Ready To Play Debriefing

Welcome to the Healthy Mindset App 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 application 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 App Podcast podcast. Here's your host, Mike Hartman.

This is the debriefing process for the advanced Ready to Play Index assessment. So if you have taken the assessment, it's very important that you have it out in front of you as I'm going to go over the report. So on the first part of the report, it explains to you what the report is all about. We're all unique in our own way, we're all different in our own way. And we use this Ready to Play is a good baseline to really help us with the why, how and what why it is that you do things as an athlete, how you go about doing them and what can you do when you are fully engaged in your sport. So this is going to help you. You should be on page two. So if you look at the sports worldview, we look at that as in our axiological terms. So you took a validated axiological profile. It's the axiom of value is what you do, how do you value getting ready to play? How do you value yourself as an athlete? So we look at the sports worldview is how you look at yourself from the external world, from the outside world. Then the self view. This measures how you look at from the intrinsic or the internal view as an athlete, a lot of what you do around your confidence levels and understanding your self worth. And I'm gonna go more into that in a minute. And then we have the combined attributes of this assessment. Now every assessment is different of course, so I'm just going to give you a good indication of what to look for and how to utilize this assessment. So if you go on page three we look at what we call the six cognitive dimensions, 12 emotional intelligence factors of the worldview. So when we look at the worldview again, that's the external view. We're talking about people, systems and tasks. How do you understand people around you? The self view is understanding your self worth as an athlete or even in your everyday life. Your emotional attitude toward the personal good in what you do. Do you take shortcuts in your life? And if you do. How do you feel about that? Your self direction? Do you understand where you're going is an athlete? How are we going to get there? And your role, you understanding your role and I'll get more into your role. Your role could be if depending on what athlete you are, you could be a support player. That means you don't play as much. And that's just the term. One of the terms that we use, we call them black aces. There's many different words or different verbiage that we could use around that. But it's really understanding your role. A good example would be you're a special teams player, whether it's in football or hockey or any sport. You're a designated hitter in baseball. How are you going to handle that role? And body language is so important within understanding your role because if you sit there and you're sulking on the bench, you're going to bring that negative energy to your team. So now that was page three. We're going to head over to page four of this. And the first thing that I always look at right away is the reliability scores. So I have a sample report in my hand and the reliability scores. Let's say it's 0.88 and we look at that meaning this person took the assessment correctly. Now if it was 0.6 or 0.5, I would worry. So the lower means it's under focused or not paid attention to or we start, we really have to address it. And that's the worldview. So if you look at your sports perception and reasoning and that's understanding the value of people in the systems combined. Now again, if you're. If it says 8.1, 8.3, 7.0, we're doing good. If it's in the sixes, we need it to be addressed at the very end. I'm going to share with you what to do and how we do that. These are things you need to work on. We also believe if you're really strong in a certain area, you want to get stronger at it to be the best. Like if it's number two and relationships is in the yellow, I would worry a lot because it's either I don't care about my teammates, whatever, I care about myself. Where am I going to play next year? What scouts can come see me. Now if you're in the blue as neutral where it's always balanced and in the green that means you're focused. But sometimes we could be over focused. So if it's way off to the left and it's really high. You may put a lot of energy towards something like that. And within these assessments, they're validated assessments. The person you could look up was Robert S. Hartman, who was up for a Nobel Prize within these assessments later passed down to Dr. David Medford from the University of Tennessee. And I trained under Dr. Dave and Dr. David Medford actually trained under Robert S. Hartman. So these are validated and it's a tool to help you. I want you to get that straight. So we look at number three, practicing playing hard and winning. If it's way to the left in the yellow, you're not paying attention to it. If you're in the blue, it's neutral. We always say in sports you never get too high, you never get too low, you want to be neutral. And if it's to the right and it's not too far off the charts if you're in the sevens or if you're 7, 9 and above, it could be a lot of over focus to it. But for the most part it's important to you and you value that. And that's what we want to see. We value it. But like I said, if we're in the yellow, okay, we're going to find ways to address that. Your respect for authority or the game