Sport Psych Saturday

Hello, Cadre. Happy Saturday. My name is Garrett. Welcome to another edition of Sports Psych Saturday, which stands for Sports Psychology Saturday. If you didn't know that, I shortened it to be efficient because that's who I am. Hope your week was good. I know for me it was fantastic. I wanted to show you all my highlight of the week was definitely earlier this week. I got to do some morning pt, some physical training with the soldiers that I work with. So I work as a performance psychology coach with the US army at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona.

So earlier this week, got through some morning pt with them. We did some yoga, which was awesome. I don't know if any of you have soldiers in your life or family or friends who, who are soldiers, but dang, they do pt early. I got there at 430, or as they say, zero 430 in their military time. It was dark. I saw my first tarantula since living in Arizona and then got to do some yoga with them, which was awesome. And afterwards gave a brief presentation and a little teaching about energy management, why it's important to manage our energy.

Good afternoon, Jules. Thanks for joining as well as a few others. So I talked to them about managing their energy. They had a big fitness test coming up. It's called the ACFT. I think it's the army comprehensive fitness test, something like that. So they were a little nervous, so I taught them some breathing techniques. Also different ways to ramp up their energy a little bit high. Speak wonder. Thanks for joining as well. So that was my highlight. I encourage you, just obviously I can't hear you.

Maybe if you want to comment your highlight of the week, but just think what was your highlight of the week? I usually like to do that at the end of the week, just reflect a little bit. I do that in my gratitude journal as well at a daily level. But just think about what's your highlight of the week? Another thing that is also prevalent, or I guess relevant to what I'm about to do this weekend. And one thing I want to share with you all, because I talked early on in the year, in 2024, a lot about goals, because we're on New Year's resolution time.

A lot of people do goals. And I, one thing I wanted to emphasize a little bit was checking in on those goals. So there's this great quote. I have a lot of books here in my office. I also have a lot of them at my office at work. So I don't think I have it, but maybe some of you've heard of atomic habits by James clear. It's probably one of the most famous pop psychology books. It's one of my favorites on goal setting, habit building and stuff like that. And he talks a lot about how you are a product of your systems.

In other words, you need to have a system to do anything to change your habits. You need to have a system. And a key part of those systems, in addition to many other things, is having a way to check in on yourself. Jewel says, when I got to take out a friend for coffee to celebrate her passing her nursing boards, yes, that's a good highlight. That's awesome. Getting to spend time with your friends, getting coffee. I love coffee. So that's good. And also them passing their nursing boards, it's awesome.

So that's a good highlight. Thanks for sharing. So with James Clear's quote about the systems, having a clear system or a way to check in on your goals. All right, so for me, I'm going to. I'm going to say I'm trying to, but I will. I'm going to do it. I'm going to run a half marathon, my first one in a few months. First weekend in November, November 2, I'm going to run a half marathon. So I'm training for it in the months ahead. And now what I've instilled is that I do a long run on Sunday and then I check in on my weekly progress.

So I check in, make sure I'm holding myself accountable to my goals, check my mileage, my pacing, how my nutrition and diet was, how my sleep was, and just go over that. Make any adjustments as needed, speak wonder, said. Highlight my week when a grocery store cashier handed me a beautiful sunflower to match my sunflower earrings. That's awesome. That's pretty cool. So grocery store cashiers are just. When you have a good cashier, it's. It can change your day. It can change your week. They're just a good.

That was my first job as a grocery store cashier and they're just. Some days you're in a good mood where you can do stuff like that. I'm happy they were. That's, that's good. And okay, we got some fans of the half marathon and I'll be running my first five k next Saturday since 2020. That's awesome. Yes. I started out with five ks as well. And they were, they're just, they're fun. They're a lot more challenging than I thought they would be. So good luck on your first five K next Saturday, Jules.

That'll be fun. If it's you know, later in the day. Hopefully I'll have some advice for you that Saturday morning with sports like Saturday. But yeah, that's really the main thing is just having a system for you. So if it is training for five k or training for a half marathon like myself, whatever you're training for, even whatever goal, maybe it's financial, maybe it's family related, maybe it's work related. Just have a system to check in on that progress. Don't set it and forget it because that's awful.

We do but have a system to check in. How often will you check in? How are you going to check in? How are you going to review the measurability or objective aspects of your goal? Like do you have a number associated with your goal? Are you going to check? Are you going to use an app to track that? What are you going to do? So have that plan in place, then you can have an appropriate system. Thank you again for joining me and sharing some highlights of the week. And also go make sure that you check in and have a system for your goals.

All right. Happy Saturday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody.