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[00:06:16] Speaker D: Good morning, I'm Dr. Kerry Gelb and welcome to Wellness 1280 on Open youn Eyes Radio. Please listen as I discuss the newest information in the world of health, nutrition and sports every Saturday morning, 6am Central Time on AM 1280 the Patriot. Also, please share your thoughts by emailing me at drkerrygelbmail.com that's D R K E R R Y mail.com and visit my new website, wellness1280.com where we have all guest links, Wellness 1280 info and previous shows. Wellness is taking over the Patriot Airways for the next hour, so sit back and enjoy my interview with return guests, former NHL hockey player and Olympic hero Eric Westrom. Today we're joined once again by someone who knows what it takes to push the limits on the ice and in life. In his first book, Becoming Elite, Eric Westrom gave us an inside look at the mindset and discipline it takes to compete at the highest levels on and off the rink. Now in his powerful new book, The 1% impact how to transform your life in 15 minutes a day, Eric reveals the secret weapon of the ultra successful how small, intentional daily habits can create massive, lasting change. Eric spent 12 years as a professional hockey player. He has an MBA, he's a leadership coach, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. And now he's showing us that becoming elite isn't just for athletes. The question is, could 15 minutes a day actually change your life? So stick around. You may be surprised by the answer. Eric, thank you for joining me again today on Open your Eyes Radio and podcast with Dr. Kerry Gelb.
[00:08:11] Speaker C: Hey, Kerry, appreciate you having me again. Always enjoy our conversations.
[00:08:15] Speaker D: I really appreciate it, Eric. So let me ask you, you wrote the first book. What made you write 1% impact?
[00:08:22] Speaker C: So as I was speaking and coaching a lot of different people, whether it was athletes, executives, teams, organizations, sales, marketing, you know, the list goes on, I started to dig a little deeper into not only becoming elite, but it actually transformed my life as I would start to kind of expand my reach. And I started to think about, you know, 1% impact, and it was actually brought up in a Bible study. As I dug deeper into the Bible about 10 years ago, a friend of mine said, hey, Eric, why don't you try to read 1% a day, which is 15 minutes? So I started to do it, and it was hard to do 5 minutes, 7, 10, 15. Now, you know, I can sit and read the Bible for two hours. But early on, that was kind of the transformation. And then I started to applying it to the four pillars of, you know, I don't have to go run a half marathon. I can go for a walk and it's still exercise. I can expand my mindset, you know, 1% a day, and then it's going to build on that. So running is a perfect example to run a marathon, right? You're going to run small increments, small intervals to get to that point. So for me, as an elite athlete and just an elite mindset, I'm always thinking grandiose. And when you focus on that outcome and not the process, that's when you get in trouble. So a lot of people in the world, you know, think you have to go above and beyond right away, but to start with small, simple steps. And I started to talk about it, you know, over the last two years and started to document and write about it. And that's. That was kind of how the birth of the 1% impact came about.
[00:09:58] Speaker D: You know, small, simple steps, it seems so easy and common sense. But I think people try to do too much at one time. They wanted. They take on a goal and they try to get it all done in one day, and they spend hours and hours, and then they wind up doing nothing. Like changing their diet is a good example. So, so the 15 minutes, that whole concept, how long did it take you to use that 15 minutes before you started to see a change in yourself? And what kind of example can you give what's happened with yourself or some others that you. That you've actually counseled on? The 15 minutes?
[00:10:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I think. And the big part is too, it's not like the magic pill, right? It's not like, hey, 15 minutes and you're going to get a six pack or 15 minutes and you're going to lose 15 pounds. Right? I think the biggest part and the reason I use that 1%, that 15 minutes, it's very easy. So an example is, you know, a client I was working with and say I was working with you, Carrie, I'd say, hey, Kerry, for the next year, can you put 96 hours to do this? And most people are going to say, you know, I don't even have 96 minutes, let alone half the time, 96 seconds. But if I said, hey, can you do this for 15 minutes? 15 minutes. So whether it's on the physical side, the spiritual side, the emotional or the psychological side, how can you do that? So perfect example is that client in, in the business sense was trying to accomplish something on the monetary side of impacting more lives. And we took 15 minutes extra, whether it was in the morning, afternoon or night where it was either follow up, it was calls, it was preparation. And that totally changed his business and he increased it by, you know, six figures, which was pretty dramatic. And the reason I use the income side a lot of times is because that's what resonates with people. Easy, you can see the return on your investment. Whereas in time, sometimes you can't go to a leadership conference for eight hours and now you're a leader, you can't go to the gym for six hours today and all of a sudden you're in shape, Right? So those are harder to track. But I think a lot of times when you start with that 15 minutes, so similar to me, whether it was reading the Bible or is during certain exercise after, I mean for me after 10, 15, 20 day, I mean you can see it pretty quickly, but the magic happens when you take it from 15 to 30 minutes to 45 minutes, to an hour, to an hour and 15. And that's what the hope is when I work with people is. The 15 minutes is kind of that magic pill of like, hey, start here. But you're going to start to see the momentum in any of those aspects that you talked about, whether it's fitness, whether it's discipline, emotional, spiritual, whether it's work trying to get a better ROI from your employees or from what you're doing from your personal self.
