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From Good to Great: The Path of Consistent Effort
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What separates a good athlete from a great one? We promise you'll uncover the secrets of going beyond natural talent through ingrained habits and consistent effort. Join us on Beyond the Cleats as we share personal experiences that illustrate the transformative power of extra practice, prehabilitation, and selflessness, not just in sports but also in professional life. This episode is all about mastering the habits that elevate performance and mitigate risks both on and off the field.
Balancing high-volume days with essential self-care and mental preparation is crucial, and we’re here to guide you through it through our shared experiences. We dive into the challenges of transitioning from structured environments like athletics or the military to the less regimented civilian life, offering strategies for maintaining productivity and well-being through careful scheduling and prioritization.
Lastly, let’s tackle the importance of self-care and the therapeutic benefits of gratitude. We'll share personal anecdotes on managing stress and its physical toll, emphasizing the critical role of breathing exercises and mindfulness practices. Relive moments of family support and discover the power of expressing thankfulness. This heartfelt episode serves as a reminder to slow down, breathe deeply, and appreciate the support systems that enhance our overall well-being. Only then will you achieve your full potential and competitive edge
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Achieving Excellence on and Off Field
Speaker 1Welcome back to Beyond the Fleets podcast.
Speaker 1We are going to talk about not just talking about being a great athlete but actually being a great athlete, and kind of how that transitions to not just talking about being a good employee but being a good employee and what that means to us and how we can do things outside of our career, outside of our sports, to better ourselves on the field.
Speaker 1Because not everything is done on the field, right. No, like we have things that we have to do to become great athletes or even have that difference between a good athlete and a great athlete. Right, because you have those, those players that are like naturally talented and like can just go out and like score tons of goals or hit tons of home rounds or whatever. There's naturally gifted strong athletes. And then you get the ones that like are well-rounded but have to go put extra hours in right and have to go to the field more often and like have to go strength and conditioning and like things like that. I was always that player. I always had to go do extra now was I had did I have natural talent?
Speaker 2yeah sure like natural athletic.
Speaker 1I was quick, I was whatever you know athletic for sure but I had extra things I wanted to add to my my tool belt. Right, we've talked about the tool, about a little bit yeah, um. I had extra things that I wanted to add to my, to my myself, to make myself more um.
Speaker 2I don't know, that's well-rounded, like I wanted to be a better athlete. Yeah, be more competitive, and that that's also like. And then like the office, like, be a better, like being a better, you know coworker stuff like that yeah for sure, right.
Speaker 1So what are some things do you think make the difference between being a good athlete and a great athlete?
Speaker 2Besides, just from the intangibles of being like a good person and selflessness, which we, which we talked about. I think that's the core of it. Your great athletes are going to be the athletes that look out for everyone else, and that's just a personal opinion of mine. I feel like it helps you not only from the athletic perspective, whether it's the professional perspective. I feel like if you can develop an awareness for others, it'll help you do your job better.
Speaker 1And that's in every aspect of your life. That's not just sport, yeah 100%.
Speaker 2But I say beyond that, that's really all it is. It's just having those habits outside of practice, outside the field. Like the biggest habit that was ingrained in me was doing teamwork. That was my dad, that was my batting coach, and then when I got to college, it was just something that was ingrained in me. I, every day, every other day, I went and I just did tea work. Sometimes it was 30 minutes, sometimes it was an hour and a half, and not only it's because you become so used to it and even though people be like, oh, that's something extra that you do, like that's something like you're going beyond, above and beyond, it's just something that made me me. Essentially it was almost meditative. Yeah, so, to tie it back to what you, you were asking, it's just doing those little things, it's doing the tea work, it's making sure you know you're getting, you know your proper food, make sure you're eating make sure you're eating good foods.
Speaker 2It's just little things that are going to make you a little bit better from the performance aspect. But it's the same thing with like, professionally, like, if I know, we're going up in the altitude chamber right, got to make sure I get some sleep, got to make sure I have some food in the morning. So it's doing those little things to prepare you to do your job, do role better, right right, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1Um, I think you bring up like a really good point about um, the extra like that's more like I guess the extra mile right, like going a little bit more than like for me anyways, like I was that player that would like go um run some miles before practice, it would be like you're crazy why you go before practice go run some miles. You know we're gonna go run, you know we're gonna do this, you know we're gonna do that, like I would get that all the time I would do like my prehab, we'd have like a lifting session I go do like some prehab and they're like you know what are you doing?
