Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2194.

This weekend, I was speaking to a professional athlete. And we were talking about this notion of being present and focusing on the here and now and being where your feet are all things which I agree with.

However, our conversation got into an interesting

caveat to that. And it's that in order to be where your feet are, which is good, be present,

focus on today is good. But what a lot of people neglect to mention is that the first thing we need to do is to identify what direction we are headed.

What is the goal?

Where are we going?

And then reverse engineer and focus on what we can control today.

Because not all activity is productivity.

And he got on and we were just talking about different quotes and quotes that we disagree with

or quotes that we'd like to tweak.

And that was something that he brought up.

And he said he's a big fan of focusing on the presence.

However, he learned that in his career, that's what he was just doing, be in the here and now, be in the here and now.

But the magic happens when you use your mind as a time machine when you go forward into the future and identify what is it

that you want why do you want it what are the obstacles that you're going to face to achieve that

thing and then reverse engineer to focus

all the way to today and how can I master today my time, my energy and attention today to be where

my feet are so that when I go to bed at night, I can look up at the ceiling and stare at the ceiling

and put a with a smile on my face knowing that I took a up at the ceiling and steer at the ceiling and put with a smile on my

face knowing that I took a step in the right direction. Because when you don't know where

you're going, focusing on today is great, but you might be wasting a lot of time, energy,

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