Athletes RTP Vision Goals

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Welcome to another episode. Today we are on the Ready to Play series and I'm going to talk about vision goals. And before I start, somebody asked me, do you edit these? Nope, I don't edit them at all. I, you know, we go, you know, we don't shoot, you know, from the hip. We, we organize these podcasts of what we're going to talk about. We've lived it for so many years. I say we, some of the guests that we've had on, you know, we might have a little edit. I remember I had an athlete come on. I told him we don't swear on our show. And he used some bad language and I had to do the editing. So I think I've done a couple edits and over the over 100 podcasts that, that we have done. So today we're going to talk about the vision goal. And I'm going to just be very straight with you on this. And for me, that vision goal is the dream goal. So it's very important that you listen to all the other Ready to Play series podcast that we have done on goals before. So you'll get a hang of this. So this last one is the vision goal. It's the dream goal. I don't like talking about myself, but we have to tell stories. Part of our program is stories, mindsets and champion. So we share these stories. If you listen to a lot of the athletes and people that we have, it's really focusing on that. They all had these dreams and vision goals as I called to make it to the big leagues or just to get better, make their high school team, you know, become a.300 hitter in baseball. That's the, that's fine, whatever that vision is. And my vision goal was to play in the National Hockey League. Just simply said my goal was to play in the National Hockey League. That was the dream. But there was so many steps to get there to reach that goal. So it just didn't happen overnight. And with a lot of good mentors, a lot of good coaching, a lot of learning, a lot of research, a lot of going through the ups and downs because people say in sports, that boy, hockey and baseball, football, soccer, tennis, whatever, you play volleyball, that it's like a marathon. And I would say, nope, to me, it's many short sprints. Because if it's a marathon, you're exhausted, you're tired, you've hit a wall, can't walk for three days. I've never really ran a marathon. So for some of our weekend warriors out there listening, I envy you. But. But as that athlete, I always said, okay, we're gonna have some ups and downs, some bumps in the road, but don't lose sight of that vision. If you can't see yourself living the dream, nobody will. And don't let anybody destroy that dream. Not that everyone's going to make it. You may not even make your high school team, and that's okay. If you could look yourself in the mirror and say, I'm going to do everything I can to do that, great. See yourself doing it. If your goal is to play football for the University of Michigan. I just recently had my good friend Jeff cone on, who I grew up with in Detroit. He was in my wedding. We were those type of guys that we were younger. We didn't really want to go to the bars. We would go out and have dinner and talk sports and talk about life. And it was great going back to those days. Tim McCormack, an NBA star, I don't know if he was a star, but he played the NBA. To me, I think that's the hardest sport. 12 players on a team. He backed up Patrick Ewing in New York. When I played for the Rangers, he was on the Knicks. Played on many teams, just a few. Fabulous guy. And I just would listen to these athletes talk about their vision and their dreams. And Jeff Cohen knew he would never gonna. He was never going to play in the. In the NFL, but his dream was to play for the University of Michigan. And he did. He wasn't the biggest guy, wasn't the fastest guy. I joke with him. I said, okay, you were the smartest guy. Maybe, maybe not. But the point is having that dream, see yourself doing it, and I want you to learn at the same time. So if you have that dream to play, let's say any sport for the University of Michigan, have that vision. But learn everything you can about University of Michigan. Who's the coach? How many championships have they won? Who are their players? Where are they coming from? I remember when I was young, I was going to play hockey for Michigan State. I didn't realize until I did my research that I think 70% of the team back then was Canadian, maybe 60%. A lot of them were from Michigan. Had a lot of good friends that played for Michigan State. Learned about the Monorina and never ended up going there. Went a different route, but really learn. I remember when I was a young kid, my father would take pictures for the Detroit Red Wings. He did the Tigers also. Detroit Tigers. He'd be on the field there. He also did the Lions and he got ran over once in Tampa. That's a whole other podcast. Literally, he was taking pictures during the game. I always told him, you're nuts to be on there. And this is when I was in my pro days playing for the lightning in 1992 and he got hit right in the ribs and I think he cracked his ribs again. That's. That's a whole other show. I didn't even think about that. But he would bring home these, these guides and I would study him up and down. I would learn about different guys that were drafted to the Red Wings, where are they from. And I had that vision of being out there. I would go to the games early at Joe Louis arena and I saw myself being out there, maybe a little cocky at a young age. I was nowhere. Probably I was playing A and AA hockey, but I still saw myself. So it's okay to dream, everybody. It's okay to dream. Follow through with your dreams. Do whatever you can. Have that vision so you could reach that pinnacle and be there. And if you don't do it, it's okay. Because as long as you're doing everything you can to get there. And I call it the littlest things in details. We're going to talk about that in one of our next episodes. But that vision of doing it and being it and see yourself doing it and don't ever think any other way and work as hard as you can and have fun with it because the game of sports is fun. Hey, I'm going off on a tangent, but this is my passion. Love sports. Love helping people. Love working with athletes. If you want go to Hartman Academy, you can take our program. It's a course which teaches you all about your mind, body you've heard in the other episodes, if you listened. And then we have that ready to play assessment that shows you where you are now, where you want to be. We have a 50% discount code that will be in the show notes. Anyways, bye for now. Thank you so much for listening. If you don't want to buy anything, that's okay too. Go to the resource page at Hartman Academy. 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