[00:00] Are the level of your thoughts in alignment with what you want to accomplish? In other words, are the thoughts that you’re having, the deep seated unconscious beliefs, are they the same thoughts that a person who has accomplished what you want to achieve would be thinking? Welcome to another episode of Success for the Athletic-Minded Man, real talk on harnessing your athletic drive for clarity, consistency, and focus in business and life.

[00:29] This is your host, Jim Harshaw, Jr. And today I’m bringing you a solo episode. We’re talking about your mindset, like, listen, mindset work is underrated. And what I want to give you today is a little bit of why I believe that, and then. More about the tactical, what do I do about this? Because we know that confidence is important, but how do we build that confidence?

[00:51] How do we get over our imposter syndrome or the glass ceiling that we feel like we’re running into in life because we’re working so hard and not really seeing the results? How do we break through that? Well, it starts in between your ears. We’ve heard this stuff over and over throughout our lives, but it just kind of blends into.

[01:13] The background, right? It, it’s become white noise because we’ve heard these quotes throughout our lives, and what I wanna do today is give you some real understanding of these cliches and why they’re actually more meaningful than you realize and what to actually do about it. Now, I’ve worked with.

[01:29] Hundreds of men over the past decade who have said things to me like this. This is what a guy told me, just a couple actually, yesterday, uh, less than 24 hours ago, he said, it’s like my life has been turbocharged. Steve Jobs created things that people didn’t even know they needed. That’s what you’ve done with re reveal your path.

[01:46] That was one of my clients named Ben. He just told me that I just finished my program. Um, another one named Andrew. He said, I’m going for things way beyond the stratosphere now, beyond even my 10 x goals. Another guy named Tim, he said, I’ve already achieved some of the goals that I’ve originally set, and now I’ve set new, even bigger ones, and this is Tim.

[02:05] This is the kind of work that I do with guys. I’ve done this with hundreds of men over the past decade, and this stuff is going to work for you too. So my promise to you is by the end of this episode, you’re gonna have practical, tactical, actionable, implementable tactics that you can use to boost your mindset, to gain confidence, to put down your fear of failure, to move past the self-doubt that you have.

[02:30] And start to really achieve the goals and the dreams and the hopes and the wishes that you’ve had in your life. Actually, I was at a F three workout this morning and, and the guy who led the workout shared a message at the end about not letting go of your goals and your hopes and your dreams and the things that, that have been kind of covered up by the busyness of life.

[02:48] And he actually. Pretty choked up more than choked up sharing this. And he’s in his early fifties and, and he knows that he has these goals and these dreams that have been put on a shelf. And if you do too, this episode is going to unlock you. And so my plan here is to share with you some background and some reasoning into why.

[03:10] So you have a true understanding of the importance of, of mindset in creating the life that you want. And then I’m gonna give you the how, right? So we’re gonna start with the why, then we’re gonna get into the how. I have eight specific tactics that I’m gonna share with you. So let’s get into it. Since you were a child, you’ve been hearing cliches like this.

[03:27] I’ve got a handful I’m gonna read to you. I’m gonna, it’s like six or seven of ’em. I’m gonna read to you right now, and you’ve heard these before, some version of these, right? First one, Theodore Roosevelt, president Roosevelt, believe you can. And you’re halfway there. Great quote, right? Believe you can. And you’re halfway there.

[03:41] Here’s another one. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. That one, at least where I’ve founded, has been attributed to Henry Ford. Who knows where that one came from. Um, you know, on the internet, a lot of these quotes kind of get blended into, you know, whoever they’re attributed to.

[03:56] Here’s another one. To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. You have to believe in yourself when no one else will. Sugar Ray Robinson. Here’s another one, Kobe, this is from Kobe. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will do it for you. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is gonna do it for you.

[04:14] Now again, that’s Kobe. Here’s one from Diane Sawyer. She said, whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it to believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. She went on to become obviously a, a, a world renowned journalist, and here’s the one and only the great.

