Diamyn Hall

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Mick Unplugged · Diamyn Hall | From Paralysis to Purpose: Diamyn Hall's Journey · 14 Dec 2024 podcast

It was, how do I become the best version of myself over these next few years to the point where it will impact them in a positive way? And I thought a little bit further. How do I become this next best version of myself so that it impacts my children in a positive way, in their children's children, in their children's children? And this developed over a

But now my because has grown into developing generational wealth. When I say wealth, most people are going to hear, the problem is most people are going to hear just finances. That is so far from what this actually is. It's a piece of it, but it's just a piece.

The other piece of creating generational wealth, other pieces of creating generational wealth are generational wealth and riches and resources. Most importantly, generational wealth and riches and relationships and your habits and In your body, in your career, the things that you do daily that make who you are. So for me, then that was my because and now my because.

My why is to continue to become and continue to hunt down the next best version of myself so that when this is all said and done, I've got a legacy that I can leave behind for generations to come.

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Next I, you know, I put football aside. I was like, okay, I'm going to all in with basketball. So a year later, Very similar situation happened with basketball. Dove hit first for the basketball and then went head on with somebody, temporarily paralyzed, knew what was going on this time around. Doctors didn't clear me to play anymore. Same story. And then I came across the game of baseball.

And baseball is such a different game. It's much more of a mental game than any other sport that I've ever come across. And when I started playing baseball, I was one of the best athletes. I was one of the strongest, one of the fastest, et cetera, et cetera. But the skill acquisition piece, the skill piece was the hardest. and the adversity that you face in the game of baseball.

Like when you have an at-bat and you strike out your first at-bat, you've got to wait 40 minutes until your next at-bat. So you have to be able to have a conversation with you and yourself. And you've got to be able to win those conversations between you and yourself before that next at-bat comes up. So one of my good friends, Ryan Barnett, it's a different Ryan.

He, after a practice, he was like, man, Diamond, I know you're playing catch up. I know you're one of the hardest workers out here. You're one of the best athletes out here. If you study this book, if you study this from cover to cover, It's going to change the game for you. And I looked down and it's a book called Heads Up Baseball by Dr. Ken Reviza and Tom Hanson.

And what it was, was a book on mental skills, the skills of the mind specifically for the game of baseball. And so I started studying this book and this is when the bookshelf starts to grow. And then I came across, I think it was like two days later, came across John Maxwell's 360 degree leader. So this was like, for me, the birth of professional, personal and self-improvement.

I've got a leadership book in one hand and then I've got a mental skills book and mental performance book in the other. And I've got leadership and I've got mindset. And so after I read these two books, I became obsessed with learning, specifically in these two areas. I would buy books that people get in their PhD programs. I would look it up on Amazon. It'd be like 300 bucks.

And I would get this big, thick book and I would go through it. And I would highlight stuff. I would write stuff on the side. And then I would figure out how can I put this into practice in my game tomorrow? And so over the next four years, studied the mental side of the game, studied the leadership piece. And I remember we had a tournament. We had a baseball tournament at Western Kentucky.

And this is when I first came across Jeff Mercer, who's now the head coach of Indiana. And during the time I was still reading the Heads Up baseball book and he saw me reading the Heads Up baseball book, putting the things into practice. And we connected. We crossed paths. At the time, he was a scout for the Hilltoppers. And so I ended up not going to Western Kentucky.

I got a scholarship to a junior college. In Illinois, Robinson, Illinois, Lincoln Trail Community College, two year college plan. The goal was to I'm going to dominate these two years and I'm going to get drafted my second year, my sophomore year. And while I was there, I came across an incredible coach, Kevin Bowers. I remember jumping in his office.

We were having a good conversation one day and then he pulls a book from his bookshelf. He says, Diamond, like this is this is yours. Read this. I looked down and it's the it's the mental game of baseball by Harvey Dorfman. And it's this thick book talks about all of the specific mental skills that exist. And it's much thicker than than heads up baseball. Still just as good.

But it talks about all the mental skills that you need to study in the game of baseball that separate the best of the best. Because some people say, you know, the game is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. The numbers are the numbers are interesting there. But so read this book.

And it ended up helping my game get to the next level and ended up getting a scholarship from there to Grand Lake State University, a division one down south in Louisiana, where I came across another amazing coach, James Cooper, who's now a manager within the within the Yankees organization. And he gave me he gave me two books. He gave me Relentless by Tim Grover.

This is Kobe Bryant's former coach. former trainer, Michael Jordan's former trainer. And he broke, he broke the mindset pieces down in such a great way. I read the book and I was like, this dude is right. He wrote this book about me. I got to reach out. I got to, I got to talk to him on the phone. And so I reached out like 10 times, no response. The 11th time I reached out. And he responds.

He said, yeah, I got some time to jump on the phone with you. So connected with him, picked his brain, taking notes the whole time and learned so much. And then the second book that he gave me was Body Mind Mastery by Dan Millman. This is now Dan Millman was a guy that Phil Jackson used to bring in with the Chicago Bulls. And you hear people talk about Phil Jackson being the Zen master.

And you hear Michael Jordan talking about being composed under pressure. All of these things, when you take that relentless mentality and then you combine it with this poise under pressure and this calmness and this ability to allow the moment to be the moment, then you get the Michael Jordans, the Kobe Bryants.

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