Ep #391: How to Gain Confidence in Hockey & Get More Ice Time: 3 Warrior Confidence Tips

🎙️ Ep #391: How to Gain Confidence in Hockey & Get More Ice Time: 3 Warrior Confidence Tips

In this episode of Warrior Confidence Monday Motivation, Master Coach Rich Grogan dives into the Champion’s Playbook to help hockey players, parents, and coaches build unshakable confidence and stand out on the ice. Confidence isn’t just something you’re born with—it’s earned through self-respect, discipline, and consistent effort.

 

You’ll learn:

- Why confidence is the key to earning more ice time.

- How small wins and preparation build momentum.

- 3 powerful Warrior Confidence Tips to help you thrive under pressure.

This episode is packed with actionable strategies, personal insights, and the motivation you need to stop doubting yourself, start taking control, and become the leader and champion you were meant to be.

 

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Episode Transcript

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the Let me ask you this.
Are you struggling to find that confidence to believe in yourself and stand out from thecrowd and earn the ice time you want?
Does that lack of confidence hold you back from taking that shot or making that play andkind of feeling

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champions.
Let me ask you this.
Are you struggling with
champions.
Let me ask you this.
Are you struggling to find that confidence to stand out from the crowd to believe inyourself?
Is that lack of confidence holding you back from making a play, taking the shot?

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And because of that lack of confidence, are you missing out on ice time and opportunitiesand starting to doubt yourself?
Well, if that's you or that's your players, make sure you stay tuned.

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champions.
Let me ask you this.
Are you struggling to find that confidence to believe in yourself and stand out from thecrowd?
Is that lack of confidence holding you back from making the play, taking the shot, andkeeping you from the ice time and leadership roles you want?
Well, if that's you or if that's a player you know, tune in because today's episode, we'rediving in on how to build that warrior confidence to stand out from the crowd, to earn the

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playing time, earn the leadership roles, to succeed both on and off the ice.

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Greetings, champions.
Welcome to the Real Rich Grogan Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
I'm here to empower you with that warrior confidence to stand out from the crowd, to dothe things that others aren't willing to do, to believe in yourself, to develop that
mindset of a champion, develop that respect, lead with integrity both on and off the ice.
This podcast is for players, parents, coaches, anyone wanting to excel in confidence,excel in respect, excel in leadership.

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That's what we're here for.
So,

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Greetings, champions.
Welcome to the Real Rich Grogan Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
I'm your host, Master Coach Rich Grogan, and I'm truly grateful you're here today.
Hey, listen, our mission, my mission, is to empower you with a warrior confidence, developthat respect and that champion's mindset to stand out from the crowd, to excel, to reach
your full potential, to get the ice time and leadership roles that you, your players, yourkids want.

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So if you're ready for that, then buckle up that chin strap and let's dive right in,because it's game time.
Well, this is episode number 391.
You can believe that.
Holy smokes.
And I titled this how to gain confidence in hockey to earn that ice time.
I tell you, it's a champions playbook and that's what we're going to be talking about.
Well, this month's theme is just do it January.

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And that's what we're going to talk about.
Just doing what you need to do in order to earn that ice time in order to earn thoseleadership roles.
So I always like to start off with an engagement question.
And that question is, I want you to think about this during the show.
What action are you willing to take or
What action are you going to share with your players or your kids, if you're a parent outthere, that they're going to take this week in order to do that little extra, to earn that

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ice time.
So drop in the comments.
It could be something as simple as they're going to show up early.
They're going to mentally prepare.
They're going to listen to this podcast.
They're going do something to help them gain and get that edge.
One thing, go ahead and drop in the comments now.
And while you're dropping it in there, go ahead and smack that subscribe, ring that bellso you don't miss out on an episode.

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Here's where I want to start.
I want you to think about this.
Confidence, man, it doesn't just magically appear.
It doesn't just come out of nowhere.
No one's just going to hand you the confidence.
And I think we could all agree that we could all use a little more confidence, that littleextra belief in ourself.
Because anytime we have any kind of setback, anytime we have any failure that leads tostruggle, anytime we have a challenge that just doesn't seem like we can overcome, man, it

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starts to chip away at our confidence.
And confidence is such a fragile thing.
I mean, it comes and goes.
I always use goalies.
My youngest son is a hockey goalie.
Even before he was a goalie, hockey goalies were always doing speeches and presentations.
I would use them as an example of how confidence comes and goes.
And the example I like to give is one night a goalie could make 50 saves, stop 50, makes50 saves on 50 shots.