[04:39] Hannah Montana. That’s right. I’m giving you a belief quote from Miley Cyrus. Now, Miley Cyrus, if you have young daughters like I do, a Hannah Montana has been on like replays like the, the soundtrack of your life, like it has been for, for mine for a long time. ’cause I have daughters who watched Hannah Montana grown up.

[04:56] Here’s what Miley Cyrus said, she said, by the way, Hannah Montana is Miley Cyrus. That’s her Miley’s, her real name. For the dads out there who, who don’t know who Miley Cyrus is, uh, or Hannah Montana is she said, if you believe in yourself, anything is possible. If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.

[05:11] Now, here’s the deal. You’ve been hearing this stuff your whole life. If you participated in sports, your coaches told you, you have to believe. You went to camps and clinics and read books, watched videos of all these amazing athletes. Who said you’ve gotta believe. You just have to believe. If you believe, then you’re halfway there.

[05:31] If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right. You’ve heard this stuff before and it’s white noise, and you’re going, okay, well, I believe, but I’m still not seeing the results. Well, here’s the deal. Here’s the difference. This is not about the external logical belief. We all know that amazing things are possible for you.

[05:54] It’s about the deep down, unconscious, subconscious beliefs that you’re carrying. There’s a difference. There’s a difference between the logical belief. Yes, I know that I could do the thing, I could, you know, win the, the championship or start the business or run the marathon or lose the weight or heal my marriage or make a million dollars or whatever that thing is for you.

[06:21] You know, logically it’s possible, but until you feel, and that’s the key, until you feel this deep down in your bones that it’s possible. It’s not going to happen for you. And that comes from doing the mindset work. And if you’re a man of faith, then you’ve been around this kind of stuff for a long time.

[06:39] Also, like again, this starts to become white. Noise and blends in the Bible is one of the greatest mindset books ever written. And, and here’s a few quotes from the Bible. Mark nine 20 says Everything is possible for one. Who believes everything is possible, for one who believes? Here’s another one. You’ve heard this one before.

[06:55] As a man thinks in his heart, so is he as a man, thinks in his heart, so is he. There’s a great book called As a Man Think of that’s Proverbs 23 7. Here’s my favorite quote, my favorite, uh, verse from the Bible, mark 1122. Check this out. This, this one’s crazy. If you actually read this and believe it in your bones, you will be unlocked in terms of your confidence and what you believe is possible and, and the actual results you start getting.

[07:25] Here it is have faith in God. Jesus answered truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea and does not doubt in their heart, but believes that what they say will happen. It will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received it and it will be yours.

[07:48] End quote. Believe that you have received it and it will be yours. I mean, this is Jesus talking. Believe that you’ve received, not believe you will receive it. Not hope that you’ll receive it, not not try to go get it and it will be yours. Not work really hard and it will be yours but believe. Believe you have received it and it will be yours.

[08:13] Listen, deep down, you know this is true. You know that there’s a difference between your logical belief and what is actually driving you. The fears, doubts, hesitations, uncertainty. That is deep down in your heart, there’s a difference. Imagine this. Imagine there are two identical track athletes, okay?

[08:33] Hypothetically, two identical track athletes. Same everything, same size, same training, same diet, same nutrition, same genetics, same everything. And they train for a year, and then there’s a one mile race and. It’s just these two. You line them up on the line and right before we’re about to pull the starting gun, I ask you, right?

[08:56] I tell you, I explained to you one of these guys has been doing mindset work and one of these has not. One of these guys is full of confidence, is saying, is saying the right things to himself. The other one is full of self-doubt. Which one are you gonna put your money on? Which one are you gonna put your money on?

[09:08] I mean, it’s, it’s a no brainer. A hundred times out of a hundred you’re going to put your money on the athlete. Doing the mindset work, you’re gonna put your money on the person who believes. So what about you? What is the delta between what is possible for you and what you could achieve? What is the delta between the thoughts that you’re having and the thoughts that the version of you who is achieving and accomplishing the goals that you want to achieve and accomplish is thinking?

