You can't control the rain, so stop trying to control your thoughts. Good morning and welcome to

the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2,213. I was talking to an athlete recently

who asked a question that I actually hear all the time. He said, how do I control my negative

thoughts? How do I stop the doubt from just popping up out of nowhere?

And I returned the question with a question.

I said, have you ever been driving when it starts pouring rain?

And I asked them, do you get mad at the sky?

Do you yell at the clouds?

Do you try to control the weather?

And obviously the answer is no.

What do you do? You turn on your windshield wipers

and the harder it rains, the faster those wipers end up moving. And that's very similar to how

our mind works. Negative thoughts, doubt, fear, view them as weather patterns. It's not a character

flaw. It doesn't mean you're mentally weak. It's not a character flaw.

It doesn't mean you're mentally weak.

It doesn't mean that something's wrong with you.

It's not a bug in the system.

It's a feature.

It's part of being human.

The goal isn't to stop the rain.

It's to strengthen your windshield wipers.

Maybe your wipers come in the form of positive self-talk.

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