Speaker 1: It is nine thirty ish on a Friday. The regular
Speaker 1: crowd shuffles in to paraflate to paraphrase the philosopher William Joel,
Speaker 1: and that means we get to welcome in one of
Speaker 1: our friends, Michael Parkhurst. How are you, sir?
Speaker 2: Good morning and happy New Year, John.
Speaker 1: I am good. So we are apparently facing snowmageddon here
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Uh oh, I heard two three four inches
Speaker 1: of snow. Everybody had better have run to the store
Speaker 1: and gotten their their run on milk, bread and water,
Speaker 1: and the shelves. The shelves are empty, and people are frolicking,
Speaker 1: and animals are sitting there and going bruh, I ain't
Speaker 1: going out and all that stuff. Uh. You look outside,
Speaker 1: people are putting covers on cars and things like that. So,
Speaker 1: uh is it just cold, nasty and freezing where you
Speaker 1: are and you're laughing at the rest of us here
Speaker 1: on the planet. Is that how this works? Oh?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not laughing. I'm I mean, yeah, I'm laughing
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember how it is. I mean, that's great
Speaker 2: for the kids to enjoy a little bit of snow
Speaker 2: down there. Yeah, we had a we didn't have much
Speaker 2: snow up until, of course, the day before the kids
Speaker 2: were finally supposed to go back to school. They had
Speaker 2: been out for what felt like a month. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a great two weeks around the holidays, but
Speaker 2: a full two weeks out honestly felt like a month.
Speaker 2: And so first day back, five forty five am, the
Speaker 2: phone call comes in, school is canceled.
Speaker 3: So the kids enjoyed a snow day. So we've had
Speaker 3: snow on the ground.
Speaker 1: We have.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonna get rid of it anytime soon.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna get above freezing for a while. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we've still got probably h four inches on the on
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 1: So do you do you still have your moments where
Speaker 1: yet you act like a teenager and you want to
Speaker 1: go outside, you want to throw snowballs in general and
Speaker 1: just like throw them at you know, buzz them right
Speaker 1: past your kids' heads or or the boss or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Do you still have those moments that you
Speaker 1: just sit there? So now that's for the young of them, Yes.
Speaker 2: I do, brought on by the kids and the dog, right,
Speaker 2: the dog loves the snow, so she loves being back
Speaker 2: out there and she loves chasing snowballs and then eating them.
Speaker 1: And I mean the.
Speaker 2: Kids are at a good age to you know, throw
Speaker 2: it right back. So yeah, I enjoy a nice little
Speaker 2: snow day.
Speaker 1: Okay, do the kids eat snow themselves or just the dog?
Speaker 3: Newly fresh snow?
Speaker 2: Sure snow that's been down now for you know, almost
Speaker 2: a week.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 3: I hope I've taught them better.
Speaker 1: You just ew ick by the way, new year, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, new platform, new background.
Speaker 2: Here that I'm looking at, a fancy schmancy here, John,
Speaker 2: I mean, I expect nothing less.
Speaker 1: But well blame Longshore. He's the one who's the one
Speaker 1: who decided to get everything all gussied up in fancy.
Speaker 1: If you want me to do it, I'll screw it up.
Speaker 1: I'll play things out of order. It'll be like music
Speaker 1: sounders and it's like literally somebody with the hot keys
Speaker 1: kind of going like this and just mashing things out
Speaker 1: of order. That's me so far, trying to learn all
Speaker 1: this technology looks great. So what I wanted to do,
Speaker 1: and thank you for dropping by this morning, I wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of look back at twenty twenty four for
Speaker 1: beyond goals and look at now. I don't know, do you?
Speaker 1: And Greg and everybody at BGM set New Year's resolutions
Speaker 1: or do you have goals aspirations, a to do list?