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They shut the door, baby.
They could stop a darn golf ball or ping pong ball.
Nothing's getting through.
same goalie the very next night could give up five goals on five shots.
I've seen it countless times.
It's happened to my son.
His first start on a travel team he played on and he'd been working hard to heck, he'donly been in the nets a short amount of time, but he earned a spot, got on there and it

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was halfway through the season before he got his first start.
Got his first start spectacular shut out.
I think there were 29 shots.
made all 29 saves.
Some pretty tough saves as well.
shut out.
He was excited.
You I got the game puck and we wrapped it with the the date, the shut out.
The very next game, which was two days later, he literally gave up five goals on I thinkit was six or seven shots.

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Unbelievable.
I mean, it happens and he got pulled in the first period.
He just who knows?
Bad bounce here, bad bounce there.
But what happens is that confidence, like I said, it's such a fragile thing.
And I remember hearing coaches before would say
Not very motivating and not very supportive, but things that kind of stuck with me.
I mean, this is back in high school.

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I remember coach once saying, darn it to our goalie.
You couldn't stop a dang beach ball.
Now, of course that didn't help the goalie at all with his confidence.
But my point is it is such a fragile thing.
So my whole goal with everything we're talking about today and the whole essence of thispodcast and what the warrior confidence brand is all about is helping you develop that
confidence.

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But here's the right hook of reality.
Wham.
no one is just going to hand you or give you confidence.
If they did, it probably wouldn't last because confidence, just like everything else, itmust be earned.
And the harder you work for it, the more work you put into it, man, it's gonna startbuilding that confidence because you know you've earned it.

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Now confidence, it kind of starts with that self-respect.
I shouldn't say kind of, it does.
You gotta respect yourself to be disciplined enough to do the things you need to do.
And then with confidence and warrior confidence, it's not a matter of if you fail.
Warrior confidence is, hey man, I'm going to try some things I haven't tried before.
I'm going to put myself out there.
I'm going to work hard.

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So there's a high probability that I am going to fail.
But I've got that warrior confidence, a belief in myself to realize that a champion is notsomeone who's never failed before.
champion is someone who's failed over and over and over again but refuses to give up,refuses to quit, refuses to get down, refuses to lose that confidence or belief in

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themselves.
Now it doesn't mean it can't happen but that warrior confidence is giving you thatability, that mindset to battle through knowing it's probably gonna happen but man you got
the grit, resilience, and determination, you got that self-respect, you've got thatattitude, you've got that work ethic, then you're get back up and battle through and
confidence is built.
step by step by step.

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Almost I was on a podcast recently and I talked about, it was about confidence and theyasked, man, I'm still struggling with confidence.
I hate to admit it, I hate to say it.
That's what they were saying.
And it's things I got to remind myself too, cause I've learned a lot over the course of mylife, 40 plus years in martial arts, 50 plus years in the wonderful sport of ice hockey.

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But like I said, confidence is such a fragile thing.
We have setbacks and we go into doubt.
I like to say it's our bully in our mind that'll kick in, start telling us, you failedagain, huh?
You're probably not that good.
You're not as good as you think you are.
Whoa.
That starts chipping away.
And then you have another setback and another failure.
Your confidence can wane a little bit.
Well, you got to build it back little by little by little by little.

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Each small step, and we're going to talk about three warrior confidence tips on how todevelop that warrior confidence, that confidence to believe in yourself, to stand out.
But I'm telling you.
or your confidence is knowing that you're probably going to fail at some point in time,but having that belief in yourself to get right back up and say, Hey, those things happen.
Failure, as Zig Zig would always say, failure is an event.

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It's not you.
It's not a person.
Events happen.
That event happened last night or that event happened a minute ago.
Let that event go, learn from it.
And that's something they tell players on the bench all the time, or especially goalies,Hey, you let in a goal, maybe you should have saved.
But I want you to think about it, five to 10 seconds maximum.
What could I have done differently?

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Was my angle off, my positioning wrong?
Okay, all right.
I'm gonna get back out there.
I'm gonna be confident about it, knowing that I'm gonna learn from this.
Let it go after five to 10 seconds, because if you keep dwelling on the air, you're gonnalikely repeat it again.
And then you're gonna be dwelling on that air.
And guess what?
You're not gonna be ready for the next challenge, the next shot, the next thing that'scoming.

