So Sherman, tell me about your vision. My vision in regard to business, right?
Whatever you like to share. All right, my vision for me is to be able to impact the world and after
you leave a strong legacy behind. I want to be able to be remembered for actually, you know,
making a change. Yeah. Tell me more about that. So I see when I go to the funerals,
I've been to a couple of funerals these past few years and, you know, I feel like when people
actually impacted others, it's more of a powerful thing, you know what I mean? Like say if someone
passed away and, you know, no disrespect to the dead, but if their impact wasn't that great,
you could kind of like tell as far as like the crowd and the emotion and everything like that.
And so I was thinking about it. I was like, man, when I pass, you know, I want to be able to impact
the people that will be celebrating my life, you know, like, you know, at my funeral, I want them
to see that like, man, Sherman really made a difference in my life. He impacted me. He
told me this and he changed this and he did that. And so with that, I started my own podcast. I
wrote a book, I'm out of a blog now, and I've just been more so expressing myself and leaving my
digital footprint, you know, in the world. So my kids and, you know, my grandkids and future
great grandkids will be able to look me up and see, you know, certain things about me that
they'll learn about me because I left my thoughts and my wisdom and my, you know, everything just
behind. Awesome. What do you do? I'm a life. So in these like in the book and in the podcast,
what do you share? I share mental health, so perseverance, dedication, motivation, stuff like
that. And so, you know, the reason why I'm credible for even speaking about those things is because
of like where I came from, what I went through, where I'm at now, and also me being into physical
fitness. So physical fitness is all mental toughness to me. And I can attest to that because
I put myself in Spartan races, different, like say different files, you know, just to be able
to say that I did it, you know what I mean? So it's like, I'm actually paying people to put me
through something so I can say, okay, I achieved this goal. So I always test my mental strength,
like weekly, just like going to the gym or running or doing something of that sort. So with that,
I was like, you know, I'm going to just go ahead and tell people my strategies, which is what I
actually listed in my book called, from great to greatness, harnessing the five pillars of the
militant grind. And so I talk about love, honor, strength, discipline, and wisdom. And so those are
my five pillars. And within those five pillars, actually just like explain, you know, what is love,
self-love, how to deal with love, and then also like don't love yourself too much that you're
oblivious to what's actually going on in the world, you know, so you're not overly ego inflated and
things like that. Well, you mentioned that you pay people to have you go through experiences and
tough experiences. Why do you do that? Because I feel like I always need some type of mental
challenge. You know, like I say, not pay people, but like play the Spartan races, you know, stuff
like that. So it's like, you know, like say even taking a course or going through a class or
something like that, it's basically you challenging yourself to be better each and every day. So I
have like certificates on different programs that I went through. Also doing different races around
Southern California and things like that as well. That could attest to my mental toughness. Yeah,
but my question is why? So Mike, you're saying that you do test your mental toughness, but once
you've already tested your mental toughness once or twice, you know, you're mentally tough, but why
do you keep doing it? That's why I'm kind of... Oh, because you always have to stay fresh on it.
You know, it's like the new iPhone has to have a software upgrade. You have to upgrade your
own software within your body. You know what I mean? And in order to stay afloat, you have to
be continuous. And that actually is a great question because there's some people that will say,
oh, okay, I did a certain workout five years ago and I don't need to do it again. And they're out
of shape today. Or they'll look at me and be physically and say, well, you know, 15, 20 years
ago, I was your size and I was fit and I was this and I was that, but I'm looking at them now
and their stomach is fat. You know what I'm saying? Or they're looking out of their way out of shape.
So to me, it's kind of like, I mean, I hear what you say, but what I see is something different,
you know, and it's kind of like, you know, I know you're probably trying to size me up or something
like that, but at the end of the day, the only way you could impact others is by what you see and
also by what they know what you say and also by what they see. You know what I'm saying? So
that's the way I look at it. It's like you have to continuously sharpen yourself until you possibly
can't do it anymore.
That is awesome. What keeps you going in all this? What keeps you going to be
that tough and putting your body through that strain? One way I look at it, someone just gets
joy out of doing all that, like to you doing that, just happiness that you get some happiness out of
the other way I look at it, you might have something at the end of the tunnel that you see.
What makes you going through all that grind? Me knowing that I have children and I want the best
for my children. So the thing for me is that I know that children always watch what we do,
not what you say. You know, let's say if I was to call my daughter right now and she'll hear that
I'm outside, her first assumption is that is daddy going to be there? And I'm like,
is daddy at the gym? Or if I leave, daddy already going to the gym. So they're seeing my
positive habits that could possibly propel them to go look forward. And then I said,
I took my oldest daughter to the gym and she was in love. She was like, oh, now I'm at the place
where my daddy has been going since I was born. Now I get to see it. Now I get to work out.
And so I feel like I'm a firm leader and lead by example. And the best way to do it is for your
children to actually see you doing it. Like you can't tell them how to do something that you're
not really doing or give people advice on how to do something that you're not doing at all.
You know, as I say, I can't, I can't come up to a software engineer and tell them, well, you should
probably do this with the code. And I'm like, I've never coded in my life. So why would I even think
that I have the capabilities of telling them anything? But if I was like a master coder,
and then I gave them advice, then they'll probably be okay. Well, maybe I should listen,
you know, but what habits are, are people seeing that you do that could actually like help them?
Cause people are looking at you all day, you know, and your habits are actually a,
a reflection of how you look and how you are and how you think.
So that's really my why lead by example is the biggest why in the world for me.
Okay. Wow. Thank you for sharing that. You're speaking my language now.
There's an author, his name is Henry John Bishop. Have you heard of him?
No, I haven't. He's, he talks about being a great parent and in his,
I can't remember the exact title of the book, but he's pretty famous.
I think it's like how to, maybe I can find it for you.
Yeah, it's called becoming the parents your kids deserve grow up by Gary John Bishop,
not Henry, Gary John Bishop. I read it a while ago and essentially it comes down to what you said
exactly that you can't talk the talk. You have to walk the talk. Your kids will see you, they'll
see you. Your kids will see through your hip, like if you're a hypocrite, if you tell kids to do
something you don't do yourself, your kids will see it through. At the end of the day, you can't,
you can't control your kids. When they come, when they come the age of accountability,
when they come to when they're 18, they make their own decisions per se and they're out of the house.
You can only aspire and the only way to aspire them is to do things up.
And there's a lot of things you can do before they get out of the house to control a lot of things
they do so they don't do anything very stupid as a parent should. But essentially what you all can do
is to be an example. Right. And you hit it right on the head. So thank you for sharing that.
Oh, you're very welcome. Where are you going with your vision?
Where I'm going. I really, that one is pretty hard for me to answer because I look at life like this.
I really, you really have to be optimistic about where you're going, like wherever you're going to
go, hopefully it's like the best option for you. But then it's more so like, what am I doing with
my vision? You know, which is doing a podcast, writing, I just wrote a journal, I'm writing a
script for a movie, you know, all kinds of things, just to be able to impact people and spread the
message even further. So with that, I don't know, maybe movies, maybe more brand sponsorships,
things like that. But I think that's the way to go. I think that's the way to go.
I'm more so focused on the like, okay, if I chip away every day at something, something is going to
come about it. You know, thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision
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