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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, your guide to

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Speaker 1: the Whitetail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile

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Speaker 1: hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light,

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Speaker 1: Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on

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Speaker 2: the show, we're going to discuss exactly how and why

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Speaker 2: you can perform an end of year review as we

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Speaker 2: wrap up this most recent hunting season. All right, welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, brought to you by

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Speaker 2: First Light and their Camo excuse me not commo, their

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Speaker 2: Camo for Conservation initiative, in which they donate a portion

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Speaker 2: of all proceeds from sales of their spector Whitetail cameo

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Speaker 2: pattern back to the National Deer Association, which I love.

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Speaker 2: And today is our first episode of the new year.

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Speaker 2: It is twenty twenty four now, which is pretty wild,

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Speaker 2: and today I want to do something pretty different. There's

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Speaker 2: no guests today, just me, me and you talking about

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Speaker 2: this past hunting season and the hunting season to come.

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Speaker 2: What I want to do is I want to walk

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Speaker 2: you through an end of year review. This is actually

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Speaker 2: something that I do myself every year, both you know,

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Speaker 2: hunting related and just general life, work, personal, all that

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Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And so what I want to do

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Speaker 2: is talk you through why I do that, you know,

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Speaker 2: what is an end of your review, Why I find

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Speaker 2: it valuable, why this could be applicable to our hunting lives,

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Speaker 2: and how it can actually help us as deer hunters

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Speaker 2: and outdoors men and women, And to help you kind

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Speaker 2: of understand what I'm talking about here and to understand

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Speaker 2: how to do it yourself if you're interested. I want

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Speaker 2: to walk through my own end of year review for

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Speaker 2: my hunting side of things. So I want to talk

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Speaker 2: through how I do it. I want to talk through

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Speaker 2: the things I'm thinking about, and I want to share

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Speaker 2: with you the way I'm processing this most recent hunting season,

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Speaker 2: which was the twenty three season. It just came to

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Speaker 2: a close for me yesterday. Actually yesterday was my very

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Speaker 2: last hunt of the year. It was a great one.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to share that story with you, as well

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Speaker 2: as a whole bunch of other stories that I haven't

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Speaker 2: shared yet on the podcast, because here's the thing. The

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Speaker 2: headline of my twenty three season is that I just

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Speaker 2: completed the best hunting season of my life. Now, it's

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Speaker 2: not that I killed the most deer of my life.

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Speaker 2: It's not that I killed the biggest dear of my life.

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Speaker 2: But when you look at the entirety of this season,

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Speaker 2: what it meant to me, the experiences I had, the

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Speaker 2: memories I made, the people I shared it with, without

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Speaker 2: a doubt, it's the best ever. So I want to

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Speaker 2: talk you through that, but also talk through the things

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Speaker 2: that didn't go well, talk through the mistakes. I may,

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Speaker 2: talk through some lessons I learned, talk through some things

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Speaker 2: I want to change, and lots more along the way.

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Speaker 2: So that is the game plan for today. Again, We're

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Speaker 2: going to talk through what the end of your review is,

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Speaker 2: why it's important, and then use my specific example to

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Speaker 2: explain how you can do it yourself. So my recommendation

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Speaker 2: for you, my thoughts, my hope, so that you know,

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Speaker 2: after listening to this conversation, it's a one set of conversation,

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Speaker 2: I guess, but after listening to this you might be

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Speaker 2: able to take half hour, an hour, however much time

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Speaker 2: or with your computer up or whatever it is, and

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Speaker 2: do something like this yourself, Because I really do think

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Speaker 2: it will help now real quick, before we do that,

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Speaker 2: I do want to share one quick little piece of news.

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Speaker 2: It's exciting we finally have wired to Hunt hats again.

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Speaker 2: Now you might have seen the meat Eater white tail

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Speaker 2: hat that I've been wearing for the last two years.

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Speaker 2: Just this past summer, I think it was that finally

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Speaker 2: became available. It's that rope pat black with the deer

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Speaker 2: across the front. If you're watching this on YouTube, you

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Speaker 2: can actually see we've now got a Wired Hunt version

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Speaker 2: of that. So if you're watching, you can see I've

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Speaker 2: got the deer on the front and then it says

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Speaker 2: wired to Hunt here on the side now and it's

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Speaker 2: available in two unique colors. You can't get in the

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Speaker 2: regular Meat Eater white tail hat that originally launched, so

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Speaker 2: the field hunting, and it's a great way to support

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Speaker 2: Wired to Hunt and show that's you're part of this community,

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Speaker 2: which I really appreciate. And you know, if we sell

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Speaker 2: while longer at meat Eater and keep doing these podcasts.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for picking up a hat. If you're interested,

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Speaker 2: you can go to the meat Eater store, which is

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Speaker 2: just you know, go to the meat eater dot com.

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Speaker 2: You'll see the links for the store and navigate your

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Speaker 2: want to give you a heads up that all said,

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Speaker 2: let's talk end of the year review, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to be drink It has been coffee as we do this,

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Speaker 2: because you know, when it's just you and me, there's

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Speaker 2: So you know, as I record this, it's January TEWOD

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, and what my wife and I did

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Speaker 2: yesterday was a joint end of the review where we

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Speaker 2: sit down and we talk about all the things that

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Speaker 2: happened last year. We talked through the things that we

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Speaker 2: think went well. We talked to the things that we

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Speaker 2: our highlights. We talked through kind of review our goals

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Speaker 2: and then we do the same thing looking forward. And

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Speaker 2: I think that this does a few things for me

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Speaker 2: case to you for why I might suggest you consider

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Speaker 2: doing something similar. And this applies not just to life

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Speaker 2: feels like it is a constant blur. It's like you're

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Speaker 2: There's no time to think back on that vacation you had,

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Speaker 2: months ago, because you're worrying about today. You're worrying about

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Speaker 2: I think it helps you appreciate so much more of

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Speaker 2: it's very easy not to truly appreciate that the great

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Speaker 2: there's all these little things that happen on day to

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Speaker 2: into these hunts. Right, how many of you have killed

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Speaker 2: think it through again. That is so valuable. It's so valuable.

