Ep. #399:
Before 400 Drops… Here’s the Truth That Built It All - Why Talent Alone Won’t Get You Ice Time (or Respect)—and What Actually Will.
Summary
In this episode, Rich Grogan discusses the essential qualities that separate successful hockey players from the rest. He emphasizes the importance of identity, character, and leadership in achieving success on and off the ice. Grogan introduces the four pillars of athletic excellence: attitude of excellence, mindset of a champion, work ethic of an underdog, and heart of a warrior. He encourages players, parents, and coaches to focus on these traits to stand out and earn trust and respect in the competitive world of hockey.
Takeaways
- Hockey success is not just about talent.
- Your identity shapes your performance.
- Character is key to earning a coach's trust.
- Attitude of excellence is essential for success.
- A champion is defined by their resilience.
- Work ethic can set you apart from others.
- Having a heart of a warrior is crucial.
- Stand out by doing the little things right.
- You have the power to shape your own destiny.
- Embrace your uniqueness and unleash your potential.
Chapters
00:01 The Identity Factor in Hockey Success
06:16 Building Character and Leadership
10:39 The Four Pillars of Athletic Excellence
15:03 The Attitude of Excellence
17:12 Mindset of a Champion
19:08 Work Ethic of an Underdog
22:01 Heart of a Warrior
25:27 The Core Four Traits for Success
30:12 Final Thoughts and Call to Action
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Episode Transcript
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(00:45):
Let's be real, hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
Plenty of skilled players get benched.
I plenty of hard workers get overlooked.
So what actually separates those who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy and...
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Check one, check one, two.
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent.
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward.
My gosh.
(01:42):
Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, you've got plenty of skilled players that still get benched.
Plenty of hard workers that get overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching to create that identity.
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It's what you're willing to do.
Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward town alone.
I mean, there are plenty of skilled players that still get benched.
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And there's plenty of hard workers that get overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching.
So before episode number 400 drops, we're going to bring in
(03:31):
Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players that are still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers getting overlooked.
So what actually separates?
(03:53):
Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players that are still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers that are still getting overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching.
(04:13):
It's what you're willing to do to go above and beyond.
So before we dive in to this...
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched, plenty of hard workersgetting overlooked.
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So it actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and lead.
Let's be real, hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched, plenty of hard workersstill getting overlooked.
(04:58):
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's who you are when no one's watching.
It's the little things that you're willing to do that others aren't.
(05:26):
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers still getting overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not talent, luck, or politics alone.
(05:47):
Hey, let's be real hockey doesn't reward town alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players getting benched, plenty of hard workers gettingoverlooked.
So it actually separates the ones who lead earn ice time and leave a legacy.
That's not luck.
It's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's who you are when no one's watching.
It's the little things you're willing to do.
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How far you're willing to push yourself to earn that ice time, to earn that coaches trust,to earn those leadership roles.
Now we're closing in on episode number 400, but before we get there, we're gonna focus onthis one, episode 399, where I'm gonna give you the truth that built this podcast, 399
episodes, and it's the same truth that I've shared with countless, I mean thousands ofchampions and athletes, amateur and pro, to help them excel.
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So parents, coaches and players, lean into this one.
You're gonna wanna take notes.
Greetings champions, your mindset, leadership and success coach, Master Rich Grogan here,and I hope you're having a fantastic day.
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Welcome to the Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
You know, we're unleashing champions, confident leaders who earn trust, earn ice time, andthe respect by doing what?
Leading with integrity, both on and off the ice.
Now, if you're joining for the first time, listen, my mission's simple.
It's to help you believe in yourself, to boldly stand out from the crowd.
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and utilize your unique God-given talents to become the hero, leader, and champion thatyou were born to be.
And leave a legacy, a legacy that gets re-
Greetings, champions.
Your mindset, leadership, and success coach, Master Rich Grogan here.
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I hope you're having a fantastic day.
Well, welcome to the Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
Hey, we're unleashing champions and leaders who earn trust, earn ice time, and earnrespect by doing what?
Leading with integrity, both on and off the ice.
And if it's your first time listening, my mission is simple.
It's to help you believe in yourself, to boldly stand out from the crowd, and utilize yourunique, God-given talents.
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to become the hero, leader, and champion that you were born to be, and to leave a legacythat gets remembered for the right reasons.
And whether you're a player, parent, coach, or just someone who wants to excel in life,this show is your weekly locker room chat for mindset, discipline, and character to help
you get what you want most out of life.
All right.
Man, man, do we have a powerful episode today.
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And I teased you in the opener there.
This episode number 399.
We are closing in on 400 and 400, I've got a special guest lined up that you do not wantto miss out on.
But before we get to that, let's focus on this one.
And this one is all talking about, know, talent might open the door.
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It might get you noticed, but its character is what gets you on the ice, keeps you on theice and its character, what earns that coaches trust.
It's what earns those extra minutes on the
penalty kill, power play, late in the game.
It's what earns that A or that C on your on your sweater there.
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That's character.
And then you develop that character, you develop that leadership, and that's how you stay.
Like I said, talent will open the door, absolutely.
But how many players, how many talented players have you seen?
And maybe you've you're one of them.
You've got talent beyond your wildest dreams.
But maybe you're lacking that character, lacking that work ethic.
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Lacking that, I like to say, of excellence or work ethic of an underdog or heart of awarrior, mindset of a champion.
It's those four pieces that we're going to talk about today, which are kind of thefoundational structure to get you to that next level.
Especially when you start getting to the next level.
You know, yeah, there's definitely even in the NHL, right?
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You've got the superstars that stand out.
But at the higher levels, the talent pool is pretty close across the board.
But what separates the ones that get that ice time to earn that coach's trust?
Well, like I said, the four pillars, attitude of excellence, mindset of a champion, workethic of an underdog, and the heart of a warrior.