[09:35] What’s the, do you know Bob Rotella? It was the author, Dr. Bob Rotella, is the author of that quote that I shared in the beginning. Are the level of your thoughts. In alignment with what you wanna accomplish. If they’re not, you’re not gonna get the same results. Yeah, you might be. Okay. You might, might do fairly well.

[09:52] I mean, this was me. You might be the guy who’s saying, yeah, but Jim, I’m grinding, I’m working hard. I’m waking up early, I’m staying late. I’m doing all the extra work. I’m, and
[10:00] this, this was me when I was wrestling. This was me grinding, working, showing up early, staying late. But I wasn’t getting the results until I started doing the mindset work.

[10:11] And listen, I even remember, I knew that mindset work was important. I remember reading a quote by a high school wrestling coach named Gusy Augustino, who was a legendary high school coach in Pennsylvania. Coach the number one. High school team in the country, north Allegheny High School, which was my neighboring school, and our, our rival, they smashed us every year.

[10:29] But I, I got to become friends with him and he used to let me come train in their room and, and whatnot. And, but he said one time, read, uh, an article in the paper, he said wrestling is, I think he said 80% mental, I was gonna say 90, but I think he’s at 80%. Mental resting is 80% mental. And what does he mean by that?

[10:45] I mean, you have to know the moves. You have to do the training. All like that’s table stakes. Listen hard work, listen, yeah, of course you gotta show up for practice. You gotta do the extra workouts, you gotta do the extra training, you gotta watch film, blah, blah, blah. On and on and on. We know that that’s table stakes.

[11:00] You gotta work, you gotta work hard, but you have to believe. If you don’t believe none of that other 20% matters. Right if, if it’s 80% mental, 20% physical, the 20% physical, that obviously we know that’s the bulk of the time and the energy and the sweat and the blood and all of that, that goes into being great at whatever you wanna be, great at, wrestling, sales, business, physical fitness, whatever it might be.

[11:29] You have to believe, and if you don’t, you’re not gonna get the same results. I remember there was a guy. When I was coaching, I was the assistant wrestling coach of Virginia, and there was a guy who outworked everyone on the team. It was amazing, uncanny, and I never really understood. I was in my younger twenties at the time and I didn’t understand mindset the way I understand it Now, this guy couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag.

[11:55] He could not win a wrestling match to save his life. It was, it was sad. It was sad. ’cause this guy. I mean, talk about, show up early, stay late, do all the, like, he worked so hard. But what I realize now is there was something deep inside of him that didn’t believe that he was worthy to win. He did the work.

[12:17] I mean, if you asked him if, if he thought he was working hard enough to win, if he thought he was gonna win, if he believed he was gonna, he would say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But it wasn’t that logical belief. It was the deep down, unconscious emotional work. That’s the work that he was missing and that is the work that you are missing to get to that next level.

[12:37] I don’t care what level you’re at right now, your next level is unlocked, not by working harder. Yes, you have to work hard and there there may be room for you to step it up too, but there has to be a level, has to be a level of belief deeper than skin deep that you have to build. And work on and train and practice and build habits and routines around in order for you to get there, wherever that there is for you.

[13:05] It’s a different mindset. Now, there was, uh, an Oprah Winfrey show. This is decades ago. Jim Carrey was on when Jim Carrey had just become a famous actor, and he talked about manifestation and mindset and belief and, and it’s somewhat of a famous story now, but he wa he actually wrote a check to himself.

[13:24] For $10 million for acting services rendered. This is before he was anybody. He was a broke nobody in Hollywood trying to find his way. And he wrote himself a $10 million check. It’s absurd. Like who would do that? Write himself a 10, $10 million check to Jim Carrey for acting for acting services rendered.

[13:42] And he had a date on it and he kept it in his wallet. And he would drive up Mulholland, drive up to overlooking Hollywood, and he would sit there and he would overlook Hollywood. And he’d take out that check and he’d look at the check and he’d hold it and he’d feel, create the feeling and the belief that this money was his.

