How To Balance School and Basketball

Foreign Basketball Training Podcast. I appreciate you guys for tuning in. Whether you're listening on the podcast or Spotify or you're watching on YouTube, I appreciate every single one of you guys today answering a question that I got in a dm. Like I always say, guys, I'm always answering questions from my DMs. That's honestly when I don't have an idea what my topic is going to be for the week, a lot of times it's just me going through my DMs and seeing, you know, kind of what questions. That's usually where I'll find something. So shout out to you guys who are always asking me questions. Today's question's a really, really good one. And this comes from my guy, Aaron. So shout out to Aaron. He asked, hey, Coach, I have a question about school basketball. The thing is, I have a lot of schoolwork and stuff I have to get done, but I also want to practice basketball every day. So my first question is, how can I balance school and basketball? Should my priority be school or basketball? Then we come to my second question and something to do with the first one. See, because my schoolwork takes my free time, I decided to wake up before school at 6am and work out before. I did this so I could get an advantage over others, but mostly because I wanted to catch up with loss of my own skill work. But usually I get to bed at 10 o' clock and fall asleep at 11 and I'm told that I need 8, 10 hours of sleep. So my question is, should I sacrifice two to three hours of sleep or one to two hours of basketball? Much love and keep up the great work. So this is a really, really good question. It is a topic that actually I get a good amount of questions on, just kind of balancing school and basketball and all those things. And I think it's an important topic to really be able to dive into a little bit. So we're all kind of clear and you guys have kind of a good baseline of how to kind of handle this. I think two really good questions right there. The first thing is we'll go back to the first point, which is about sleep. And I think sleep is such a, such a major thing. And this is also going to kind of tie in with time management, which is going to be kind of a big theme of today's episode as well. But you know, if you're going to bed. So in Aaron's situation, you're going to bed at 11, right? And you got to wake up at 6, that, that would mean if you're asleep by 11, you're up at 6. That's about seven hours right there. And depending on, you know, where you get your information from, you're going to hear people say, oh, you need between seven to nine hours of sleep or eight to 10 hours. Somewhere in that range is typically where people say you're good. So if you're able to consistently hit that schedule, then your sleep schedule is probably fine. The one thing I will say is that I understand not every day is gonna be perfect. There's gonna be some days where you might not get to bed till midnight, right? And you're still getting up at 6 or maybe even later than that. So at that point it becomes about being able to. To kind of map out your days. So, for example, let's say that you miss. You say on Thursday night you don't get to bed till midnight and you wake up at six. So it's only six hours right there. You want to try and make sure that you can make that up on the back end of the week. So, for example, let's say on that Thursday night you don't get to bed till 12:30, okay? So you only have five and a half hours of sleep when you get up. You want to try and get an extra hour or so over the weekend. So, you know, if you're only sleeping, you know, between six and seven hours a day, you know, Monday through Friday, you know, when you get to the weekend, try your best to get nine or ten, right? Just so you can kind of catch up on the. On the back end of your week. That being said, what I'm not advocating for is I'm not saying that you can, you know, sleep for three hours a night the whole entire week and then just leave for 15 hours on Saturday night. That's not what I'm. That's not what I'm advocating for. What I'm saying is that, you know, if you. If you lose an hour here or there, try and make it up at some point during the week. And I think that that in itself is going to help you and you'll be able to, you know, for the most part, stay on track. Because sleep is. Sleep is so important. And it's not just about like, oh, you know, you gotta sleep. Because here's the thing, you know, if you. If you only sleep for five hours a night, eventually your body's going to adjust. The human body is fantastic at adjusting to things. So eventually you'll adjust and you won't feel tired anymore, okay? If you're used to sleeping only five hours a night, especially if you throw in like, you know, caffeine or coffee or anything like that in the morning when you get up, which hopefully you aren't doing, but maybe you, maybe that's what you do. You know, nothing against coffee necessarily, but if you're using it because you only sleep for four or five hours a night, that's a problem then. Okay. But, you know, so if that's, if that's the case, if you're sleeping five hours a night over a long period of time, you're going to start to get used to it. Your body's going to feel semi normal. But the one thing that I'll say is that, you know, your body might feel normal, but it does not mean that you're actually going to be performing at your most optimal level. Okay? What I mean by that is that, you know, you might feel like you're pretty close to 100%, but your body's probably only performing at like 70%. Okay, in terms of your workout. So like, are you really getting the most out of your workouts? It all goes back to really, how are you recovering, how's your sleep? Are you priming your body to be at its best, you know, kind of going along