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Now we're going to touch on each one of those as we go through today's show.
And the next show, the 400th, like I said, we've got a great special guest who will tie inall four of those.
And then after that, moving forward, we're going to do a deep dive into each one of themindividually.
So if you haven't already, make sure you like, subscribe, ring that bell on YouTube.
Make sure you like on your favorite podcast platform.
(10:47):
Hit that bell so you don't miss an episode.
And by all means, drop in your comments.
Let me know if this is your first time listening or if you've been listening for 398episodes and the podcast has evolved over the years.
Those that listened from episode one, which was my gosh, I guess it's over 10 years agonow.
Oh no, close to 10 years.
Time flies.
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And the podcast back then was actually called Kickin' Life.
And it was all about, and it's still the same message, instead of life kicking your butt,man, you're kicking life's butt.
You're getting back up.
You're fighting another round.
And over the years it evolved, we went through and it became Grogan's Bullyproof and thenBullyproof Confidence.
And now we've settled on Warrior Confidence.
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Pretty much they're all the same, but the Warrior Confidence is the new brand that I'vehad for some time now.
And we focused in on hockey.
Why?
Well, took 40 plus years in martial arts.
That's what kind of spawned the kick in life and then the bully proof.
And then I combined that with my first love, which was ice hockey.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to play pro hockey.
Now I never got to play at the professional level, but played at a much higher level thanmy natural athletic abilities or talent ever, ever should have allowed.
But it's the same things I'm talking about here.
It's having that.
work ethic, that mindset, that attitude, that heart, willing to do things that othersaren't willing to do to stand out, willing to do the things that will not only get you
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noticed, but get you on the ice and keep you on the ice.
Now these things, yeah, they're extremely easy to do.
But you know the old saying, what's easy to do is what?
Easy not to do.
And unfortunately, that's why most people don't do it.
So.
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So I've got a couple questions for you here.
Players, what's one leadership trait you show, one character trait that you show when noone's watching?
What's one thing that you do?
Parents, here's one for you.
What's one leadership trait that you do to be the hero for your athlete?
Or you're answer for your athlete that they're consistently doing that's gonna help themstand out.
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And coaches, what's the most trusted player in your team and why?
probably the character and leadership things we're talking about, but maybe share with usone thing that you look for in a player and drop those in the comments so we can all learn
and grow together.
And have to be open.
You have to be honest.
Now, for those that are listening that like to be rude, mean, disrespectful, leaveterrible comments, don't even bother.
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I'm just going to delete the comment.
This is for active engagement for us all working together to learn and grow.
Now, yeah, been around the game 50 plus years now.
as a player parent coach, been in martial arts 40 plus years, been blessed to train inKorea four different times, but I'm still willing to learn and grow.
That's why humility, when I had our black belt principals at our martial arts academy wasalways the number one principle.
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Why?
Humility is all about, as Socrates said, all I know is I know nothing.
I'm willing to learn.
I'm willing to grow.
I'm willing to open up and admit I don't know everything.
And unfortunately, and it goes, a lot of times I've run into players, parents and coaches.
and organizational leaders for whatever reason they think because they've been coaching ahandful of years.
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They got it all figured out.
Like I said, I've been coaching my gosh, I started coaching on 13 years old, just helpingout, course, helping out.
I was always wanting to be around the game, helping out on the bench, helping out, pushnets, pick up pucks, do whatever I just wanted to be around the game.
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I even helped out my sister's uh softball team.
when I was a, I guess, 13 years old, helping out there, just picking brains.
And then I was a PE teacher for 11 years, got a degree in kinesiology education.
So always willing to learn and grow.
our younger coaches, even our older coaches and players and parents, man, keep that openmind, keep humility, number one, in order to grow and learn.
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And we've dove in this before in past episodes, but Warrior, we've actually broken thatdown into an acronym and the W in Warrior stands for wisdom.
And the only way to continuously grow and learn and gain that wisdom is by being humble,willing to learn, willing to grow.
All right, so drop that in the comments and let us know.
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So here's a few things that you probably already know, but it's something I've experiencedat every level, regardless of it's rec players, high school players, varsity players,
triple A players, even professionals have had the opportunity to work with.
And it's not just about the points.
Yeah, you gotta score goals in order to win games.
But I'm telling you, it's the little things that make the biggest difference.
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And it starts with that attitude of excellence that I talked about.
You gotta come into the rink.
with that attitude.
That attitude of excellence states that, look, I'm gonna give absolutely everything I'vegot.
I've got the right attitude.
I've got a positive attitude because I've done the work in the background.
And what does that work in the background?
It's planting the right seeds in your middle garden.
You know, we all have negative thoughts.
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That's just a part of life.
We all have that, what I like to say, that meanest bully we'll ever face, that innercritic in our mind telling us, especially if we've had a failure or a setback or if we're
in a
a slump, we're not scoring goals and well, we're making more mistakes than we're used to.
Or if we're a goalie, maybe we've let in a few softies, we've lost a little bit ofconfidence.
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Well, that inner critic, that bully in your mind is going to remind you of all thosefailures and setbacks.
That's why that attitude of excellence is so important.
You got to block the negative by planting the right seeds, telling yourself, look, I'mgoing to get out there and give it my absolute very, very best.
If I make a mistake, which all champions do, I'm going to rebound from that mistake.
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I'm going to rebound.
I'm going to learn from it.
I'm going to continuously grow from it.
If the coach gets onto me, I'm not going to pout.
I'm not going to shrug my shoulders.
I'm not going to throw a fit.
I'm not going to make excuses.
I'm going to have that attitude of excellence and listen and say, yes, coach, I'm going towork on it and then work on it.
That's how you build that attitude of excellence.
And that attitude of excellence rolls right into what I call a mindset of a champion.
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And as I mentioned, a champion is not someone who has never failed before.
A champion is someone who's failed over and over and over again.
