A 9-Year NFL Veteran's Advice on Money, Mentors, and Purpose

0:05Aaron Beasley Jacksonville Jaguars nine years in the NFL you got hit a lot I was hitting but so tell you i so lonnie and i had an amazing hangout with you weekend with you at the gala event you had us to and looking at schools up in jacksonville tell me you play and you play um you play golf everywhere so anybody does anybody throw a golf tournament in here by chance anybody's foundation okay cool wow a couple people awesome get him to play golf with you guys you guys he'll probably beat you but you know it's tell me tell me how much golf do you play a year because you were really talking about well it kind of replaced uh football and sports for me just because i'm so competitive and i feel like this is the only sport i can play till i die and not get hurt you know you can't be saying uh how'd you get hurt golfing golfing i like that i think pickleball is mine will be you can hurt you can break ankles i ain't doing is that what it is Nice.

1:04And Lonnie kicks my butt, too. So it's really it's challenging. So tell me what what's the biggest success story of your NFL career? I would say just making it getting drafted. You know, I was always wanted to be a basketball player. So I actually ran cross country in 10th grade. And, you know, just I don't know what made me change. I went to Valley Forge Military Academy for a post-grad year and I go there and I said I'm dedicated to football now I got scholarships for basketball after but I just dedicated myself because that was my focus What visualization affirmations did you do in your life to be really focused to become successful?

1:47I always believe in putting it in the air So when I mean that like when I was in second grade I asked my my dentist why he signed his autograph so fancy and he was telling me that like that is you and that's who you are when you get later in life so I used to practice my autograph in second grade and I still have the same autograph that's awesome and then and then like I I met Dr. J so when you say mentor like looking up to Dr. J was one of my things and I got to meet him when I was in high school being a close friend of his son and I had the whole crowd around me I don't know what I was doing but he pulled me to the side he's like who are you son and he brought me up to his attic where he had all his retirement um I mean just a whole attic of retirement um items and he's like what are you gonna do with your life and I told him right there I said I'm either going to NFL or I'm going to NBA and it was like when I when I say put it in the air I mean you put it out there and you go chase that dream yeah yeah did he mention you for a long period of time and it's funny i ran into him when i actually i got drafted by the jaguars uh this is when he worked for orlando magic and and somebody from the jaguars brother worked for their lando magic and told him i was coming down there and he actually remembered me so he comes up to me you know everybody calls me aaron but he's like but on football field they call me bees so he comes up bees i'm like yo the doc called me bees you know but it was it was cool because he remembered and you know i kind of made an impact on him i still talk to him to this day i heard the whole stadium used to you know used to yell yeah yeah yeah how did that feel when like you saw 50 000 people yelling bees well it's one of the things where every play is so important and you know i would compete let's talk about compete i wanted every play i wanted to hear my name every time just because i want to make every play just because i want to be i want to succeed like when when you think about a football player we get graded every play and i always wanted to grade 100 i always wanted every play to be all my effort everything i could do to help my team what is the most costly financial mistake that you've ever made getting that credit card when I went to college.

4:10Oh, that's right. You know, just graduated and it was like, hey, you get a credit card. I would say not surrounding myself with people that could bring something else to the table. You know, like if you just hang with your friends, there's not that person that's going to tell you no and everybody wants to be around you just because of who you are and not tell you no just because they think you're going to be pissed off. But I feel like you got to surround yourself around people that can give constructive criticism. What are you focused on today in business? I always think about success. It doesn't matter what it is.

4:50Just be successful. And that could be small wins. You know, I was believing that when I wake up, every day is going to be the best day of my life. You know, it's like a lot of people wake up and the first thing is, ah, another day. No, my first thing is like, let's go. you know and then you chase that day you you set out to have a great day and then i just go for it i know it's a lot of golf and all that but but at the same time you know i i do a lot of things you've been in jacksonville and it's like just the fact that i came back there four years ago and what i've accomplished because i think a lot of it is the networking part so when i just met you on the phone i said you got to come up to this event you came up and took over my event they all loved you they were all wanting your autograph and you were sitting over in the corner talking hounded by everybody so well and that's i i feel like i heard somebody talk about relationships and i think that's the the number one thing is like meet people don't just like i always meet people and they never tell me their name i'm like i don't meet you unless i know your name so hey what's your name and then you you finally meet somebody yeah are you working on projects right now besides our school our school I have my tech company as well I do like a oh what's it all reality augmented reality virtual reality just trying to bring experiences in that realm I mean it was looking good when Kobe was here but now it's kind of you know hello nice thanks for coming bro thanks for bringing back to me coming from Florida thank you awesome give round of applause.

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