Mindfulness In May

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Welcome back to another episode. And what we're going to focus in on this month is we're going to do more learning about mindfulness and understanding what is mindfulness. And if you listen to the last couple episodes, I talked a lot about mindfulness. And if you want to look up the definition of mindfulness, it's actually the state the conscious or aware of something. So you're actually really aware of what you're doing. You're being fully mindful and being in the present and you're not drifting off somewhere else. You're focusing on what you're supposed to do. You're mentally really focusing on whatever it is that needs to be done at that time. I got a couple good examples, I got a couple great little stories around this mindfulness. And we're going to be practicing a lot. You could use this as an athlete. Whether you play your sports, you play competitively, high school, college, junior even, you know, even younger athletes could work on this as well as weekend warriors, triathletes, whatever it is, this is something that you could really work on. And we're going to be doing a lot of work on mindfulness. And even if you're, I call the workplace athlete, you know, you work in a corporation or you're working for yourself, I still consider you an athlete because we do a lot of the same things that athletes do to be prepared. But this is something that you could take on and work on it. And I'm going to go over a lot of techniques with you. I could help you with this and walk you through some of these techniques that we've used as professional athletes for years. And I use it in my life to this day. Been using it for many years. As I explained and the last two podcasts, I've been doing this since 1986, 87, right around that time. And it's something that if you practice this, I promise you it will help you. And got a couple good examples that you may appreciate, you may like. And one of them was just yesterday. I was with my son. He has the opportunity now. He has about two years left of school. He wants to transfer out of Charlotte. So we went to this school up in the mountains in, in Boone, N.C. took a great day. It was like a 13 hour day. We drove there, talked, listened to some of his music, just sharing stories and it was great. But while we were there, I was asking my son different questions about his future. I was asking him about, okay, so what happens if you don't like this school? Because he actually got in. It was Appalachian University, he got into the. And now it's up to him if he wants it. He may not want it at this point. I think I maybe wanted it yesterday more than him. So I'm talking to him and I'm saying, so what do you think Chase? You think that what happens, you know, let's go look at a couple apartments. We have to make a decision quick. And he said the magic thing to me. He says, dad, I just want to be in the moment. I want to take in and learn everything I can through this orientation. I want to understand what they're telling me so I get all the facts. Hey Dad. I like to process things. He was my coach, my son. I'm so proud of him. Yeah, we talk about our kids. I'm proud of both my kids. But he actually had me sitting back on my seat and saying, you know what, if I'm going to teach mindfulness, I better live it to the best of my abilities, which I try. You can't live it perfectly all the time. But I am so darn proud of him for just being in the moment. And then he said the magic thing, dad, I'll let you know, I'm not going to rush into something just because, yes, I got accepted here. I may not want to live up in the mountains. I may have other opportunities in my life. So very proud of him. And then another thing that caught my attention. I hope I'm saying his name right. I was watching. I'm a big sports fan. I don't want to turn anybody off, but I love the New York Yankees. My, my grandfather who grew up a Brooklyn Dodger fan, but we would he still later on he didn't like the LA Dodgers so he would listen to Yankee games and we would listen to them together on the transistor radio. Back in the day, some of you young people don't know what that is. Sit on his porch or we'd watch Channel 4 in Detroit. I think the Tiger games were on and when the Yankees are on, it was all eyes glued. In fact, when I was a young kid, I got my first ball at nine years old, hanging over the by the dugout. Area and the New York Yankees were playing back then, Thurman Munson and a lot of these names that you may not recognize. But so now I'm now this big Yankee fan. I was fortunate to live in New York. Lived just outside of New York City for about three years. Played there of course and now I go back there for work quite a bit. In fact I been there three weeks of the past four. I'm going for my last week again coming up and I spent a lot of time in New York. Just love it. Get to see my daughter, have dinner with her and it's great. And also do my work which I'm, you know, which I do in New York City. So I was watching a Yankee game there it was last week I happened to be in New York City and they had this young player from Toms River, New Jersey. Which New Jersey. You're still Yankee fans. You, you grow up dreaming of playing for the New York Yankees. Well they had this player come on. His name was Ron Marine Mariniaco. I think I'm saying his name right. I hope I'm not butchering his name. Mariachio. Mariachio. It's