

day, then that puts us in the best position to stack days and to get a little bit closer

day by day, one step at a time to what our goals are.

So something that you can chew on for the day.

Have a great day and we'll do it again next time.