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Speaker 2: It's not just valuable in the way that you can

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Speaker 2: if there's anything we've talked about on the Wired Hunt

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Speaker 2: always ask why, always take that next step. No matter

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Speaker 2: couple of different trips. We drove to the Vortex's headquarters,

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00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,679
Speaker 2: and we drove to the Taxidermis, and we drove to

433
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 2: a friend of his and we drove all over his property,

434
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 2: his farm and all that. Just like Windshield time with

435
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 2: Doug was a blast, getting to debate him about you know,

436
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 2: anything and everything, Debating about food plus, debating about deer hunting,

437
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 2: debating about how to deal with CWD, debating bow hunting

438
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: versus gun hunting, and like fun debates with someone who

439
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 2: you know is thoughtful and cares about you but also

440
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 2: has different perspectives. I love that and that is something

441
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: I could look back with a lot of fondness, and

442
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 2: that made that trip a big win. So thinking about

443
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,719
Speaker 2: highlights like that or moving on the season, you know.

444
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 2: The first trip or first kind of big thing in

445
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: Michigan was this back forty hunt that we filmed with

446
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: two of the new hunters who I first mentored out

447
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: there a couple of years ago, Evanon Forrest, and it

448
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 2: got to spend four days with them out there kind

449
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 2: of talking through their journey, talking through what's been going

450
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 2: on on the Back forty property since we donated to

451
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: the National Deer Association, since they started their field to

452
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 2: fork program out there, and man, looking back on that huge,

453
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: huge win. We didn't kill a deer on that particular trip,

454
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 2: but seeing how their journey has progressed has been a

455
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 2: win in itself. They've now become diehard hunters. I was

456
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 2: with both of them on their first deer kill three

457
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 2: years ago. I guess it is and now they love

458
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: deer hunting. They're fully consumed with it. I continue to

459
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,199
Speaker 2: stay in touch with them. I've had them out to

460
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: hunt on some of my other places since then. We've

461
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 2: shared a lot of great memories. I got to be

462
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 2: a part of several other new hunter events out there

463
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 2: this year, including getting the mentor another new hunter to

464
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: one of his first deer out there on the Back forty,

465
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,959
Speaker 2: So that whole thing, big, big win, you know. Another

466
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 2: huge highlight of my twenty twenty three season was the

467
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 2: extra time I got to spend at our family deer camp,

468
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: Ken Roband. Some of you have probably heard me talk

469
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 2: about it, and in this year I wanted to find

470
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 2: a way to spend more time up there. And document

471
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 2: what we've been trying to do, which in a very

472
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: short version, is that we've been trying to revitalize the

473
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 2: camp up there and then help make the hunting better again.

474
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 2: And so we started some pretty significant projects this past spring.

475
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 2: We put expanded food plots in, We did some significant

476
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: cutting to add new structure and cover into some of

477
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 2: the old mature timber. We fixed up all sorts of

478
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 2: new blind blinds that would be good hunting locations for

479
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 2: my dad who has some specific needs, put up more

480
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 2: cameras than ever before, and it kind of came out

481
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 2: of all that work was then some really special trips.

482
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 2: We did the longest trip I've done up there that

483
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 2: I can remember. We had five fold days I think

484
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 2: six five six days, five nights, something like that, but

485
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 2: a long time up at camp with my dad, with

486
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 2: my buddy Josh, my friend Charlie. A great trip there

487
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 2: in October, and then we came back in November with

488
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 2: the kids and had our first true family deer camp

489
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 2: with all the boys. So Everett, my five year old,

490
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: has been to deer camp before, but this past season

491
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 2: my three year old Colt got to come for the

492
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 2: first time. And then Josh's son Wade, who's four, got

493
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 2: to come for the first time. So we had a

494
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 2: five year old to four year old and a three

495
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 2: year old up at deer Camp with us, and you know,

496
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 2: that was really special to get to share this place

497
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 2: with the fourth generation of hunters now at our family

498
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: deer camp. So we had a lot of great memories

499
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: during that long weekend. And that's that's, without a doubt,

500
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 2: a big, big part of what made this season so special.

501
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 2: And then, you know, I think that ties back to

502
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: another one of these things that I've been trying to

503
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 2: focus on this general themes, which is, you know, a

504
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 2: big part of why these last couple of seasons I

505
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: think have been a lot better for me, which is

506
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 2: going back to prioritizing those things that actually matter, not

507
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: being too worked up about how many dearI kill, how

508
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 2: big a deer, all that kind of stuff that relates

509
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: to like the outside world or what other people think

510
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 2: about your success, getting tied up in inches or antlers

511
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: or anything like that, which it's easy to do because

512
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 2: we love deer hunting. We love deer. They get us

513
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 2: geeked out. But prioritizing family and friends, time with the

514
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: people you care about sharing the outdoors and sharing our

515
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 2: hunts and our experiences with other people. It's easy to

516
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 2: lose sight of that when you're just chasing big bucks.

517
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: My one of my absolute biggest lessons over the last

518
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 2: couple of years is what a mistake that is. And

519
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 2: this year at our deer camp, going up to Ken Rovan,

520
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: spending extra time with my dad, my kids, pals. That's

521
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: that's what hunting is all about. That's what got me

522
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 2: into it in the first place. And I'm so so

523
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 2: glad I was able to, you know, continue that tradition

524
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 2: now with my two sons. So without a doubt, twenty

525
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: twenty three man, huge, huge year when it comes to

526
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 2: Ken Roven and spending time with the boys, and that

527
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: continues on. That did continue on throughout the season because

528
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: after our family deer camp and once it kind of

529
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 2: became time to really focus on dough hunting, I was

530
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 2: able to get my kids out some more with me.

