Focus

Foreign.

Welcome to the Mike Hartman Show. Mike is a performance coach and former Stanley cup champion with the New York Rangers. Topics on this show are focused around stories, mindset and champions. Mike will also go into details about helping you with your pain points and struggles and finding motivational solutions on how to have the mindset of a champion. Now, here's your host, Mike Hartman.

Welcome back to the Mike Hartman Show. I'm excited to be here. I'm the founder of the hartman.academy and the book that we have that was released not too long ago called the Healthy Mindset, a workbook for athletes and the workplace athletes. So we're here to help you on many different areas as it relates to the athlete and the workplace athlete. One of them here is today, I want to focus on your focus and being fully present with your concentration and it's very important that you concentrate on exactly what you are doing and you prepare. Now, I talk to a lot of athletes and I asked one of the recent athletes that I was working with, I says, well, when do you prepare for a game? He says, well, the car before I go. Well, concentration just doesn't come by, okay, I'm going to concentrate. You have to get yourself ready. You have to practice and work on yourself. You're just not going to concentrate in that moment. It takes a lot of preparation. Concentration could be getting prepared the night before if you don't have a game. Good sleep, it's going to help your concentration, it's going to help you become more alert. Things that you need to focus on that may not have the immediate results that you're going to get. Well, they're going to, well, how does, how is sleep going to help me with the game? Well, it's going to have you more focused and you'll be more energized, you'll be more alert, you'll be more in the present. So sleep is so important. Focusing on concentration and the ability to concentrate is so important. Being in that moment of what you're doing, focusing in on it. Talk about some of the people that we worked with recently, another baseball player that we had and I'm not an expert in baseball and one thing I'm never going to do is give it, give any of my recommendations to anybody of their sport. That's what their coaches do and their trainers or even with hockey. I don't want to give that. It's not what we do. We're performance coaches is what we do. Now, I don't want to give technical or tactical information to somebody, but I just told the ball player, you know, focus on this. Say to yourself, if I see it, I could touch it. He said, what? Well, being a bit. Think about it. Just being strong in there. I'm not going to tell you how to swing. I'm not going to tell you how to do anything. But have that confidence, which we're going to get into as well. If I see it, I could touch it. A hockey player might say the same thing. The puck is bouncing over my stick. Well, concentrate. Focus in on something. If I see it, I could touch it. Now we do yoga. We practice yoga by any means. I'm not a yoga expert, but for me, it was easier to. When I started doing some balance work in yoga, what did I do? I focused and I concentrated on a particular spot, like on the wall or wherever it may be. Someone's gonna say, what? Yeah, because I wanted to concentrate on what I had to do, put everything I have into the awareness of what I was trying to do. And this will help you. Even if it's in business and you work on the computer a lot. Let's say you're working on the computer and I'm not gonna tell you how to do your business. You could probably be. I'm sure you're those who are listening. And I know I work with a lot of CEOs and some pretty large companies, and I'm not going to tell you how to run the company. But a good example is I work with a roofing company, and I'm definitely not going to tell them what they do. They work with all the. They don't just do, like, homes, they do big office buildings or, you know, $100 million company. And I work. I work with the employees. And again, never say names. This is all confidential. I'm not going to even tell you what state it's in. It's not in North Carolina and outside of North Carolina, where I live, but I have them focusing on the moment. And I tell, even to the people that work up on the roof and the executives to share the messages, you can't be tired up there. You're not going to be able to focus or concentrate. You're going to need to sleep well, you're going to need to eat well. Someone's going to say, well, how is that going to help us? So it's going to help you concentrate more, you know, work on your ability to get better. And we use so many different examples of concentration and how to improve concentration, especially within sports. I found that professional athletes, they're Just some people call it the zone, call it whatever you want. You know, a lot of sports psychologists may call it the zone, and that's fine, too. But focusing on things and key things that you want to make happen and, and put your mind to it now, don't expend your energy towards it. Here's a catch 22, and this is how the book can help you. But I could tell you one thing. Like Muhammad Ali, he used to see himself winning the fight before, and he thought about the fight, but if he thought about that fight so much, it would drain the energy from him. So I don't want to confuse anybody. Yes, it's okay to concentrate, but that doesn't mean you take all that energy. You put it into concentration. Like you can't take everything you have and think about it. I was watching the Stanley cup playoffs, and these players were so prepared and ready. And most people have no idea how much concentration goes into everything from all areas of the ice, from even focusing on who you're out there against and concentrating on the task at hand. Killing penalties, taking your men. We saw a couple too many men on the ice, and somebody could say, these are pros. How can they do it? Well, don't forget a lot of these pros were tired. People don't even realize that during the Stanley cup playoffs that these players were exhausted. Especially I know the Rangers firsthand, where they were just, you know, they had that first long series against Pittsburgh, which is draining. So these athletes had to bear down and focus more. They had to concentrate more. They had to do all of these little mindful tips that was going to help them in their game. Short shifts. Talk about that. I use the expression that life is a series of short sprints, because if it's a marathon, you're exhausted and tired. But by doing all these little short sprints, it's going to help you recover better. Well, how about these athletes? The playoffs was like a marathon. They were exhausted, so they had to do different things. There were players that were injured. People didn't even know how badly they were injured. So the player just had to concentrate on specific things. Making sure that puck gets out, no matter what it takes. Blocking shots and putting your body in front of it here so that. That. How do you work on your concentration? Being as prepared as possible, whether you're the athlete or the workplace athlete, really focus in on the task at hand. Try to block out any other things that may allow you to be distracted. That's how top athletes do things. You know, sometimes we use Things like imagery. Or we talk to ourselves in the mirror and say, okay, I'm going to get through this, but I'm not going to look at the entire playoff. Sometimes you could possibly play. Doesn't always happen. A total of 28 games. That's like a season in Europe for some hockey players that know what I'm talking about. Or that could be close to a college season. Forget about the 82. What? The 82 games they play a year in the NHL. Forget about that in that long year. But just if they focus on that, that would be tough, but maybe break it up and minimalize. Focus on small little steps. Okay, we have to get through the first period. Okay, now we got through the first period. Let's focus on now. My next shift through the second period. These are things that, that you could do that could help you stay focused. It will help you concentrate. You could take a lot of these tips within your business if we could help you. Again, I want to thank all of those that have bought our book on Amazon. Greatly appreciated the healthy mindset, A workplace for athletes and the workplace athletes. I purposely don't do advertising on this show. We now have over 50,000 subscribers or whatever and I don't even care. I'm not. People ask me, hey, can we advertise? I said no. Even if you come on, I'll have guests. Come on. I don't mind them mentioning their company at the end, but I don't want it to be advertising. But I am going to share my book with people. Go to the Hartman Academy, purchase the book. I'd love to help you and maybe hold you accountable. You know, we need. This is a coaching on your own. We're going to teach you how to coach yourself, but at the same time, we're going to hold your hand and help you. Not asking you to go out and buy the book if you don't want to. We don't want to put pressure or sound like salespeople here, but I'm sharing this with many people and we use this book. It's a workbook that will help you. Thank you so much for everybody that has supported this. We're going to continuously do these, add more and more tips to help you along the way. And I can't thank you enough. And let me know how I could help you. Thank you.

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Mike Hartman Show. If you're enjoying what you've heard so far, please feel free to rate, subscribe and leave a review on your preferred podcast listening platform we really appreciate that effort. We'll catch you in the next episode of the Mike Hartman Show.

Sam.