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And we know hockey, bang, bang, bang.
It is such a fast, quick sport.
It's constantly moving.
You may turn over the puck as a defenseman, and it leads to a goal.
Come off the ice.
Get a shot of water.
Don't hang your head down.
Don't pout.
Don't have a pity party.
Think to yourself, what could I have done differently?
Learn from it and move on.
And that's the same with any mistake we have in life.

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Think about it, five to 10 seconds.
What could I have done differently?
Learn from it and move on.
If you continue to dwell on it, man, it's just going to keep your confidence going tocontinue to more and more down.
I mean, it's going to dwindle.
Now, are these things easy to do?
No, nothing in life is easy to do.
But can you do it?

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You gosh darn right you can.
That starts in the willingness to do it, the confidence to believe in yourself.
And I'm telling you, all confidence, everything, I believe, starts with self-respect.
Respecting yourself enough
to be humble enough when you make a mistake and players here, I'll get back to that in aminute.
When you come to the bench after make a mistake and the coach gets on to you, just say,yes coach, I'll work on it.

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Or you can say, thanks coach, I'll work on it.
We don't wanna hear excuses.
We don't wanna hear all this happened, all the ice is bad, all the referee should havemade this call.
No, anybody can make excuses and have pity parties, but not you.
You're better than that.
You're gonna say, yes coach,
You're going to learn from it and move on because it's one thing coaches we hate is comingto the bench whining and complaining.

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Now here's here's a story for you and this just happened at our last game.
actually are a Palmetto high school hockey team and got a big shout out to them.
You can see it on the wall there.
I'm so blessed and honored to be a part of the team.
Coach Bobby Varna and Vance Grover.
Thanks guys.
Happy to be on the bench with you and Bobby set a very disciplined team.

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He's hardcore.
He lets the player, we connect extremely well because nothing in life is handed to you.
Confidence is not handed to you, nor is anything else and no one's entitled to anything.
Anyway, we played for the division championship on Friday night and we won.
Yes.
And we are the division champs, which we can celebrate that for a short time, but playoffsstart next week.

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So going to the playoffs, everybody's zero and zero, right?
No wins, no losses.
You win, you move on, you lose, you're done.
Unfortunately, it's single elimination here in Florida for the playoffs.
That's just the way the structure is.
But we got a good opportunity to do something we've never done before.
And this was actually the first division title for the Paul Metal Tigers.
So good stuff there.

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Well, anyway, a couple of our star players came to the bench and we're playing ourcrosstown rivals, the Manatee admirals, extremely good team.
Matter of fact, they had beat us the last three times we played.
They knocked us out in the playoffs last year and then they beat us twice this year.
So we knew there were going be tough competition and it was a, we were one point ahead inthe standings and it was a battle for division title.

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Anyway, they came out and they are a hard, they're a good team and they are hard hittingand they, they're well coached, skate well, pass well, good breakouts, hard hitting team
as well.
And they were, they were rocking us.
They came out determined.
It was a, both of our senior nights and, uh, we, we, I'll say we had a little biggercelebration and I think we had more.

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people in the stands as well.
But anyway, they came out and they were getting chippy.
But that's part of the game, high school hockey.
And a couple of players come to the bench and a few of them even are superstars.
Come on, ref, come on, ref.
And I said, knock it off.
I said, knock it off.
You are a star player.
They're coming after you because that's what they're going to do.
They're going to try and shut you down.

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And they've already got in your head because a call wasn't made.
And here's the thing about calls, those listening.
Yes.
We all know the game better than any official and I've been plenty hard on officials inthe past.
Well, this year I actually took my referee certification and found out, holy smokes,there's a lot going on there.
But sometimes officials do miss calls or human beings.

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We get it.
We make mistakes as coaches, as players, as parents.
We all make mistakes.
Here's the thing.
If the officials don't call it, then it's not a penalty and never has throwing your handsup and having a little temper tantrum.
change the ref's mind.
Neither has screaming and yelling at the official.

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Now I've had many conversations with refs and here's a little secret that's kind of goingoff script here, but calling the ref over and just saying, hey, what did you see there on
that call?
Because I didn't see that, but I want to hear your side of it.
A little mind trick here for coaches out there.
Have the ref explain to you what they saw.
Now, if they have a difficult time explaining it, arguing with them is going to change it.