[13:59] He would visualize, he would visualize himself acting in big movies and talking with, uh, big time directors and producers. He saw it. He was doing the mindset work. And I’ll be honest, if, if you asked me back then, like when he was, earlier in his, his acting career, if he, he was like one of the greatest actors in Hollywood of all time.

[14:18] Like, no, like, I mean really the guy was weird and. Goofy and I don’t know, but I mean, I think he’s developed into a, a, an amazing actor. But like, was he one of the greats? I don’t know, but he believed it and he made it happen. But in this, in this interview with Oprah, he said this, he said, you can. Do this work.

[14:42] You can’t write the check, drive up on Mulholland Drive, do the visualization. He’s like, you can’t do all that work and then just go sit down and have a sandwich. That’s the one thing I think if you were to go back and ask, if I could, if I could ask him a question, I’d be like, I would say, you’re not going to go sit down and eat a sandwich anyway, like you’re going to go do the work.

[15:00] If you believe you are that actor. You’re not gonna go sit on the couch and just kick your feet up and, and wait for things to happen. You’re going to do that work because that is who you are. That is who you become. That is the identity that you have. Um, in the, in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, he talks about this, he talks about identity.

[15:19] That is what we’re talking about here, is creating the identity, the internal belief, the identity of this is who I am, and then you will do the work. This is the difference between what I call hard work and inspired action. Hard work versus inspired action. The work that I do. For my business. I mean, people look at it and they say it’s hard work.

[15:40] You know, you’ve put out podcast episodes for over a decade. Uh, you built this thing, you know, on your lunch breaks and early in the morning and late in the evening, and when no one’s watching. And in the, the nooks and crannies of your life. I built this business when I was working full time. Was it hard work or was it inspired action?

[15:58] I don’t know. It’s not really, I don’t, I don’t really. Think it, it was hard work. It’s inspired action like, like when I run a Spartan race or run ran a marathon or the half marathons I’ve done like is it hard work inspired action? I don’t know. Maybe for some people it would feel like really hard work, but those things are inspired action for me.

[16:15] It’s part of my identity. It’s who I am and I’ll be honest. Some of this is naturally built into you. Like for me, the health and the fitness, that stuff, it’s built into me. It’s who I am. It’s, it’s who I’ve been since a child, and it comes naturally to me. So it really isn’t that hard for me to go do an absurdly hard work and to eat healthy and to train it.

[16:41] It is just part of my identity. Now, there are other things that are not part of my identity, like income, like, like being wealthy. That’s mindset work that I’ve had to do over the years. That’s not the environment I grew up in, and it’s not the, the beliefs that I grew up around and I’ve had to do work on that.

[17:01] And so there are gonna be areas of your life where some of this just comes naturally to you. It just happens. And there’s gonna be other areas where you’re going to have to do the work. There are, there are people who look at you and say, wow, if I could just be more like you, that would be amazing. And that’s great.

[17:18] So you’ve got some of that built in. There are other areas where you have to do. The mindset work. The belief. Okay, so that’s a little bit of background. Now I wanna give you eight mindset tactics, actionable tactics that you can do. And I’m gonna give you four that are sort of a a, I’m gonna call these a drip feed.

[17:34] The first four are gonna be a drip feed of tactics that you have to do. The next three are gonna be strategic, and the last one is gonna be something you can do in the moment, so snap you into a different place to get your mind right. Okay, so the first four drip feed, I’m gonna give you eight total.

[17:51] Again, listen, these are all gonna be in the action plan. Go to jimharshawjr.com/action, and you’ll get these emailed into your inbox every mon, every Monday that we publish an episode. You know, which is every other week you’re gonna get these dropped into your inbox, so it makes it easy for you. But if you want the action plan from this one, and by the way, every single other episode that I’ve done, over 500 episodes, you get the PDF action plan to every single one.

[18:15] You get access to every single one of those, just go to jimharshawjr.com/action there. So. Much great stuff in there from Tim Ferriss to Jack Canfield, to all these solo episodes I’ve done and interviews with Navy Seals and New York Times bestselling authors and Olympic gold medalist. You name it. On and on.