[00:12:56] Speaker D: Talk about the difference or the process versus the results. Because I think especially I have a 15 year old who plays baseball and I see that the kids, they focus so much on the results and their statistics, but they don't think about the process. Talk to us about that as a professional athlete.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: Well, it's right here. And I don't think we're on the zoom call, but I'm showing a phone, right? The phone is instant gratification. So these kids, even athletes, people see this instant gratification, 30, 45 seconds. Oh, that's success. But they don't see the work. So for me, that's how I had success. I necessarily didn't fall in love with the championships, the scoring titles, the medals, all the honors. Like, that's a byproduct. I fell in love with the process. So when you fall in love with the process, that's when you're going to have the most success. If you talk to any elite athlete, they're going to say, I fell in love with the process. Similar to me right now, Like, I work out every morning. I got a cold plunge. I got everything in my basement that I utilize. And my wife is like, hey, you don't play professional hockey anymore. Why are you doing box jumps and sprints and, you know, barbell snatches and everything else? And I look at her and I say, it's because I love the process. And when you take that process and you put it together, the result is almost guaranteed to happen. And a lot of times, what people are looking for that guaranteed result. So then I back up and I say, yes, but you also have to fail. Embrace discipline to have success. I was listening to something this morning talking about the lack of failure in our society. As parents and as employers or employees, we want the, the. You know, in Minnesota, we were talking about snow. We want it a clear path where our kids or other people. You don't have to overcome an obstacle. Instead, you have to fail to be able to learn. And then that's when you fall in love more with the process because you see the changes as you go through the process instead of just focusing on that outcome. So I'm a huge believer, like, you have to fail, and then you can embrace discipline and then you can have success.
[00:15:19] Speaker D: You know, we got about a minute left, and then we'll to the next segment. But when we talk about failure, I think it's. That's very, very important. What do you think when coaches, they're. I'm going to use baseball for an example. And, you know, they're hitting ground balls to the kids. And anytime a kid misses a ground ball or, you know, does something like that, the coach starts yelling at the kid. What do you think? About that way of training kids or training athletes by yelling at them or humiliating them when they make a mistake. Not a mental mistake, but a physical mistake. But hold that thought because we're up against the break. This is Dr. Kerry Gel for Open your Eyes Radio Wellness 1280 on AM 1280 the Patriot. We'll be back with Eric Westrom his book the one percent Impact.
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[00:19:11] Speaker D: We'Re back with Eric Westrom his new book One Percent Impact and we're talking about coaching and coaching that yells at the kids constantly when they not make a mental mistake, but when they're making physical mistakes during the process, during practice. I want to know from somebody who coaches, you know, as a coach that played professional sports, coach kids, works with entrepreneurs trying to help their business better, is that an effective way of getting people to do better in the process?
[00:19:44] Speaker C: I mean, I think if you look back at, you know, history and coaching, a lot of it was fear based. A lot of it was that of fear of failure and just digging into a player.