plan on number four on page four. Same thing. If you're in the yellow, it could be not paying attention to it, not caring or you just don't care. You're just going to do your own thing. Call that, what do we call that? Right, we call that a fixed mindset. Well, I'm not going to pay attention. We want more of a growth mindset and you're going to learn all this as well. If you're in the blue, again it's balance. And if we're in the green, I start to, to really say, boy, this person values what they're doing or sometimes we could overvalue. I hope I'm not confusing you. Now again we go down to your self view and that's the intrinsic side. And let's say the reliability score is 0.4. The first thing I would ask you, did you take this correctly? Did you spend time to really go through this or did you just go through this fast? If we're 6.0 and above then I would want to believe you took it correctly. We've seen some people take these in a matter of minutes and I know they really didn't take their time and it really shows in the scores. So we call this our scorecard. So if we look at this again. Your perception as an athlete. You see yourself as an athlete, your self perception, are you athlete a value of looking at people, tasks, systems, are you strong with that or do you do your own thing? Again on number five here on page four, if you're way to the left, we really want to address it. We need to work on this. If you're in the middle, it's balanced and I always like balance. And if you're off to the right, if you're in the green, it could be very important to you. But if you're way off, almost off the charts, if you're like 9.5 or 10, if you're high off the charts, then that's over. You're put, it's called over focus. And you're putting a lot of your energy into that. And we will talk about energy and you will learn this within this self coaching program. Your self esteem and personal value. Same thing. If you look at the three different bars there in the yellow, the blue and the green, depending on where you are under focused, are we balanced or are we focused or maybe a little over focused, your sports position and awareness on number seven, are you engaged? That means being fully present. Whether it doesn't matter if your coach is talking to you in the dressing room and explaining a drill or one of your teammates could be on the bench talking to you about a play. Are you in the moment? And we teach that within our core state that you will definitely, hopefully listen to because it's a big part of this program which teaches you mindfulness. What means being in the moment. Okay, we're going to look at number eight. You're planning focus on your future in sports or do you see yourself in sports? If you don't see yourself in sports that you're in the yellow, I don't see myself playing, which is okay. But if you're somebody that wants to do well within your your sport, you might want to play high school sports or college or maybe even professional. Maybe you're a pro already and you're looking at this and you're using this on how we could improve as a professional athlete. Doesn't matter what level you are, but you look at those three bars again and you use that as a guide to help you. And again we're going to give you tools to help you. The next thing I want to talk about is your soft skills on the next page. So on page five we're going to talk about your soft skills. So we go into like are you coachable? And you look at the graphs. It doesn't really show the graph, but you look at the graph score of 8.4, and if you're an 8.4, it means you're coachable. If you're in the fours or fives or sixes, maybe you're not coachable. And how do we become more coachable? Do we need to listen more? What do we have to do? Competitive fire, number 10. This is on page five. Again, let's say it's a high score. So that means you have that competitive fire in that drive. If you have a low score, that's something that needs to be addressed and we address it. That's what tools are for. That's what sports is all about. All of us make mistakes in our athletic careers. The best players in the world, Derek Jeter, when he was a top shortstop in baseball, made mistakes. Everybody made mistakes. LeBron James made many mistakes. Playing the best players on the planet, it's a game of mistakes. Sometimes that's how you capitalize on mistakes. And that goes into number 11, concentration. Do you concentrate or is your head wandering when you're playing? Are you fully in the moment? Are you concentrating on what you need to do? If you're a hockey player and you're taking a face off, are you really ready? Are you ready when that puck drops? If you're a baseball player, are you getting ready to make something happen? When you're in the batter's box, it doesn't matter what sport it is, it could be pickleball being game ready. Remember, as a very young kid, I remember my coach used to say, are you game ready? Your knees are bent, your head is up, your back is straight. Whether, if it's in baseball or whatever you're doing, you're, you're concentrating. Consistency is so important at number 12. So we look at the scores again, if we're in the fours, we really need to address that. Four fives and sixes, sevens were balanced. Eight means, boy, I'm focused. Nine means I'm consistent. It means so much to me. And you may be putting a lot of pressure on yourself. So sometimes you can be a nine. And I know it might sound a little confusing, but that means you could be so over focused on it that you're trying to be consistent. And again, sports