 Reflection is an amazingly powerful thing perspective is an amazingly powerful thing right now reflection simple just just looking at what you've done right it could be reflecting on something you did that you need to fix it could be reflecting on something that you did just recognize how long it was and what okay a reflection can be an amazingly powerful thing most people don't learn to reflect until they get a little bit older okay all right because we're either so busy chasing or we're in denial about the stuff we maybe didn't do that we don't want to stop for a second and just take a look back and just be like you know what man I've killed it this week you know what man I've really put a lot of heart and soul into my environment and the people around me that makes me feel good there's absolutely nothing wrong with that absolutely nothing wrong with reflecting on stuff but you also got to reflect on man you know what I wasn't a great big brother this week I was I was kind of a turd to my little brother all week long and I need to fix that all right you know what that you know what that is that's self-awareness okay this has nothing to do with wrestling all right that's self-awareness being self-aware of your strengths your weaknesses your failures your successes and being able to look at them and take away stuff from them do I need to make adjustments do I need to just feel real good for the day about what I did all right that's powerful guys that's a powerful thing that you can start developing now and it might start on a real little level it just might be like you know what self-awareness is going to be me doing it what everything I'm told when I'm at home the very first time all right I'm not going to wait the third time to take out the trash I'm going to be self-aware that I struggle with that when my dad or mom asks me to take the trash out I'm going to stop what I'm doing and I'm going to do it okay and I'm going to be self-aware when I didn't have to go to that extra practice because there was a lot of stuff going on and I could make an excuse to go to that extra practice or I could make an excuse to eat the food that I'm not supposed to eat or watch the shows that I'm not supposed to watch or consume the music that I probably shouldn't be consuming all right I'm going to be self-aware enough to know that that that stuff I'm consuming doesn't get me to where I want to go okay so reflection super important super important now perspective all right now someone's talking to coach about last night talking about creativity me and him had an awesome talk last night I wish I would have just filmed it or just recorded the audio and talked for about what three hours last night coach just talking and it wasn't all about wrestling it was all about just being a human being and staying motivated and just trying to figure out this whole scientific thing because some of it is scientific right all right but when we're talking about self-awareness and and perspective and reflection perspective can be a powerful thing because it's just the way you look at something right so you've got a bunch of different coaches that have come in here a bunch of different coaches coach a bunch of different ways right so a bill longer might not coach the same as our know and our know might not coach the same as same as as Andy right but they you know why they don't because they look at things a different way everybody looks through the world through a different lens right but when I talk about creativity creativity is the ability to just kind of step and circle and be like I'm gonna look at this from a different angle I'm gonna look at this from a different angle I'm just gonna come over here I'm gonna look at it from the side I'm gonna look at it from the bottom I'm gonna look at it from the top okay because I'll tell you right now if you do this your whole life all right you're gonna wake up one day and look around and be like holy smokes that was like stuff out your own side like I just been looking what's in front of me the whole other stuff behind me right perspective can be an amazingly powerful thing all right so when I talk about creativity I'm talking about the way you look through the world in your lens sometimes our lens is just focused straight ahead man we got to open that lens up and we got to start looking at everything around us all right that's the number one thing that the best coaches and the best entertainers and the best inventors and the best businessmen that I've ever been around or read about or watched a video about they're amazing at looking at the world their business their product their idea their dream their goals do a bunch of different lenses a bunch of different perspectives and that's creativity creativity in drawing pictures yeah it is that's artistic creativity is being able to look at things observe things process and put things back in the world through a different lens so I'm telling you guys perspective and reflection can be two of the most powerful things that you take forward then you add some purposeful work you add a lot of this other stuff man you're a powerful human being you literally can think where other people aren't willing to okay I'm talking about your brain right now I'm not talking about your body purposeful works a lot of physical stuff right it's engaged here and here when I talk about perspective it's a lot of this all right so you got that one friend that wants to argue about something and only sees it one way right we all got that person might even have that relative that crazy uncle man he just wants to talk about one thing he only wants to see it one way and if you disagree with him it's an argument for 20 hours right some people just don't look to look from a different perspective a lot of people look at just wrong and right black and white all right but again like I said man we got to open that up okay and when you open it up and you start looking around you you're going to see a lot more stuff you're going to see more opportunity you're going to see things that that you never saw before that you can start creating your own right you can be innovative right and the most important thing is man your life's going to be fresh your life's going to stay fresh because when you go to practice five days a week and go school five days a week you got tournaments on the weekend you got chores at home and you got homework and projects and all that stuff in that just becomes a routine I just wake up and I just do it and then I just come on I wake up and I do it but when your perspective changes all right things are fresh all right it's easier to motivate yourself it's easier to motivate those around you all right so I want you guys to think about that how do I look at the world can I look at the world different differently all right do I do I do I go home tonight and just sit in my bed and turn off the tv and turn off the music and just like you know what I'm gonna feel good about myself because I put in 15 hours worth of purposeful work in three days some guys will go an entire summer and not put 15 minutes worth of work into what they're doing to anything all right so reflection is powerful but hey it goes both ways you got to reflect on the stuff you need to improve on as well right didn't do that report you were supposed to didn't do what your parents asked you to you're where you're supposed to be you're not where you're supposed to be when you said you were supposed to be you got to reflect on that stuff too and then you got to own it you got to own your wins on your losses all right own them own them all right own own your wins on your losses perspective reflection think about it tonight even you little guys you guys look through the world it's such a different creative lens I love I love the little guys all right you guys are the most creative out of the whole bunch right you had been you had been conditioned with all this other stuff that the older guys have whether it's music or parents or relatives or or peers right because you're the sum of the five people you spend the most amount of time with you think about the five people you spend the most amount of time with right you probably eat at the same places listen to the same music watch the same shows play the same video games because those five people are part of your environment now it could be really really good those five people could be really really bad and it might not be all just your friends it might be two friends your mom and your dad and somebody else but you are the sum of the five people you spend the most amount of time with so if I want to reflect on that I need to reflect on hey who are those five people and are they adding value to me chasing my dreams and vice versa am I adding value to them chasing theirs and if they're dead weight might need to make a decision right if they're dead weight you might need to make a decision but I challenge you guys to just take some time and reflect on what you've done be proud of and reflect on what you need to fix and get to work all right and then start start changing your perspective on things I'm not saying one day I believe in this and the next day I don't believe in it that's not what I'm asking you to I'm just talking I look at it through a different lens look at a wrestling move through a different lens look at a relationship through a different lens look at your schoolwork through a different lens you could probably get excited about being good at math if you want it to I hate math right does that make sense to you guys okay just looking at things different and seeing what math can provide to my education as I go on to be a rocket science whatever all right so reflection and perspective I really want you guys to spend some time thinking about that good hey after we think about it tonight we keep applying it down the road all right because again we only got these handlers guiding us through life for so long right so we got to start on with some of it got it great day today