Speaker 1: How do you guys tackle how you want to grow
Speaker 1: into a year? Did you guys have a list of
Speaker 1: things you want to accomplish in twenty four? How did
Speaker 1: you attack this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think actually the marketing folks that we've been working
Speaker 2: with the last probably four or five months have really
Speaker 2: helped us in that regard, because when we started, it
Speaker 2: was kind of just like, well, we'll see where it
Speaker 2: goes and you know, growed as much as we can,
Speaker 2: and we didn't really have any goals because you know,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of like, yeah, we're just going to
Speaker 2: grow it as much as we can. So they've kind
Speaker 2: of helped us in that regard of setting some goals
Speaker 2: and you know, both for the year and then we
Speaker 2: do it by the quarter and saying, okay, hey, what
Speaker 2: do we want where do we want to get accomplished
Speaker 2: this quarter? Where can we go? What do we want
Speaker 2: to do, what do we want to implement? So in
Speaker 2: that regard, it's been really good and it kind of
Speaker 2: just helps Greg and I kind of set the tone
Speaker 2: going into the year and where we need to be
Speaker 2: and what we want to do. And again we're not
Speaker 2: answering to anybody, so it's kind of like if we
Speaker 2: don't hit a goal, you know, we just adjust things
Speaker 2: and move on and you know, why didn't we and
Speaker 2: how can we get better?
Speaker 3: Type thing?
Speaker 2: And you know, same thing that we encourage our mentees
Speaker 2: to do really well.
Speaker 1: And you know the reason I ask is because I
Speaker 1: know that when when we all dive into this idea
Speaker 1: of Okay, I want to I want to start this,
Speaker 1: I want to do this, I want to do this
Speaker 1: as a business, you know, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that this is the next stage of
Speaker 1: my career that you want to hop in and as
Speaker 1: driven as we all are, it's like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to do it right, I want to do it well.
Speaker 1: I want to do it this way, this way, this way,
Speaker 1: this way and this way. How do you not get
Speaker 1: bogged down if you don't accomplish something? How do you
Speaker 1: how how easy is it to just kind of sit
Speaker 1: there and say, Okay, well, we'll work just as hard
Speaker 1: to continue to get there and not get mad about
Speaker 1: not accomplishing something that you had on a list.
Speaker 4: I guess with something, Yeah, that's challenging, and I think,
Speaker 4: you know, that's why we encourage to have these smaller
Speaker 4: steps on the way, because you know, if we're accomplishing
Speaker 4: what we want to get done on a weekly basis
Speaker 4: or a monthly basis, and then at the quarter we
Speaker 4: don't hit our quarter goal, you know, we look back
Speaker 4: and say, you know, what we did what we could,
Speaker 4: it just didn't follow our way this quarter, so hopefully
Speaker 4: we'll make up for it next quarter type thing.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, really our goals we try not
Speaker 2: to make financial goals because we're like, you know, our
Speaker 2: services are there and we try and grow it and
Speaker 2: it is what it is. If people want to sign up,
Speaker 2: great and if they don't, great, So you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of our goals are kind of like what can
Speaker 2: we do to put ourselves in a position to grow
Speaker 2: the business and then just seeing.
Speaker 3: Did that help? Was that successful? And adjusting things from there.
Speaker 1: What was the most surprising thing that you learned beyond
Speaker 1: goals in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: I think the potential for growth. I think the.
Speaker 2: Looking outside of the box and thinking what more can
Speaker 2: we provide? What else could this become? And just knowing
Speaker 2: that the getting the feedback that we did from players
Speaker 2: and families just re emphasize like Okay, we've got something
Speaker 2: here and we can do something.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: I think that was the best thing that came out
Speaker 2: of twenty four And then working with this this group,
Speaker 2: I think is going to really help us, you know,
Speaker 2: just on social media, get more organized, help us with
Speaker 2: goals and things.
Speaker 3: So it was.
Speaker 2: A good year in that regard, and we grew the
Speaker 2: business healthily, which was which is awesome. Know Greg works
Speaker 2: extremely hard in that regard, and yeah, he crushed it.