with that also? And we're moving farther into the sea closer to the season. Um, so we can kind of bring this up, but you know, making sure you don't, you know, you don't get sick. You're able to overcome getting sick during, especially during the season. You know, I remember in high school, my junior year and my senior year, I was basically sick by junior year. I was sick for like the entire last two months of the season. And my senior year I was basically sick the entire year. My junior year was so bad that I actually missed probably a week and a half of games in practice because I was sick senior year. I didn't miss any games or any practices, but I was still sick the whole time. And a lot of that was because, you know, I didn't do a good enough, good enough job getting sleep. Okay? So, you know, in, you know, practice is at, you know, 3:30, go till 5:30, and I'm getting to school at 8, I gotta wake up at 6:30, get everything done, go through school, practice till 5:30. Maybe I have something else I have to do after school until 6:30, get home at 7, take a shower, eat. Now all of a sudden we're getting, we're approaching 8:30. And so at this point, like I Have to make sure, like, oh, and I have an hour and a half of homework to do. So if I am distracted at all, and you know, maybe there's an NBA game on that I want to watch or a football game that I want to watch. And all of a sudden it's. Next thing I know, I look up and it's midnight. I got to be up at 6:30. So I'm already going to be in kind of a deficit going off of that. So I probably won't be able to be at my peak, at my best performance level. And that's gonna leave me susceptible to getting sick. Okay. And that was, that was something that I didn't do a great job of then looking back, you know, making sure that I made time to get in 7, 8, 9, 10 hours of sleep a night, if at all possible. And so that again, kind of leads to the point of how important sleep is. Okay? So you want to make sure that you're making time for that. So that was kind of my thing. Listen, if you're getting that seven hours of sleep a night, you're probably solid. But do your best to kind of still get a little extra on the weekends if you can. But we can kind of go into the next question from there and that's kind of, you know, or his first question, which was, you know, school basketball, which is my priority, right? And you know, the cliche answer, right, Is like, oh, school academics, like that comes first. That's the most important thing. And I'm going to tell you why that is true, why it is true that school has to be the priority. Another theme that we can think about throughout this episode is you have to do the things that you don't want to do. You have to take care of things that you have to do so that you can do the things that you want to do. You have to take care of those things that you have to do. You might not want to do them, but you have to do them so that you can do things that you do want to do. Right? You have to go to school, okay? You have to get sleep. You want to play basketball, you don't have to play basketball, okay? So take care of those things that you have to. That you have to do. And you know, being a coach and obviously as a player is the same thing. But you know, if you don't show up to school, then you, you can't play in the game, okay? So it doesn't matter if your game is at 7 o', clock, if you don't go to school that day, you. You're not allowed to play, right? A lot of times if you go show up to school late, sometimes you won't even be able to play. And obviously grades, too. If you, if you're failing a bunch of classes, you're not able to play, okay? So you have to take care of those things you have to take care of so that you can do the things that you want to do. Okay? So that's, that's part number one. Like, that's why school is the priority. Because if you don't have that part, basketball doesn't exist. Okay? So there's that. But also, you have to think about. It's not. It goes kind of deeper than that because it also is kind of a. A mindset you have to have. You know, there is a. A podcast that I listened to with. It was an interview with a coach, a college coach. I don't remember where. I don't remember where this coach was from. Man, I wish I remembered his name. But it was a couple months ago. I listened to this, and, and this is something that I, I've been saying for a little bit now, when I heard him, ever since I heard him say that, but he basically said, if you have a 2.5 GPA, you. You don't care about basketball. That was what he said on the podcast. And that's what he tells his players. I believe he's a coach at a junior college. And he said, he's like, yeah, listen, like, if I tell my guys, if they have a 2.5 GPA, they don't really care about basketball. And here's what I mean by that. Here's what I. Here's what. How I took it. If you, first of all, if there's any questions surrounding your grades in terms of your eligibility to play, you don't care. Like you, you just flat out, if you cared more, you'd take care of the things you have to do. You would take care of your schoolwork, you'd be responsible. You get it all done. But if you don't really care all that much, then you're going to be okay letting your grades kind of slip. If you fail class, you're not going to be worried about it because it's not that big of a deal to you, okay? So that's something to consider. But also, it's really a mindset, too. If, let's say, for example, you're taking, you know, you don't. You do the bare minimum, right? You do the bare minimum of school. To get by, okay? You say, you know what, I want to make sure that, you know, I'm getting all Cs right now. If you have a 71 in your class, right? And you know, let's say one day you, you have a game and you have an