They've pushed themselves.
And when you push yourself, when you go outside your comfort zone, there's a good chanceyou're going to have some failures and setbacks.
But it is never a complete failure if you're willing to get back up and fight anotherround.
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And that mindset of a champion says, and it tells you, look, all champions have failed atsome point in time.
All champions have been knocked down.
All champions have struggled.
All champions have had that inner critic try and talk them out of achieving their dreams.
But a champion gets back up one more time and that's how they become a champion.
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Is it easy?
No.
I mean, I can say these things and a lot of you have probably already heard them before.
If you've listened to previous episodes, we've talked about them in depth.
And as a reminder, as we move forward in upcoming episodes, we're gonna do a deep diveinto each one of these.
But remember.
A champion is not someone who's never failed.
A champion is someone who's failed over and over again, but refuses to give up.
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That's how they become a champion.
And that's what it's like to have a mindset of a champion.
And one other point on that, failure is an event.
Events happen.
Well, if you had a failure at your last game, that was an event.
That was a game.
That is not you as a person.
Well, that game is over.
That event is over.
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You are not a failure.
You are a champion, but sometimes a champion has to go through those failed experiences inorder to grow in to the champion you're meant to be.
So remember that.
Write that down and don't forget it.
Next, you gotta have the work ethic, man.
I call it the work ethic of an underdog.
An underdog is always fighting, always scrapping, always clawing, always doing thoselittle extras to try and get noticed, to try and gain that ice time, to try and gain the
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coach's trust.
to try and gain those leadership roles.
And you know my story, I was never one of the biggest, as actually always one of thesmallest players on every team I played on.
So what did I do to gain the coaches trust?
I knew there was one thing I could control.
Well, I could control my attitude.
I really didn't, at the time, understand the mindset of a champion.
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That's something I learned later on.
But I was once told, two things you can control, your attitude and your effort.
And I've kind of lived by that my whole entire life.
At a martial arts academy,
That was my evaluation criteria, a person's attitude and their effort.
Because some people have more talent than they know what to do with, but if they have abad attitude, that talent is never going to excel to the highest level.
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And if they have a poor work ethic, then they're never going to grow in and become thetalented superstar they possibly could be.
I mean, think about it.
How many of you have seen players that just have, I mean, ooklings of talent?
They have more talent than you've ever seen.
But their attitude and their work ethic, their effort is pathetic.
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They never reach their best.
So work ethic of an underdog, always fighting, clawing, scrapping, doing everything youcan do.
And that means during drills, you're going all the way through the line.
Not just to it, but through it.
You're not stopping short of the line.
You're not taking a shortcut.
You're not taking time off of the coaches and watching.
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You know, the old saying, it's a military term, when the coach isn't looking, that's whenwe're watching the most.
Yeah.
But you've got character.
You've got integrity.
You've got honor.
You've got the work ethic of an underdog.
So you're not going to take shortcuts because you know every opportunity you have is everypractice, every shift, even things in the background.
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It's always an opportunity to get better.
It's an opportunity.
So when, when that
maybe you're on the third line and that second line center goes down.
Well, you've been preparing in the background.
So when that opportunity presents itself, you're ready to seize that opportunity.
You're ready to capture that moment.
But that's not going to happen if you have a poor work ethic.
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Work ethic of an underdog is going a little extra, pushing a little harder, that 1 % morethat others aren't willing to do.
Can you do it?
Absolutely.
But it comes down to choice.
Personal self-respect and personal self-discipline
to do the things that others aren't willing to do.
And the last component, heart of a warrior.
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You gotta have that heart of a warrior.
That heart that's willing to push you to your extremes.
Push you to achieve your goals.
Push you to overcome that critic in your mind.
Push you to overcome those negative thoughts.
Push you to work just a little bit harder when you feel like giving up.
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or when people around you are giving up, or when people around you are saying, why are youdoing it, man?
Just give up.
In the business world, I've had some failures.
I'm not, like I said, a failure, because none of us are, but I've had a lot of failures.
I've been bankrupt twice, had my house foreclosed on, cars repossessed.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of times I thought, man, I am nothing but a loser and a failure.
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And that brought back a lot of seeds that were planted early as a kid.
I was told all the things I couldn't do.
Richie, you're just too small.
Richie, you're just not good enough.
Richie, you're just a loser.
Richie, you're just always going to be slow.
Richie, you might as well just realize some people are going to make it and some peoplearen't and you're not.
I mean, I was told those things as a kid, even as a teenager.
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Man, that's a lot of negative weeds in that mental garden.
And when I have those failures and setbacks, boy, boy, that inner bully in my mind comescalling and it hurts the heart.
It really does.
But having a heart of a warrior.
realizes that you know what?
Yeah, those are just words usually said by people that are jealous, that are envious, orpeople that see something in you that scares them.
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Now, when people always say that, especially as a kid, oh, they're just jealous of you, Iwould always think, and to a degree, I even think today when people say that, it's like,
what the heck do they have to be jealous of if they realized how hard I had to work toachieve any level of success to get to where I'm at?
They would be ashamed of themselves because they a lot of I mean, there's so many peopleout there for more talent.
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And that gets into another thing we've talked about before, too.
You can't get in that comparison game, right?
You if I compare myself to somebody who's doing better than me, I think, well, I guess I'mnever going to be that good.
I'm putting myself down, bullying myself.
Well, they've got different talents than I do.
So don't I can't compare myself to them.
And you shouldn't compare yourself to someone who has, you know, maybe more talent thanyou or different skill set than you do.
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And at the same time, you shouldn't compare yourself to someone.
who maybe you perceive isn't doing as well as you are, or isn't as talented, or as cool asyou are, because now you're just putting somebody else down.
You can only be the best you can be.
And I used to tell kids at the Martial Arts Academy, and I tell players this all the time,and it's a big right hook of reality.
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I'll simply say, look, you will never be as cool as I am.