My perspective is whether it's, you know, from when I played to even now, the way that I coach or that I've been taught, you know, from my dad and other, you know, mentors, a mentor of ours, Dick Ammeheiser, used to always go up to kids and just say wow. To be like, wow, great job, wow. And it was just the impact it would have. And so I took that a step further and I would go up to kids say they made a mistake or somebody say, hey Luke, wow, great job. You're working hard. I know you don't want to make a mistake. None of us do. Let me ask you a question. So I would use the WOW acronym first. W. I would say, what, you know, were you thinking on that play, right? What, what, what were you thinking? And why did that happen? So why did you miss the ground ball? Why did you miss the pass? What happened? And they might in hockey say, you know what? I thought Ethan was coming down the back door so I threw the pass there. I didn't realize he was going to come up for a top cycle. Okay, awesome. So we We've recognized it. I would have said the same thing, but we're letting them recognize it. So then the O is what's another option? What other option could you have done? I could have held onto the puck for two seconds to see if Ethan was going to go to that space or if I should have curled up high. Awesome. Now the other W is what are you going to do next? So next time, what are you going to do in that situation? I'm going to have more patience and presence. I just ask them the question, they answered it how I would have. And if they missed something, I can ask follow up question or I can say, hey, you know what, Luke, wow, awesome job. Keep working hard. Just remember the patience and presence when you're passing the puck as well. Make sure you keep your head up. So I've just built them up. I've actually coached them, import into them and if they can relate to that, that's going to give them way more confidence and success. And yes, there are times where, you know, I might have to dig a little deeper if they keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result, which is the definition of insanity. And some players don't get it. And you do have to take a little more proactive approach. But what I found is if you start that way with players, you're going to get buy in, you're going to get them playing at a much higher level. Because every kid, no matter what level, they don't want to screw up, they're not going out there saying, hey, I want to have a turnover, I want to miss the ground ball, I want to strike out. So how can we help them realize, you know, the wow factor, that's what I started to use probably over the last seven or eight years.
[00:22:28] Speaker D: In your book you talk about leadership, which goes to what you were just saying. And, and there's three different types of leaders, transformational, transactional, and servant leaders that you have in your book. What do you think is the most effective leaders of those three that you talked about your, your book? And I was very surprised in the book that only 10% of the population are actually born leaders and 20% have the potential to be a leader, but 85% are followers. So I thought that was a very interesting statistic in the book and I thought that was really, really good. But talk about the three different types of leaders. Which do you feel is the best for business? Which you feel is the best for sports? What do you think is the best for coaching?
[00:23:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I think and I'll, I'll kind of work it backwards. So the reason I had that quote or that statistic in there, biggest thing is because I'm not a huge believer that we are natural born leaders, right? But I think the statistics, you know, consistently push it down people. So like, hey, only certain percentage are leaders. A certain percentage were born with something. And the rest of you, good luck, right? I think what it is, again, it comes down to social media. And if you think about when you like something, you're told and asked to follow. So society is building followers, but we don't have the right leaders. So to flip that script, who are you following to lead? Right. For me, and I've talked about it as a believer in Jesus Christ, we did not have enough Christ followers, but we have followers of other things. So if you can be that positive role model. To your point, of the three different types of leaders, honestly, I think it depends more on who you're leading. So when I work with clients in all those spaces that you just talked about, whether it's coaching athletics, executive teams, sales organizations, any aspect of life in general, what my job is to assess them first. So I can assess like I'm working with a Division 1 gymnastics team this year and when we go into it, I'll assess every girl through the program. So I have an assessment that I use and I can look at it and say, okay, how do they view themselves? How do they feel the world or their coaches view them and their teammates and what's that combined view and the reason for that? Then I can help either the coach or the teammates figure out how to interact with each other. Because we're all programmed different. So some might react better to a transformational leader or a servant leader, right? And it depends on that individual person. And the reason I learned that is from hockey skating. One on one, they always tell you to get low, deep knee bend, long strides. That's my skating stride. But if I teach that to my son who's in seventh grade and plays hockey, he's more of a long profile. He, he's, he's less low, he's less long. And if he, if I teach him to skate, he's probably going to become a worse hockey player, right? So it's the same thing in leadership. We have to identify that. Whereas I think in the past everyone says, hey, here's how you take a ground ball, here's how you hit, here's where you place your hands. That's not true for everyone. You watch some of the greatest hitters they don't all hit the same. It's how their profile is. So mentally, it's the same thing. When we lead players, we lead teams, organizations, you have to know how they're wired. And I'll leave you with this. When I coached my last years of high school hockey, I would strictly do an assessment. I would use that assessment only on the bench to coach those players. So I knew how they were all wired, and I would coach them individually. I'd let my other two coaches, you know, coach systems. I'd step in at certain times, but I would be able to motivate the kids. I'd be able to teach them. And when I got out of that aspect and started to just coach strictly on emotion and how I wanted to be coached, that's when we would not have success. So leaders have to know who they're leading in order to decide which area is best for them.