is about consistency. That's one thing obviously that you look for, but you don't want to put a lot of pressure on yourself doing it. Decision making, ability, driving for results and focus. If you look at those, you look at those same things. Those scores are really important. And especially again, I'm going to go through these again. It sounds redundant, but I really want you to understand your assessment. So going through this, if you're in the fours or fives or sixes, we're going to address it and we're going to use these tools to help you. And even if you're in an eight, you want to get better, you work on those skills. Sometimes they say you work on something you're really good at. And I'll share some stories, you'll hear some stories within some of these reports that we're doing. I'm going to go into some stories as well for you at a different time. Following directions. Do you follow directions? Do you listen to the coach? The coach could have the whiteboard out. We used to have something called drill busters. So it's always somebody maybe going the wrong way. And if you're one of those players, you really have to focus and think about it. Maybe write down the drill. Maybe if you're in the four O's or fives or 4.6 or 5.8 and okay, I gotta follow. If I'm like six, okay, we're getting close. How can I get to really focusing on following directions? Game intelligent goal achievement and growth mindset are extremely important. So when you have that growth mindset, you're open to learn. And if you're in the lower numbers or if it's really low, if you're in the four O's or fives or sixes, we have to, okay, how are we going to work on becoming. Having more of a growth mindset, maintaining control and composure, mental toughness and optimism. Same thing. You look at your scores. Four, five sixes, sevens. We're getting pretty good. We keep going higher. That's great. I always believe also people say, well, this person's not mentally tough. Mental toughness can be learned. So I want you to remember here doesn't mean if you're a 4.0, we can learn it. We could teach ourselves a little bit how to be mentally tough and use tools that I'm going to provide for you as part of this program that you could use to help you. Optimism isn't is important. You could feel good, have a great game. The next day you're not doing well and all of a sudden you're talking to yourself like, I'm not that good anymore. If you're in the fours, you could be, you know, very negative. But we're going to work towards being more positive. 5, 6 is too I start to get, get concerned and you could be in like in your. If you're balanced in the middle, like a 7, 7.2, 3, 4, 5, right around there, that that means it could be either way sometimes. So sometimes you could be extremely balanced. But also you can get negative as well. Again, this is just a tool and it's not a crystal ball. So if you say, well, that's not me, and it says this again, this is a tool we use to help you get ready to play. Personal accountability, confidence, self discipline, self motivation. You look at your scores and if we need to work on those, we will. And everything is confidential. So I'm going to tell you at the very end how to get in touch with me so I can lead you to improve in these areas. Please listen to the course as it's extremely important that you listen to the complete audio of all the courses and you listen to all of these all audios and you utilize me especially as like an accountability coach to help you, to help you through these. A couple other things like being a team player and withstanding pressure, that's all part of leadership. You're going to learn about what it is to be a true leader. Sometimes you may be very low at a 5.0 doesn't mean you're a terrible team player. It means maybe certain areas you need to think more of your team. There's an old expression from years ago and they used to say if the name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back. And I never believed that because you're important as well, but you still put your teammates first. It's those players that are willing to do the extra mile for their teammate. And I could tell you many stories. I've talked to professional scouts and college scouts and baseball, a lot of baseball, actually a lot of different professional baseball people I've worked with as well as many hockey, different sports players that went to the Super Bowl a few times and asked them how they did it and they were a team player by making their top stars playing harder, by being tougher on them in practice, not running them over. And that's still a team player. So there's a lot of ways that you can become a team player. And again, we're going to help you with the tools to do that. Withstanding pressure is another thing that we could talk about as well. You know, within some of your soft skills. Now, if you look at your scores, highest to lowest, I don't have to go through every single one. Your highest score could be being a team player or being self confident. Whatever it is, that's great. You still work on it to be the best. You might have a very low score of relationship with coaches and teammates. Okay, so you're going to work on that. I teach people. Are you interested or are you interesting? If you're interested, you're interested in your teammates, you're interested in your coach. Now you're not there to be the coach's friends and he's not there to be your friend. But you have to be interested and you can't make it all about you. That's one thing that bothered me when I sometimes