Woo!
And they're like, what the heck?
Kind of jerk.
And I say, but guess what?
I'll never be as cool as you either.
Why?
We're different.
Now, my goal is to be the mentor and to guide you through all the goof ups and mistakesand errors and things that I've done to help you get better.
Tell you the things that I wish somebody would have told me, but I'm not them.
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They're not me.
I can't be them.
So I can't be as cool as them, but they can't be as cool as me because they're not meeither.
So I want you to remember that.
Take note of that.
Plant that seed in your mental garden.
You be the best you you can be.
And that's all you can do.
But I'm telling you, attitude of excellence.
mindset of a champion, work ethic of an underdog, and that heart of a warrior.
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Those, I like to say they're the core four trues and four character traits that set thebench warmers, the ones that get overlooked, apart from the ones that get the playing
time, the ones that get the key game situations, the ones that get those leadership roles,the ones that gain the coach's trust.
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Coach says, man, every time I put this guy out there,
They're making things happen.
Why?
They're listening, they're learning, they're growing, they're working hard, and they wantit.
They have those four attributes.
Do you have them?
Yeah, everybody does.
If you're willing to dig and work and work for them, but they're not easy.
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Well, are they?
Well, once again, what's easy to do is easy not to do.
And unfortunately, most people choose not to do it.
And that's what makes it so easy today.
to stand out because so few are willing to do the little things you need to do.
I've just given you the golden, the golden ticket.
There you go.
You got your golden ticket.
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You got the four core truths, the four character traits to help you get what you wantmost.
Ice time, leadership roles, success in any area of life.
Oh, as a reminder, if you've not picked up a copy of my new Amazon New Release bestseller,How to Get More Ice Time, and if you can see it, a champions playbook winning with
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integrity both on and off the ice.
And kind of got a lot of that from Brian Sutter's quote, which is right there on the back.
You got to win off the ice before you can win on the ice because good people make goodplayers.
eh Anyway, Amazon, pick up a copy.
Go to getmoreicetime.com.
is a direct link and the link will be in the description box to pick up a copy of how toget more ice time.
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Always a great time for a gift, right?
And it's got the principles I'm talking about here, talking about on other podcasts thathelp you stand out and get what you want most.
Your player wants ice time.
Parents, you want to be the hero to help your player get more ice time.
Coaches, you want your team to gel, to thrive, to work together.
The principles are in the book here.
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And for those that really want to kickstart it,
Man, man, got a great program.
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Step by step guide.
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Coaches, organizations, man, we have an excellent team program and workshop that we can doa live workshop.
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I can actually come to your place or we can set up a whole program for your entire team tohelp connect everybody together.
The players, parents and coaches all on the same page, all working together for a commongoal to help you have the best championship season ever.
Yeah.
Can you do it?
Yeah, you can do it, but don't do it alone.
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Because once you have division there, once the players and parents start, I don't know,not getting along, talking bad about the coach, and then the coach gets frustrated before
you know it, you have lost the season.
Now that's where I come in to help you out.
Start the season off right.
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For more information, go to warriorconfidence.com and check it out.
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Cool.
All right.
All right.
Well, as a reminder, if you found something valuable in this episode, please share it withsomeone that you don't could benefit.
And I always encourage you to listen more than once because you're always going to pick upon something that you missed the first time.
And as we move toward episode number 400, yes, I'm pretty pumped about that.
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400 episodes.
Man, oh man, make sure you like subscribe, ring that bell because you're not going to wantto miss episode number 400.
Extremely special guest here.
which I'm just honored that we've, uh he's extremely busy like all of us, but we'veconnected.
We're going to make it happen, man.
And I've been working on this guest for some time, so I'm happy to make it happen.
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All right, quick little takeaway leadership.
You know, it's not handed out just like ice times, not handed out, just like success inany area of life is not handed out.
It's earned through consistency effort and being the example leading by example.
And we talked about, you know, those four character traits.
attitude of excellence, mindset of a champion, work ethic of an underdog, and the heart ofa warrior.
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I'm telling you, you hone in on those.
You are gonna stand out from the crowd because so few are willing to do it.
I know, it sounds like a broken record.
Keep just belaboring the point here, but it's the truth.
It's the truth.
I wish it wasn't that way in society, but it is, which, and that's an advantage for you,because you're gonna do the things you need to do to get what you want most.
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Sound good?
All right.
As a reminder, drop your comments.
You know, I asked those questions earlier for the players, parents, and coaches.
You know, what's one thing you're willing to do or you are doing to stand out?
And parents, same question.
What's one thing you're doing to stand out as a parent?
Are you blending in with the rest of the parents?
Gossip and talking behind the coach's back?
That doesn't build unity.
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That doesn't build trust.
That doesn't build strength.
Don't be that way.
Be the hero to your kiddo there.
And then what are your kids willing to do?
And if you need help...
Pick up the program.
Pick up the book.
Nine bucks for the master class.
Crying out loud.
I mean, that's less than 10 bucks.
And coaches, what are the little things you're doing?
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Or put in the comments, what are some things you're struggling with?
You'd like for me to talk about on a future podcast.
Been more than happy to do that.
Now, I say the comments.
Of course, you're on a podcast.
You can't really do the comments.
But our YouTube channel and my handle across all social media is Real Rich Grogan.
real Rich Grogan, go to the YouTube channel.
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And we've got, and I think we've got over thousand videos on YouTube now.
So a lot of shorts and then mid-range videos.
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So subscribe, bring that bell on that channel and there's where you can leave yourcomments.
All right?
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you so very much, champions, for tuning in today.
I hope this message fired you up and fueled your passion to lead by example and succeedthe right way with honor, integrity, discipline, respect.
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Utilizing that attitude of excellence, that mindset of a champion, that work ethic of anunderdog, and that heart of a warrior.
Woo!
Man, I get chills just saying those things.