[00:26:28] Speaker D: In professional hockey, in the NHL, how much coaching does the coach do? Or at this point, he realizes these guys are, you know, they're. They're the best of the best. How much can I really teach them?
[00:26:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I think the thing that it needs to switch to is what I just talked about. That's where they're going to have way more success. Because to your point, these players, when you watch any sport, I mean, especially in hockey, the skill level, it's at a whole different area than we've ever been at. You go and watch a professional hockey game, it's more like a chess game. And if you think of it, that's what the coach's job is, is to dissect the video, to say, hey, if I'm playing against Luke, Ethan, Giannis, whoever it is, like, what's their tendency? And then we can expose that, because most of those players, we're assessing the other team now, what are. Where's their strength? They're getting. Going to their right, to their left, are they on their forehand? And sometimes you can't even stop it. You look like Ovechkin breaking the record. I guarantee he scored a majority of his goals in two spots. And you could sit next to him the whole game and somehow he's still going to score one or two goals. But you give that information to the player. And that's where I think it shifted before, like, when my dad played professional hockey, they went to training camp to get into shape and to get ready for the season, whereas now these guys are ready to go, and now it's all about implementation and execution. And that's where the coaches come in any sport. You see they have iPads on the benches of football, hockey and they're going through like real time coaching and teaching. Whereas before it was probably more off of raw emotion and similar to what you talked about earlier. Right. Yelling at the player. You know, they still do that to a certain extent, but I think there's that coaching aspect has kind of shifted into a different area.
[00:28:19] Speaker D: Yeah, more like that transactional leader.
Transactional leader that you talk about in your book where they're more, they give negative reinforcement or positive reinforcement where they yell at the player. Something I wanted to ask you about. There are certain players, they, in practice, during the process, they're very average. But once the game is on, they become gamers. They're unbelievable players. And then you get the other kid who's great in practice, but once the lights go on, they struggle, which I find that's more typical. Talk to me about that type of player, those type of players and how those could be changed.
[00:28:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you for a fact, I was the first one. I was a gamer. Right. I mean you talked some of my coaches, I probably drove them crazy.
But for me it was the preparation. I had already done a lot of the work and I knew where I was. And as we went into game time, any coach, any ref that you talked to probably hated me because I was a game time player and I was competitive. Right. On the flip side, you have the guys who are look great in practice or tryouts, but once that pressure comes in, they don't even know what to do. And I think it comes down to, and I talked about that in the book a little bit about when you're looking at like confidence versus humility, right? Complacency versus competitiveness, all these comparisons, perseverance and resiliency. And you look at it as how do you build that up? And the only way you can build that up is by building their confidence. But again, you have to, you know, and a lot of people talk about it, you have to burn the boats, right? And a lot of those kids haven't done that. Whereas they keep going back to yes, I'm prepared, but then I fail. And I'm going to tell you the one biggest reason for it is because of parents, parent pressure, whether it's directly related to them or it's subconscious in the kid. Whereas they hear their parents, hey, you know, we're spending a ton of money on Billy and hockey. Like they, they understand like, oh my gosh, they're investing in me. They're spending a ton of money and time. Hey, we're not going on spring break this year because Billy's got a tournament. So now that kid feels that pressure subconsciously. And as they get older, they're basically pushed against a wall of I have to succeed because my parents have invested in me. But to that point of practice versus gamer. A lot of kids cannot translate practice to game when all of a sudden you're getting yelled at. You look at the Masters recently with Rory. I mean, the guy had a roller coaster, right?
[00:30:57] Speaker D: Hold that thought just for a second. We'll get back to that. This is Dr. Kerry Gill for Open youn Eyes Radio. I'm speaking with Eric Westrom his new book the one percent Impact.
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[00:34:11] Speaker D: We'Re back with Eric Westrom his book One Percent Impact. Before the break, we were speaking about the Masters. We were just watching the Masters and the pressure on Rory McElroy who was having an up, a crazy up and down day. And here's a guy that is an amazing golfer, but you, he, you could see how he could feel the pressure. He felt the pressure in US Open and he started to feel the pressure in the Masters. Talk about that type of, that type of player.