Speaker 1you're like you're a teacher's pet, like you're. You're trying to suck up. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm like no, no, actually I'm not like oh, coach says you're doing extra.
Speaker 2Like well, I'm like, I'm not it's just something that I think was just ingrained in us. Yeah, you become. That just becomes a part of you, right?
Speaker 1those habits. I'd done it from a young age. I I was always the one that go like I was one of the few people that would go strength and conditioning, coaching um, strength and conditioning, um not coach, train um, like during high school, like I. Well, I was told from like a young age like I was susceptible to injuries always. That was something that I've I've always done. I've always dealt with like all these things. So my at was like hey, I'm nervous that you're gonna like tear your acl or something like can you please like go in the gym a little bit and like train like I?
Speaker 1just want you to get stronger. It will make you a better athlete. You'll get all these, you know, benefits from it. And I was like, yeah, put it off for a while. And then, uh, my knee dislocated and I was like, oh, all right, that was a little scary, let's go get in. You know, get in the gym, get stronger, do these things. Um, that would, you know, benefit me in the long run. I think that had a huge impact on me moving forward, because when I went to college, I wasn't afraid of the gym. I think a lot of females in particular have this stigma of not wanting to go in the gym. I don't want to have big muscles, I don't want to be bigger than my boyfriend.
Speaker 2You know those things. I don't want to get swole.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't want big muscles.
Speaker 2Girls you won't get big muscles like and that's which? Girls you won't get big muscles. You do not have that much testosterone, unless you know you're meeting someone in a back alley for some absolutely fun, fun substances yeah, no, seriously, it's a huge like stereotype.
Speaker 1It's like females think that the second they go into the gym they're gonna just grow these massive muscles. I mean, I mean I don't know about you, but like, if you look at me, like I'm not a massive individual, I work out a lot like a lot, a lot. Yeah, I mean you could probably say the same for yourself, right, like I have muscles, I'm toned, yeah we're doing.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm strong like I'm, and I'm proud of it and it's something that I can like sit here and confidently say I've worked really hard for, yeah, there's countless times I didn't want to go for a run, I didn't want to go to the gym, I didn't want to do these things, but I did because I wanted to be a good athlete, I wanted to stand out, and that's the difference between a lot of again, good athletes versus great athletes. You can hear it from all the professionals all the time they go do something when they don't want to do it oh right, so like when I don't.
Speaker 1It's kind of the same thing outside of this. I journal every day, I reflect. I'm a big reflector. I like to do those things and I force myself to do it on days that I don't want to do it. But it's just like in the long run there's so much growth from it and development from it, like forcing myself to do something that I don't want to do, that I don't want to do, and it just goes like a long way in your person, your, your person, your personality, like how you develop yourself, where you're going, you know in your future and stuff like that as a person, but also as an athlete, like I said, like you know going and doing the extra mile. Yeah, it's like as a coach.
Speaker 1Those are the kids I want, those are the kids I'm looking for the ones that want to grow absolutely, because if they're doing something off the field, that means that all they're also very coachable on the field, right? So if they're already trying, they're already setting themselves up, they're watching film, they're eating right, they're sleeping, they're talking to me about struggles and things and they're doing all they can outside the field.
Speaker 1It makes me want to put them in the game that much more right like because if they're gonna put things in for themselves, I want to put some things in for them, you know, because I reward that behavior. I think it's it's great to have those kids that come there, like you know, and they're not the ones that are gonna be like yeah, I ran six miles before practice. I did this, like they're not gonna talk about it, they're just gonna do it to do it right.
Speaker 2Yeah, those are the best kind of kids. You go the extra mile and you're not telling people about it. If I can transition a little bit from on the professional side of things, there are times when you're putting in most bull. 10-11 hour days, I'll tell you right now and this isn't to boost my ego but if I'm doing like multiple 10 and 11 hour days, I feel bad talking about it. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Versus, like you know, other people be like oh yeah, this is my, you know, and again, it's all from a camaraderie thing too. Like, oh yeah, we're putting in, like, but like I don't know if it's from, I was just always from a complaining standpoint, was just always from a complaining standpoint, but it's not, it's not complaining, but it's just I don't know. I just I've always like just felt weird about like oh yeah, this is gonna be my, you know. Second, you know 11 hour day. It's really you know long. I don't want someone to feel bad for me because at the end of the day it's like, realistically, probably no one will anyway.
