Hey everyone. It’s Bo and welcome to our home. This is Dawn’s and my home and our three kids. If you’ve followed me long enough you know that I’m obsessed with what it takes to be the best. And you know that I’m always talking about my dreams, my clients’ dreams, your dreams, my kids’ dreams and my family’s dreams.
I take dreams very seriously. Today we’re going to talk about your dreams and about the environment for those dreams and how it will help you make them come true.
We’re going to take a little tour up to my son’s room to look at his dream and the environment he surrounds himself with to assure that those dreams come true. His dreams, some of you may know, are he wants to be an NBA player and an NFL player. So you see the surroundings of his room are as such. He’s got his uncle here. That’s my brother, Tony Eason, who was a quarterback in the Super Bowl. This is the Super Bowl ball, the actual game ball. This is one of my game balls from when I was playing.
He loves Michael Jordan. You know what’s so funny? He never even saw Michael Jordan play a game. He wasn’t even born when Michael Jordan was playing. But Michael Jordan is known to be the best in the world at basketball and Axel just got his autograph because he went to Michael Jordan’s basketball camp—that’s his prized possession.
Over here is Axel’s 20-year plan. The plan used to be one sheet of paper. I think he must have been six when drew this, maybe five. You can see the little basketball player here, the little football player here. I’m thinking this is baseball. I’m not 100 percent. This is the crowd, the stadium. And it says, ‘20 Year’ so this is his 20-year plan, no different than my 20-year plan when I was a kid. He wrote this little book on how to be the best. If you follow the steps, he’s pretty accurate. You should practice every day (good tip), eat the best, dream the best, make the dream plan and then live your dream, actually bring it into existence.
This started as one sheet and then just kept growing and growing over the last two years. Every night and every morning he is looking at this and it’s growing and expanding. He is surrounded by pro athletes who he knows and who he doesn’t know. He has the jerseys of his dad and his uncle up here so that helps makes it a reality.
Now think about this for a moment in your own life. How can you do this in your own life, in your own kids’ lives or grandkids’ lives? You need an environment equivalent to you being that dream—having that dream come true. You surround yourself with your future self, what it’s going to look like, how it’s going to be.
Let’s take a look at this picture of Steve Nash and Steph Curry. Axel loves these two guys. He really loves Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan so he’s got them. He’s got a picture of himself and me. So he’s looking at his dad and it makes it a reality when there’s somebody you know, and it’s your dad. He can think, ‘well, he actually achieved this dream … maybe I can make it come true.’
This is his basketball coach A.J. Moye, who’s a former all-American at Indiana and a pro player. He trains Axel diligently, three or four times a week. They work very, very hard. He’s not an easy coach. You don’t want an easy coach. You want a coach who’s going to push you, who’s going to scare you a little bit, who’s going to make you rise much higher than you think you can. He loves A.J., even though A.J. is very tough on him. But A.J. loves him and he feels that too.
Here’s Kobe Bryant with all of the championship trophies and the gold medal. This is a picture of Usain Bolt and a cheetah—he wants to have that kind of speed. Again, his uncle, Tony Eason, is on the wall. There’s a quote from Kobe Bryant about training by himself. He gets the feeling of loneliness. In the picture, you can see there’s nobody in there, except the best player on the court. I want Axel to know about that.
This is how you make your dreams come true. Think about your environment right now—your work environment, your home environment. Is it equivalent to you becoming the best? Whatever you surround yourself with and who you’re looking at every day, that’s who you’re going to become. When I say, “Axel wants to be an NFL player and an NBA player.” Most people (and most parents), say, “That’s impossible. No one’s really ever done that with any kind of success.”
But has anybody ever started at the age of six with a plan and a dream and surrounded by an environment that is equivalent to you making that come true? That part I don’t know. We’re giving it a shot. We’re going to see what happens. If I were a betting man, I would say, “Watch out. I think this thing is probably going to come true.” Another thing we’ll talk about soon is the work ethic that bringing something like Axel’s dream into existence takes. It’s almost impossible for normal people. You have to have a real obsessive work ethic and you have to out-train everybody else that you know.
So what I want you to do is be like Axel. I want you to think like he thinks. I want you to surround yourself with who you want to be, your future self. The most successful people in the world are the ones who have the best and most intimate relationship with their future selves. If you can’t see yourself in the future and who you want to be and where you want to go, you’re going to have a tough time getting there.
This isn’t just kids’ play. I take dreams very seriously. I take my kids’ dreams, and my wife’s dreams and my clients’ dreams VERY seriously. I believe it is our job to make those dreams come true because I think those dreams come from some place. They’re not accidental. I think it’s our job to make them come true for other people and for us. So get out there. Be like Axel. Live your dream. Surround yourself with the right environment and your dreams will come true.
The day they come true it won’t be like, “Wow. They came true.” It’ll be like, “Yeah, they came true because I’ve been working and training at this for some time.”
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