531
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 2: And two very exciting things happened recently, well, several exciting

532
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 2: things happen. One I already mentioned I got to mentor

533
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: another new hunter to a deer on the back forty

534
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, and then I had another dough

535
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: hunting night with a buddy, Josh on different property. We

536
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: both killed those in the same night. That's the first

537
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: time we've ever doubled together. And he's my best hunting buddy.

538
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: We spent a lot of days hunting together, but this

539
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 2: was the first time we both killed a deer in

540
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,719
Speaker 2: the same hunt, So that was a really fun night

541
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 2: to share. A few a week or two later, I

542
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 2: invited him out to one of the farms I hunt,

543
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 2: another one of the farms I hunt, and he was

544
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: actually able to kill another dough and had his son

545
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 2: visiting down with my kids at the same time, so

546
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 2: we were able to get all the boys out. So

547
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 2: Everett Colt and his son Wade to go and help

548
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: track his dough and so that was the first time

549
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: Wade was ever able to be on a blood trail

550
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: and help recover deer with his dad. So it's really

551
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: awesome to share that with him. And then the highlight

552
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 2: probably I mean right up there at the top of

553
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: my highlights for the year, maybe the number one highlight

554
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: of the year. This would have been just a few

555
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: nights ago. Me and Everett went out. So my five

556
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: year old son, he's been out quite a bit with

557
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 2: me in the past. He started hunting with me when

558
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 2: he was three. Last year, as a four year old,

559
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: he went out quite a bit. I've talked about some

560
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: of the really cool hunts we had. We had a

561
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: couple close calls with Wide nine, a couple close calls

562
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: trying to get a dough, but we just couldn't quite

563
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: get it done. So this year we're hoping to get

564
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: over the hump. And four or five nights ago, we

565
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: go out and we're sitting in this big box linef

566
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: got and it was just one of those nights that

567
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: the stars aligned and magic happened. He was great sneaking

568
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 2: out there. I remember we were slipping out to the tree.

569
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: He kept on looking at me and giving me a

570
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: big thumbs up, And then one time he kind of

571
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: starts whispering to me, and I leaned down to hear

572
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: what he's saying. He says, hey, Dad, we're doing a

573
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: lot better job than last time, aren't we. We're being

574
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: really quiet. And it was so funny that he brought

575
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: this up himself, because last time we went hunting together

576
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: it was one of those really still nights. There was

577
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: no wind and it was very dry, so the leaves

578
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 2: were incredibly crunchy. There was no masking noise, and I

579
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: was just very stressed about how allowed to work getting

580
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: in and so I remember just like repeating to him,

581
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: like got to slow down, we gotta be quiet. And

582
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 2: then eventually I just picked him up and put him

583
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: on my shoulders for the last little bit to get

584
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: to the blind, because I was just was worried every

585
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: day in the world was gonna hear us. That was

586
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: last time, but this time the leaves are a little

587
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 2: bit moist. It was a little to breeze, and so

588
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: he actually noticed himself how much quieter we were, and

589
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: he was excited about that. So that was cool. And

590
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: then we get up there on the blind and we're

591
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: sitting there and you know, I like to read him

592
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: some stories and we he's getting good at seeing through

593
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: the binoculars and scanning things. And it was a pretty

594
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 2: slow start to the night. But then right at the

595
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: end of the evening, maybe the last half hour or so,

596
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: I see a dough pop out, and then another dough

597
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: and another dough, and they come or heading right into

598
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 2: the food plot we were hunting, and then a buck,

599
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 2: and then I realized This isn't just a buck, this

600
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 2: is bulldozer. This is the biggest buck left on this

601
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 2: particular property, this set of properties that I hunt. This

602
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 2: is the number one buck I'll be hunting next year.

603
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: And it's a deer that ever actually named last year.

604
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 2: And so like end of the season, we're talking like December,

605
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, thirtieth or twenty ninth

606
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: or something like that. Late. I mean, there's been a

607
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: lot of pressure and here's the number one deer and

608
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: this is the closest encounter I have with him the

609
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: entire season. I've never been this close to him this year.

610
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: And here he is. He comes walking right in to

611
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: gun range until probably seventy yards smack dab in front

612
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: of me in my five year old like really cool encounter.

613
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: And then matured, oh, comes in a range, gives me

614
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: a perfect broadside shop. Everett was a champ. So I

615
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: told him, hey, like, if these deer come out and

616
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: I have to open the windows, and when I do that,

617
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: I need you to be sitting very still, be very quiet.

618
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: But then I also need you to act as my

619
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: eyes because in this particular blind I've got to stand up,

620
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: I've got to lift the window up. I have to

621
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: latch it shut and then slowly sit back down and

622
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: try to do all that without deer seeing us, you know,

623
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: seventy yards away or whatever whatever. It was probably closer

624
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: to fifty or sixty at this point. And so we

625
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 2: do that. I've opened that window and I'm whispering to

626
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: him like, hey, are they looking at me? And at

627
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: one point he's like, yeah, freeze, So I freeze. He's like, okay,

628
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 2: you can start to move. And I start to move

629
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 2: and says, O, I freeze. I froze again, and he says, okay,

630
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: you can start to move, but go really slow. So

631
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: I keep on easing down. And so he's guiding me

632
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: as if he's the adult, telling me exactly what I

633
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: need to do. And he did it perfectly, and I

634
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 2: was able to sit. And in my head I'm thinking, like,

635
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 2: there's no way there's not deer staring at it right now.