All right, remember, you're a unique gift from God.
You only get one life.
So don't blend in.
Unleash your inner warrior.
Unleash your warrior confidence.
Stand out.
Stand tall.
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And always, always do your absolute very best.
And I promise, you'll be your very best and you'll become the hero you were born to be.
I love you.
God loves you.
Please share that love and share your greatness with the world.
And until we talk again, God bless you.
God bless your loved ones.
Chat with you soon.
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Bye bye.
Let's be real, hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
Plenty of skilled players get benched.
I plenty of hard workers get overlooked.
So what actually separates those who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy and...
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Check one, check one, two.
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent.
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward.
My gosh.
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Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, you've got plenty of skilled players that still get benched.
Plenty of hard workers that get overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching to create that identity.
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It's what you're willing to do.
Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward town alone.
I mean, there are plenty of skilled players that still get benched.
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And there's plenty of hard workers that get overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching.
So before episode number 400 drops, we're going to bring in
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Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players that are still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers getting overlooked.
So what actually separates?
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Let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players that are still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers that are still getting overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's what you're willing to do when no one's watching.
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It's what you're willing to do to go above and beyond.
So before we dive in to this...
Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched, plenty of hard workersgetting overlooked.
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So it actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and lead.
Let's be real, hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched, plenty of hard workersstill getting overlooked.
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So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not luck, and it's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's who you are when no one's watching.
It's the little things that you're willing to do that others aren't.
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Hey, let's be real.
Hockey doesn't reward talent alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players still getting benched.
Plenty of hard workers still getting overlooked.
So what actually separates the ones who lead, earn ice time, and leave a legacy?
Well, it's not talent, luck, or politics alone.
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Hey, let's be real hockey doesn't reward town alone.
I mean, there's plenty of skilled players getting benched, plenty of hard workers gettingoverlooked.
So it actually separates the ones who lead earn ice time and leave a legacy.
That's not luck.
It's not politics.
It's your identity.
It's who you are when no one's watching.
It's the little things you're willing to do.
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How far you're willing to push yourself to earn that ice time, to earn that coaches trust,to earn those leadership roles.
Now we're closing in on episode number 400, but before we get there, we're gonna focus onthis one, episode 399, where I'm gonna give you the truth that built this podcast, 399
episodes, and it's the same truth that I've shared with countless, I mean thousands ofchampions and athletes, amateur and pro, to help them excel.
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So parents, coaches and players, lean into this one.
You're gonna wanna take notes.
Greetings champions, your mindset, leadership and success coach, Master Rich Grogan here,and I hope you're having a fantastic day.
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Welcome to the Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
You know, we're unleashing champions, confident leaders who earn trust, earn ice time, andthe respect by doing what?
Leading with integrity, both on and off the ice.
Now, if you're joining for the first time, listen, my mission's simple.
It's to help you believe in yourself, to boldly stand out from the crowd.
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and utilize your unique God-given talents to become the hero, leader, and champion thatyou were born to be.
And leave a legacy, a legacy that gets re-
Greetings, champions.
Your mindset, leadership, and success coach, Master Rich Grogan here.
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I hope you're having a fantastic day.
Well, welcome to the Warrior Confidence Hockey Podcast.
Hey, we're unleashing champions and leaders who earn trust, earn ice time, and earnrespect by doing what?
Leading with integrity, both on and off the ice.
And if it's your first time listening, my mission is simple.
It's to help you believe in yourself, to boldly stand out from the crowd, and utilize yourunique, God-given talents.
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to become the hero, leader, and champion that you were born to be, and to leave a legacythat gets remembered for the right reasons.
And whether you're a player, parent, coach, or just someone who wants to excel in life,this show is your weekly locker room chat for mindset, discipline, and character to help
you get what you want most out of life.
All right.
Man, man, do we have a powerful episode today.
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And I teased you in the opener there.
This episode number 399.
We are closing in on 400 and 400, I've got a special guest lined up that you do not wantto miss out on.
But before we get to that, let's focus on this one.
And this one is all talking about, know, talent might open the door.
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It might get you noticed, but its character is what gets you on the ice, keeps you on theice and its character, what earns that coaches trust.
It's what earns those extra minutes on the
penalty kill, power play, late in the game.
It's what earns that A or that C on your on your sweater there.
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That's character.
And then you develop that character, you develop that leadership, and that's how you stay.
Like I said, talent will open the door, absolutely.
But how many players, how many talented players have you seen?
And maybe you've you're one of them.
You've got talent beyond your wildest dreams.
But maybe you're lacking that character, lacking that work ethic.
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Lacking that, I like to say, of excellence or work ethic of an underdog or heart of awarrior, mindset of a champion.
It's those four pieces that we're going to talk about today, which are kind of thefoundational structure to get you to that next level.
Especially when you start getting to the next level.
You know, yeah, there's definitely even in the NHL, right?
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You've got the superstars that stand out.
But at the higher levels, the talent pool is pretty close across the board.
But what separates the ones that get that ice time to earn that coach's trust?
Well, like I said, the four pillars, attitude of excellence, mindset of a champion, workethic of an underdog, and the heart of a warrior.
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Now we're going to touch on each one of those as we go through today's show.
And the next show, the 400th, like I said, we've got a great special guest who will tie inall four of those.
And then after that, moving forward, we're going to do a deep dive into each one of themindividually.
So if you haven't already, make sure you like, subscribe, ring that bell on YouTube.
Make sure you like on your favorite podcast platform.
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Hit that bell so you don't miss an episode.
And by all means, drop in your comments.
Let me know if this is your first time listening or if you've been listening for 398episodes and the podcast has evolved over the years.
Those that listened from episode one, which was my gosh, I guess it's over 10 years agonow.
Oh no, close to 10 years.
Time flies.
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And the podcast back then was actually called Kickin' Life.