Speaker 1: What did you learn from Greg? And what do you
Speaker 1: think Greg learned from you?
Speaker 2: I think I can learn a lot from Greg's work
Speaker 2: work ethic, Like he grinds hard, and you know, I
Speaker 2: think that you need that in any startup business and
Speaker 2: young business. We're trying to grow it and do things,
Speaker 2: and I think that we just we understand each other's
Speaker 2: role within the business really well. Greg grinds and gets
Speaker 2: the customers and is so good with customer relations and
Speaker 2: connecting with people and talking to them about why. And
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to come up with new things and
Speaker 2: new projects and new partnerships and Okay, where can we
Speaker 2: go and what can we do? And Okay, how can
Speaker 2: we hire somebody new? And you know, I think that
Speaker 2: we just we work well together. So I definitely learned
Speaker 2: from Greg, both in the hustle side of things, but
Speaker 2: also mentoring wise and how he works with some of
Speaker 2: his younger players and what he talks about. And we
Speaker 2: share ideas and we're continuing to grow obviously, and we
Speaker 2: encourage each other to grow and read and get better
Speaker 2: and improve things. And just seeing kind of where he
Speaker 2: talks to kids about and how he approaches sessions. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's just different than.
Speaker 1: How I do.
Speaker 2: So it's nice for each for both of us, I
Speaker 2: think to see the other person in action.
Speaker 1: What's the last book you read?
Speaker 2: That's John It's number one on my list right now
Speaker 2: of I need to do better in twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, because I think.
Speaker 2: I started off well in twenty twenty four and I
Speaker 2: probably have not read a book in like four months.
Speaker 3: So that's not good.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: So the last book I read.
Speaker 1: Where is it? Where'd you hide it?
Speaker 3: I think it's still hidden potential to be fair.
Speaker 2: I did reread this one because it was so good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, that's the last book I read.
Speaker 1: So when you when you read a book. Do you
Speaker 1: high do you take a highlighter and and destroy the
Speaker 1: inside of it and then end up getting another copy later?
Speaker 1: How do you when you take notes from other people
Speaker 1: to apply to what you want to do it beyond goals?
Speaker 1: How do you learn? How? What's the best way for
Speaker 1: you to learn from, like, say, a reading situation. Do
Speaker 1: you do you highlight? Do you write something down separate?
Speaker 1: How do you how do you learn? When you read?
Speaker 2: I take a picture of whatever paragraph or sentence or whatever,
Speaker 2: So I've got just a bunch of pictures when I'm
Speaker 2: done or halfway through or something, and then I'll go
Speaker 2: write notes in a Google doc and so that I
Speaker 2: can keep it organized of like, Okay, why did I
Speaker 2: take a picture of this?
Speaker 3: What does it have to do with whatever?
Speaker 2: That way I can kind of organize it into where
Speaker 2: it would be helpful, because some of these notes go
Speaker 2: into like more broad topics, and some of them are like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this would be really useful when I'm talking to a
Speaker 2: kid about X, and so I want this information or
Speaker 2: this idea in this little area of notes that we have,
Speaker 2: you know, for ideas for when we're talking to a
Speaker 2: kid about that subject. So that's how I do it
Speaker 2: take a picture and then go back to it and
Speaker 2: write it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when it comes to twenty twenty five and getting
Speaker 1: getting your your mentees to learn, do you encourage resolutions?
Speaker 1: Do you? And it might just be goals and aspirations
Speaker 1: instead of resolutions, because when you think of a new
Speaker 1: year's resolution, the first thing you think of sometimes is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give me like three weeks and I'll break it,
Speaker 1: you know, like working out. I'll set a new year's
Speaker 1: resolution to lose ten pounds and then three weeks and
Speaker 1: you sit there and go, man, this is this not happening.
Speaker 1: Do you encourage goals and aspirations at the beginning of
Speaker 1: a calendar year? Do you just sit there and have
Speaker 1: that as something as a part of a continual conversation.