see. I'm never going to say players names. I was watching a football game and a football player made a great play and he kept pointing at himself to me. It totally turned me off. I didn't even really know who the football player is at the time but. Or was I. But the point is it's, it's, it's. We're going to utilize this to help you. So if you look at your scores and if you're in the nines, boy, that's strong in the eights. But if you're really low and there's something that could be holding you back, we're going to work on that. We're going to provide you with the tools to succeed. That's my job here. So now if you. We talked about this earlier, early on you could read through your assessment again to get a better understanding of it. We talked about like go to page seven in the world view at this time. You should know that's the external view. Remember we talked about sports perception and reasoning. And you look at your score. If you're in the green, okay, it's pretty strong. That's a high score indicates you make good decisions based upon your coaches and systems, you value your teammates. If it's a low score, we need to work on it, that's all. If you're balanced in the middle and it's a moderate score, that's great. I'm going to go through some of these with you now again if you go to page eight, relationship with coaches and I've seen a lot of these where it's over focused. They put so much attention on trying to be liked. Even you don't need to do that. You have to be yourself. So some of the. I'm giving you some tips now that I believe that could help you. A high score indicates that you value people. You like to be involved with people, even officials, which is a Strong score. Furthermore, you have a tendency to over focus on the negative aspects of people. So if they do a little something or bend the rules, you're one to really look at them. Which I'm not saying that's good or bad, but that's how you value things. This is a sign of a good leader, but you have to be open. And again, we're going to provide you with tools to understand this more. Practicing playing and winning hard, given 100% to me is, is so, so important. Doesn't matter if you are the, there's a team of 20 and there's the top player and you're number 20, it doesn't matter. You can only go up and get better. High score indicates that you value in getting things done. If you're going to be negative, you're going to be way to the left. Now you don't care it's under focus, it's not important. But you should want to be able to play hard. And I use this example a lot. Sometimes we only have like 50%. We might have a cold, might be tired, a lot of homework. Whatever it is, you still have to give a hundred percent of that 50% you have, if that makes sense. Some people say, wait a sec, I have to think about that. You still give 100% of everything you have and that's going to help you fight through it. And you do it smart too. It's not just like, okay, I'm going to go through a wall every time. There's times, of course, in different sports that you can't do that. But you're doing everything you can. You're using these tools to help you get ready to play so you can be on your game. The next page here is respect for authority. To me that's so important. That's all about values. So if you're off way to the left, we need to work on that. If you're in the middle, you're balanced. But if you're way even to the right, it means a lot to you. I always say it's the hardest thing to do, is officiate a game. They can't get everything right. It's not perfect. That doesn't mean you should scream and yell at them. And your coaches should definitely not do that as well. But we can't control that. We can only control what we do. And it's important that you show respect for your officials and even your coaches. You might not agree with your coach. You may not like your coach, but when you're there, you have to do whatever you can do to what the coach is telling you, or if the official makes a bad call, you're gonna say, okay, just move on. And that's what we learned. We learned this through even some of the meditation that we do. So a lot of what we do in practice, using these different tools that I'm going to provide for you, believe it or not, you apply it to even these situations. I remember when I was young, a good example, I had a coach scream and yell at me and I was upset. And if I would have known what I know today, I would have said, boy, what I got to do is take some deep breaths, close my eyes, do about two minutes or three minutes of some imagery, you, and get back to what I need to do. We call that like a reset. You take a bad penalty the first minute of a hockey game or you swing at a ball that's way out of the strike zone and you strike out. Okay, time to reset. Time to get ready to play again. It's not the end of the world. Now we're going to go into the self view and you should know that's the internal view, the intrinsic view view. We talk about your self perception as an athlete. Do you see yourself as an athlete? Well, if it's way in the yellow, you feel you haven't arrived yet, doesn't mean you don't think you're an athlete, but you haven't arrived. And if you're in the eights or the nines, you feel you're arrived. Now sometimes if you're way off the chart, if you're way in the high nines, you might be a little bit on the cocky, confident side, which isn't always good as well. So I know it's a bit deceiving hearing this, reading these reports and again, we're here to help you and provide you with the right tools. But if you