If Father Time Is Catching Up, Here's How To Fight Back | Kevin Love

0:00What should you invest in and how often? Making investing decisions is easier with Fidelity. With their step-by-step experience, you can find investments based on your goals and comfort level. And if you'd like, you can decide how much and how often to invest with recurring investments that happen automatically. Ready to make your next investing decision? Head to fidelity.com slash trading. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC, member NYSE SIPC.

0:30Lewis Howes:Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:43Lewis Howes:You mentioned father time. That's something I'm trying to battle with as well as like fighting father time. How can I extend my athletic journey towards my Olympic dreams for LA 2028 the best way I can with a little over two years away? and I'll be 45 at that time. So the idea of like, how do I continue to stay mentally young and physically young to prevent injuries, to give myself the ability to live a dream? How do you think about the, I guess, mortality of your body in with 22 year olds who are just freak athletes in the NBA now? Like these guys are jumping out of the gym. They're just doing unbelievable athletic feats every night.

1:30Lewis Howes:How do you think about that? Knowing, oh, maybe I don't have that little step that I used to have. Maybe I'm not jumping that many more inches above the rim that I used to. How do you navigate that internally? Knowing the end may be a year or two, three years away, but it's like it's here at some point sooner than it is later. I'll try to use this for sure. Study the game, study film. The film doesn't lie. hopefully you know they haven't figured that out yet so I have that advantage yeah yeah yeah on them but I think in terms of my body it's like cortisol cortisol cortisol like how do I keep the inflammation down because I always you know there's always some some sort of stress response or something that will set you off throughout the course of the day but if you can try and limit that as much as possible while also knowing that you're going to be burning it at both ends if you're going in and lifting weights and doing sprints and putting all that stress on your body and your knees and your back over the course of time.

2:31It's certainly an accumulation. I have a lot of miles on me having played 18 seasons, plus working out in the summertime, plus playing USA basketball. So for me, it's keeping the inflammation down. It's eating right. It's sleeping right, having proper balance so there's no burnout. But again, I'm never going to get those steps back that I once had. Oh, man. It's like just stabilizing, see where you can improve. Summertime, off-season is a great chance to do that. Always being curious and trying to learn as much as you possibly can about how you can help your body, how you can help your body grow, mind grow.

3:14Lewis Howes:And hopefully you'll be able to teach those guys something. Man, because I'm kind of in that season now as well where I can see I'm still able to be effective and I'm athletic. Just can't do it all the time. And it's like, but I'm not jumping 360 one leg, landing on the same foot, like, you know, reaching back and doing all the crazy stuff you used to when you're 26. And you can just recover like that. And so how do you think about it around confidence and psychologically, knowing that you're, I don't want to say you're not as good because you're better in other ways. but athletically you're just you know i didn't wish you had this mind with that body exactly yeah how do you how do you deal with it psychologically to not let your confidence go down knowing that you're a different athlete let me say that yeah i think it's focusing like i know that at a very elite level that i can still rebound the ball at elite level i can shoot the ball at elite level i can pass the ball and also admitting like where i'm at in my career but understanding where I add value, right?

4:16So focusing on those things, fine-tuning as well. I always say you can hear a great team. So, like, our young guys don't like to communicate. I didn't hear much this year. That's it, man. So that was a great thing that, you know, I learned, especially when I got to the Cavs and had to be a championship team, is that we had to speak, we had to communicate, if not off the floor, then on the floor, to get the best out of each other. So I think that's... It's a both and. On and off. On and off. I mean, you need it, but, you know, there's exceptions to the rule. Like, of course, you know, Kobe and Shaq hated each other at some point, and yet they were just, you know, two of the top few players in the league at the same time playing on the same team.

4:57So there's that. But we, no, we were great communicators, and we also had fun together, and we trusted each other. So I think that was huge.

5:07Lewis Howes:I hear a lot of, you know, it's talk and touch. It's like the more you talk with each other and the more you touch each other. Yeah, Steve Nash. Didn't they do a study on him? Like the most touches? He was like of the whole season, right? It was him. It's like positive affirmations basically. And he was the MVP. He had the most touches. And he was always positively speaking into the players. And I think if the coach... Tell me how that works. Isn't that interesting? It's the talk and touch. And I think that's something I'm thinking a lot of this season of my life in handball is like, I can cheer the whole game.

5:40Lewis Howes:If I'm on the bench and I'm not playing, I can be cheering. and screaming positively for each player. And that's what I do. If I'm not playing in the game, I'm like, you got this, keep it up. I'm just speaking. Yeah. And trying to encourage others to communicate because that's infectious. It's leadership, yeah.

6:02Lewis Howes:I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you wanna make it easier, you wanna make it flow, you wanna feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is gonna help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of The Daily Motivation Show.

6:43Lewis Howes:Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation. And I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving The Daily Motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcast right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

7:33Lewis Howes:Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

8:03advantage because hiring managers who start with skills are 60 % more likely to find a successful hire. Hire skills first. Learn why at tearthepaperceiling.org. Brought to you by Opportunity at Work and the Ad Council.