Speaker 1: How do you bring in a new year with someone
Speaker 1: that you're that you're having to, that you're working with
Speaker 1: as a mentor how do you break down outlook, I
Speaker 1: guess is probably the best way to phrase it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question, and it depends on who
Speaker 2: we're working with and if we've worked with them before,
Speaker 2: because I think that, you know, with soccer being not
Speaker 2: a calendar year, sport. It kind of gets a little confusing,
Speaker 2: right do you make your goals at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season for the soccer season or do you make
Speaker 2: it at the beginning of the calendar year for the year,
Speaker 2: And so it just depends on you know, if this
Speaker 2: if the player is playing year round, or if they're
Speaker 2: playing multiple sports, or or when we started working with them.
Speaker 2: So a lot of them we do, right. I think
Speaker 2: it's it's great to have calendar year goals where you
Speaker 2: want to be this time next year, and then we
Speaker 2: work backwards, right, we always are working backwards. Okay, we've
Speaker 2: got this big goal here, or a couple of big
Speaker 2: goals that where we want to be. Okay, how are
Speaker 2: we going to get there? And then what are we
Speaker 2: going to work on to get there? And ideally we're
Speaker 2: coming back to like a weekly or bi weekly checklist
Speaker 2: of Okay, have I hit these small little steps in
Speaker 2: order to get to my goal at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, because like I said earlier, John, we could
Speaker 2: hit all these steps.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I've got a kid.
Speaker 2: He wants to get back with the national team, right,
Speaker 2: he's been with the youth national team before. He wants
Speaker 2: to get back for the Youth National and that's his
Speaker 2: goal for twenty five. I said, that's an awesome goal. Now,
Speaker 2: how do we do it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, we need to be playing consistently. Okay, we need
Speaker 2: to be healthy right, Okay, great, what are the steps
Speaker 2: to that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: How are we going to take care of our body
Speaker 2: on a daily and weekly basis so that we are
Speaker 2: healthy enough? And you know, so you just small little
Speaker 2: challenges and goals along the way.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that when you
Speaker 1: mentioned these these small goals, these incremental steps, I think
Speaker 1: that a lot of times we have a tendency to
Speaker 1: either take those small steps for granted and just it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll skip this chapter because I know that
Speaker 1: I do that, when in fact, you might be found
Speaker 1: out that you don't, or you sit there and it's
Speaker 1: just like, oh I did. It didn't quite register to
Speaker 1: me that I need to have that small of a
Speaker 1: step because it is one of those building blocks. I
Speaker 1: thought that that was interesting that you just mentioned that,
Speaker 1: because a lot of time, as we sit there and
Speaker 1: we'll take those small steps for granted, thinking that, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're already a part of the process, when they may
Speaker 1: not be. I thought that was really interesting that you
Speaker 1: brought that up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a crucial, crucial aspect and that's
Speaker 2: where a lot of people go wrong and why a
Speaker 2: lot of resolutions fall right.
Speaker 3: The goal is just too far away.
Speaker 2: It's it's a big aspiration, a big goal, like it's
Speaker 2: a yearly thing or it's a huge thing that's going
Speaker 2: to take months and months. That's just tough for mentally,
Speaker 2: right where you're not accomplishing something, you know, especially if
Speaker 2: it's not a number or something where you can really
Speaker 2: you know, if it's just to look better or thin
Speaker 2: down or whatever, that's just tough over time. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we highly encourage it. I saw this video the other day.
Speaker 2: It was really really good. I think it was a
Speaker 2: was a school teacher trying to teach his kids about
Speaker 2: this concept. And he had this kid who needed to
Speaker 2: get from one side of the room to the other
Speaker 2: side of the room, and he had pieces of paper
Speaker 2: that the kid could step on, and so the kid
Speaker 2: stepped on the pieces of paper to get to the
Speaker 2: other side and said, okay, now go back, and then
Speaker 2: he took away a few pieces of the paper and
Speaker 2: it was really more difficult. And then he took away
Speaker 2: all the pieces of paper, and he said, if you
Speaker 2: don't have these steps along the way to get to
Speaker 2: your goal, it's impossible to get there.