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But you get in their head, because they think, maybe I did bone that call.
So maybe you'll get a call later or a questionable one.
They won't call against you or they'll call for you.
So you get in their head.
Just ask them, what did you see?
So anyway, back to the script, so to speak, with the player.
I told him, look, man, they are going to be gunning for you.
And you're going to play in an elite level.
And guess what?

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It's going to happen more and more and more.
And the officials aren't going to see everything.
And they're not going to make every call.
But.
People know you are the superstar or one of the superstars.
And seeing you throw your hands up and having a little fit out there doesn't display a lotof the type of character that you want to be known for, the type of character player that
you are.

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So let it go.
If the ref doesn't call, it's not a penalty.
You focus on what you do best.
Skating, passing, shooting.
A lot faster skater than most of the guys out there.
You got softer hands than most of the guys out there.
Like I said, you're going to play at an elite level.
You put the puck in the net.
That is how you shut them up.
That is how you take over with your mind and utilize your unique God given talents, whichis skating, shooting and passing and unfortunately roasting goalies and defensemen.

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Well, fortunately for us, unfortunately for the goalies and defensemen out there, you dothat.
He goes, all right, coach.
And I said, most importantly, you keep your head up.
He went out there now.
He's gifted, but mindset, confidence,
self-respect, discipline, all those things we're talking about, those are game changers.

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Well, he ended up scoring six goals.
We won six to one.
Well, let me back up.
One of the goals, they overturned, they said the net was off or somebody ran out of thegoalie.
So I guess technically, even though they had it up, there was a long pause.
The two officials chatted about this and that.
technically, I guess it was five to one, but he scored all five goals.

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Now, I'm telling you that
not to brag and boast on what I did, but saying you can do that.
Just listen to what I'm talking about here to talk to your players about, or if you're aplayer listening to this, it all starts here, man.
You gotta have that confidence.
And when you start throwing your hands around, you start doing all these things andletting the other team get in your head, your confidence is dwindling and going because

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then it's just gonna continue to build.
Kind of like that compound effect.
One thing goes wrong, then two things go wrong, then three things go wrong.
And before you know it,
Your mind's out of the game.
You've lacked discipline.
Now you're in the penalty box or getting a 10 minute misconduct.
Those things happen.
Well, the compound effect also happens on the positive side.
You focus on what you do best and that builds that confidence.

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You scored the first one, then he scored a second one and a third one.
And my gosh, it's not a matter of him not passing the puck.
He was just making things happen and getting set up.
So our other players did their job.
Now I told him this also something to pass on players.
can win games by themselves, but teams win championships.

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Every player has to do their job.
Every player has to have that warrior confidence, that belief in themselves to do whatthey're meant to do.
If we have our grinders try and do what our goal scorers do, then, and that doesn't meanthe grinders can't score, but they're the ones that gotta dig the puck out of the corner.
They got to get in there and do what they do.
The defensemen have to play shut down defense.

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The goalie can't be a goal scorer.
He's got to worry first and foremost about stopping the puck, freezing, covering the puckwhen he needs to.
Not playing the puck when our guys are tired and late in his shift.
So everybody's got to play their game.
So kind of take a middle note on that.
Players, yeah, they can win games by themselves, but teams win championships.
And just think about, you know, we've got some elite players in the game today that havenever won a Stanley Cup.

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because they can only do so much by themselves.
Teams work together.
So anyway, there's a little deeper than I'd planned to get into here, but confidence isreally, it's the pinnacle of everything you do in anything in life.
If you're wanting to succeed at your job, you want to succeed in the world, you're wantingto have the courage to ask someone out for a date, wanting the courage to ask your spouse

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or your, I guess it's not your spouse yet, but your fiance for,
for a right?
You're gonna ask them to marry you.
You gotta have that confidence, belief in yourself.
You gotta have that confidence to even try out for a hockey team or to ask, hey, you know,I'd love to help coach or help out on the bench.
All those things take confidence.
So how do we get that confidence?

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Well, I'm gonna share with you three warrior confidence tips.
And the first one, word confidence tip number one, is commit to consistency.
What you do consistently is essentially who you become.
So if you consistently kind of dog it, kind of just go through the motions, just kind of,it's enough.

