The Hitstreak
Why Your Circumstances Are a Snapshot, Not a Sentence.
Welcome to the Nick Hiter Show, This week it's just Nick in Studio X with a story he first read at 11 years old, a mile from where he sits: a 15 year old in Wilmington, North Carolina looking for his name on a list. Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next! Episode in a Glance: In this episode of The Nick Hiter Show, I start with the roster that didn't have Michael Jordan's name on it and follow the small wins from junior varsity to six championships, because the part of that story that matters is that the list was right about the moment and wrong about the future. Then I go back to my own list: the night my dad drove me through the night to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the $650 a month contract I signed that morning, my first professional at bat, and why the room was always bigger than me. From there it's the decade I was lost, rock bottom in 2013 with a young child and a wife I couldn't afford to marry, the insurance interview my family told me to turn down, and the licensing exam I failed three times with a 69. I talk about the mentor who told me to give it a real shot, meeting the real Brad Lee and reverse engineering the studio I saw in Vegas, and the winning streak habit that turned gratitude into momentum. I walk through the exercise I'm running with our agents at Real Financial right now, what kind of Christmas do you want, and working backwards from that number to a couple thousand conversations. And I bring it home with the question I want you to ask every morning: who are you three years from today, and what would that person do today? Key Points: - Before the world saw Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan had to see Michael Jordan. - The list wasn't wrong. It described his circumstances, not his future. A snapshot, not a sentence. - You can't hit a target you can't see. Visualize the end and work backwards to close the gap. - When things get the hardest, that's how you know you're on the right track. - What you focus on grows. Look for problems and you find them. Look for wins and you find those. - Everything that's happening to you is happening for you, and you choose how to use it. - Change requires different. Growth requires change. You can't get something different by doing the same. - Gratitude and entitlement cannot coexist. - Most of the problems people bring you are belief problems. - Visualization gives you the target, small wins give you evidence, evidence gives you confidence, and confidence creates momentum. - Ask what the person you're becoming would do today, then go get that one win. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to Studio X, and the mantra: work hard, dream big 2:39 A 15 year old in Wilmington: Michael Jordan and the list 9:38 Old Nick's shot at pro baseball: the Kenosha tryout 20:36 Lost for a decade, rock bottom, and the insurance interview 28:31 Give it a real shot: who is Nick the insurance agent? 33:33 The winning streak: small wins, gratitude, what you focus on grows 39:23 What kind of Christmas do you want? Working backwards from the number 45:20 Identity, momentum and shiny object syndrome 48:42 Back to Wilmington: the list was a snapshot, not a sentence About Nick: Nick Hiter is the host of The Nick Hiter Show and The Hitstreak, the founder of HitLab, and Senior Vice President and COO of Real Financial, where he sits between the field and corporate and turns the vision into execution. Subscribe to Nick's top-rated podcast The Hitstreak on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/NickHiter Follow and Rate us on Spotify: https://spotify.com/NickHiter Follow and Rate us on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/NickHiter Follow and Rate us on iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/NickHiter