Speaker 1I mean, even if they do, for the short term it's not going to change anything, right? No, who cares, I'm gonna do much, I always. There's always, uh, people ask like, how are you? I'm like good, can't complain, and they're like, even if you do, no one's gonna care. This is very true. No one's gonna care in the grand, everyone's in their own bubble. If you really think about it.
Speaker 2Everyone's in their own little bubble. Yeah, granted, everyone has awareness for other people and everything like that. Yeah, right, but everyone's in their own little bubble, everyone's dealing with their own demons and things. Like, like you said, it doesn't matter. Like you're complaining, you're like cool, oh, granted, like again, as, like a supervisor, as a leader, like like I want to hear those things. Like, hey, like how you doing, like I, like I, you know, chatted with one of our technicians because they were kind of like, oh yeah, it's another long day. I'm like like, hey, let me know how I can alleviate, let me know how I can help you.
Speaker 2So it's also from a leadership standpoint, you kind of want to hear those things but also, yeah, from a peer to peer standpoint, it's like all right, dude, like we're in this together. Yeah, let's roll with it.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, embrace this suck, that's what you always say. And then the military, everyone. It's so funny, but it is so true. Sometimes you just have to. It's one of those things where the day's not going to be any shorter. We either make the best out of the training or we don't. And then later down the road we'll run to Plymouth and I have to work next to you and I'm not sure that you can accomplish the task because you goofed off that whole day of training instead of you know the 11 hours and just like sat there instead of actual training. You know there's a big difference between that and it goes a long way. For like trust as well. You know I'm going to trust the guy that's going to the range, you know, outside of training and getting in their shots and their you know their craft, like honing in on that. I'm going to trust them way more than someone that's just like going to practice, going to training and that's it.
Speaker 2That's all you check in, check out, yeah, but that's also not to say that work-life balance is incredibly important. Yeah, with, whether it's athletics, whether it's work, whether it's, you know, on the military side of side of things there's and again, military, you know, it's a little little bit of a different, um, different animal than, like your nine to five or your student athlete, which is 100, which is 100 percent knowledgeable. But outside of that, like if you're having your traditional, you know, nine to five hours, like, take those hours, like, have that, like if you don't got to be in work for 10 hours and you can go home at five, yeah, go home at five, right, like give your body that, give your mind yeah, I think there's also a difference between like your situation, your situation in life right, like if you have a family and you have kids, like you're gonna want to put time aside and go hang out with them and you have to right, you've got to compartmentalize that.
Speaker 1But if you care enough about something, you're probably gonna do a little bit extra anyway, yeah, even just like a little bit oh 100 even if it's just like I'm gonna go put a game of soccer on, just put in the back, I like watching it. Like, let me like watch this while I'm doing whatever, I'm gaining things, but at the same point I'm having a little bit of fun fun of doing it. You know, back and forth, yeah you kind of make it a part of kind of your everyday yeah it's still.
Maintaining Balance and Competitive Edge
Speaker 1It's still beneficial, but it's not in the same way as if I feel like I've got to go run 20 hours and then also go to practice in another hour and then do whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, it also balances day to day. Yeah, like if you have those really stressful or not stressful, I'd say those really like high volume days. Yeah, you know, you're maybe not, like, I'm probably not going to go. You know, read a research paper, like before bed. Right, all that stuff.
Speaker 1I'll maybe probably decompress. Yeah, true, I mean, and I think it also is like finding other things too. So like if you, you know, if maybe, instead of like going for an extra run before practice that day, instead you visualize, you know, you sit down, you meditate a little bit and you you know, think about what you're going to do and those things like that also has a lot of benefit.
Speaker 1it doesn't have to be the one that's going to go put 70 hours in killing their body because, like that's not beneficial, Because burnout is a huge thing.
Speaker 2Huge, it's a huge, huge thing.
Speaker 1In everywhere.