away game. It's two hours away, you're playing at seven. So you know, you guys are leaving the, the school at 4. You know, you get a school 3:30, you gotta basically grab something to eat and you get on the bus, leave at 4, you know, you go play your game or whatever and you get back pretty late. And then you realize, oh man, I have a test tomorrow that I completely forgot about. And you go and fail that test and now you're failing the class and then now you can't play, okay? All because you were kind of hanging on the edge right there, where. As opposed to that, if you had had an 85 in the class and then you wouldn't still fail that test, you might have only had, you know, you might had an 80 or 79 still. So you're still passing, okay? So you have to give yourself some sort of buffer so that when things happen, it's not going to affect you, okay? So that's why you don't want to be the person who just is on the doing the bare minimum. Like, I just got to scrape by because if something unforeseen happens to you, it's going to be a problem. And that can affect your ability to get on the court. And listen, there's already so many things you have to worry about in terms of playing. Like, okay, I got to worry about knowing the plays. I got to worry about running the right defense. I got to worry about making the right calls. I got to worry about hitting this shot but being ready for this, making sure my leg feels okay. You have all these things to worry about on the court, so don't let anything off the court. Add to that, don't let there be anything that's going to stop you from getting to the court, okay? And schoolwork is one of the things, so you don't want to be the person who's right on the edge because one thing goes wrong for you and all of a sudden no more basketball for you, okay? So that's why it's important to really give effort in the classroom and going along with that. There's a mindset associated with it and I see it all the time. If your mindset is, I don't like this, so I'm not going to try at it. That's going to translate to basketball. If your mindset is, listen, I don't like school, so I'm not going to try. Not going to try at it. You're saying, I don't like doing this, so I'm not going to try. Now how about when we get to practice and your coach makes you guys do a box out drill and you hate boxing out. Now all of a sudden is your mindset, does that allow you to say, oh, you know what, I don't like boxing out, so I'm not going to try. Right? That, that, that translates. If your coach puts you at a position you don't want to play and you say, I don't like this position, so I'm not going to try. That's something that I see with a lot of players who, who might struggle with their grade. As soon as they're asked to do something on the court that they don't like, they revert back to, oh, I don't like doing this, so I'm not going to try. I don't care about this, so I'm not going to try. Okay, don't be that, don't, don't allow yourself to develop that mindset or that habit of going to, that being like, you know what, who, who cares? I don't want to do it, so I'm not going to try to do it. That will translate to the basketball court in some sort of way. Okay? I promise you it will. And you know, you talk about the difference between, you know, when, if you watch the NBA playoffs right now, the difference between winning and losing a game right now, there are a lot of really, really close games. If you watch this Miami Boston series, there's a lot of really, really small things that happen throughout that fourth quarter that cause either a win or a loss right there, okay? Those little, little details that you really have to pay attention to, you really have to care about if you aren't able to, to, to worry about the entire picture, right? If you only focus on one area. For example, right? The Celtics game one, game two had big leads in especially game one had a 12 point lead in the fourth quarter. Game two had a, had a lead in the fourth quarter, but they weren't able to get a stop on defense. Right. Their offense was okay, but getting stops was their issue. So all that to say one side of the ball, you can't just be focused on that. You got to be, you got to be able to take care of both of them. Okay? In the same way right here if all you care about is basketball and you don't take care of school, that. That mindset of not worrying about the entire picture, that translates to other areas for you, okay? Might not be as cut and dry as you care about offense and not about defense, but it could be as. It could be something like, you know, I'm going to try in this drill where my coach lets me shoot, but as soon as I go to this drill, we're not shooting anymore, and I don't get to do what I want to do. Now my effort, my intensity slacks off a little bit, okay? So you develop that by doing things you might not like to do and giving your best effort at those things, okay? So don't be the person who, first of all, don't be the person who's hanging on the edge because one thing goes wrong and it's going to be over for you, okay? And on top of that, give your effort in class, all right? Be the best you can be at it. And. And that standard you hold yourself to is what you're also going to hold yourself to on the basketball floor, and you're going to be a lot more successful. And ultimately, if you have a group full of guys on a team, you'll win more games and it's going to be a lot more fun, okay? So that's what you want to be able to do. And that's why school is the priority over basketball, okay? Because again, without school, there is no basketball. But also, if you slack off in school, chances are that's going to affect you as well, okay? So again, don't be the player who says, you know, who has your coach saying, oh, he's got a 2.5 