636
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 2: But sure enough, he knew what he was doing. He

637
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,479
Speaker 2: guided me perfectly. Now I'm able to sit down, I'm

638
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 2: able to get my gun up, I'm able to get

639
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 2: the deer in the crosshairs. I whisper to him to

640
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: make sure he's ready. He's already covering his ears. He's

641
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: already sitting back in his chair. He's ready. I take

642
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: the shot. It's a good shot. The dough runs off,

643
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: and then Everett is just out of his mind, just

644
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: like the tiger woods fist whatever you call the fist thing,

645
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: fist pump, thank you, the tiger was fist pumped, just like, Yes, Yes,

646
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 2: we did it, Dad, We did it. Dad kept on

647
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: getting hug he was high fives, hugs, high fives. He

648
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: told me that he had happy tears because he was

649
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: so excited, and it was just right up there with

650
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: the very very coolest hunting experiences of my entire life. Ever,

651
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: it's been so into all this, he's been, you know, constantly,

652
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: you know, imagining those kinds of moments himself, playing out

653
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: these moments in the house. It's really really fun to

654
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 2: see and to actually have him there now for one

655
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: of these hunts that came together really special. So we

656
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: went home, had dinner, came back out. We're able to

657
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 2: pick up the blood trail. Ever, was able to find

658
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: the blood and he let it led the blood trail.

659
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: He can see it way better than me, and he

660
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 2: led us right to that deer and eventually helped me,

661
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 2: you know, with the gutting, helped me drag it out.

662
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 2: My younger son, Colt, was able to come along for

663
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 2: the track job too, so he got to be there.

664
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: Just a really, really really great night and you know,

665
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 2: without a doubt, I keep on saying that without a doubt.

666
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: I'm not sure why, but it was just another one

667
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: of those great highlights. And then finally, if we're talking

668
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: about you know, big wins or accomplished goals, the whole

669
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 2: Wide nine saga was you know right up there too.

670
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: I don't need to belabor it. We had a whole

671
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 2: podcast about it maybe a month ago, so a lot

672
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 2: of you already know the story there. But that was

673
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 2: one of those honey experiences that taught me so much.

674
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 2: I learned so much along the way. I went through

675
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: all sorts, ups and downs, a lot of frustrating moments,

676
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: disappointing moments, but ultimately got very fortunate that after getting

677
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 2: a shot at him with my bow in October and

678
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 2: hit him in the shoulder, he survived, and I was

679
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 2: able to get another shot at him in November with

680
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 2: my firearm and was able to finish the deal. And

681
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: that whole set of experiences was you know, while trials

682
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: and tribulations along the way, was a net positive and

683
00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 2: in a very very meaningful hunt as well. So those

684
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: are my big wins. Those are the reasons why I

685
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 2: look at this season as, without a doubt, the best

686
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: hunting season of my life. All of that time with

687
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 2: my kids, all of that time with my dad, so

688
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 2: many different hunts I got to share with my hunting buddies,

689
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: killed three mature bucks, one of them being like the

690
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: buck I was after, with so much history and so

691
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: many different experiences, got to mentor several different new hunters.

692
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: I got to have, you know, really cool experiences with

693
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 2: other hunters and anglers out there giving back to the landscape.

694
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: Got to take Colt, my three year old, for a

695
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 2: hunt on the last day of the season, just last night,

696
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: and you know, he's not quite at the level that

697
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 2: ever it is right now, but we had some fun too.

698
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: Just so many cool experiences like that with the family,

699
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: and and what there was I guess three bucks and

700
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 2: five dos this year and just uncountable memories. So that's

701
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: step one is going through and writing down all those

702
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 2: big wins and kind of doing what I just did there,

703
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 2: which I encourage you to do in your own way,

704
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: maybe maybe not talking to a microphone for half an

705
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: hour talking through every one of those points, but trying

706
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 2: to think it through and relive them kind of like

707
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: I just did, because that was that was a lot

708
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: of fun for me, and that was a very productive

709
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: way I think, to just again experience and appreciate gratitude

710
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 2: for what happened. So that's that's what I think I

711
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 2: would recommend you start with, and then take a little

712
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: bit of time to think through all those things that

713
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 2: we just talked about that went well, and think about

714
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: the why. This is something again that we've emphasized on

715
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 2: the podcast a lot over the years, but ask why.

716
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 2: So when it comes back to you know, I don't know,

717
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Minnesota trip, why was that so much fun?

718
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: Why did that go so well? Why did I enjoy

719
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: that so much? I think I think I shared some

720
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 2: of the reasons why in my explanation to you, things

721
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: like getting to spend time with Doug, geting to spend

722
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 2: time with my buddies up in the boundary waters, getting

723
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: to camp, getting to fish, having a diverse experience, and

724
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: I think when you take a second to think about that,

725
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 2: it helps inform the decisions you want to make in

726
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: the future. Maybe I want to do more trips like

727
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: that that are outside of the ordinary. Maybe I do

728
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 2: need to continue prioritizing experience over the best chance to

729
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: kill big buck or what about You know, why was

730
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 2: this hunting season the best ever? Well, a huge part

731
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: of it. It's just about the times I got to

732
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: spell my sons. I didn't kill the biggest year of

733
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 2: my life. I didn't kill anywhere close to the biggest

734
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: year of my life, but this is by far the

735
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: best year. Why. It's because of people, It's because of memories.

736
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 2: It's because of investing time and energy into doing hard

737
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: things and seeing that come together and learning from it.

738
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: It's about prioritizing, you know, time with my dad, all

739
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. This year I think has been

740
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 2: a perfect It's been a great example of why that

741
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: kind of stuff matters. So take some time to go

742
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: through your list of wins or your accomplished goals or

743
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: whatever that list is for you, and ask why for

744
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: each one, and maybe write down a little sub bule

745
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, this came together because I did this

746
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: extra work, or because I followed through on this plan,

747
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 2: or because I actually, you know, took the time to

748
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 2: do a B and C in preparation for the season.