[00:34:41] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think, and I don't know, you know, his history, you know, but you can see obviously through social media and replays and where he's folded or where he's had success. Success. But again, if you go out on the golf course with professional golfers and there's nobody around, like they're all dialed in, right. I have a friend who played, you know, amateur and unbelievable golfer and then another buddy who's, you know, like a club pro and just dialed in and all of a sudden if you put different people in different situations with screaming fans and something on the line and again it's the whole process, the process of the last 18 holes is you got to kind of, you know, compartmentalize hole by hole, and then the result is to win. And sometimes I think, you know, potentially in his situation or others, you're. You're looking at that end game of the green jacket, you're looking at the end game of the gold medal. You're looking at the end game of a world championship or a Stanley Cup. And I think what happens is you start to get in your own way. And it happens with kids, the same thing. I don't want to say it's easy to get out of your own way, but it's easy once you have the tools. And as I was saying before, once you assess a player or an individual and you can kind of break it down, it's an aha moment for them to be able to have consistency. And you look at a lot of those players, I mean, you can go to other athletes and I won't use names, but where they had success, they were confident they had put in the practice. And then once a wrench gets thrown in, whether it was something from social media or whether it was a scandal or whatever else, all of a sudden the focus changes, and they're not the same player that they ever were or ever could be. And kids and their brains and how they develop and amateur athletes, college athletes, it's even harder to maintain that level. And I think that's why people ride that roller coaster. And sometimes when they hit the bottom, they're almost fatigued, and they don't have what it takes to come back to the top.
[00:36:42] Speaker D: I mean, somebody like Tiger woods, when the pressure was on, he got better. What made him get better? What makes a Gretzky get better? What makes Derek Jeter get better? What is it within them that they're able to. To perform better when. When they're under this incredible pressure?
[00:37:00] Speaker C: I think the biggest thing is honestly their preparation, right? So you look at, you know, the names you just named, the Tiger woods, the Jeter, the Gretzky's, the Jordans, the Brady's, the Kobe's, they put so much work into it that they know that they're outworking somebody, right? A great conversation I had was with a friend who, as he was going through retirement from the NHL, he's like. And he was one of the best players right in the world. And talking to him, it was, why, you know, as. As you go through retirement, why are you retiring? He said, because he's like. Westy goes, I just never know if I'm doing enough. And I looked at him and I'm like, you're one of the hardest workers. You're watching your nutrition, you're working out. But the elite players feel like they're never doing enough. The average players feel like they're doing more than everyone else. So if you let that sink in, that is the difference. The Kobe's, the Tigers, the Brady's, the, like, they've put so much work in that they have so much confidence going into that game or that situation. Whereas the other person is almost like, oh crap, Tom Brady. He's probably put more work into me. I'm going to try to get out of this. Or a Tiger woods, he's put so much into it. And they freeze of like, did I put enough work into it subconsciously? Whereas the other players like, hey, I got this. And they understand you're not going to be 100%. Michael Jordan talks about it all the time. What percentage of game winning shots did he miss? How much failure did he have in order to have success? And getting back full circle to our conversation, instant gratification is what people see. They don't see the process. And the more time you put into that process, the more success you're going to have. At the end of the day, you.
[00:38:42] Speaker D: Know, I find it interesting because there's different grades of it because these pros, they had to be the best in high school and the best in college to be able to make it to the pros. So you would think once they're in there, once they make it, like takes Rory, he had to win all these tournaments to become a professional golfer. So he's had all this pressure all along. But, but at the, at the ultimate moment is where they have trouble, even people at that level.
[00:39:12] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think what it is, is it's always the stakes always get higher and higher and higher. Right. So when you look at it, and I'm fully transparent with my own journey, I mean, that's why I was Stanley cup sitting behind me, because I never won it, because I kind of was in that space where it was like going from eighth grade, making the B team, to winning the state championship, to playing at the University of Minnesota, to playing in the NHL, to scoring a game winning goal for us, all this. And they kept going and going, leading scorer, you know, Switzerland, and it was like continuing to accomplish stuff. I got to a point where I almost came back to the US playing the NHL and I was just like, you know, I, I don't know if I can Keep doing it. Right? And it was one of those, like, you know, for me, it was. It was. It was wear and tear, and it was mentally, you know, draining. And that's where I kind of unlocked the keys for other people now, because I know I've been in both situations where it's, hey, here's where you are. And it's that difference between discipline and motivation, right? If you're motivated by the ultimate goal, it's good in a way, but you need the discipline to get there, because motivation, you do it when you feel like it, and discipline is. You do it when you don't.
[00:40:22] Speaker D: You know, speaking about the tremendous pressure on professional athletes in your book, you talk about athletes when they retire, that over 50% of them become addicted to something, that 70, over 70% of them go bankrupt. Depression is 40%, 60% over 60 to 80% get divorced. What. What causes that after they. They're done with professional sports, that they have this type of. These type of problems in their. In their personal life.