have a high score, you have a very clear understanding what it means to value your role on the team or whatever it may be. We're going to go into the next page and we're going to talk about self esteem and personal value. Again, use that, that chart. Yellow, blue, green. And if it's a high score, you enjoy valuing what you do. Self esteem, it's important. And high score indicates you have a clearly understanding of your own personal value and have a high level of self esteem. So that's important. If we have a low self esteem, which we may at times in sports, how are we going to address that? And that's what the course is there to help you with. I'm here to help you which I'll explain how I'm going to do that at the end. And then you apply these things to your game. Sports, position and awareness. Again on the intrinsic side, the internal side. If you look at the, look at the graph again, yellow, blue, green. It's the same thing I've been sharing with you this whole time. And we're going to look at your. Do you see yourself with your future in sports? And that's on page 13. Again, yellow, blue, green. High score indicates you have a really good understanding of where you want to go. A low score says you feel you haven't arrived even or you don't feel good. You don't see yourself. I can't. I don't see myself making the, the high school team. I don't see myself playing college. I don't see myself as a pro. I don't see myself making the travel team. I don't see myself as a weekend warrior competing in this race. And you're going to learn how to counter these with good self talk. So going into the combined views which measures the world view and the self view, it's the same thing again I'm going to even go through these quick so you can see a coachability. This is on the intrinsic and extrinsic side. You look at that competitive fire. Where are you with both of them blended together. That's what it means. So you look at both the, the intrinsic and the extrinsic together. Sometimes we're good on the external side. So that means boy, on the external side I look like I'm happy and everything else but on the intrinsic side I'm hurting, I'm frustrated, I'm not confident and there's a lot of players that do that. They look really strong on the one side but they're really not. I don't like the word faking it but they're hiding it. So then we go into the concentration level on both the worldview and self view consistence for reliability and performance, decision making. It's all the same. It's all the same how you rate these, the intrinsic and the extrinsic. And I'm gonna be here to answer your questions for you. Are you driven for results? And we look at the overall score. This is on page 16. Your focus, following directions and where do you see it? Where is it rated? So you might have been really good on the intrinsic side but not so much on the extrinsic side or the Worldview and not so much on the self view, but these are just the combined views to help you. And again, that's what we're here for and we use tools to do it and self coaching. And I'll tell you at the very end why self coaching to me is so important. And you're going to utilize these tools and utilize me, of course. Game intelligence, goal achievement, reaching our goals. You're going to learn about the different goals, especially in the course. But you look in the internal side, the external side, the worldview, the self view again, going through these again, your growth mindset, maintaining control and composure. The growth mindset, again, is very important. We want to learn. I learn from people all the time. Just doesn't mean sometimes we look at somebody, oh, just because they didn't play professional, that means they can't coach me. They didn't make it. I've had coaches that didn't even know how to skate well. I played for the most winningest coach as a professional athlete, Scotty Bowman. He wasn't the biggest player, but he had one of the best minds. He wasn't, I'm sure when he played, I don't even know what kind of a hockey player he was, but, boy, did he really understand the game. And I'll share a quick story and this is something I want to share with you. He used to say, there's four games being played. I would say, what four games? That's kind of confusing. Yes. There's the games that the fans see and they're watching something and they're not really as educated as you think they should be. They might be yelling, come on, shoot, shoot. And at that time, maybe it's not the right play. And then there's a game that the player sees right, and the player thinks he should be playing. How come I'm not playing every shift? I'm more than a support player. I should be doing this, I should be doing that. I'm a better quarterback. You look at all these different situations and I'm sure you could do your research and find a lot of stories about a lot of professional athletes that didn't play as much or didn't make their high school team, they didn't make their college team, they ended up doing well, but they still in their mind thought they were better. Which that's confident. But sometimes you have to be realistic. And then there's the game that the coaches see and they're watching the game from the playing level. And what Scotty Bowman meant, he goes, I see everything. Above. So he would watch like all different games, four games. So he would see the players point of view, he would see the coach's point of view, he would see the fans and he had the point of view where he analyzed everything. And I thought that was a very ingenious