[18:34] There’s some amazing, amazing life changing stuff in there. Okay, here we go. Eight mindset tactics, including tactics that have worked and are working now for me. Alright, here’s the drip feed. First four drip feed. Number one success log. This is an activity that I actually provide for my clients who I feel like need this kind of work, which is, to be honest, most of them need this and I provided this and there’s the success log is this.

[19:02] You document all of the things, all the reasons you have. To believe in yourself. And that could be external things like other people who have achieved what you wanna achieve. That could be compliments you have received. And it could be degrees that you have, uh, a network that you have. It could be a, the drive, the work ethic that, that you have maybe prior achievements and accomplishments.

[19:26] You’re just gonna list them all, list them all onto what I call a success log. That’s the first part. If you just do that and then you review that once a week, that’s a good start. Here’s the real powerful medicine though. You take that document, you pick up your phone, hit the the voice memo and record a voice memo of you reading all of these, and you’re not just reading them kind of rotely, like you’re just reading a a script.

[19:53] You’re reading these, speaking to that little voice inside of you of doubt,
[20:00] not the logical one, because logically you know that you can ama achieve amazing things. It’s that little voice of self-doubt. Inside of you that is constantly saying, see, that’s why you can’t achieve it. And, and feeding that negativity and self-doubt that that is living inside of all of us.

[20:17] You read this success, log into that voice memo, and then you listen to it once a week. That is the success log. Listen, 99% of you listening to this right now are not going to do it, and 1% of you will. Hopefully that’s you and you’re going to get results because of this. You might not even see the results.

[20:38] You might not even notice the results, but they will happen and, and you, what’s gonna happen is this, over the next month to three months of doing this, if you were to do it. You will, if you’re in sales, your sales will go up. If you are working on losing weight, you will start losing weight. You’ll start being more consistent with your workouts.

[20:58] Whatever it is that you’re trying to, to achieve and accomplish, you will start, you will see the, the benefits, and you’re gonna, and you’re, you’re gonna forget. That it’s the success log. You’re gonna forget. It’s the mindset work. You’re gonna think, oh, well I just have been sort of approaching these calls a little bit differently.

[21:15] Or, you know, I, I’ve changed my morning routine and now I have time to work out. You’re gonna forget that. It’s the mindset that it’s creating the actions. I have a, a, a write up on my whiteboard on my wall. I wrote this. This is a just sort of the, the mindset work that I’ve been doing over the past, you know, three to six months, going a little bit deeper on this stuff.

[21:34] I, I came up with this quote, not even quote, just three words, belief, and then there’s an arrow, drive to behavior, and then an arrow to outcomes. Belief drives behavior. Behavior drives outcomes. Belief drives behavior, not just your routines or the action items or the to-do list. It’s the belief. That is where it starts.

[21:56] I believe that I can lose the 10 pounds, run the marathon, heal my marriage, grow my business, you know, make more sales, get that promotion, whatever it is for you. It starts with belief. The belief drives the behavior. Nothing else. Nothing else drives the behavior but the belief. You start with the belief.

[22:16] Okay, that’s the success log. That’s number one of eight. Now again, this, the first four of the drip feed. That drip feed is once a week. Success log. Here’s another one. This is a daily drip. Feed your mantra, having a mantra, positive words, affirmations, something you say to yourself that is the exact medicine, the exact words that you need to say to yourself.

[22:37] This is something we create in my coaching program. All my clients have a mantra that is customized, tailored to them. That alone changes you pivots. You adjust your mindset ever so slightly at the beginning of the day. If you adjust your mindset just a few degrees every day, that is compounding interest.

[23:00] If every day you are three to 5% more confident. Three to 5% more certain. You will do different things. You may even do the same things. Let’s, let’s say it’s, uh, sales calls, right? If you’re in sales or something like that, you may dial the same phone numbers or make the same calls, but how you go about those calls is going to be different.