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Well, before you know it, and the players know this, I them repeat it just about everypractice in every game.
And it is how you do anything is eventually how you'll do, and they finish it, everything.
So how you do anything, what are you consistent about?
will commit to the consistency of being disciplined, having self-respect, which is goingto build that self-confidence, which is going to build that belief in yourself to do the

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things.
And a lot of times it boils down to doing the things that others simply aren't willing todo.
And I tell players, coaches, leaders, organizations all the time, it's easier than ever,especially today, kind of unfortunate, but it's the reality of things.
It's easier than ever to stand out from the crowd.

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Why?
Because so few are willing to do the simple little things you need to do to stand out fromthe crowd.
And a lot of it boils down to being respectful, working hard, having a champion's mindset.
Why?
It takes effort.
And you say, well, if it's easy to do, why aren't others doing it?
Well, the old thing is what's easy to do is also easy not to do.

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But I want you, like number one is commit to the consistency showing up earlier than thecoach asks you to be there.
skating all the way to the line, not half button it, we'll say, or dogging it when thecoach isn't listening or isn't watching.
Listening to the coach saying, yes, coach, even if you think you've got an excuse, don'tmake it.

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Because once you start making excuses before you know it, your whole life is nothing butan excuse.
You're blaming the ref, you're blaming the coach, you're blaming the, well, anything andeveryone for your failures or your shortcomings.
Don't do it, because how you do anything is eventually how you do everything.
So number one, commit to consistency of doing the things that others aren't willing to do.

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You have no control over, like I was always one of the smallest shortest players on everyteam I played on.
And I certainly was not the most naturally gifted at all.
I had some athletic ability and talent, I guess a little more than some, but I certainlywas never a standout superstar on athletic ability or height and size ever.
But what I did, you

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But then I should say, I learned what I did have and it's what we all have control over,my attitude and my effort.
That attitude of excellence and that work ethic of an underdog champion.
And to this day, my attitude is, you are not gonna outwork me.
You're not gonna do it.
That's the attitude.
And of course, when I go into puck battles, and I still play to this day, go to a puckbattle, that's my puck.

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Don't you dare touch my puck.
I'm going in to win that puck battle.
Now that doesn't mean I win every puck battle.
It doesn't mean you're going to win every puck battle, but your attitude is committed togiving it your absolute very, very best.
And you're going to put forth your very best.
And someone beat you at the puck battle in the corner in front of the net.
Next time you go in there, you don't, I'm going in twice as hard this time.

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You beat me the first time.
You sure as heck beat me the second time.
Well, maybe they do.
Maybe they beat you twice.
Maybe they beat you three times, but each time you're going on there more and morecommitted, more hungry.
You're hungry, baby.
You want that puck.
And if someone whips your butt up and down the ice all night long, don't throw a pityparty.
Don't make excuses.
Don't say, well, well, you know, he's on the ice more than I am.

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he's bigger than I am.
Don't do that, man.
You start making excuses for one thing, you're making excuses for everything.
You're better than that.
Here's what you do.
If you get your butt handed to you up and down the ice, you lose every puck battle, everyshift, every period in the game.
You need to commit to working harder in practice, not pointing fingers and blaming.
If you want to point fingers, look at the person in the mirror and say, what extra couldyou have done?

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That's committing to consistency.
And number two, a way to help build your warrior confidence to get that ice time you wantis focus on the small wins.
Yeah, we want the grandiose wins.
We want the big wins.
But focus on the small ones like building a house.
You got to go brick by brick by brick by brick.

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And that's how you build that unshakable warrior confidence.
building those bricks.
And does it mean you're not going to have a brick fall off, so to speak?
Does it mean you're not going to have a setback or a failure?
Because remember, champions are not someone who's never failed.
Champions are someone who's failed over and over again.
That failure builds that resilience and that resistance and that strength to get back upand fight another round.

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And as I said, it's easier than ever nowadays because a lot of people, once they've hadone failure or one setback, one adversity, one challenge that seems impossible,
They just give up.
Not you.
Not you.
You're going to celebrate those small wins and slowly but surely brick by brick by brick,you're building that warrior confidence.
And how you celebrate smaller wins?

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say previous game, you lost every face off.
You lost every puck battle in the corner.
You worked harder in practice.
You started to win a few in practice.
Maybe in practice, you beat a guy facing off that you've never won a face off from before.
You've never beaten before.
Yeah, stand in front of the net instead of getting pushed around by the defenseman, you'reable to stand there and you made a couple deflections.

