Self Assessment

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I want to thank you for listening to the Mike Hartman Show. This is Mike Hartman, the founder of Hartman Academy and the book Healthy Mindset. It's a workbook for the workplace athlete. So today we're going to talk about assessing yourself and why it's important to assess yourself. Now, yes, we do have an assessment that's part of our app program on our website where we coach people via the app. This is not what I'm talking about. We use a targeted assessment. I've been using assessments for 17 years and people should understand is the assessment that we use as a tool. That's all it is. It's just a tool to give a baseline of where you are. And it gives a pretty good baseline of where we are. But what we're going to talk about today is assessing yourself, whether you're the athlete or the workplace athlete. Let's talk about the athlete first. I was told by this great hockey man, I've mentioned his name before, named Jimmy Devilano. He was the president, general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. Wings helped them win many Stanley Cups, I think three, as well as the New York Islanders, where he won four with them. So I think he has seven Stanley Cups. He ended up being president and general manager of the Red Wings. And he said to me when I met with him at a young age, he says, no matter what sport it is, you have to assess yourself. You have to do the littlest things every day after you assess yourself. So if you missed a training session or you missed, you're not fully feeling 100% or no matter what it is, how can you get better every day? Being consistent is the number one thing that a professional athlete needs to do. And it trickles down to also being an amateur athlete. I don't care if you're a weekend warrior. It's very important that you assess yourself. You figure out what you need to do that's working, how to manage things into what I call is things that are manageable, breaking things down. Because we can't just work on, you know, let's say you want to work on your shot, your, your wrist shot as a hockey player, and you just can't shoot. Shoot Shoot. You have to shoot for a purpose. Shoot for a target. Shoot the puck without puck handling two or three times first, getting it off your stick fast. Let's say you're a baseball player and you want to on your swing, you get in the batting cage, right? You're going to work on your swing. Now, you don't want to stay in there too long, because what could happen is you could develop bad habits. So you have to do it smart. You can't go in the cage for four straight hours because what's going to happen is your body's going to get tired and we're down. This is where the smarts come in. When you assess yourself, assessing yourself is getting better each and every month. What you want to do is you want to focus on things that are important. That's going to serve you and help you reach your goals, make it achievable. These goals have to be achievable. Create things that work, like we call them systems. Put systems in place that are going to work for you and you want to get better. Like Jimmy Devilano said, every month you want to get a little bit better. I've heard people say you want to get 1% better, you want to get 5%. I'm not even going to put a number to it. It's assessing yourself to get better. Again, we're not going to talk about the assessment that we use. We use that assessment as a tool for a baseline. This is more of looking yourself in the mirror and saying, what can I do to get better? If you had a bad practice or a bad game, what are you going to do to make it better next time? What are you going to bring in that's going to make a difference within what you do? Sometimes we say it's the little things and details. A lot of people, well, what is that? Doing the littlest things that could be doing things differently. You're a hockey player. Instead of just flying by the net where there's a rebound, you're stopping in front, getting better, doing these things to assess yourself. Same within the workplace. Now, the workplace is a little bit different. You work for a company, your employee, you're an executive. It doesn't matter. We have your own business. You work from home, you work at the office. It doesn't matter. Now, how do we get better? I'm going to assess myself. I'm going to work on my sleep. That's where I call the workplace. Athlete comes in. I want to avoid burnout. How am I going to do that? I'm going to take little breaks in the afternoon. I'm going to put a healthy meal into my body so I'm not feeling like I'm going to fall asleep at 1 o' clock in the afternoon. I'm going to assess myself. Did I have cake the day before? There could be brownies in the boardroom or, you know, are you going to be more disciplined? And all you do is you make these little changes and I call them. You can minimalize things too. You make it that things are achievable. You write down your little goals. Now, this all starts when you're assessing yourself. I really believe the first thing you want to do is you want to get a journal, Spend a little bit of money on yourself and you want to journal the date. Things that you did throughout the afternoon, things you need, things you did well, things you need to improve on. Then I want you to go back and you can reflect on that and look at things. You know, you could list things that, okay, what am I doing that's mindful? I'm going to make a list of five things that I'm going to do in my life that I'm mindful or even that I'm grateful for. You could do that as well. List things, Write things down that, okay, what am I proud of? What did I do well today? What can I get better at? Make three things that I've done well today. And what three things could I have been better at? And don't be so hard on yourself. Sometimes we're a little bit harder on ourself than we need to be. Am I thinking about the past? Write three things down of how you're going to overcome things that you did. Maybe many years ago. Then I would write three things down that, okay, this is how I'm going to overcome them. And these are ways that you could work on yourself. Call that the self assessment. And part of being, what I say is part of being, having that healthy mind. And everything that you're doing is managing yourself. You have to take care of yourself. I've gone into so many things in the past where we're talking about, you know, your sleep and recovery. Yeah, those are all the tools I'm giving you. But if you don't take these challenges, then nobody else will. It's got to come from you. So these are some of these things that I believe that you could work on here. Do a little bit of a self assessment journal. Journaling is so good for you. It has saved me in so many ways. It helped me in Sports as a young athlete many years ago, not so young. And it's also helped me in my business life being organized. I organize these podcasts, believe it or not, they're organized. I write down, okay, so this month we're going to do a lot of interviews so you might see that in July we're going to do all meditation for people so they have that. I want to help you and give you as many tools as possible that you can live your best life, either the athlete or the workplace athlete. I want to thank all of those who did purchase the book. We're getting a lot of emails and a lot of good responses. I want to thank you for the support that you give to us here and there's anything I could ever do to help you, please let me know. Again, it's the Healthy Mindset. It's a workbook for athletes and the workplace athletes. You could use it as a workbook to just help you. I'm even willing to help you go through the book. I could help you through it if you get this and you tell me, you send me a message that you bought the book and I can give you some other references right on the homepage of our website. Actually there's a little icon at the bottom and you can say, hey Mike, I bought the book. I'm not very clear on this. We love that. We'd love to help you. That's the who purpose of why we do what we do. And again, I'm, I'm happy to, to move forward and help you. Thanks everybody for, for being a part of this. It helps out so much. And if anybody's interested in the going to the Hartman Dot Academy, you could see our whole program, our accountability program. We're looking forward to leading you through that. We're going to continue to do these little 10 minutes, probably about nine to 10 minute little episodes, giving you tips and tools to help you become your professional best and even your personal best.

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