Speaker 1: I see now, I had I like the idea of
Speaker 1: pulling all of the pieces of paper off of the floor.
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, so now what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have the if you don't have
Speaker 1: those pieces laid in place, then you're gonna miss them
Speaker 1: coming back. You're not gonna have them coming back, or
Speaker 1: you're just gonna walk on the desks to get from
Speaker 1: one desk to the other and just do it up above.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gotta be always a way. And like
Speaker 1: in Star Trek with the Kobe Yashimaru and James T.
Speaker 1: Kirk when he when he went around and broke the
Speaker 1: machine and just kind of refixed the machine to his
Speaker 1: own bends.
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 2: I got to find alternative ways sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah excuses, Yeah exactly, Michael Parker. Yes, it's all about
Speaker 1: finding different ways and that the and then your instructor goes, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I'd thought of that.
Speaker 2: But speaking of yeah, New Years and like h goals
Speaker 2: and things and have you heard of the uh the
Speaker 2: viral like a hard seventy five challenge.
Speaker 1: Uh no, what's this?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well you look it up, John, it's uh it's
Speaker 2: I think it's a little older, but it became viral again.
Speaker 2: And basically there's like five or six things and you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do it every day for seventy five days.
Speaker 2: If you mess up or miss one day, you start over.
Speaker 2: And it's really intense. That's why it's called hard seventy five. Okay,
Speaker 2: But it's basically it's like drink a gallon of water
Speaker 2: a day, read x pages a day, exercise twice a day,
Speaker 2: take a picture of yourself once a day, and there's
Speaker 2: a couple other things. I think so, I think Greg
Speaker 2: and I are going to implement a modified version for
Speaker 2: any mentees that want to do like a thirty day
Speaker 2: thing with us, where you know, you read a few
Speaker 2: pages a day, you get x amount of sleep per day.
Speaker 2: We're not taking photos of ourselves. That's not the goal here,
Speaker 2: you know. But exercise could be something as small as
Speaker 2: stretching or getting core work in right, And it's just
Speaker 2: kind of like a more of a mentality and a
Speaker 2: discipline thing than it is, Like we're not trying to
Speaker 2: lose weight or do it for any specific reason. It's
Speaker 2: more like, hey, can we do something. Can we accomplish
Speaker 2: it for thirty days and stay dedicated to it and
Speaker 2: you know, get them thinking about and learning by reading,
Speaker 2: focusing on their sleep, getting certain amount of sleep. So
Speaker 2: we're tossing around the idea of, hey, should we start
Speaker 2: this for kind of the end of January and February
Speaker 2: type thing based off of this viral thing that's going
Speaker 2: around Andy Forsella.
Speaker 1: Think of this as an iron man for your brain.
Speaker 1: How to take complete control of your life and only
Speaker 1: seventy five days. Yeah, voting for Sella. There's nothing worse
Speaker 1: than rolling through life in the past in your seat.
Speaker 1: You wake up, go to work, and drift through each
Speaker 1: day with no direction or driving force. Then you drive home,
Speaker 1: flip through your favorite TV shows, go to bed, repeat
Speaker 1: that same cycle the next day. Weekdays all run together.
Speaker 1: You find yourself trying to pass the time until the
Speaker 1: weekend so you can relax, unwind, and finally enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1: You start doubting yourself. I'm skipping forward, and so he said,
Speaker 1: this is why I believe in the seventy five hard program.
Speaker 1: I know exactly how you feel. I've been there myself
Speaker 1: spent years feeling like I was nothing, floating through the
Speaker 1: days with no game plan and no results, letting myself
Speaker 1: go mentally and physically, trying program after a program to
Speaker 1: try to get back on track, only to fall off
Speaker 1: right after I completed it. I knew I wasn't the
Speaker 1: only one going through this, realize the root cause of
Speaker 1: all of my problems was not addressed by any existing program.
