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Good morning and welcome to the

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increase from impact podcast. I'm Justin

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Sua episode two thousand one hundred

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and six There is a

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hard truth that every

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leader Coach parent needs to

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face at some point and

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it's the fact that nobody

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is coming to save you No

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one's gonna fix your situation when

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things aren't working No one's

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gonna carry the burden and the

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responsibility of being the leader for you.

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And that's where true leadership starts. That

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ownership, owning how

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you're gonna respond, owning your

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decisions, owning everything that

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falls within your control. Because

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it's easy to blame

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circumstances, to point fingers

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at tough situations or other people, a

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bad break, people

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aren't. Executing the way you

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want them to execute it's easy to say if

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only I had better players or a better team or

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a better roster. But leadership does

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not live in the if onlys

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it lives in that what am I

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going to do about it. And

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the best leaders the best coaches that

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the type of people who change

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programs and change organizations are the ones

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who are willing to take the

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bull by the horns and to own.

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the good and the bad, to

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own the wins and the losses, to

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own the culture, to own the

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way they're going to respond to whatever's

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thrown their way. And

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they also know that when things go

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wrong, they're not filled

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with excuses. They're

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not filled with blame. And

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they're the ones who are willing to stay,

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put it on me, we'll

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find a way. And I'm going

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to lead the charge in finding the

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way. Now that doesn't mean that this

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person has to control everything and control

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everybody and take the wheel and demand

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and micromanage everything, but

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it's willing to own

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everything within his or her reach.

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Attitude, preparation, the way you

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treat people, focus, all of

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that kind of mindset as opposed to the

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victim mentality and just constantly saying, I

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can't, I can't do this. Great

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leaders also when the good things do happen

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and the team does get the results and

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the organization does get the results the great

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leaders. Don't put themselves on

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the pedestal and say look at me it was

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because of me they don't own the results because

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they deflected it's all about the players it's about

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the people. But what they do

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own is the process the system the

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tone the temperature the culture

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they own all of that part.

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And so my invitation to you as

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a leader of whatever organization you're

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in, as a coach, what

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do you need to take ownership over?

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What do you need to take

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control of? Are you kind of sulking

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right now? Are you kind of

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pointing the finger right now? Are you

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making excuses? Are you pulling the

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team down? Are you blaming it anyway?

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It's human thing to do. But then

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it's redirect and ask yourself, what am

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I going to do to own this

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situation? Have a great day. and

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we'll do it again next time.