Speaker 2Work sports, but it's creating that balance and doing that extra and getting that competitive edge. You're doing that to benefit yourself. You're not going to be like killing yourself.
Speaker 1Like you're having going to be like killing yourself, like you're having, like you know, an 11 12 hour day and then you're going, and well, it's also what's important to you too, if that run is important to you that, then you go do that, you go run.
Speaker 2If that work, it into your day. Yeah, if that's something like you want to do and that's your extra and that's like what you're pushing for, you make it work, which I truly, I do, truly, truly believe in that if you really want to do that, you can make it.
Speaker 2You make it work, even if it's like writing. Writing when I wanted to fit stuff in, I would literally just write my schedule, yeah, hour for hour, because I knew I wanted to get it in. There was actually last summer where I was doing a lot of work trips up to Pikes Peak. I knew that was going to be a super. I don't know, this might be a weird thing, but maybe other people I actually love when I'm more busy because then it forces me to write out my schedule and write in my things that I have to do, versus when I don't write out my schedule and write in my things that I have to do versus when I don't.
Speaker 2So when I was doing all that traveling and stuff I didn't miss workout, didn't miss my reading sessions and I wrote it. It kind of like honed me in a little bit more versus, you know, january, december, february, where there's not a lot going on and you feel like you're almost like more on top of it. But I guess that also goes back with when I was in like doing athletics in season. I loved being in season because it was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and I still did those little extra little things. I still did like my t-work, my studying and everything like that um off season where it's like, oh my gosh, I have so much more time.
Speaker 1Yeah see, I'm training. I'm doing the opposite. I'm training myself not to be like that. Uh, so great. I okay, don't get me wrong I am absolutely crazy busy, absolutely, and it's just because I like to do things and I like to be like that.
Speaker 1Um, but especially those off months, like you're saying, like january, february, like those are kind of like. You know, maybe even december is kind of like a little bit of an off month, but I'm trying to see the value in not over crazy, like filling in my schedule, that's fair, so that I have to take some time to prioritize what's important to me. So like when you're like going through school, like your coach tells you you know this, you have your schedule of classes, so you got this, this, this, this, you got your, your practice time, you've got your lift time, you've got the meeting times, you've got these things. They're all set up for you, right schedule.
Speaker 1Then I hop into the military. Same exact thing when you eat, when you sleep, when you get it, when you know everything lined up to, like the fact of when, when you're allowed to groom yourself, how long you're allowed to groom yourself, like those types of things like, um, everything's again set up for me. Then I go and I transition out into, like, the real world and it's not. So you know set and so it's. We have things that are set in stone.
Embracing a Balanced Lifestyle
Speaker 1I've got to still do a little yeah, blah, blah, whatever, but it wasn't so like routine, I guess, and but I thrive off of routine. I still do, even though I'm not like keeping myself super, super super, hour to hour, minute to minute, second to second, like you know, jam-packed with everything, like I am jam-packed, but I'm trying to not be like so contingent on the fact that I have to throw everything in there yeah, I used to have it like minute by minute.
Speaker 2It was bad at one point, like I knew what I was doing for, like to the point where I put like, okay, 15 minutes, this is going to be where my snack is I hear you, I mean you get, you get down to those things right, um, to those like parts of your life where it has to be like so narrow.
Speaker 1But I find that when I do that, I'm not super self-aware of like the life I'm living, because it's so muscle memory. I'm just gonna do this, go through this, this, this, this that I like my reflection is down, like my gratitude is down, my like those intangibles, yeah, those things that yeah, and so it makes it hard to like, it makes it hard to actually live like a, a meaningful life, I feel like, because I'm so focused on just surviving and I'm and I've had those moments where it's I've definitely just been surviving in life and not necessarily living, and I don't want to be there like day to day, week to week, where it's like you're just trying to get to the next week, yeah, get to the next day, yeah I feel like that this month, right now, I'm living that and I
Speaker 1don't like it. I don't like it. It's one of those things where, like, I have to genuinely like sit down and be like all right, we know this is gonna be busy the next three weeks. Yeah, this is not how it's gonna be the next you know year. Like, let's just get through this month. I guarantee this month is just gonna be the hardest right now. Um, because I don't like being here. I don't like this frantic, stressful, chaotic, minute to minute, second to second, like trying to fit everything in week by week. It's just not fulfilling to me anymore. It doesn't give me that sense of like, like I said, actually living life because, like enjoying it a little bit, breathing a little bit, you know out of the routine going to.