749
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 2: Or maybe it's because I learned not to stress so much,

750
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: or maybe I learned to share intel with someone else

751
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: and then that, you know, the favor was reciprocated. Whatever

752
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 2: it is, it's worthwhile to think about how this stuff

753
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 2: all came to be, because most of the things on

754
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: your list probably didn't happen by happenstance. Sure, good luck

755
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: always plays a role, but there's probably some decision along

756
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 2: the way, or some act of goodwill from a friend,

757
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 2: or some serendipity or whatever it is. It's all worth

758
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 2: noting and kind of recognizing. Write that down, Put that

759
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 2: down your list. That's our first part of this whole thing.

760
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: Now there's gonna be another column, I would suggest, you're right,

761
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: or another page. And this is going to be our

762
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: win or sorry, the opposite of our wins. This is

763
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 2: gonna be our mistake or our misses or our disappointments.

764
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 2: This is going to be the list of things that

765
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 2: maybe didn't go so well. Maybe these are the goals

766
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 2: you didn't accomplish. Maybe these are those moments that you regret.

767
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 2: Maybe these are going to be the decisions that you

768
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: look back with a sense of sadness or frustration, whatever

769
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 2: it is. Left takes some time now to think back

770
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: on those. I know it's it's tempting and easy to

771
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: want to bury that stuff. I've done that too, where

772
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 2: something bad happens or something frustrating happens during the hunting season,

773
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: I just want to forget about it and I want

774
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: to move on, and I don't want to pull that

775
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: out of the closet again. But it's almost always better

776
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 2: for the future if we can pull that skeleton out

777
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: of the closet, looking in the eye in daylight and

778
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 2: talk about with ourselves what happened here. So here in

779
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 2: this phase, we're going to write all that stuff down.

780
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 2: We're going to write them down, the mistakes we made.

781
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 2: We're going to write down the things that maybe there

782
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 2: wasn't even a mistake made. Maybe just think didn't go

783
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 2: quite the way you want him to. And it's worth

784
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: kind of thinking about what happened in the why so

785
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 2: few things? For me, the big thing that stands out

786
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: for me would be something that has been a continued

787
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: area of development for me over the years, which is shooting.

788
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 2: Like the biggest points of frustration for me this year

789
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 2: were related to bad shots. The most notable one was

790
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: the shot on the Y nine hit him in the shoulder,

791
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 2: and you know, as most of you know, as I

792
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 2: just told you, wasn't able to recover him. Heartbreaking situation.

793
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 2: It led to a whole lot of stress for me.

794
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 2: It led to you know, that deer unnecessarily suffering to

795
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 2: some degree over the next month until I was able

796
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,959
Speaker 2: to get another shot at him. It led to just

797
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: just a lot of angst. Right So that happened the

798
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: buck I shot in Wisconsin earlier, that shot was a

799
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 2: little back And so like each one of these things,

800
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 2: it's worth talking to this thing happened and then think

801
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 2: through why did it happen? And I'm not going to

802
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 2: go through that right now on the air, because we

803
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: already did that when I had the Why nine podcast.

804
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: You already heard me talk about that with the Wisconsin podcast.

805
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 2: Probably you know, I've been able to kind of process

806
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 2: what happened with each one of those shots. I've been

807
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: able to think through what I wanted to do differently,

808
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 2: or what I could have done differently, or what happened

809
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 2: that was outside of my hands. But I'd recommend you

810
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: do this yourself. Whether it be a bad shot, whether

811
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: it be a hunt that just didn't go well, whether

812
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: it be losing access to a spot or getting a

813
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 2: fight with a hunting buddy, or your equipment failing, or

814
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 2: whatever it is, write down the thing that happened, and

815
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: then the next thing we're gonna do is talk about

816
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 2: why So. That's why I did with this Wisconsin buck,

817
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: That's why I did with the Why nine. I had

818
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: another situation after the so I shot the Y nine

819
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: did not recover him. Then I went to Nebraska killed

820
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: the buck in Nebraska. But when I got back from

821
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: that trip, I thought, man, I just gotta I need

822
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: to just keep getting my archery confidence back up after

823
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: the whole y nine things. So I was like, I'm

824
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 2: gonna shoot a dough and I want to get a

825
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 2: great shot and I want to feel great about it.

826
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: So I did, and then that shot was a little

827
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 2: bit back and that got me just so frustrated because

828
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: I was I was so dead set on I need

829
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: a perfect shot in this deer to get my confidence

830
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 2: back and to get my moja leading to the rest

831
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: of the season. And then I you know, fudge that

832
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: shot a little bit, and I remember just being in

833
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 2: a very frustrated place in you know, mid November, and

834
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: that is a thing that I look back on as hey,

835
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: that was that was a set of mistakes there. So

836
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 2: what can I keep doing? Like, how do I get

837
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 2: better at this? How do I continue to grow? And

838
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 2: as we talked about during the Wide nine podcast, there's

839
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 2: a whole set of new things that I'm doing now

840
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 2: going into the new year. And that's that involves, you know,

841
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 2: simplifying my archers, set up, changing my sights, set up

842
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: changing my bow, changing my maximum range, a number of

843
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: different things that I'm going to do to continue to address,

844
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 2: you know, how I can become a better archer and

845
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 2: a more effective bowhunter in those final moments of truth.

846
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: And so that's what I would recommend to do with

847
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 2: this list. We write down the list of all the

848
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 2: things that didn't go the way we wanted them to.

849
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: We start asking why for each one of those things,

850
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: why did this happen? What led to it? What was

851
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 2: the mistake or what was the bad luck or what

852
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 2: was the circumstance? Right this probably combination of all those things.

853
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 2: And then finally the last step is, Okay, what can

854
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 2: we learn from this? What could I do a little

855
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: bit different? What do I need to think about differently

856
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 2: next year? What do I need to do differently next year?

857
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 2: How do we move forward from this in a different way?