And it was all about, and it's still the same message, instead of life kicking your butt,man, you're kicking life's butt.
You're getting back up.
You're fighting another round.
And over the years it evolved, we went through and it became Grogan's Bullyproof and thenBullyproof Confidence.
And now we've settled on Warrior Confidence.
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Pretty much they're all the same, but the Warrior Confidence is the new brand that I'vehad for some time now.
And we focused in on hockey.
Why?
Well, took 40 plus years in martial arts.
That's what kind of spawned the kick in life and then the bully proof.
And then I combined that with my first love, which was ice hockey.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to play pro hockey.
Now I never got to play at the professional level, but played at a much higher level thanmy natural athletic abilities or talent ever, ever should have allowed.
But it's the same things I'm talking about here.
It's having that.
work ethic, that mindset, that attitude, that heart, willing to do things that othersaren't willing to do to stand out, willing to do the things that will not only get you
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noticed, but get you on the ice and keep you on the ice.
Now these things, yeah, they're extremely easy to do.
But you know the old saying, what's easy to do is what?
Easy not to do.
And unfortunately, that's why most people don't do it.
So.
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So I've got a couple questions for you here.
Players, what's one leadership trait you show, one character trait that you show when noone's watching?
What's one thing that you do?
Parents, here's one for you.
What's one leadership trait that you do to be the hero for your athlete?
Or you're answer for your athlete that they're consistently doing that's gonna help themstand out.
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And coaches, what's the most trusted player in your team and why?
probably the character and leadership things we're talking about, but maybe share with usone thing that you look for in a player and drop those in the comments so we can all learn
and grow together.
And have to be open.
You have to be honest.
Now, for those that are listening that like to be rude, mean, disrespectful, leaveterrible comments, don't even bother.
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I'm just going to delete the comment.
This is for active engagement for us all working together to learn and grow.
Now, yeah, been around the game 50 plus years now.
as a player parent coach, been in martial arts 40 plus years, been blessed to train inKorea four different times, but I'm still willing to learn and grow.
That's why humility, when I had our black belt principals at our martial arts academy wasalways the number one principle.
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Why?
Humility is all about, as Socrates said, all I know is I know nothing.
I'm willing to learn.
I'm willing to grow.
I'm willing to open up and admit I don't know everything.
And unfortunately, and it goes, a lot of times I've run into players, parents and coaches.
and organizational leaders for whatever reason they think because they've been coaching ahandful of years.
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They got it all figured out.
Like I said, I've been coaching my gosh, I started coaching on 13 years old, just helpingout, course, helping out.
I was always wanting to be around the game, helping out on the bench, helping out, pushnets, pick up pucks, do whatever I just wanted to be around the game.
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I even helped out my sister's uh softball team.
when I was a, I guess, 13 years old, helping out there, just picking brains.
And then I was a PE teacher for 11 years, got a degree in kinesiology education.
So always willing to learn and grow.
our younger coaches, even our older coaches and players and parents, man, keep that openmind, keep humility, number one, in order to grow and learn.
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And we've dove in this before in past episodes, but Warrior, we've actually broken thatdown into an acronym and the W in Warrior stands for wisdom.
And the only way to continuously grow and learn and gain that wisdom is by being humble,willing to learn, willing to grow.
All right, so drop that in the comments and let us know.
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So here's a few things that you probably already know, but it's something I've experiencedat every level, regardless of it's rec players, high school players, varsity players,
triple A players, even professionals have had the opportunity to work with.
And it's not just about the points.
Yeah, you gotta score goals in order to win games.
But I'm telling you, it's the little things that make the biggest difference.
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And it starts with that attitude of excellence that I talked about.
You gotta come into the rink.
with that attitude.
That attitude of excellence states that, look, I'm gonna give absolutely everything I'vegot.
I've got the right attitude.
I've got a positive attitude because I've done the work in the background.
And what does that work in the background?
It's planting the right seeds in your middle garden.
You know, we all have negative thoughts.
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That's just a part of life.
We all have that, what I like to say, that meanest bully we'll ever face, that innercritic in our mind telling us, especially if we've had a failure or a setback or if we're
in a
a slump, we're not scoring goals and well, we're making more mistakes than we're used to.
Or if we're a goalie, maybe we've let in a few softies, we've lost a little bit ofconfidence.
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Well, that inner critic, that bully in your mind is going to remind you of all thosefailures and setbacks.
That's why that attitude of excellence is so important.
You got to block the negative by planting the right seeds, telling yourself, look, I'mgoing to get out there and give it my absolute very, very best.
If I make a mistake, which all champions do, I'm going to rebound from that mistake.
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I'm going to rebound.
I'm going to learn from it.
I'm going to continuously grow from it.
If the coach gets onto me, I'm not going to pout.
I'm not going to shrug my shoulders.
I'm not going to throw a fit.
I'm not going to make excuses.
I'm going to have that attitude of excellence and listen and say, yes, coach, I'm going towork on it and then work on it.
That's how you build that attitude of excellence.
And that attitude of excellence rolls right into what I call a mindset of a champion.
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And as I mentioned, a champion is not someone who has never failed before.
A champion is someone who's failed over and over and over again.
They've pushed themselves.
And when you push yourself, when you go outside your comfort zone, there's a good chanceyou're going to have some failures and setbacks.
But it is never a complete failure if you're willing to get back up and fight anotherround.
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And that mindset of a champion says, and it tells you, look, all champions have failed atsome point in time.
All champions have been knocked down.
All champions have struggled.
All champions have had that inner critic try and talk them out of achieving their dreams.
But a champion gets back up one more time and that's how they become a champion.
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Is it easy?
No.
I mean, I can say these things and a lot of you have probably already heard them before.
If you've listened to previous episodes, we've talked about them in depth.
And as a reminder, as we move forward in upcoming episodes, we're gonna do a deep diveinto each one of these.
But remember.