[23:22] Your energy, your voice, how you react to objections and failure, it’s all gonna be different when you have. The right mindset when you’re saying your mantra. When you’re starting out that day with a, a better mindset, a stronger mindset, you will react differently and respond differently throughout the day.

[23:43] You’ll make more sales, you’ll make more money. Or whatever it is that you’re trying to accomplish, you’ll do better if you’re saying the right things, the right words to yourself every day. I have my mantra. I’ve had it for years and it works. Alright, next one. Number three, your vision statement. Now, a couple years ago at my retreat, my clients and I did this together.

[24:03] Pathfinder vision, we call it, and we have a personal and professional vision statement. What is the vision for your life like and speaking it out loud as if it has already happened. In the book, think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. He talks about the definite chief aim, right? It’s one statement. Uh, I break this into two, a personal and a professional.

[24:23] Now they overlap for sure, but I want to have that clarity of personal and professional and make sure we’re really working on both sides of the equation There. Of course, it’s one whole person. That’s really what we focus on in my coaching program anyway, but we have this personal and professional vision statement.

[24:38] You speak it out loud as if it’s already there, as if it’s already happened, and this is, uh, akin to visualization, but you’re creating the feeling inside of having achieved it. Okay. Just like Jim Carrey did whenever he. Overlook Mulholland Drive, holding his $10 million check. Okay, that’s the third one.

[24:56] Number one, success log. Number two, mantra number three, vision. Statement Number four is, again, this is the drip feed. This is the fourth of the drip feed is. Rereading the parts of the best parts of the best books that you’ve ever read, right? What are the books that you’ve read or or podcast episodes, maybe of mine that you’ve listened to that give you the inspiration?

[25:16] Maybe this is one. Maybe this is one you can bookmark and come back to save. Come back to it. Listen to it over and over. But you’re gonna reread the best parts of the books that lift you up. Now, when I was wrestling, there was a, a guy, there’s a guy named John Smith. He was the goat of wrestling when I was growing up, and he was the head wrestling coach at Oklahoma State.

[25:32] He won six world in Olympic gold medals, greatest American wrestler of all time. Up until recently, Jordan Burroughs broke that record and he had a, a, a low single, uh, tape. This VHS tape I, and whenever I would watch this tape, I would be really good at a low single for like three weeks. And then it would drift outta my repertoire and I would stop using it, but I would be really good at it for like three weeks.

[25:55] So I don’t, I don’t know why I didn’t watch it more often, but I would watch it like once or twice a season. But that wasn’t enough for me to actually do really well, just so I needed the consistent remind. I wasn’t doing the drip feed as consistently as I could have been. And that’s what I want you to do is you, you’ve read the books, right?

[26:12] I’m, I’m sitting right here on my desk. I’m looking at. The Magic of Thinking Big by Dr. David Schwartz. Jim Murphy’s Inner Excellence, by the way, just publish that episode. Go back and listen to that episode prior to this one, the Confident Mind by Nate Zinzer, who I’ve had on the podcast as well. He’s attended a couple of my retreats.

[26:28] He was the director of Performance at West Point. Fantastic, amazing books like Get a Drip Feed Going. Just read a few pages of these. Maybe it’s the Bible for you, like get a drip feed of these going on a regular basis every day. Definitely several days a week. Get a drip feed of this stuff going. So you are constantly reminding yourself how important mindset is, what are the beliefs that you want to have, what are the beliefs that you need to have, what are the words you need to say to yourself whenever failure strikes?

[26:55] So I had a failure a few days ago. I had a client, he was about to come on board. I thought for sure he was coming on board. I was like, man, we can help this guy. And he didn’t. And he actually chose a, a competitor. I’m like, man, like we are, like, we are so much better than this other guy. And you know why it felt bad for him, felt bad for me and.

[27:12] In the moment I was like feeling bad for myself. I was, you know, kind of in a, a, just not in a great mindset that day. ’cause I’d just come off a vacation and I knew I had the presence of mind to go, wait a second, Jim. I can see that negative, those negative self-talk creeping in there. Rise above it, say the right things.