GPA. He doesn't care, all right? There's not really much sympathy for guys who aren't doing what. Now, there's a difference between struggling and not understanding something and just straight up not caring enough to do something, okay? If you struggle in your classes, but you're going to get help, you're going to see your teacher when you can. After school, you tell your coach, hey, I'm struggling with this. If people understand that you're still giving effort, then that's way different than just being having a kid who just doesn't. Doesn't care, okay? You would much rather be that first person who, you know, maybe you will say, you're in your English class, you're struggling. You know, you're not good at writing essays, so you go talk to your English teacher and she gives you some tips and you know, that's what you do instead of saying, oh, you know what? Who cares? Right? You're willing to go and get help for something, okay? That's an important thing as well. Now, you can't just be the kid who goes to your teacher and says, hey, you know, I need some help with this. And then they help you. They give you advice, give you tips, tell you what to do, and then you just don't do it, right? You just go back and you write the same exact essay next time. Because then that shows you really don't care. You're just trying to save face by acting like you do, okay? So again, don't be. Don't be that person who. There has to be a question mark. You have enough things to worry about on the court, take care of those other things and hold yourself to a high standard, okay? That's very, very important. So, you know, kind of going along with all this stuff, I kind of. I wanted to jump into a little bit of some time management stuff as well and just kind of some overall strategies you can use in order to balance school and basketball, because I understand it can be difficult. You know, one thing that I told Aaron in this question in my response to him was, you know, in terms of finding time to get your stuff done. So he was saying that, you know, he would like to be able to do his workouts after school, but he's just so booked with all the work he has to do that it's hard for him to be able to do that. So what I told him is like, listen, like, when I was in high school, I was always trying to find times in different classes that I can do homework. You know, I might have a math class where I can do English homework at the same time, right? I might be able to do that. Now, I'm not saying don't pay attention to class and do your homework, but I'm saying if you have an opportunity to do that, you know, here's the thing. I didn't let my grades slip, though. Like, I still had an A in math, okay? But I also was able to at the same time, take care of some other homework that I do so I don't have to do it later, okay? That was. That's just finding time to do things when you know, when you can. But you can't let that be at the cost of the actual class that you're in. That's all. That's all I'm saying with that. And I understand for some people that that's just not possible. You know, you just. You might not be able to do that. You might not have a class where that's possible to do, and that's. That's understandable. But start to think of times during the day that could be during lunch. Like, are you able to do some homework during lunch every day? You know, if you're riding the bus, you know, for example, if you're. If you're. You know, if you've an away game, right, and you've got an hour and a half bus ride, can you get your homework done on that bus ride? Right? Can you put your headphones in while everyone else is doing whatever they're doing and study for your test the next day? Okay, there. There are lots of times during the day where you can get things done, but it really is all about you being able to go and take advantage and capitalize on those things. Okay? So start looking for times where you can start to get stuff done, even if it's just a piece of something, you know, even if it's able to get a few. A few questions answered or a few problems solved, whatever it might be. That's what I told them. That can just help you to free up a little bit of more time with all the stuff that you're doing. So, you know, that's kind of one thing to consider. But then there's also things that we can do that will kind of add to that. So, you know, the first thing is you want to make sure you're organized with everything. Okay? So what I recommend is, like, have a notebook or have like a planner or something where you can write down all you. All things you have to do. Okay? For school English, I have to write this paper. Math, I have to do. I have to answer these questions in the textbook. History, I have to write this. You know, Biology, I have to do this, whatever it might be. Okay, Write down all things you have to do so you know what is on your plate to do. Okay? You know what you have to get done that way. It's a lot easier than just trying to remember everything. And you got so many things floating around in your mind that you forget something, and all of a sudden, boom, you're already teetering on the edge. Now you're ineligible to play all those things. You don't want to be in that category. Okay, Take care of the stuff now, kind of going back to the original point. You especially want to be able to focus on getting really good grades when you're not in season, because when the season comes and all Of a sudden, you're way more tired every day. You got practice and games every single day. You just have less time to do things. You know, it's very possible that stuff slips through. It's, it's possible. No one's perfect, okay? But if you've built up that good buffer where all you had all good grades before, if a couple things you miss a couple things, you're