a, probably a Italian name, I don't know. But anyways he's from Tom's river. He made his major league debut and he went out there and the reason I'm sharing this with you because I'm going to get to the mindfulness part of this story which I just thought was it was cool, it was amazing. I'm watching the game and they talk about this player about he was a 19th round draft pick of the Yankees and his dream was just to play in the, for the New York Yankees. I mean growing up he, he pitched in his backyard. I was listening to the announcers talk about how every game he, he had his Yankee hat on his Yankee cap. In fact if you look him up you'll probably see a picture of him when he was a young kid in a Yankees uniform. So he got in, I mean he made the 40 man roster which is really tough for a 19th round draft pick to make that, that, that roster but. And he played the last couple years in Double A and Triple A and I think he had Tommy John surgery and that which really held him back. But he came to camp prepared, he was focused. I mean all these great things about him and the announcer was saying that they don't think people realize how hard for him not only to make opening day roster but how hard of a of it was for him to even play in the big leagues. Being that. That late pick. Well, the story is he gets out there and he's doing pretty good. His first. I think his first few pitches were okay. Then he started to get. You could see, got a little nervous on the mound, and he was. You could see he started to. Looks like he was just uncomfortable out there. And what I Learned after. He's 26 years old and, you know, he. He just never thought he would really see the day. Sure, you dream about it, but he never really thought he was going to see the day of him pitching. Well, now he's out there, and he's totally feeling uncomfortable. So. Anthony Rizzo, who's a first baseman there, played for the Cubs for many years. I always like him. He's a funny guy. In fact, if you watch the Cubs back when they won the World Series, and he was younger at that time, and he was on the bench, and he had his arm around one of the veterans, saying, oh, my gosh, what do we do? And the veteran said, calm down. Take a deep breath. Breathe. I'll never forget that. You have to go back. Go watch it. He had his arm around him, and it was the catcher of the. I'm a big Cubs fan, but of the Cubs. I was watching them that year, and this. This Rizzo was all excited and didn't have a lot of composure, but great ball player then. Now he's older and, you know, New York Yankee. Now he's the one with the composure. And what he did was amazing. He went as a first baseman, went over to the mound. I think he put his arm, you know, on this young, you know, Toms river native, and he just put his arm onto him, and we couldn't see what he was saying. And he had a smile, and he had the ball in his hand, and he gave it back to him, and the kids end up. I think he got his first save. You know, he ended up with his first start. He did. He did great. I mean, he went in there and things went great. So after the game, of course, the reporters in New York, they're gonna be all over it. What did Rizzo say? What happened? And they asked Rizzo first. And I saw the interview, and I saw him say, well, he said, welcome to the big leagues. Now, I want you to take a big, deep breath, like, and just let it out. And he smiled at him and said, let's have fun. And it was the same as the same story because they obviously, you know, interviewed Ron Maracchiano. People are saying, boy, you really. I'm butchering this this name, I'm really butchering this guy's name. But again, it was the same consistent story. He said he just told me to breathe. And so when we talk about mindfulness and we talk about a lot of this, that's really what we're doing. We're just taking a step back. We're being in the moment, we're breathing. And I'm going to share a lot of mindfulness tips with you. Yeah, we could do yoga or we're going to do different things. It's like if you ever see an interview and a player says, well, how did you get to making it? Well, I worked hard every day. I did my best. I showed up, came prepared, I wanted to compete. Well, those are great. But I'm going to actually dive in to a lot of these different ways to help you. Sure. And I'm not knocking the ball player, hockey player, soccer player, tennis tryout, because these pro athletes sometimes, even at the highest level, they know what to do because they're taught. But we're going to dive into this. Like the last episode, I talked about fitness and being mindful with your mind, body. We did something with yoga and being fully present. Doing yoga, even Pilates is a form of stretch. Being in the moment, it's good to elongate your muscles. I talked about some conditioning as well. I talked about imagery, the gold paint theory. So you can go back, but going forward, you're going to hear a lot about this as well. And I got some other surprises for you coming later on right around June. And I hope you get a lot out of this. If you have any questions, you can even go to Hartman Academy. You can see a lot about, you know, what we're doing over there to help you. You could ask questions over there as well. That's the purpose. You could. We have a little icon at the bottom of the homepage. You can ask us no.com Hartman Academy and looking forward to this mindful month.

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