A champion is not someone who's never failed.
A champion is someone who's failed over and over again, but refuses to give up.
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That's how they become a champion.
And that's what it's like to have a mindset of a champion.
And one other point on that, failure is an event.
Events happen.
Well, if you had a failure at your last game, that was an event.
That was a game.
That is not you as a person.
Well, that game is over.
That event is over.
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You are not a failure.
You are a champion, but sometimes a champion has to go through those failed experiences inorder to grow in to the champion you're meant to be.
So remember that.
Write that down and don't forget it.
Next, you gotta have the work ethic, man.
I call it the work ethic of an underdog.
An underdog is always fighting, always scrapping, always clawing, always doing thoselittle extras to try and get noticed, to try and gain that ice time, to try and gain the
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coach's trust.
to try and gain those leadership roles.
And you know my story, I was never one of the biggest, as actually always one of thesmallest players on every team I played on.
So what did I do to gain the coaches trust?
I knew there was one thing I could control.
Well, I could control my attitude.
I really didn't, at the time, understand the mindset of a champion.
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That's something I learned later on.
But I was once told, two things you can control, your attitude and your effort.
And I've kind of lived by that my whole entire life.
At a martial arts academy,
That was my evaluation criteria, a person's attitude and their effort.
Because some people have more talent than they know what to do with, but if they have abad attitude, that talent is never going to excel to the highest level.
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And if they have a poor work ethic, then they're never going to grow in and become thetalented superstar they possibly could be.
I mean, think about it.
How many of you have seen players that just have, I mean, ooklings of talent?
They have more talent than you've ever seen.
But their attitude and their work ethic, their effort is pathetic.
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They never reach their best.
So work ethic of an underdog, always fighting, clawing, scrapping, doing everything youcan do.
And that means during drills, you're going all the way through the line.
Not just to it, but through it.
You're not stopping short of the line.
You're not taking a shortcut.
You're not taking time off of the coaches and watching.
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You know, the old saying, it's a military term, when the coach isn't looking, that's whenwe're watching the most.
Yeah.
But you've got character.
You've got integrity.
You've got honor.
You've got the work ethic of an underdog.
So you're not going to take shortcuts because you know every opportunity you have is everypractice, every shift, even things in the background.
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It's always an opportunity to get better.
It's an opportunity.
So when, when that
maybe you're on the third line and that second line center goes down.
Well, you've been preparing in the background.
So when that opportunity presents itself, you're ready to seize that opportunity.
You're ready to capture that moment.
But that's not going to happen if you have a poor work ethic.
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Work ethic of an underdog is going a little extra, pushing a little harder, that 1 % morethat others aren't willing to do.
Can you do it?
Absolutely.
But it comes down to choice.
Personal self-respect and personal self-discipline
to do the things that others aren't willing to do.
And the last component, heart of a warrior.
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You gotta have that heart of a warrior.
That heart that's willing to push you to your extremes.
Push you to achieve your goals.
Push you to overcome that critic in your mind.
Push you to overcome those negative thoughts.
Push you to work just a little bit harder when you feel like giving up.
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or when people around you are giving up, or when people around you are saying, why are youdoing it, man?
Just give up.
In the business world, I've had some failures.
I'm not, like I said, a failure, because none of us are, but I've had a lot of failures.
I've been bankrupt twice, had my house foreclosed on, cars repossessed.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of times I thought, man, I am nothing but a loser and a failure.
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And that brought back a lot of seeds that were planted early as a kid.
I was told all the things I couldn't do.
Richie, you're just too small.
Richie, you're just not good enough.
Richie, you're just a loser.
Richie, you're just always going to be slow.
Richie, you might as well just realize some people are going to make it and some peoplearen't and you're not.
I mean, I was told those things as a kid, even as a teenager.
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Man, that's a lot of negative weeds in that mental garden.
And when I have those failures and setbacks, boy, boy, that inner bully in my mind comescalling and it hurts the heart.
It really does.
But having a heart of a warrior.
realizes that you know what?
Yeah, those are just words usually said by people that are jealous, that are envious, orpeople that see something in you that scares them.
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Now, when people always say that, especially as a kid, oh, they're just jealous of you, Iwould always think, and to a degree, I even think today when people say that, it's like,
what the heck do they have to be jealous of if they realized how hard I had to work toachieve any level of success to get to where I'm at?
They would be ashamed of themselves because they a lot of I mean, there's so many peopleout there for more talent.
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And that gets into another thing we've talked about before, too.
You can't get in that comparison game, right?
You if I compare myself to somebody who's doing better than me, I think, well, I guess I'mnever going to be that good.
I'm putting myself down, bullying myself.
Well, they've got different talents than I do.
So don't I can't compare myself to them.
And you shouldn't compare yourself to someone who has, you know, maybe more talent thanyou or different skill set than you do.
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And at the same time, you shouldn't compare yourself to someone.
who maybe you perceive isn't doing as well as you are, or isn't as talented, or as cool asyou are, because now you're just putting somebody else down.
You can only be the best you can be.
And I used to tell kids at the Martial Arts Academy, and I tell players this all the time,and it's a big right hook of reality.
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I'll simply say, look, you will never be as cool as I am.
Woo!
And they're like, what the heck?
Kind of jerk.
And I say, but guess what?
I'll never be as cool as you either.
Why?
We're different.
Now, my goal is to be the mentor and to guide you through all the goof ups and mistakesand errors and things that I've done to help you get better.
Tell you the things that I wish somebody would have told me, but I'm not them.
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They're not me.
I can't be them.
So I can't be as cool as them, but they can't be as cool as me because they're not meeither.
So I want you to remember that.
Take note of that.
Plant that seed in your mental garden.
You be the best you you can be.
And that's all you can do.
But I'm telling you, attitude of excellence.
mindset of a champion, work ethic of an underdog, and that heart of a warrior.