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Count those small wins because you count those small wins.
You start focusing on, what I did right, how I'm getting better as opposed to I loseeverything.
I lose every time.
Now be real with yourself.
If you're not putting in the work, then you can't expect to win.
But if you're putting in the work, count those small wins.
Hey, you know what?
Last game, I feel like I lost every shift.

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I was out there.
This game I won two out of the four shifts I had.
And if you want more shifts, win more battles.
Work harder in practice.
Therefore your four shifts now turn into six, eight to 10 shifts.
Now you're on the penalty kill.
Now you're on the power play.
Now you're in key game situations because you've chose to do the work and practice andyou've chose not to make excuses, whine and complain and have a pity party.

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So celebrate those small wins.
And a lot of times people say, oh, it's so dang small.
Does it really matter?
Absolutely.
Like I talked about earlier, it's that compound effect.
One thing leads to another, leads to another, leads to another.
And I always like to talk about the compound effect.
I'm reading a book again that I read years ago called The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson.

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And he talks about the power of the compound effect and its compound interest is what hecalls it.
It's the power of the penny.
If you double a penny every single day for 30 days, anybody want to guess how much moneyyou got?
You think, it's not going to be very much.
And by the 20, it was like 26th, 27th day, it really isn't a whole lot.

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And he tells a great story in the book, The Slight Edge.
But by the 30th day, by compounding that penny, and what that means is the first day it'sone penny, the next day it's two, the day after that it's four, and then it's eight, then
it's 16.
and then it's 32 and you get the gist of it.
So it takes a while for that compound effect to work or that compound interest.

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But by the 30th day, that penny doubling every day, which is the point I'm getting to,these small wins, it's over $10 million.
Woo, that's amazing.
But that is the power of the compound effect or compound interest.
That's the power of celebrating and focusing on those small wins because one leads to thenext, what leads to the next.
Now it's sort of like

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You've heard the journey of a thousand miles.
That's tough, man.
If you think, my gosh, you got a thousand miles to go.
Well, you can beat yourself up and intimidate yourself to the point you can't even move.
Or you can say, well, it starts with one step.
I'm going to take that step.
Then I'm going to take the next one.
Then I'm going to take the next one.
Then I'm going to take the next one.
And that compound effect, before you know it, you're there.
So celebrate those small wins.

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Can you do it?
Yeah.
Are you going to do it?
Yeah, I want you to put in the comments.
Yes, I am doing this thing.
Taking that first step.
doing the little things I need to do.
Starts with one step.
All right, before we move on to Warrior Confidence, tip number three, I wanna remind youabout our program, or how to get more ice time.
There's the workbook, absolutely.

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So check those babies out.
Gonna do it?
I sure hope so, because I want you to get that ice time in those leadership roles.
Warrior confidence tip number three is visualize the success you want.
So visualize your success.
Like I said, everything starts in the mind.
You gotta see it.
If you see negative, you're gonna see negative everywhere.

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What you focus on magnifies.
Or another term is,
Where your focus goes, your energy flows.
Where your energy goes, your focus goes.
They kind of work hand in hand with one another.
So I want you to visualize instead of saying, oh, I'm just no good.
I lose every puck battle.
I lose every shift.
I'm terrible.
I'm the worst.
Man, oh man.
You're helping that bully in your mind confirm what the bully's trying to tell you.

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And the bully's always in there, chirping at you.
That bully talks about self-doubt, limiting belief.
You're not good enough.
That bully in my mind used to always tell me, Richie,
because I used to hear it all the time, Richie, you're just not big enough.
Richie, you're just not strong enough.
Richie, you're just not tall enough.
Richie, you're just not good enough.
Richie, you're just not smart enough.
After hearing those things over and over again, Richie started, that's what everybodycalled me as a kid, my parents still do, Richie started to believe that stuff.

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And it's the same thing.
Oftentimes we, person you see in the mirror, is our worst enemy, our worst bully.
So I want you to visualize your success, not visualize your failures.
And here's the thing, as I mentioned, champions are not someone who's never failed.
Champions are someone who's failed over over again but refused to quit.

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You are going to fail far more than you succeed.
But in those failures is what's going to help you develop into the champion that you wereborn to be, the champion you want to be.
And I promise you, you overcome all those failures regardless how many there are.
and you get that championship, you hoist that championship.
Now doesn't mean you're always, just because you do these things, you're going to win anational championship or you're going to win a division championship or you're going to

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win a tournament championship.
Doesn't mean that, but if you're doing far better than what you were yesterday, last week,last month, last year, and you know you've given it all you got and you're becoming a
champion and that's those small wins I was talking about, Warrior Confidence Tip numbertwo.
That's going to lead to that combat effect.
but you gotta visualize the success that you want.

