Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2219. I know I've been very sporadic and sporadic is a generous term. I can't remember the last time I've posted an episode, but I read an excerpt from a book today that was so good. I had to hit record and share it with you right now. The book is called the Comfort Book and here is the excerpt.

Page 106, the title is rain.

Quote, you don't have to be positive.

You don't have to feel guilty about fear or sadness or anger.

You don't stop the rain by telling it to stop.

Sometimes you just have to let it pour. Let it soak you to your skin.

It never rains forever.

And know that however wet you get, you are not the rain.

You are not the bad feelings in your head.

You are the person experiencing the storm.

The storm may knock you off your feet, but you will stand again. Hold on,

close quote. And I think the reason that resonated so much with me right now is because so many of my

conversations, particularly with executives right now, is around the storms they're experiencing. And many of the themes of our

conversation cover that exact paragraph, that excerpt I just shared with you. And a key messaging

is to feel how you're going to feel. The more you try to push emotions away, the stronger they

come back. And I love the last two words to hold emotions away, the stronger they come back.

And I love the last two words to hold on.

Now the question becomes, what are you holding on to?

My invitation to you is to hold on to things you can control.

To hold on to the present.

To hold on to what you have versus what you don't have.

And to hold on to your identity.

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