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Those, I like to say they're the core four trues and four character traits that set thebench warmers, the ones that get overlooked, apart from the ones that get the playing
time, the ones that get the key game situations, the ones that get those leadership roles,the ones that gain the coach's trust.
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Coach says, man, every time I put this guy out there,
They're making things happen.
Why?
They're listening, they're learning, they're growing, they're working hard, and they wantit.
They have those four attributes.
Do you have them?
Yeah, everybody does.
If you're willing to dig and work and work for them, but they're not easy.
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Well, are they?
Well, once again, what's easy to do is easy not to do.
And unfortunately, most people choose not to do it.
And that's what makes it so easy today.
to stand out because so few are willing to do the little things you need to do.
I've just given you the golden, the golden ticket.
There you go.
You got your golden ticket.
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You got the four core truths, the four character traits to help you get what you wantmost.
Ice time, leadership roles, success in any area of life.
Oh, as a reminder, if you've not picked up a copy of my new Amazon New Release bestseller,How to Get More Ice Time, and if you can see it, a champions playbook winning with
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integrity both on and off the ice.
And kind of got a lot of that from Brian Sutter's quote, which is right there on the back.
You got to win off the ice before you can win on the ice because good people make goodplayers.
eh Anyway, Amazon, pick up a copy.
Go to getmoreicetime.com.
is a direct link and the link will be in the description box to pick up a copy of how toget more ice time.
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Always a great time for a gift, right?
And it's got the principles I'm talking about here, talking about on other podcasts thathelp you stand out and get what you want most.
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Parents, you want to be the hero to help your player get more ice time.
Coaches, you want your team to gel, to thrive, to work together.
The principles are in the book here.
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And for those that really want to kickstart it,
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I think it's 30 % off now, too.
So take advantage of that and get the uh Ice Time Accelerator bundle package to help youtake that next step.
And for
Coaches, organizations, man, we have an excellent team program and workshop that we can doa live workshop.
(27:57):
I can actually come to your place or we can set up a whole program for your entire team tohelp connect everybody together.
The players, parents and coaches all on the same page, all working together for a commongoal to help you have the best championship season ever.
Yeah.
Can you do it?
Yeah, you can do it, but don't do it alone.
(28:19):
Because once you have division there, once the players and parents start, I don't know,not getting along, talking bad about the coach, and then the coach gets frustrated before
you know it, you have lost the season.
Now that's where I come in to help you out.
Start the season off right.
So all of it's available.
For more information, go to warriorconfidence.com and check it out.
(28:41):
Cool.
All right.
All right.
Well, as a reminder, if you found something valuable in this episode, please share it withsomeone that you don't could benefit.
And I always encourage you to listen more than once because you're always going to pick upon something that you missed the first time.
And as we move toward episode number 400, yes, I'm pretty pumped about that.
(29:02):
400 episodes.
Man, oh man, make sure you like subscribe, ring that bell because you're not going to wantto miss episode number 400.
Extremely special guest here.
which I'm just honored that we've, uh he's extremely busy like all of us, but we'veconnected.
We're going to make it happen, man.
And I've been working on this guest for some time, so I'm happy to make it happen.
(29:24):
All right, quick little takeaway leadership.
You know, it's not handed out just like ice times, not handed out, just like success inany area of life is not handed out.
It's earned through consistency effort and being the example leading by example.
And we talked about, you know, those four character traits.
attitude of excellence, mindset of a champion, work ethic of an underdog, and the heart ofa warrior.
(29:49):
I'm telling you, you hone in on those.
You are gonna stand out from the crowd because so few are willing to do it.
I know, it sounds like a broken record.
Keep just belaboring the point here, but it's the truth.
It's the truth.
I wish it wasn't that way in society, but it is, which, and that's an advantage for you,because you're gonna do the things you need to do to get what you want most.
(30:12):
Sound good?
All right.
As a reminder, drop your comments.
You know, I asked those questions earlier for the players, parents, and coaches.
You know, what's one thing you're willing to do or you are doing to stand out?
And parents, same question.
What's one thing you're doing to stand out as a parent?
Are you blending in with the rest of the parents?
Gossip and talking behind the coach's back?
That doesn't build unity.
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That doesn't build trust.
That doesn't build strength.
Don't be that way.
Be the hero to your kiddo there.
And then what are your kids willing to do?
And if you need help...
Pick up the program.
Pick up the book.
Nine bucks for the master class.
Crying out loud.
I mean, that's less than 10 bucks.
And coaches, what are the little things you're doing?
(30:53):
Or put in the comments, what are some things you're struggling with?
You'd like for me to talk about on a future podcast.
Been more than happy to do that.
Now, I say the comments.
Of course, you're on a podcast.
You can't really do the comments.
But our YouTube channel and my handle across all social media is Real Rich Grogan.
real Rich Grogan, go to the YouTube channel.
(31:14):
And we've got, and I think we've got over thousand videos on YouTube now.
So a lot of shorts and then mid-range videos.
And we've got our longer podcast videos here.
So subscribe, bring that bell on that channel and there's where you can leave yourcomments.
All right?
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you so very much, champions, for tuning in today.
I hope this message fired you up and fueled your passion to lead by example and succeedthe right way with honor, integrity, discipline, respect.
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Utilizing that attitude of excellence, that mindset of a champion, that work ethic of anunderdog, and that heart of a warrior.
Woo!
Man, I get chills just saying those things.
All right, remember, you're a unique gift from God.
You only get one life.
So don't blend in.
Unleash your inner warrior.
Unleash your warrior confidence.
Stand out.
Stand tall.
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And always, always do your absolute very best.
And I promise, you'll be your very best and you'll become the hero you were born to be.
I love you.
God loves you.
Please share that love and share your greatness with the world.
And until we talk again, God bless you.
God bless your loved ones.
Chat with you soon.
(32:22):
Bye bye.
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