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And it starts by having a positive attitude.
And a story I've told countless times is, you plant a garden and you want beautiful,luscious, succulent, yummy strawberries, you gotta plant strawberry seeds.
If you plant onion seeds, you're getting onions.
You're not getting those beautiful strawberries.
Well, the same thing applies to visualize success.

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If you plant in your mental garden negativity, self-doubt, limiting beliefs,
I'm not good enough.
I'm too small.
Nobody believes in me.
You plant that.
That's what you're going to get.
Those are weeds, man.
You got to dig and pluck those things up.
Plant the success you want.
And it starts by visualizing the success.
You're going to visualize that you're winning those puck battles.

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And then in practice, you're working twice as hard in order to do it.
You can't just, and that's the thing, because well, I've, in a lot of books out there, Ithink the author's intent is good.
talking about visualizing success and that's all you gotta do.
Well, that's not true.
Yes, you gotta visualize it, but you gotta put in the work in order to develop the talentand the ability to be able to achieve that.

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I always like to say that, because all the times I get comments, say, I tried to visualizeit and nothing happened.
Well, you can't just sit there.
And an unfortunate reality is, I'll talk to people I haven't talked to in years.
And I say, man, I remember the last time you talked, you're thinking about getting intocoaching or you're wanting to quit this job and maybe write a book and or you're talking
about getting back on the ice and being a player again.

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Well, I'm just just waiting.
I'm visualizing it.
I said, well, it's been five years visualizing is great.
But what action have you taken?
You've got to take action.
So that leads back to warrior confidence.
Tip number one, which is what is it?
Commit to consistency.
Number two.
Focus on the small wins and then visualize that success.

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And of course, there's no random or they're just kind of random order here.
I put them in there.
I tried to move them around thinking this should come first, this should come second.
You apply them all together.
You apply those bricks, putting them in there.
commit to the consistency.
You are going to do it because you want the results.
You want the ice time.
You want the leadership roles.
Celebrate the small wins on the way there and then visualize those successful steps alongthe way.

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Visualize, hey, I didn't think I could do this, but I did.
my gosh, visualize the next step of success.
Visualize the next step of success and then be consistent with that.
So you can see how they work, know, whatever order they're in, they interchange andinterlock and they work toward your success.
All right.
So are you going to do it?
Are you going to do things we talked about here?
You're going to build that warrior confidence, that hockey confidence to stand out fromthe crowd, to get the leadership roles, to get the ice time you want?

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I sure hope so.
Now listen.
I know mostly parents and coaches are the ones listening to podcast.
But I'm talking to you because we can all use a little more confidence.
But I'm talking on these podcasts and these video blogs the way I talk to the players inthe locker room.
So if you found value in this, please, and I know most teenagers don't listen, but sharethis with them.
Give them as a homework assignment.
Hey, you need to watch this guy's podcast.

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You need to listen to what he's saying.
Or just literally steal, borrow the stuff I'm talking about and share it with them.
Because my whole goal
is to be the mentor I always wanted, needed in my life.
My goal is to empower these players, these teenagers, to be the leaders that stand outfrom the crowd, that lead with integrity, both on and off the ice.
So collectively, let's work together and make that happen.

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Sound good?
All right.
Well, as a reminder, make sure you smash that bell, like and subscribe, share this withsomebody who could benefit.
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Pick up a copy of my book.
And if you already got the book, man, we love those five store reviews on Amazon as well.
Because once again, it puts us higher in the search engines.
So more people will get this message.
And I mean, we can all agree, if we had more people with integrity and self-respect andconfidence and discipline, make the world a better place to live, right?
Well, let's start right here in our hockey community.
Let's build those champions on and off the ice.

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Thank you so very much for listening.
I'm truly grateful for your time and I promise you each and every episode I'm gonna giveyou everything I've got to empower you with that warrior confidence, that self respect,
that mindset of a champion to believe in yourself to achieve your greatest, fullestpotential to be the hero, leader and champion you were born to be.
Thank you so very much.

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Can't wait to read your comments.
Can't wait to chat with you again real soon.
God bless everybody.
Talk to you soon.
Bye bye.