Speaker 2Yeah, the structured routine routine's good. I love routine, I'm all about routine, I agree, just like.
Speaker 1Yeah, like you said, like having those, those moments. It's not how sometimes I force myself to go for a walk instead of a run yeah.
Speaker 2Or just like yoga, it's like giving yourself a breather, yeah, by having that minute to minute, hour to hour structure in it's almost it doesn't give you time to breathe.
Speaker 2I know when I've done it because I'm it's beneficial, but I immediately will come off of like a crash yeah, like I will, I will go literally two, three weeks of just like hardcore, like I'm in my zone, but then like I have to give myself a week of just like no structure, to where it sometimes, if I'm going for like a long period of time, like if it's, like you know, I've done like where it's been like 75 to 90 days where I'm just in the grind my bubble, yeah, and then I get, I do a big. It was a.
Speaker 1I'll do it like I would get sick, like my body would physically get sick from doing too much. It would. Yeah, it was, it's so, so, so crazy what stress can do to your body. Oh, 100 and like mitigating stress is like one of the biggest, biggest things that I've had to challenge in like the transition of like, um, understanding that like you can control like that part of your life. As much as people like to say it's not controllable, like stress and anxiety and stuff, it is.
Speaker 2It is you really can't like there's things that you can do, just altering your breathing like yeah, my one down my one teammate's best advice she ever gave me was she's like okay, I want you to breathe through your mouth and then just I just want you to do that like three times. So I'll be like hold and breathe out. Yeah, Even just doing that right now.
Importance of Self-Care and Balance
Speaker 1I was like, oh, I do that. When I wake up in the morning I take like 20 like really deep, big breaths and like when you first start doing it, you'll get so much oxygen to your brain that you're like it.
Speaker 2Like almost is like giving you a high Like.
Speaker 1you're almost like what is going on yeah.
Speaker 1But like it, just taking that time to slow your heart rate down, like, slow yourself down, like and it can be in any, any walk of your life. It could be like you know when you're performing like being an athlete and like doing a task, or like when you're getting ready to go work, or you know you have certain tasks at work, like it doesn't matter, but like it's so essential to take a moment to slow down, and I think that's what you miss when you are so in the grind of doing, in that structure and in that kind of back to back to back.
Speaker 2You're not really living, you're just. It's almost like robotic, which sometimes I get. If you have a lot of stuff that you got to get done, go into that zone, yeah. But you got to be able to pull yourself out, yeah, and know where you're getting to, that kind of peak in that, because that's what life is. Throughout the year you're going to have the highs and the lows, so you have to kind of be able to balance yourself both physically and mentally with those high and low periods Right. Balance yourself both physically and mentally with those high and low periods right, and even with like doing, still do those things that are extra.
Speaker 1But I would say also go with those hot, know when it's your high season and your low season yeah, and balance the risk, risk reward of it exactly so like, if you're gonna kill yourself, if you're gonna go kill yourself and know that at the end of it your body's gonna feel it, you're gonna what kill yourself. If you're going to go kill yourself and know that at the end of it your body is going to feel it, you're going to what comes around goes around. I promise you all those hours that you put in, you're going to feel it at the end. It's like when I like I would go through and I'd hit finals right Like through college.
Speaker 1Yeah, you'd go through, you knew it's going to be a grind, but after finals you're need a nap. Like my body physically like hurts. I can't do this. It's like the same thing when I would go through like soccer season. I'd be like, oh my gosh, like I literally can't move. Like I literally like I just can't. After the season ended, like I'm like I need a week to just decompress, slow down and restart. But yeah, taking a moment to just slow down, feel what you need to feel and while still doing those things that are going to give you that competitive edge.
Speaker 2Again circling back to it's good to do things that are extra. You, you want to be that person, you want to give yourself that edge. But doing extra also means self-care. Yeah, facts absolutely which we forget because we consider all that like oh yeah, I'm gonna go do my run, I'm gonna go do my t-word. I'm gonna go get a pump. I to go do my run, I'm going to go do my T-word. I'm going to go get a pump. I'm going to do my prehab. I'm going to go sleep.