858
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: And the same thing again can be applied to the

859
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 2: first part. So I didn't explicitly mention this, but when

860
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 2: it comes to your good side of the list, at

861
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 2: the end of that, we should also be thinking, Okay,

862
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: what do we learn from this, and how do I

863
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: make more of these things happen in the future. So

864
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 2: this is a thought exercise that we do with the good,

865
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 2: it's a thought exercise that we do with the bad.

866
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: And then all of that kind of puts you in

867
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: a place that you can start thinking about the new year.

868
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 2: So we do that year and review, and that gives

869
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 2: us the foundation for the next year preview or whatever

870
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 2: you want to call it, or preparation or goal setting.

871
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: And again I think this is something that you know,

872
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 2: it's cliche to set new year's resolutions or whatever, and

873
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't suggest we do that, but I would suggest,

874
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: at least for me, it's very helpful to go through

875
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 2: this whole thing and put together a plan for the

876
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 2: new year, because it gives me something to work towards.

877
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 2: It gives me something to continuously check back on and see, like, hey,

878
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: am I on track? Am I going in the right direction?

879
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: Am I doing those things that I know? You know

880
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: it matter to me. It kind of goes back to

881
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 2: what we talked about earlier. Life is so wild. This

882
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 2: train is going so fast that the days can just

883
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: stack up. Right. You can just like, I just gotta

884
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,919
Speaker 2: get through today. And if you can get through today,

885
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 2: then I can I get through tomorrow, And if you

886
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 2: get through tomorrow's it just get to the weekend. When

887
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 2: the weekend comes, you just grow so exhausted. You just

888
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 2: want to relax for a day or two, and then

889
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 2: you've got to get a bunch of chores done, or

890
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 2: work around the house, or deliver kids to hear there,

891
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: whatever it is. Before you know, it's Monday again, and

892
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: then you just want to get through Monday. Then you

893
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 2: just want to get to the weekend. And then this

894
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 2: happens week after week after week after week, and that

895
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 2: is how your life flashes before your eyes and you

896
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: blink and one day you're sixty or seventy or forty

897
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 2: or whatever it is, and you think to yourself, where

898
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,479
Speaker 2: did the time go? Life and momentum can just kind

899
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 2: of take you somewhere if you don't take a moment

900
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 2: to stop reflect and actually put tracks and plans down

901
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 2: in place for where you want to go. Because if

902
00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 2: you don't choose where you want to go, other people will.

903
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 2: Life will put your places, work will put your places.

904
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: Other people's priorities will put you places and suck up

905
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 2: your time, and all of a sudden, your life is

906
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 2: kind of outside of your hands if you don't take

907
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: the time to do this kind of thing and to

908
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 2: try to stick with it in some kind of way.

909
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: And so when it comes to our hunting, if we

910
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 2: want to grow as hunters, if we want to continue

911
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: to have satisfying, fulfilling, successful hunting seasons in one way

912
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: or another, this kind of process looking into the new

913
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 2: year is one of the best ways I know of

914
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 2: to do that, at least, so I think the first

915
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: thing I would do when it comes to thinking about

916
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: the new year, after we've just performed that whole end

917
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 2: of your review is take a little bit of time

918
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 2: to think about the themes that bubbled up in that

919
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 2: end of your review, I talked about some of these

920
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 2: in myself. In my own review, I talked about how

921
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 2: a lot of my joy and satisfaction came from times

922
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 2: of friends and family. I talked about how I got

923
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 2: a lot of joy out of giving back during those

924
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 2: working for wildlife tour events. Talked about how much satisfaction

925
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: I got out of mentoring those new hunters. I talked

926
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: about how great it was to do something different, to

927
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 2: have a more diverse experience with that whole Minnesota Wisconsin trip.

928
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 2: Those are some themes that I think can help you.

929
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: And your version will be different, but if you think

930
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 2: about some things like that, I think it helps you

931
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 2: start to maybe put words to, or some level of

932
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 2: concreteness to what your values or motivations for hunting are.

933
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 2: And maybe that's as I talk about this, maybe that's

934
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: a useful thing. Maybe right now, as you're doing this,

935
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: as we're planning for twenty twenty four or whatever year

936
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: it is that you're planning for right now, maybe before

937
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: we set our goals down, maybe we should just write

938
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 2: down right now a handful of the things that matter

939
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: to us when it comes to hunt. Why do we hunt?

940
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: What are the things that bring us the most joy.

941
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 2: What are we trying to do? Here's okay, I'm gonna

942
00:47:58,400 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 2: start writing my list and and say, okay, I want

943
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 2: to put food in the freezer. Number one, I got

944
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: to put meat in the freezer. Number two. I want

945
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 2: to have like close deep engagement with wildlife. I want

946
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: to get to know the wild landscape and wild animals more.

947
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 2: Number three, I want to have adventure. I want to

948
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: push myself. I want to challenge myself. I want to,

949
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: you know, back to these other things. I want to

950
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: do these things with the people I care about. I

951
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: want to spend more time with my dad and my

952
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 2: sons and my friends. I want to, you know, whatever

953
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 2: it is, YadA, YadA, YadA, start just writing down all

954
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 2: these things related to hunting that matter to you and

955
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 2: that bring you joy and that keep you doing this

956
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Maybe it's hey, I love seeing deer

957
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 2: reach older age classes. I love getting to know these

958
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 2: deer yea after year. Maybe it's I love the challenge

959
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 2: of going into public land where everyone else is trying

960
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: to do the same thing, and somehow I'm able to

961
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: go in there and be that one percent that actually

962
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 2: finds that book. Whatever the thing is that gets you

963
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,919
Speaker 2: up out of bed in the morning, write those things down,

964
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 2: because I think if we can do that, actually like

965
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 2: put words to the reasons why we're doing this, Like

966
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: why the heck are you listening to this podcast? Why

967
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 2: do you listen to Wired Time? Why do you love

968
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: this stuff enough that you're willing to listen to some

969
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: nerd like me talk about it week after week after

970
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 2: week after week. What is it about this experience and

971
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: this lifestyle and this pursuit that makes it so so something,

972
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 2: whatever that something is for you, write that stuff down,

973
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: And I think once we do that, I think, and

974
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 2: that can inform how we set our goals and hopes

975
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 2: and dreams for the next season. So that's it. One

976
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 2: other kind of thought before we talk through some goals

977
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 2: or talk through like how you might want to set

978
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 2: some goals, is that I would really encourage you to

979
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 2: not make the same mistake I've made in the past,

980
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:04,720
Speaker 2: which is letting other people's thoughts or opinions impact your goals.

