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Welcome back. We're going to do these short little mini series, I call them the little miniseries courses. And today we're going to talk about vision. And you may not like this, what I have to say, you know, but the first thing before we start, of course, yes, you have to see yourself living your dreams. You do. Because if you don't see it, nobody else will. We've heard all these lines, right, like these cliches, the vision of doing it. You know, we're not going to get into imagery. You can go back and listen to many of our different podcasts on imagery. Sleeping, eating, doing all those things to have it to get there. But you still need that vision. You have to really believe in yourself. But the thing that I'm learning today is I work with a lot of people. I work with the athlete and the business athlete. So this is for both of you. Everybody wants immediate satisfaction. I want it today. But sometimes it takes a while, takes a while to get there. I use a lot of sports analogies because we have lots of athletes. Of course I'm going to use hockey because I've lived it for many years at the highest level. I've been there. But the vision is like I just read recently that a New York player, his last name is Greco, I don't know much about him. I believe he played about six or seven years in the minors from Queens, New York, I believe. I have to go back and look. I just read this yesterday and he got called up to play a couple players, had Covid. He's been in the minors for a long time. I think he was with Tampa and a few other organizations. And it's a great story. But the great story about it was the point that his father was a fireman in 911 and did not survive 911 and his father was a big Ranger fan and put his son in the hockey uniform, the Ranger uniform, as a kid. But this player, I don't know, can't speak for him. But he had to have that vision. I could guarantee it. I would bet if he played for the New York Rangers and he was out there, he saw himself playing for the New York Rangers. Never talked to him. Don't know him. Yes, we're based on assumptions, but I would have to bet that's the case. And I did read a little bit about him, like it was a big thrill for his family for him to play his first game. I believe it was in San Jose. I hope he gets a game in the garden by the time this is out. But my point is that the vision. Having the vision to do things. I met with a guy named Sheldon Yellen. Now, some of you may have known me. He's the owner of Belfor, one of the largest, I think. I don't know if they're Fortune 50 company in the world, but his son went to my hockey school back in the day. We went out for coffee, and he told me he's going to build one of the biggest businesses in the world. Well, he did. Anytime there's a hurricane, fire, flood, they respond. Helicopter fly to these places. Really just a really good guy. Really a giving individual. And I remember sitting with Sheldon, and he was on Undercover Boss, that show. And I saw him, and I think he was one of the few people that broke down. And I think he started crying because he saw one of his workers unhappy about something, and he didn't like it, but he didn't care. He stepped in and said, you know what? I don't care. I don't believe in this. And he kind of. Not that he messed up the show, but the whole purpose of Undercover Boss is not revealing your identity. But Sheldon was that type of guy and just a fantastic guy, a good person. But he had the vision. I don't remember his education. I don't think it was as high as somebody going to Harvard. I'm not sure he even finished college. But I just remember him having that vision. And everybody that I've talked to that has the vision ends up that made it. They took steps to get there. The purpose I told you about the hockey player. Yes. It's a really amazing story about his dad. But think about this. It took him years to do it. Sheldon did not build his company overnight. Vision. Having that vision, going through steps. And I don't want to say names because I don't throw stones. Want to throw stones. To me, it's not important, but I know somebody. And she's always trying to get ahead. She has this dream, and I don't want to give it away because I know she has this dream. She says, I'm going to do so and so. But what she's not realizing is I call it the champion mindset. You have to Go through adversity, you have to go through the ups and downs. You have to go through the struggles. One of my good friends said it. Every good story has a struggle. I'll give it. Bob Langley. Lived with him when I was 16 years old. Was a coach, one of the smartest guys I know. I mean, the guy writes poetry. And I think he's got a grade 12 education. And people ask them all the time, they say, hey, Bob, where did you get your PhD from? He says, I didn't, but he reads a lot of books. But a very smart guy. Anyways, where are we going with this? But the thing is that it's so, so important to have the vision, but also the sacrifice, the drive. If you listen to one of our podcasts, we had Andy on our show. He was the big NASCAR guy. So go back and listen. Listen to Andy. Got the long name, Papa Thomasiu. Yeah, I gotta write that down. And that's a mouthful name. But listen to Andy. Andy, what he did was he wanted to help and be a part of nascar. He was a college football player that went to Stanford, and he did everything he could to get in to nascar. I don't want to. You can go listen to his story. The point is, you have to sacrifice. It's not instant. It just doesn't happen. I see that a lot with our younger people today. It's instant gratification. I have to do it now. One thing that frustrates me a lot, too, is we're going to talk about this athlete thing here is not only instant gratification. It's like they're always thinking about next year. Okay, next year I'm going to play here. Then they're going to say, next year, I'm going to go there. And then the following year is college. Let's focus on today. It's the same with businesses. I walked into this dental group here in Charlotte. I wouldn't say names, and I. I'm listening to the same thing. I can't even believe everybody wants this. I want to sell my company now. I want to sell my dental practice now. They haven't had it that long. It's okay to have the vision to do it, but everybody wants. Not everybody. A lot of people want that instant gratification. And I'm going to tell you, there's nothing that's easy. It's not easy to do it. It's not. You have to go through the steps and you can listen from the beginning. I mean, if you're starting here and you're Just listening to now go back. You go to Hartman Academy, go to the website or listen on the podcast to the first thing where we talk about assessing yourself or taking an assessment. Totally free here. We're not going to. I love the assessment. You take an assessment and it's going to give you a roadmap of where you are. The second thing is having a plan, putting that plan together in your life, then creating habits. All of these good things to get you to where you want to be. But I can almost promise you I'm almost 99.99% sure if you don't follow certain steps, you will not live your dreams. You will not. If you're chasing the dollar or you want to make it to be a pro athlete or you want instant gratification with your business. I want to be a coach and I want to make six figures right away. Most likely it's not going to happen. You have to go through steps. The other thing too that I'm noticing with the vision is keep sometimes a lot of your thoughts to yourself. Social media is a big platform. So many of them Instagram, you have Facebook and Twitter and people are sharing their wow, somebody just talked to me from so and so company and hey, a team just approached me. Keep it to yourself. The best athletes in the world that I knew were quiet. They didn't speak a lot, they didn't talk a lot. This isn't a two hour podcast where we're going to blab on and on and on about nothing. And a lot of people that do that, they've never made it themselves. A lot of people fake it. I'm going to sell you. They fake it till they make it and they'll teach you that. Fake it, fake it, fake it. Hey, I ran this marathon, I did this. But I'm a big, I mean, quit faking it. Be real, Be real within yourself. So it's very important there to have that vision. See yourself living your dreams, but follow a plan. It doesn't have to be the Hartman Academy plan or the Mike Hartman plan. Find a coach, find a mentor, find something, find. But you have to follow that steps. You could have all the dreams you want, but if you don't follow the steps and if you want immediate gratification, you're going to find yourself sinking. You're going to be like in quicksand. And before you know it, one year is going to go by, oh my gosh, another year is going to go before you know it, hey, five years and you still have that same vision. And you're in the same place because you're not having that champion mindset. So have the vision. Have the champion mindset. I would love to help you. You go to our site Hartman Academy. Just listen to the audios that are there. They're short purposes why we're doing this. You'll see them there. Click on the tab at the top of the page. You'll see the business athlete. You'll see the e Learning healthy mindset athletes and that's for the for the people that play sports. Love to help you go to the site and hopefully your vision is you being that champion and having that champion mindset.

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