going to be okay. But if you don't take, you know, if you, if you don't plant those seeds early, you don't do the work early, then that's going to be a problem. Okay, that's going to be a problem. So again, very, very important that you have all of your stuff planned out, you know what to do, you know when it's due and all that stuff. And you know, again, that kind of goes to time management. Time management is such a, a crucial step, a crucial part of all this because you know, man, if you can't, you're not able to allocate your time properly, it's just going to be a problem. So you know something that, that I'm sure a lot of you guys do is like, you know, you get up at 6 to go to school, get to school, get out at three, you get home and you take a nap. You know, you take a nap till 5:30, you get up, eat dinner, you know, by that time it's 6:30. Then you go to the gym at 7, you're there till 9, you get home at 9:30, take a shower. Now it's 10 o' clock, and now you have an hour and a half of homework to do. So you do that, then that's over, you watch TV for half an hour and then, you know, you eat a little bit of food and all of a sudden it's 12:30 and you know, you got to get up at six the next day. Now you're at five and a half hours again. So again, that goes back to time management. Okay? What I recommend is instead of taking that nap after school, get out of school, get home, get your homework done, then eat dinner, then go play basketball. You're home at 9, take that shower at 9:30. Now all of a sudden it's 9:30 and you have nothing else to do. You, you can go to bed right there at 10 and there's eight hours for you if you get up at 6 the next day, okay? So all that comes back to just managing your time well, be able to plan out not just your schoolwork, but say, okay, this is what I'm going to do today, okay? When I get home, I'm going to do. I'm going to get my homework done and then after that I'm going to do this and then that and then this. And I'm going to go to bed now, okay? So you're going to have everything planned out for yourself and it's going to be much, much easier for you if you're able to stay organized and manage your time well. Okay? And that kind of goes back to a bigger point, which is plan out your weeks. Okay, so let's say it's Monday, right? And you have a paper that's due on Thursday, but you know that you have a workout on Tuesday and Wednesday and you're gonna be really, really busy with that stuff. Okay. After school. So you might have to write that paper on Monday. But if you don't know that it's, if you didn't write it down, you don't recognize that it's due, then you might wait till Wednesday and all of a sudden it's nine o' clock at night. You gotta be like, oh man, I have an hour of homework and I gotta write this paper that's due tomorrow. Whereas if you would have just taken 30 minutes on Monday and gotten most of it done, now you have way, way less to do on Tuesday and Wednesday, okay? That comes from planning out your week. If, you know, you have a big test on Friday, but Thursday is a real busy day. You know, maybe Thursday you guys have an away game, you might have to say, oh, I'm gonna have to start my studying on Wednesday so that I can be ready Thursday and then Friday I'm all good to take the test. Okay? You, you want to be able to, to plan out your time. And again, being able to use that, that, that time traveling. So you know, on that, on that away game or you know, going to school on the bus in the morning. That was what I always used to do when I was, you know, my, my first couple years of high school, when I was, you know, on the bus rides to or from school. That was a great time where I've got, you know, 20, 25 minutes to get work done as opposed to just sitting there and waiting to get, to get home or to get to school. Instead of doing that, you have the opportunity right there to get some homework done, okay? Get some studying done. So take advantage of those little times that you have and you're going to find that if you do that, it starts to compound. All of a sudden you have way More free time. That's going to start to open up for you, okay? And you know, another thing I'll say is kind of relating again to in season is you don't want to get behind with what the stuff that you're doing, okay? So if you know you have a game coming up, you have an away game and you know you're going to miss a class for it, go to your teacher and say, hey, you know, let's say it's Monday, right? You're gonna miss the game on you got a game on Thursday. Say hey, I'm gonna miss class on Thursday because we have a game. Now maybe your teacher can say, okay, here you go, here's the worksheet that we're gonna do that's gonna be due on Friday. Now you can get that done and have it in for Friday. And now you don't have to worry about making that up. So now you don't have to worry about, oh man, I missed another class. So I gotta take a test on Monday and do that paper and do the additional homework that was due and all of a sudden you're behind on everything and that's going to ruin. That's going to. Just going to mess up your whole schedule. If you're able to do your work early and plan things out and give your teachers a heads up, you know, really what it comes down to is you guys have to be responsible for yourself, okay? You can't. It's not your teacher's responsibility to get you caught up on things. It's not your coach's responsibility to make sure you're doing your work. It's not your parents responsibility for doing anything. It's your responsibility to make sure that you are getting everything done. That you are putting yourself in the best position to have your free time, okay? You can't. That's not on anybody else. If you are doing poorly, it's probably because you're doing something