Speaker 1: And so Andy Frasella is the guy that did seventy
Speaker 1: five hards. So you want to spin off and do
Speaker 1: well ninety hard because there's ninety minutes in a match, mane.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe maybe we'll get to that. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think you know as far as smaller steps, I mean.
Speaker 1: Forty five, give me forty five, Parkhurst, Can you start
Speaker 1: and give me forty five? Then you can start it
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might even do thirty just a thirty day thing.
Speaker 2: See how we can do it, see what the response
Speaker 2: is like, and then we'll take it from there. If
Speaker 2: it was fun and everybody enjoyed it, maybe would do
Speaker 2: another one.
Speaker 1: There are other things that you guys did in twenty
Speaker 1: four that I thought were really cool like BGTV. What's
Speaker 1: it like for you doing the television thing where you
Speaker 1: cut your teeth on programs like this, but then you actually,
Speaker 1: you know, then you go to BGTV and you do
Speaker 1: that work there. What was that like for you doing
Speaker 1: the video side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I enjoyed doing the videos where I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm passing off knowledge of the way I see the
Speaker 2: game and the way high level athletes see the game
Speaker 2: and why they make the choices that they do on
Speaker 2: the field, and little little things that probably go unnoticed
Speaker 2: by a lot of youth athletes about what's making these
Speaker 2: professionals successful and what they're doing before the ball comes
Speaker 2: to them, and all these little things that I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to point out and help about. And uh So
Speaker 2: I really enjoy doing it. It's it's fun for me.
Speaker 2: I hope that we continue to grow that. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's a challenge getting kids to see the benefit
Speaker 2: of it, I think right now, but I still have
Speaker 2: big hopes for it.
Speaker 1: And I mean when you when you have different mentees
Speaker 1: of different age groups, different aspirations. Uh whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: early high school, high school, I would you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I would say middle school, just to just to be
Speaker 1: different middle school, high school, Uh, different levels of professional aspirations,
Speaker 1: things like that. How how much of a challenge is
Speaker 1: it for you and Greg to make sure that your
Speaker 1: messages are catered to the individual and not just have
Speaker 1: blanket thoughts going in two every you know, everyone who
Speaker 1: is a mentee. How difficult is it for you for
Speaker 1: you and Greg to segment and break apart all of
Speaker 1: your messaging with all of your different mentees because of
Speaker 1: all the different directions they're coming from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, That's that's tech a challenge, right because
Speaker 2: we work with nine and ten year olds who obviously
Speaker 2: have different goals, aspirations and just ability to absorb knowledge
Speaker 2: differently than a seventeen year old who wants to get
Speaker 2: back with the national team. Yeah, or college kid who's
Speaker 2: playing D one, you know, So it is completely different levels.
Speaker 2: So we do try and we separate things. We know
Speaker 2: that not every message is going to hit every mentee,
Speaker 2: but some messages will hit some and some messages will
Speaker 2: hit others.
Speaker 3: And that's fine.
Speaker 2: Not every message, not every piece of information is for
Speaker 2: the entire spectrum, But that doesn't mean they can't take
Speaker 2: something from it. But yeah, it's that is a challenge.
Speaker 2: And it's the same as like when I do soccer
Speaker 2: camps and you know, you try have an age range
Speaker 2: of kids and you've got a level and you're just
Speaker 2: you're trying to do your best to teach everyone something
Speaker 2: so that they can get better.
Speaker 1: And have fun.
Speaker 2: But that's a challenge when you're dealing with different ages
Speaker 2: and different skill levels.
Speaker 1: I know that one of the words that we use
Speaker 1: a lot these days when it comes to approaches and
Speaker 1: learning and things like that is the a holistic approach.