981
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if I necessarily realized this was happening

982
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: to me for a number of years, but I was

983
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 2: so worried about you know, if other people thought I

984
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,479
Speaker 2: was a good enough hunter, or if I was killing

985
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 2: enough deer or a big enough dear or whatever it

986
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 2: was that I was putting pressure on myself to do

987
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: these things to satisfy someone else's demands. And that is

988
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 2: a really silly and trivial thing to do, especially when

989
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: the pursuit that we're involved in is so damn serious.

990
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 2: If you're gonna hunt and kill an animal, it sure

991
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 2: as hell shouldn't be because you care what some person

992
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 2: on Instagram thinks about you doing that. It should be

993
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 2: for a very real, deep personal reason. So our goals

994
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: around this whole thing, I would suggest, should be about

995
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 2: us and not about others. It's very easy, though, to

996
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 2: let that slip into our subconscious, to worry about what

997
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 2: other people will think, to worry about Oh man, what

998
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 2: if I shoot this little buck and someone on Facebook

999
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 2: tells me I should have given another year, Or what

1000
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: if I, you know, want to do this thing or

1001
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 2: use this tool or use whatever. There's going to be

1002
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: people who don't like that, or people don't think I

1003
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 2: do this well enough for people, whatever, YadA, YadA, YadA.

1004
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 2: Close out that noise. Please try to just look inside

1005
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: yourself as you start thinking about this new year and

1006
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 2: then start. I think a good starting point is to

1007
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 2: just start writing down like some hopes and some dreams,

1008
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: like some things that you would love to see happen.

1009
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 2: And that's a starting point, like it's brain starting, like

1010
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 2: when I write, when I write anything, really, when I'm

1011
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: writing a book or an article or a newsletter. Something

1012
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 2: that's very, very very helpful for me is to remember

1013
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 2: that all all first drafts are shit. Excuse my French,

1014
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 2: but just getting something down is the way to start.

1015
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 2: You don't need to have it just right. You don't

1016
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 2: need to be perfect. Nobody writes Ernest Hemingway quality words

1017
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 2: when they start. Nobody writes good goals when they start.

1018
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: You just got to vomited out on the page. So

1019
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 2: just right now, or after our conversation here today, just

1020
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 2: start writing down things that you maybe want to do

1021
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 2: next season. Maybe you want to take that trip to

1022
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 2: Ohio for the face first time. Maybe you want to

1023
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 2: try to get that lease. Maybe you want to try

1024
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 2: to explore some new public land. Maybe you want to

1025
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 2: finally learn how to bowhunt or try traditional archery, or

1026
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 2: maybe you want to try hunting without trial cameras, or

1027
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,479
Speaker 2: maybe whatever it is, just start writing those things down.

1028
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 2: Just get that brainstorm list down on paper in front

1029
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: of you, and then once you do that, then we

1030
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 2: can start thinking about creating a little bit more tangible goals.

1031
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 2: So have that brainstorm list, and then I would encourage

1032
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 2: you to, you know, maybe circle or start next to

1033
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 2: those very most import and ones. I don't know what

1034
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 2: the right number is. I think everyone's got a different

1035
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 2: right number. For me, I usually can have maybe two, three,

1036
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 2: four goals per category in my life, So I can

1037
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 2: have like maybe two or three different things related to work.

1038
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 2: You have like two or three things related to like

1039
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 2: my personal or home life. I can have like two

1040
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 2: or three things related to hunting something like that. That's

1041
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 2: what works for me because if you've got you know,

1042
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 2: ten goals for everything, it's it's it's impossible to do

1043
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 2: everything just right, but I can do I can focus

1044
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 2: pretty darn well on a couple things and make meaningful

1045
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: progress on them if I focus in that kind of way.

1046
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 2: So that's just what works well for me, not saying

1047
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 2: it will for you. But the way I'm going to

1048
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 2: do this, the way I would offer you to consider

1049
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 2: is to from that big brainstorm list, pick out that

1050
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 2: top three or four items maybe that you see as

1051
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 2: being either the area for most growth or the thing

1052
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 2: that will bring the most satisfaction or joy, maybe something

1053
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 2: that will challenge you. Pick on a handful of things

1054
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: like that and highlight those those top goals, whatever those

1055
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 2: big things are going to be, whether it's the thing

1056
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 2: that's going to push you to grow or just help

1057
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 2: you love this thing, and even more, highlight that. And

1058
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 2: then we're going to try to or at least you know,

1059
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 2: what I try to do is then kind of make

1060
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: these goals more concrete, and I follow generally follow a

1061
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 2: set of principles around goals called smart and so these

1062
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 2: this is like it's an acronym smart. So s M

1063
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 2: a R T is a set of five different things

1064
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 2: to think about when trying to write an effective goal.

1065
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 2: And so these five different things to think about would

1066
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: be that your goals should be specific, they should be measurable,

1067
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,919
Speaker 2: they should be actionable, they should be realistic but maybe

1068
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 2: also a little risky, and they should be time bound,

1069
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 2: so they should have some kind of time attached to it.

1070
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 2: So you know, an example like this, So again, like

1071
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 2: this is trying to help you avoid just a generic goal.

1072
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 2: So the generic goal might be like, hey, well, I'll

1073
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: just give you an example.