[00:40:56] Speaker C: I mean, I think it's. I mean, there's numerous things. But when you look at it as an athlete, you're driven by either having your back against the wall or you're chasing, you know, a dopamine hit. Basically, you're chasing success, you're chasing wins. And it's similar, you know, people I've talked to in different, you know, professions sometimes, but with athletes especially, you've had this ultimate success. So you come back into, we call, like, being a civilian or a normal person. You can't replicate that. You can't. You go into, you know, like, I was in sales and insurance and finance and own businesses, and it's like, hey, try to hit the Million Dollar Roundtable or the Chairman's Circle or all these nobody. You can't replicate going in a shootout to win a bronze medal. You can't replicate, you know, a Stanley Cup. You can't replicate a world championship, you know, an NCAA championship, state tournament. You can't replicate that. So what happens? It's the same thing where as athletes, when you're an athlete, you have so much pressure to play. And then, unfortunately, a lot of players, you know, go into a certain vice, whether that's alcohol, drugs, addiction, right? Whether it's womanizing in all these different categories, and then you're chasing something else, and you're trying to chase and chase and conquer. And conquer, conquer. And then your reality versus perception, which I talk a little bit about in the book as well, is like, what's the reality versus the Perception. The reality is you're not a professional athlete anymore. The reality is you have to figure out another purpose in your life and passion. And you have the perception that you're still who you were and you're still trying to chase something that's not even attainable. And I think that's what happens. So people come in and you're married and you can go on vacations and do all this great stuff and eat great dinners and you just basically live in a life of luxury and then you come back. It's similar to people when they retire. Their kids are an empty nesters now. It's you and your person, your family. Spend more time together, you're spending more money, you're not making more money. Right. You might be depressed because you're not getting that feedback from the fans and signing autographs all the time. You might take that, you know, alcohol from socially to every single day, which can lead into other stuff. So I think that's the biggest part, is there's such a mental makeup of chasing and chasing and chasing and then you either just get depleted and you're just, you're done chasing and you don't feel worthy, you don't feel you have a purpose, or you're chasing stuff that is worldly and that's probably not healthy in that space too.
[00:43:36] Speaker D: You brought up signing autographs. How do players feel about signing autographs? And as the more elite players, you know, bugged all the time about signing autographs, how do they feel about that?
[00:43:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I think everyone's different. I mean, I, I think when I was younger going to Minnesota North Star games, we used to get autographs from people all the time downstairs by the tunnel. And I still have a remembrance of Eric Lindro's Philadelphia Flyers. He didn't sign our stuff. And I'm like, if I ever get into that position, I will sign every person's autograph. I'm like, where were you when you were a kid and how did that make you feel? Right? So for me, I, I love it, do it all the time, whether it's now or obviously more in the past. I still get mail, you know, like once, twice a week from people with cards, pictures. I'll sign them, send them off. I have people I know that get those, those type of mail and they don't send it back. And I'm like, it's, it's weird to me that if somebody is right, fulfilled and getting an autograph or they're trying to get everybody on a certain team, on a jersey or you're in that situation. A lot of us have been that kid or in that situation where they wanted someone's autograph, they wanted to meet someone. So I always look at it like, you know, you're just another human being. And if you can fulfill that kid's dream of meeting, of signing an autograph and kind of going through that. So yeah, but then at other times too, there's a time and a place, right? Like when you see like golf again, right? As people are coming through to the next hole. Maybe someone signs a golf ball and they're like, why doesn't he wait and sign everybody's goal? It's, you know, they're in a flow state too. So you have to respect that.
Hockey, basketball is a little different because you're playing in the game and then afterwards. And then it's emotional too, right. Sometimes guys might be upset and can you separate that right away? But I think the majority of people you know, I've come across, especially hockey players, are usually really good about it. Other sports you know as well. But once you kind of get in your own way or you have a bigger head, that's when you get in trouble for sure. But I think, yeah, people love signing autographs, you know, because you're giving back and it's, you're fulfilling somebody's dream.
[00:45:52] Speaker D: Well, I appreciate that. This is Dr. Kerry. Go for Open youn Eyes Radio. I'm speaking with Eric Westrom. His new book one percent Impact. His first book, Becoming Elite will be back right after the video.