Speaker 1: And I know that you believe in that at Beyond Goals.
Speaker 1: When I mentioned the word holistic to you when it
Speaker 1: comes to an approach at BGM, what does a holistic
Speaker 1: approach mean to you?
Speaker 2: Specifically, A holistic approach means all encompassing and yeah, looking
Speaker 2: at everything to become better, so on the field, off
Speaker 2: the field, mental, physical, nutrition, sleep, everything that for me
Speaker 2: is a holistic approach when we're you know, three sixty
Speaker 2: view of your life and what is helping you or
Speaker 2: hindering you to get better.
Speaker 1: Because there are some folks who may sit there and
Speaker 1: think of holistic and think that it's all new, that
Speaker 1: it's new age you know that they get stuck in
Speaker 1: this notion of oh, it's you know, just twenty first
Speaker 1: century thinking, and it's this you know, you know you're
Speaker 1: looking at chakras and crystals and you know those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. That's why I wanted to get your definition
Speaker 1: of when you say a holistic approach, then it's a
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degree Okay, you've got to focus
Speaker 1: on this as much as you focus on this. You
Speaker 1: have to focus on the inside as much as you
Speaker 1: focus on the outside. You've got to focus on sleep
Speaker 1: and your your own mechanics as much as you do
Speaker 1: anything else. That's why I wanted to ask you, because
Speaker 1: there are folks that may sit there and look at it,
Speaker 1: and their idea might be, you know, the person that
Speaker 1: wanders around and you know there's just flipping smoke everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, those kinds of things. So that's why I
Speaker 1: wanted to get when you say holistic, That's why I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your definition, because some folks may get
Speaker 1: stuck in an idea and it's not where you're going
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: No, you don't want to be on that that edge
Speaker 2: of the row seat when the guy's coming by with
Speaker 2: that stuff you know who a little a little strong.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now when you're when you're doing that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: that's very cool.
Speaker 2: To Bart's question over here, John, it's funny how snow
Speaker 2: day activities differ when you get a little bit older.
Speaker 2: My favorite currently is if we're going to get snow,
Speaker 2: I want a lot of snow so I can get
Speaker 2: the snowblower out right out sucker, so I want to
Speaker 2: use that sucker. And thankfully we had enough snow last
Speaker 2: week to use it. So yeah, getting that guy fired
Speaker 2: up and using that that's that's fun for me. And
Speaker 2: I still like sledding. Uh oh, if the kids are
Speaker 2: going to go sledding, I want to go sledding.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't blame you a bit. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: Great to see you, Great to catch up with you.
Speaker 1: Glad that the Beyond Goals canntinues to kick some serious
Speaker 1: ass out of twenty four and heading into twenty five.
Speaker 1: And what I wanted to do this first time around
Speaker 1: is kind of recap twenty four, look at twenty five,
Speaker 1: what you guys have learned and what you're planning on
Speaker 1: learning going forward. So I wanted to I wanted to
Speaker 1: have the whole approach and kind of like a recap
Speaker 1: review preview, kind of a thing for your first visit
Speaker 1: this year, to let everybody know how things have grown
Speaker 1: there at BGM. And for putting up with questions like
Speaker 1: mine on a yearly basis.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: And if we don't have a female hired in the
Speaker 2: next like three or four months, sean, you got to
Speaker 2: hold me accountable.
Speaker 1: That's I will, I will, all right. So Q one
Speaker 1: all right, so Q one goal Parkhurst female higher. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I have officially written it down. There we go,
Speaker 1: and so by May first, if this is if this
Speaker 1: has not happened, and this particular individual has not been
Speaker 1: put in as a part of the rotation, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a talk. Park Urry, that's right.
Speaker 3: It's like a little public peer pressure.
Speaker 1: Be well, my friend, safe, stay warm. We'll catch up
Speaker 1: with you soon. Thanks for dropping by, a safe down
Speaker 1: in the snow, Yes, sir, As always, there goes parking.