I'm talking to Stephanie,
and Heather and Amanda are listening in.
And Stephanie says that since the lockdown
all she's done is eat and sleep.
Now Stephanie, right before we took the break
I was saying, you have a decision to make
about how you spend this time verses
how everybody else spends this time
and I was saying you can out prepare everybody,
you can be ready when maybe others are not.
What do you think about what I'm saying?
That's something to really, to think about.
I was even speaking to friends of mine
that was saying basically the same thing
but I was just ignoring them because, again,
I've just been in a funk.
I spent all of my life in athletics.
I played football in grade school, junior high,
high school, college.
I just always had an attitude
that the off season was as important as the season.
Because I always wanted to show up
the first day of the season having out prepared
everybody else, every other team we were gonna play,
in every category.
I wanted to out prepare them in getting in shape,
working on speed, learning plays, getting mind right.
I can't tell you how many games we won
before we ever stepped on the field
because we out prepared the other side
before the season ever started.
Right now, this is the off season.
America has gone into the off season
and they're getting ready to blow the whistle
and start this over again.
The question is, are you gonna out prepare everybody else?
Right now, you've got maybe 30 days, maybe five weeks,
six weeks, I don't know what it is,
but this is the time that you could be searching careers,
getting yourself in shape,
doing whatever you need to do so when that door opens
you step out there and everybody else
is in your rear view mirror.
This is the time that, you didn't have this time before.
This is the time that you can make yourself guilt edge,
cutting edge, leaning forward,
an absolute machine ready to go.
How does that sound to you when you hear
it said back to you that way?
I don't know what your friends are telling you.
I'm just telling you what I'm saying.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
I've kinda put that in my mindset,
like okay, just like you said,
it's a time for me to do things that I couldn't
do prior because I was working.
I can start working out because I wanted
to get motivated.
Yesterday I rode my bike for the first time
which felt like really, really, really good
to get outside and feel the wind
and different things like that.
I honestly agree with you and I really need
to get in that mindset.
You know our self esteem, our self worth,
our self image, those are terms we use all the time
but we don't ever really define them.
Self worth, what we think we're worth.
Self esteem, how we regard ourself
with regard to the world and others.
Our self image, what we think defines us, who we are.
All of those things are based
on what observe ourself do and accomplish.
And if right now you see yourself getting up every morning,
getting yourself ready, getting yourself dressed,
and all the sudden you're running three miles a day.
You got a six pack on your belly.
You're eating right, you're reading things,
you're exploring your area
that you're going to be working in,
you're making contacts before they open the doors,
you're talking to employers, you're doing this,
you're doing that, and they're saying,
"Man, here's a girl coming out of isolation
"that's talking to me".
You're observing yourself doing this
and you're saying, "Man, I'm a player.
"I've got it together".
When you observe doing all that,
you're not gonna have time to be watching Netflix
and you're gonna feel a whole lot better about who you are.
Yes, I definitely agree with that.
I really need to be ahead of the curve
and I need to have that mindset for sure.