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[00:49:12] Speaker D: This is Dr. Kerry Gelb. I'm speaking with Eric Westrom his new book 1% impact. I want to ask you There was a quote in your book by Napoleon Hill if you believe, you will achieve. So is believing enough or is there other things that are involved in achieving?
[00:49:33] Speaker C: No, I think it's. That's a great question. It's funny, my dad was reading my book as it was published and he sent that over to some of his friends on different things. More so at his age, in the political atmosphere of different stuff. We won't go there. But for me, I think the belief is where the seeds planted, right? Because if you don't believe, you won't achieve. But if you do believe, you will achieve. But again, you can't sit on the code and eat potato chips and just expect something to happen. But I think it's the seed that is planted, and that's my hope. When someone hears that quote, if you believe you can achieve. When I work with athletes, my own kids and other people, I always say, here, you want me? I can guarantee you you will play Division 1 in this sport. But guess why you won't. They're like, wait a second, you just said you guaranteed. But why won't. Because I guarantee, even if I told you that in the next seven years, you have to put this amount of work in every single day outside of what you do normally, you will skip a day, two days, two weeks, two months. So now your percentage drastically drops because there's someone out there. And that's how I was after I made the B team in 8th grade, as I went into 9th, 10th grade and figured it out, that is the only reason I made it is A, I believed and two, I put the work in. And we were. Unfortunately, I had a friend of mine a month ago, he died of a heart attack at 45. My college roommate. And as players, we were there and we were talking and one of the guys made a comment of talking to, you know, one of our old coaches about, hey, who was, you know, one of the hardest players you coach or most competitive. He goes that. That it's an easy answer. He's like Eric Westrum, he said, because he was the most competitive, but he was also one of the hardest to coach because whatever he believed he thought he could achieve, he had like the most outlandish ideas of what he could achieve. And the craziest part is 95% of it, he did. And I think that is the difference. And that is why I talk about that is you need to believe to achieve it, but you have to be competitive and you have to do whatever you can to get to that point. And it's not easy, otherwise everybody else would do it.
[00:51:47] Speaker D: You talk about celebrating small wins. Tell me why that's important and how do you do that with. With not being, like, overly conceited, but to. To make it where it's beneficial for you and also your teammates?
[00:52:02] Speaker C: It's hard. I mean, I'm bad at that, right? I did not celebrate a ton of wins. A friend of mine PJ Fleck, who coached the University of Minnesota, actually brought that to me probably about two and a half years ago. We were doing an event together, and he kind of called me out on that, like, you're not celebrating the win. Same thing. I publish a book, I move on to the next book, right? And it's stopping in that moment where, like, publishing books a big deal. And I look at it like, no big deal. So it's the same thing with those small wins. The reason, as you stack those wins and you celebrate, right, your mind is being trained and programmed to say, hey, this was a good thing. Let's keep doing more good stuff. And I think what happens is so many people don't celebrate the win, and I'm the number one person who's guilty. And what happens is you get numb to that success, and then you don't have the willingness to chase it or put the work in. It's kind of twofold, right? You fall in love with the process. But if you don't celebrate that win and your mind's not feeling that success, what's going to push you to continue to do it? And that's what I've learned. And I'm still brutal at it, to be honest. I try hard to celebrate wins more and more, but I think when you don't, you're. It's. It's detrimental to your success because you become numb. And then it doesn't matter if you have success or failure because they're almost treated the same.
[00:53:26] Speaker D: How do you celebrate wins?
[00:53:29] Speaker C: So back in the day, we'd celebrate it probably the wrong way. Late nights and a lot of fun, right? Play hard, party hard. I think now it's more just acknowledging it by, you know, talking to your family about, hey, I'm not saying this from an ego, statistical standpoint, but we do it with our kids and our family of, hey, what's a win you had today? What did you do? I passed a test. I worked hard. And it's not just the A plus, it's the preparation. And I try to celebrate those wins more of even. Like for me today, late night last night for my kids, track meet, got home, last thing I want to do is wake up and work out. But it's even telling myself, celebrating that win. I'm running on the treadmill for 20 minutes, getting a little exercise in weight training, cold plunge and just saying, hey, you know what? You didn't want to do it, but look how you feel, right? And it's just. It's even. Sounds stupid to Some people, but I think that just trains your brain and it gets you set up for success as you go into your next opportunity each day, each month and each week.