Speaker 1I'm going to go eat.
Speaker 2I'm going to go do my attitude of gratitude. I'm going to go do some breathing, maybe do some yoga. Maybe I'm going to go see my buddies at the pub for an hour. Let me call my buddy up and see what he's doing. Maybe because we forget that I'm terrible with interpersonal relationships, I'll say that right now I'm terrible, terrible texter. Like you know, I'm so bad. I'm so bad like I literally have to like pencil and like I'm no better either.
Speaker 1Like I saw the thing, you texted me that, hey, we're gonna, we're on for saturday, right? I'm like, yeah, I had it in my phone, everything. And then I got in the car this morning, was going to a coffee shop and I saw I was like, oh, my buddy called me out for it, he'd be.
Speaker 2He's like I feel like you're like scheduling me in, like I'm in, like a work. I literally texted him hey, I'll circle back with you on this date, um, and I'll see if that's good. Can we do like, uh, like a 6 pm and like can we do like a 6 pm maybe?
Speaker 26, 30. He's like bro, why are you freaking talking that way? I'm like this is how my brain, but I don't know. But yeah, going back to but it's, you know, calling people up and it don't get. One thing I'm working on is I can't get, don't I can't get, so into my work bubble I have to expand, yeah, give myself a hobby.
Speaker 2That's. That's what I'm like. I gotta find out. I'm getting like I'm doing like the cart thing and that's like helping me get into like a hobby that's not lifting heavy objects or stuff. But yeah, life, life balance.
Speaker 1I mean, that's the. I wish someone had told me this. Like I wish I had a class in high school where someone's like, hey, this is going to be really important, give it a listen. And like I wish my high school brain would just like be like yeah, let's take this in which I don't even know if I would have been receptive to it to be honest, I would have been receptive to it.
Speaker 2To be honest, I would have went right over my head. I would have been like self-love, self-care who does?
Speaker 1that Like who cares about themselves, what Like that's a concept, Like I'm over here, like oh boy, I'm trying to get recruited right now.
Speaker 2Like I'm going to be on my grind, I'm going to go work out 20 hours extra if I want to.
Speaker 1Like chill bro, strength and conditioning coaches would be like they'd limit the amount of time I could go into the gym, but they'd be like you don't, you're doing too much, like you're in season, this is a maintaining season for you in the in the sport. Like, yeah, this is maintaining, this is like, this is what you need to do. You don't need to be grinding it out in season. You need to be performing in a season and the out of season. That's when we'll grind it out, that's when we'll we'll get the heavy weight to and do this stuff Like you know, having those people like, all right, check me a little bit. Like hey, you don't always need to be like you know, doing four or seven, yeah, chill, I seriously, seriously wish I had that, because I would have been so, oh man. Or like even a coach, like to be like hey, like we as humans just need this. This is not just an athlete thing. This, this, this is something. This is not just an athlete thing. This is a human thing.
Speaker 2This is something that everyone can benefit from it's something people need to be reminded, especially as kids like they need to be reminded to just like take a breather yeah, dude like I especially and I think it's especially those kids that I think, like us, want that competitive edge. Yeah, want to be, because it's just something we also love doing, like I loved doing t-work it was it.
Speaker 2That was my safe space, so it wasn't even from a skill perspective, but just like a being perspective, and I bet you could say the same for running like it would be shooting too, or whatever I was trying to hone in on.
Speaker 1You know what I mean. Like it was. You know the same exact concept. I love it was like I said, but then also I would get that. I don't know if this ever would happen to you, but I would like have consistent great shots. Great shot, great shot. I'd have one bad shot after, like I've done 60 good ones and I'd get pissed is that when I never got pissed, oh see, I would get so mad like I don't know, maybe it's different for t-works did you ever like miss a ball or something?
Speaker 1and like I would just get so mad at myself, like if I like got one wrong and I'm like, dude, you just had 60 good ones. Like, bro, it's okay to like, not be like 100, perfect, it's like. It's like, uh, what's the the you miss 100 shots. You don't take like right, like I'm going out there and I'm doing extra things, like I'm trying to, you know, work this out for myself god damn it, you're nine out of ten.