[27:29] And I started saying the right thi right things in the call in the moment, started saying the right things. And by the time we hung up, I felt better about the whole situation. I said, listen, I gave the guy my blessing and, and I feel like he’s gonna come back to us because we can help him. But it was my mindset that I had to change in the moment, and you have to do the same thing.

[27:47] Right? Okay. Those are the first four. Drip feed success log mantra, Pathfinder vision, rereading the best parts of books. Those are the first four. Okay, number five. These are, this one’s strategic. These three are strategic. Five, six, and seven. Number five, get clarity. Clarity gives you confidence, clarity gives you peace of mind.

[28:06] That’s what you need. Confidence and peace of mind. Like if you have a plan, you’re going to be more confident. If you have a plan to execute versus drifting around, I’m not sure really what to work on, then you’re gonna work on a lot of things and be aimless and, and drift around whenever you have a clear target, a clear plan on where I’m going, long term, midterm and short term like today.

[28:31] You’ll be more confident. You’ll execute with a higher degree of confidence and certainty, and it’s hard to do that by yourself. Right. Get somebody outside of you. That’s what I’d recommend. And that, which leads me to the next one. That’s number six. This is get a mindset coach. Get a coach. Get somebody outside of you who can help you see your blind spots, help you understand your internal wiring, your default wiring so that you can overcome it, right?

[28:56] That’s six. Again, this, these are strategic ones, get clarity, and then the mindset coach is the next one. That’s five and six. And then number seven is get around others doing what you wanna achieve. This is the environment of excellence. They’re call this the environment of excellence. In my program, like when I trained at the Olympic Training Center, my standards all of the sudden went up, oh, this is the level of work ethic.

[29:20] This is the level, like these people are just normal people. They tie their wrestling shoes. These guys the same as I do, but they just believe at a different level. I can actually, I, I, I can see what they’re doing. I can see the techniques, I can see the training, like I can do all of that. I just need to believe and understand that what they’re chasing is possible for me too.

[29:43] Get around other people. It will change you in ways you won’t even see, but you will feel they will just be these internal unconscious changes that happen to you and for you. Alright, so again. I got one more
[30:00] here, right? So I’ll give you the first seven of the eight. So the first seven are number one, success log, number two, mantra number three, vision statements.

[30:07] Number four, rereading the best parts of books. Number five, get clarity. Number six, get a coach. Number seven, get around others who are achieving what you want. This is the environment of excellence. That’s number seven. Those are, those last three are strategic. Here’s the last one. This is in the moment.

[30:23] What can you do in the moment? To change your beliefs changing. Here’s the deal. Changing your beliefs is about changing how you feel. You have to change your state. For me, I do three burpees if I want to go from a certain level to a higher level. It just helps moving my body, getting my heart rate slightly up, changes my state, allows me to operate and feel.

[30:52] At a higher level, I also do things like I, I walk around my office and I speak out loud to myself, right? You, you, you see athletes doing this. I do this to myself as well to get myself into the right mindset. You may wanna do some deep breathing, you may wanna do a gnarly workout, you may want to do a 24 hour fast, right?

[31:09] These aren’t necessarily in the moment like, you know, you can do instantaneously, but these are short term fixes to changing your state, changing how you feel. Alright? So. Listen, I’ve worked with hundreds of guys on this stuff and I read you just a few quotes that those guys have said over the years to me, and, and, and those are all just recent ones.

[31:30] Like I can give you dozens more of those. I’ve worked with guys, I’ve seen the change. I’ve helped them make those changes, and I gave you the plan to do this as well. You had the plan, it’s in your hands. The question is, are you going to take action? Here’s two opportunities to take action. Number one, go to jim harsher jr.com/action.

[31:53] Get the action plan for this. Number two, if you wanna have a conversation with me about this, go to jim harsher jr.com/apply, and you can apply for a free one-time coaching call with me to unpack what I just shared here, how this would be relevant for you in your life. This goes back to what I shared earlier.

[32:14] Get a coach, get somebody outside of you. Take action. Good luck.

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