[00:54:31] Speaker D: I think in the book, one of the concepts I thought was very interesting was reality versus optimism. You want to be optimistic, but you have to have a dose of reality. Talk about being overly optimistic under. Under optimistic and how you make it where you find the happy medium for reality.
[00:54:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that's a great question too. Ironically, I was talking with my dad about that one as well, and it's, it's. If you look at the reality, I, I use reality and optimism and reality and perception kind of in the trainings. I do. Because if you're coaching me, you're going to have a different perception in reality than I am. So I have to take in some of that information that is the reality. But I also have to kind of 10x the optimism side. So if it's around playing a sport, Right. Okay, Reality is less than 1% of people make it to the NHL. If that's what I'm going to go off of, I might as well not even play hockey. Right? And then that's detrimental. Whereas the optimism side is, flip it, 1% arrive and get to play in the NHL. I can be in that 1%. How can I get there? But if you've never played hockey or you've never worked out, or you never put the work in, you got to go into the reality mode of like, what's the reality of what I need to do? And you can't just say, I'm going to make it. And I think that's where, you know, a lot of the players I trained, you know, are on either one of the spectrums. And it's trying to bring them into the middle to have that reality, but then also being optimistic. And there's a fine line between the two because then that gets into everything else we talked about, right? Confidence versus, you know, humility. Talking about perseverance, grit, consistency, discipline. But at the end of the day, if you're not optimist, you're optimistic and you don't believe that you can achieve it, then you're not gonna.
[00:56:24] Speaker D: And talk to me, talk to me about time management versus priority management. You talk a lot about that in the book. Time management is so important because, you know, if you're talking about a business person, they have a family, you know, they have to spend time with their family, but they have to achieve certain goals. You're talking about a kid, they have homework how do you deal with that?
[00:56:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that's great. I was actually just doing it on the plane ride home from a speaking engagement. I was writing down like two hour blocks of where I want to spend my time. And then I was also looking at what's my priority, right? Whether that's in business, whether it's the revenue generators, whether that's in family time. And I think for me, priorities is you have to align with your core values. So if my core values are faith, family, fitness, whatever, it goes in that order, then I have to look at my calendar and say, where am I spending my time? And then I have to look at my quote unquote checkbook or online bank account of where am I spending my money? So where does my money come in and where does it go out? Where does my time come in and where does it go out? Where does my energy from those come in and where does my energy drain? And then that's where your priority management comes in versus time. So some people spend time, they're like, oh, I need to prioritize work or this or that, but is it really a priority? Does it drive the needle to your happiness? Does it drive the needle to your revenue? Does it drive the needle to your connection with your kids? And ironically, I'm pivoting into fatherhood. I'll actually have a third and a fourth book out here in the next month and a half. One's a kid's book with, that I wrote with my 4 year old. And then another one is around fatherhood by Design. And it's exactly that. It's managing your priorities and your family should be your number one priority. But people are so busy in life that they go to the time management side instead of the priority management.
[00:58:19] Speaker D: We only have about a minute and a half left. I want to ask you this question. Kids have multiple coaches because of the way, you know, the way things are. They have their high school coach, their junior high school goes. They have their private coaches, and then you have coaches, you know, different seasons. What is, how's a kid handle it? They have one kid, one coach telling him to do one thing, and then they have another coach telling him to do the exact opposite thing. And they're both yelling at the kid in a minute left. How do you, how do you deal with that?
[00:58:49] Speaker C: I mean, I'm coaching girls basketball now and hockey and football and all this. And I hear the parents on one side, I hear different coaches on one side. I think the biggest thing that kids can do is just realize, like, where they are. And it's hard at a younger age, but it's again taking in the information and then trying to process it to figure out what can help them be the most successful. And it's not selfish, it's being successful as an individual is going to help your team. So it's hard but trying to process it. And then the keywords boundaries. Right? And I think a lot of times we do not set boundaries for ourselves. Therefore, how can our kids learn how to set boundaries?
[00:59:27] Speaker D: So we're speaking with Eric Westrom. Eric, if people want to get in touch with you, how could they do that? How can they buy your book?
[00:59:32] Speaker C: Yeah, two things. Ericwestrombook.come R I K W E S T r u m book.com or my email is ericwestrom.com I'm happy to connect with people, give them free resources, direction to, you know, be elite and level up 1% at a time.
[00:59:49] Speaker D: Eric, thank you for joining me today on Open youn Eyes radio and podcast with Dr. Kerry Gall.
[00:59:55] Speaker C: Thank you.
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