Speaker 1Gosh, you're not perfect, all right. Yeah, I wish someone would tell me that too. I wish someone would seriously be like hey, like you're not perfect, you're never gonna be perfect. Stop trying to meet I was.
Speaker 2I always wanted to end off a high note. That was also like, like, like, if I was doing like 10 balls and the last one was kind of a dinky ball, I'm like, okay, I would do like that. Okay, I was never yeah. Yeah, I hear you that too competitive, but oh, I was so, so bad, especially myself.
Speaker 1I was definitely a me versus me for sure. Like I never cared about anyone. I was like you, like I, but I was terrible like self-care. I was terrible with the brain, the mental side of it. I was terrible. No one helped me with it either. I I, literally, and like your parents, can try and do whatever and bless my parents soul, like my mom is amazing. She, you know, would support me to the end of the world, but I don't know if she knew how to help me with that either, and I don't even think she knew the extent of it, because it was all in my head.
Speaker 1I wouldn't talk about it yeah, that was the other thing I never had an open conversation where I'd be like, hey, like, are you okay as you, as you're like performance affecting you like yeah, exactly, I never had that forum where I was like, oh, let's talk about this, because until I got to college that wasn't a thing you know what I mean, so I think that's why it's great to have something like this, where we just like, are like hey, like let's talk about the crazy things that would happen, you know, if you guys got stories, seriously like you want to hear about it, like that's what this is for, like for we could talk here all day if you're listening or if you're watching.
Speaker 2This is why we created this platform to create these conversations. We can only talk so much about our experiences. We want to hear about your guys' experiences too.
Speaker 1Yeah right.
Speaker 2It all goes hand in hand, whether it's in the professional realm or in sports, even just freaking life. Life is, you know, it's crazy and hard, it's hard, it's hard, and it's all about, again, doing those things, doing those extra things, not only for your performance but also for yourself, and just managing those highs and lows. Yeah, that's really, that's really the name of the game is just managing the highs and lows so you I don't want to say avoid those crashes um I think it's so that you can manage them more.
Speaker 2Manage the crash, because you're gonna have those like I need to relax yeah, um and I don't want to think of it in a negative aspect, because you don't want that avoidance mentality, because then I like I had a huge crash and then it was all I was like avoidance, especially like my like when I had over training injuries, avoidance. It's not about that, it's about managing them. Yeah, but yeah, life's tough, get a helmet. We got this get a helmet.
Speaker 1That's all. Those tools are yo. This helmet's one of those tools and they're important. We're your freaking helmet's kids.
Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation
Speaker 2Alright, guys, we'll leave you with that one. Have a wonderful night and do an attitude of gratitude for tonight.
Speaker 1Let us know what it is in the comments. Yes, we want to know what's your attitude of gratitude Do?
Speaker 2you want to share one real quick? Yeah, okay, you go. I'm just going to say my mother I've been going back and forth. I've been really stressed right now with I'm moving, so I'm hopefully going to be in a new apartment and everything. So, on top of all the other stuff that I have with work, I'm also moving in a month and a half, so it's so much stress. So I've literally been calling her every single day and she's kind of, you know, calming me down. So I'm gonna say and my brother, actually my whole family, but I love them. They've been, uh, they've been really supportive during this stressful time of just like my brother's a big logic guy, so he'll just be. He, he'll take the emotion out of the situation. So super grateful for him and my mom and my dad. We have. We have some good chats every once in a while. He's a quiet guy, yeah but, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1Uh, I think mine today is, um, I guess I'll just. I'll just be grateful for, like you know, you invited me into this, this platform, to be here to share you. You know experiences and you know what we take from. You know our sporting careers and how we, you know, can grow off of that and I really like the platform, what we stand for. So I'm super, super grateful for that. Plus, it's a little bit of therapy. You know, I sit here and I just talk about, you know, things that have affected me and maybe it will make, you know, someone else's life a little bit easier.
Speaker 2Kind of like what we talked about earlier with the villains and heroes. You know topic, so very grateful for that. So I just, you know, thank you for the opportunity, of course, of course. All right, guys. Uh, as elena said, uh, leave your attitude of gratitude in the comments. We want to hear about it.