wrong. You're either not managing your time well, you're not planning things out, you don't know what's going on, you don't go and get help if you need it, okay? You need to start taking responsibility for those things for yourself or else you're going to struggle, okay? And that, that goes high school and beyond, okay? You can't, you can't just rely on other people to do things for you. You've got to be able to plan things and, and get things done. That's really what it's all about. So take advantage and get your work Done early, communicate with your teachers, and it's going to be way easier for you, okay? And another thing you can do is taking advantage of your study halls, your free periods, your lunches, times where you don't have to be focused on a certain class, but you're still in school. You know, when I was younger, I mean, everyone would have their study halls and everyone would be the back playing computer games or whatever. And, you know, that's all well and good if you don't have any homework, but if that's. If you're saying, like, oh, I want to go get my work, I want to go work out after school, but I have too much homework. But I'm also doing, you know, I'm also wasting time during study halls. Reevaluate that, okay? Make the most of your time that you have available to you. And the last thing I'll say is, again, like I said, if it's really that you just struggle with something, you don't understand, something the class is difficult for you, go ask for help. Because here's the thing. Teachers are going to be a lot more lenient with you if they know that you're really trying. Okay? If they, if they think, you know, oh, he's getting bad grades because he does. He's not trying. He's not doing his work right? If you just don't do your work, then, like, no one feels bad for you. No one. No one cares. Oh, I had a way game. I was. I was up late. No, but no one cares. You should have got it done earlier. You should have. You got to find time to do it. There's no, there's no excuses for not doing it. Okay? Where, you know, if. But if your teacher knows, hey, he communicated with me, you know, he. Maybe he wasn't sure about this topic. You went in and got help, got extra help, and then you went and made the necessary adjustments to whatever your work was. Now that teacher is going to be a lot more lenient with you in terms of your grading, in terms of your. All the stuff that you're doing, but you have to communicate with your teachers about that stuff, okay? So when it comes to managing school and basketball, it really comes back to being responsible for yourself. That's really what it comes back to, okay? It's not anybody else's responsibility to remind you to do things or to have you get things done. You've got to be able to step up and do those things yourself. And again, you want to try your best in the classroom and do the best you can, because that mindset, or lack of mindset translates to the court as well. Okay? And again, if you want to win, you have to be able to take care of all those details, the whole encompass picture, okay? Like that coach said, if you have a 2.5 GPA, you don't care about basketball. You, you don't, because you wouldn't let anything get in the way of you potentially being your best. That, that's really what it comes down to. So. And you know, ultimately, last thing I'll say leave you guys with, is, is just, you know, the, the, the demands for your time, it's never going to end. There's always something else to do, right? There's always going to be more work to do. But if you're able to plan things out and you know what's to be done, you're going to find that you're way more in control of your time, Way more control of your time. And it's going to be way, way easier for you if, you know, okay, this is, this, you know, I, I have this planned out and I'm going to get this done then. And that way everything's organized, you're not going to be missing anything, and you're going to find it really, really easy eventually to just kind of naturally be able to balance everything. And it's going to be, it's going to be easy for you. Okay? So again, get your sleep, make sure you're doing that time management. Plan things out and communicate with your teachers and your coaches about things that you might be struggling with or whatever the case may be. Okay? So that's all I have today. If you guys have any additional questions on this, make sure you let me know. Again, great question. Shout out to Aaron for that. Like I always say, guys, you have questions for me. DM me on Instagram, visiondrivenbasketball, and a lot of times my podcast episodes are gonna come from those. Real quick before, you know, I let you guys go. If you guys have any suggestions or any requests or people that you would want me to have guest on the podcast, let me know, because I'm definitely looking to do that. But I want to know who you guys think would be a good fit, who you guys want to hear from, or if you guys have any specific people and maybe topics you want us to cover, whatever that might be, let me know. And that's something that I'll look to do. So definitely look to do that at some point in the future. But I want to know what would be the best for you guys, what you guys really design with that. So all that being said, I appreciate every single one of you guys who listened this far. Again, Apple Podcast, Spotify watching on YouTube. Thank you all of you guys. And again, drop a comment below, let me know what you think in terms of guests, questions, all those things. And if you don't want, if you have a question for me still, give me a follow on Instagram. I'm posting every week, usually multiple times, so go ahead and check that out. Always post it on my story so you're always gonna see what's up. And that's it, guys. PE Sat.