statement. Mental toughness. I said it could be learned earlier on the worldview and self view on page 19. Optimism, how important that is as well on the worldview and self view. Again, you can go through all of these. This is what we're here for. Personal accountability. You have to hold yourself accountable. That's why self coaching is so important to me. You're self coaching yourself. You can't have a coach holding your hand or a performance coach or anybody holding your hand all the time. You have to be personal accountable. And we look at these scores and you may be able to keep yourself personally accountable. If you can't, then you take a little responsibility. And then we also use some tools to help you. Self confidence. And how do we get confidence? Sure, if you play and you make a big home run first at bat or you get a walk off home run, maybe the night before you score a big goal in soccer, make some a great basket or make a great playing pickleball, whatever it is, you're confident. But how do you come back? That's where we're learning. Consistency. You're going to learn that within what we're doing. Please listen to the entire course as it's going to help you as well as the ongoing support you're going to get from these audios. Let's go now to page 21. Self discipline, self motivation. Again, that's why I believe in self coaching. You have to take care of yourself. If you can't manage yourself at times, how are you going to do anything else? So you have to work on that. Now, I do believe in performance coaching. I believe in sports psychology. I believe in a lot of things. I believe in personal development. But you have to hold yourself accountable. And if you want to get better, this is for the betterment of you. You have to do these littlest things and details for you to get ahead as an athlete. That's one thing I could share with you. It's not the most talented player, it's not the fastest, the biggest, the strongest. We talk about being consistent and using a lot of these tools which I'm going to provide for you as well as I call this an application, the assessments and application. That's why we call it the Healthy Mindset app, because this is an application and a process that we use going through here on page 22, the team player. If you're strong in both areas, the worldview and self view, that's great. But that doesn't mean you could yell at your teammate one night because words will never be taken back. So. So if I'm going to give you any tips at all, be careful what you say because people will remember for a long time. So being a team player doesn't mean being fake. You're sitting on the bench, you're not playing. Come on, guys, let's go, let's go. And you're doing it. Be authentic and be real. Sometimes the best leaders that I've seen are the ones that didn't say too much, but spoke when it was important. I didn't want to get into too many stories here, but I played with Mark Messier, one of the greatest people I've ever met in my life to this day. The most disciplined, well spoken, caring individual. I could tell you 10 hours of things he did for players that got called up. But he was the ultimate team player. He did everything, but he was extremely quiet and we knew if he said something, it really meant something. So without getting too deep, he was always a hero of mine. He was an idol of mine when I was a kid. So to play with him was a dream come true and to win a championship with him and watch how we did it. But everything was a team player. And I could probably name another 20 players who I played with that stick out of my mind that have done the same thing. But again, this is to teach you so be authentic, be real. Withstanding pressure. And how do you do it? Sometimes it's tough. I'll be the first to admit I put a lot of pressure on myself at times. As an athlete, it's possible that you done the same things. So if you're way off to the. Even if it's a real high score, that doesn't mean you don't put pressure on yourself. To me, on this one, I like to be balanced. Again, there's no such thing as a perfect scorecard. We want you balanced in the middle. So just going at the back, you don't really have to pay too much attention. On page 23, there's, there's a chart there and we don't need to go too deep into that. Talks a little bit about the, the worldview we talked about and we talked about different things and within the self view. And this is just a graph. And I could explain it to you again. This. I'm not too concerned about this. Now what you're going to do is you're going to use the website healthy mindset setapp.com and you can reach out to us at any time for any questions. There's a little icon in the corner of the page or in the area of the website where you can contact us and ask questions. And we're here to support you through your journey and we're looking forward to working with you. Now, if any of you, I'm going to stay on here and do just one more quick thing about self coaching just for a second. I really believe that you need to take care of yourself and make changes. That doesn't mean again, I don't. I've said this early, it doesn't mean we don't have a performance coach. I still coach. We help people. That's what we do. But most of the time you're going to be on your own. So you have to take these tools to utilize them to the best of your abilities that you can because a coach can stand by you all the time and hold your hand. Looking forward to learning more about you and I wish you all the best.

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