100 Ways Blueprint

Welcome to the Healthy Mindset AI podcast, where host Mike Hartman, a performance coach and former professional athlete, brings his passion to help athletes and workplace athletes achieve their dreams and goals while being mindful of everything else in life. Mike also uses this platform to share his targeted assessment applications, Healthy Mindset course, meditation, and goal-setting technique for the athlete and workplace athlete. We're glad you're here. Now let's dive headfirst into this episode of the Healthy Mindset AI AI podcast. Here's your host, Mike Hartman.

Welcome back to another episode, and today I'm going to answer a question that came in through the podcast, and the question is, do you still have the book called The Blueprint for Success. And I never had a book called The Blueprint for Success. I did write a book in 2003 called 100 Ways to Become Your Personal Best Blueprint Edition. And we did these 100 ways and it was great. I really wrote it for my kids. The first book I did on my own and the second one, an editor came and took it over. And use their account. In fact, it hasn't even been in my account in years. So I sold it on Amazon. We did okay. Uh, did a— when I did my keynote speaking or presentations or with the bank, we would buy a bunch of them, give them out. But again, I really didn't do too much and I shut my account down. So I don't even think it's on Amazon. I'm gonna— now you're, uh, piquing my interest here that I'm gonna go look. But 100 Ways to Become Your Personal Best. And it was interesting because back in the day, Don Luce, who drafted me to the Buffalo Sabres in 1986, he asked me, "Why did you do 100 ways? Why not just do one way?" And I said, "That's a good question." But the question was, the reason I did was because I took a little bit from everybody I learned from. And I played with some great players, whether it was in junior hockey, my midget hockey coach, one of my 5th grade teacher, just people that were a big impact in my life. My parents, you name it. Of course, Scotty Bowman, Mike Keenan, Phil Esposito, Terry Crisp, Ted Sater, Rick Dudley, all these great coaches I had, I took a lot of information from. In fact, at the end of the year, I would ask some of the coaches for their playbook, and Bob Hartley gave me his playbook back in the day. And he was a great, great coach, and even back then, a great development coach. So that's why I did it, and I took a little bit from everybody, people I would learn from, because I always believed you could learn from everybody. And the big part was journaling. I used it to journal. I used to journal since I was, I think, 17 years old. Players used to ask me, is that your diary? And I would say no. And I— one thing I learned, the one thing I did learn, is I did not journal at home too much. 'Cause back then we were, even when I was younger or even playing in the NHL, I said my home time was for getting away from the rink. I didn't want to think about it. Didn't want to think about hockey at all. And so, you know, unless it's the day of the game and you have your pregame nap and your meal, and that's one thing, but I didn't want to think about it. Home was a place to be your home. So I would do it at the rink or I would do it at a restaurant. Primarily I would do it if I was by myself. At a restaurant, which I used to do a lot when I played in the NHL, and I would journal. Guys used to joke, "Is that your diary?" So that's it for the book. I'm just giving you the long-winded answer. But, you know, if I was gonna give you one thing to think about, and it's, you know, if I'm gonna give you a tip today, because when I answer the questions, I still want to give a mindset tip, or— but today I'm gonna go a little bit different. It's really What do you value? How do you value yourself? So let's talk about core values that, that mean something to you, like, you know, discipline, effort. Do you value yourself? Do you have appreciation for yourself? Are you accountable? How about your teamwork skills? Are you— how do you value your team and your teammates? You do it with Integrity, or how about resiliency? So those are things that I'm gonna ask you about today. And a lot about values is just making good decisions, especially if you're a young athlete. One bad decision could end everything. And the same working within a company— one bad decision, one thing said. So I remember one of the 100 ways going back is think before you speak, because what you say can never be taken back. And that's the truth. Really think before you speak. I mean, now in the day, the days like now, like with AI, you could say, okay, I want to be a hockey coach, a mindset hockey coach, and let's put in 200 ways to be a great hockey coach, and it's going to give you great answers. Where we didn't have that in the day. So values are really important, and people can read through that like any person that's been at a high level could read through, whether you're an executive at a high level or you're some of the people I mentioned, or even my general manager Neil Smith back in the day with the New York Rangers, you could read through the fluff pretty easy with things. So you're not fooling anybody when you're doing certain things, but make sure you have your values lined up because I think that's the most important thing. Number one, you could talk about good habits and mindset and different things all we want, but if you don't have values, you don't have anything. And that's just my tip for today. Please keep reaching out if you have any questions. We would love to answer them. We'll do our best to get to them. We had a handful come in. I'm glad I put that little— I just did that. I just put the the button up there to allow Q&A. So keep reaching out. I had some friends play some jokes on me recently, but besides that, that's okay too. So feel free to reach out, and if I could help you in any way, I will do.

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