1074
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: For me.

1075
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 2: One of my goals this year is that I want

1076
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 2: to put some adventure back in my hunting. My wife

1077
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,800
Speaker 2: actually brought this up to me this past season. She said,

1078
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 2: and I feel like you have just like settled into

1079
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 2: the comfortable stuff. You haven't been like doing anything wild

1080
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 2: and new and pushing yourself maybe in different ways. You're

1081
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 2: kind of hunting, you know, some of the same old places,

1082
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 2: and and I kind of argued with her unless I

1083
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 2: pushed back. I said, well, I'm I'm doing that for

1084
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 2: a reason. I'm trying to spend time like all the

1085
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: things I told you about already, and so I had

1086
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 2: good reasons for doing that, and I'm glad I did

1087
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 2: those things. But she did also kind of put a

1088
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 2: spark in me that got me thinking about, you know,

1089
00:55:54,680 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 2: I do also value the new, the different, thenallenging, and

1090
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 2: it got me thinking that I probably could use a

1091
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 2: real adventure. So I want to add some adventure back

1092
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 2: in my hunting season. And I'm honestly not exactly sure

1093
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 2: how I want to do that yet. I'm still working

1094
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 2: that through. But for our purposes now, the generic example

1095
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 2: might be like, just have a more adventures hunting season.

1096
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 2: Like that would be the the not as useful goal

1097
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 2: to have. The way to make this more useful would

1098
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 2: be to you know, maybe that's the starting point. But

1099
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 2: then I'm going to take a week or a few

1100
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 2: days or whatever it is and think more about it

1101
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 2: and start trying to think through, Okay, how can I actually,

1102
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 2: you know, make this goal pop. Because if you can

1103
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: make your goals more specific, more measurable, more actionable, more

1104
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: realistic or risky, and also have a time associated if

1105
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 2: you can plan that out, write that kind of stuff down,

1106
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 2: it makes it a lot easier and more likely that

1107
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,879
Speaker 2: you will follow through on it. So a different way

1108
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 2: to approach that goal might be, Okay, I'm going to

1109
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 2: try to be specific with this goal. So I'm going

1110
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 2: to think about how could I make my hunting season

1111
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 2: more adventurous. And let's say, well, you know what, I

1112
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: should go to a true wilderness area and try to

1113
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 2: pull off a whitetail hunt in a true wilderness area.

1114
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 2: Let's say, and I'm going to think about, you know,

1115
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: maybe a very specific place. Maybe I'll say, like, oh,

1116
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to this national forest in this state,

1117
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: and I'm going to do a week long backpacking whitetail hunt.

1118
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 2: And this is something like when it comes to measurable,

1119
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 2: it's obviously measurable because it's either you do it or

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00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 2: you don't do it. Actionable, you know, is it a

1121
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 2: thing you can actually take action on? Absolutely? And what

1122
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 2: I would recommend you do underneath these goals eventually we'll

1123
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 2: get to this is I actually start writing action items.

1124
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 2: So what do you need to do to make this

1125
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 2: thing happen? Is it realistic? In this case? I think

1126
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 2: it's something that is within the realm of possibility for me.

1127
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 2: It's not like I'm saying, hey, I'm going to go

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00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 2: and do this thing that costs fifty thousand dollars. No,

1129
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 2: this is something I can do within my budget, within

1130
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 2: my a lot of time, with my skill set. But

1131
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 2: still it's a challenge. It's going to push me to

1132
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: do new things, to try new things, to go new places,

1133
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 2: and then finally put a time stamp on it. You know,

1134
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,439
Speaker 2: I don't want to just say like, hey, I want

1135
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 2: to do more adventurous things. That leads a whole lot

1136
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 2: of open endedness to all this. I would say that

1137
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 2: I would say, okay, I want to happen in this season,

1138
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 2: or even better, like, hey, I'm going to do it

1139
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 2: the month of September or the month of October or

1140
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 2: whatever it is. The specific goal in the end would

1141
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 2: be something like my goal for twenty twenty four is

1142
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 2: to go on a wilderness backpacking whitetail hunt in Minnesota

1143
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 2: in the month of November with my boat, whatever it is.

1144
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 2: That is a very smart, quote unquote goal. And if

1145
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 2: you can do a handful of those, you will have

1146
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 2: done the thinking and the kind of intellectual handiwork to

1147
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 2: have put you in a place to actually do this stuff.

1148
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: So one of my goals is get some adventure back

1149
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 2: in my hunting season. The second goal, the second big one,

1150
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 2: is just related to the shooting thing I talked about earlier.

1151
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 2: And I haven't quite figured out how I want to

1152
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 2: frame this yet for myself, but you know, there's gonna

1153
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 2: be a number of things. I want to have that

1154
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 2: perfect shot like I want to have. I've yet to

1155
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 2: have a shot in which I would give myself the

1156
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 2: A plus plus rating in which I did everything right,

1157
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 2: in which I did not rush in any kind of

1158
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 2: part of it, where everything was under control, where everything

1159
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 2: went exactly the way I wanted to. I've had a

1160
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 2: lot of shots that went the way I wanted them to.

1161
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 2: I just have yet to have that perfect shot where

1162
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 2: I was, where I was the machine, at the driver's

1163
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 2: controls the entire time. That's what I want to somehow achieve.

1164
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that happens for anyone all

1165
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 2: the time or ever. Maybe it doesn't, Maybe we're all

1166
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 2: in some different version of imperfection on these shots. But

1167
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 2: I want to keep on striving for that, and so

1168
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 2: I want to craft a goal and a set of

1169
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 2: action items to get me closer of that. So I've

1170
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 2: already talked about it right I'm, you know, pulling in

1171
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 2: my max range. I'm doing the thirty yard pinning in

1172
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 2: challenge this year. So that's leading to me and reconfiguring

1173
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 2: my both set up. That's good, leading me to rethink

1174
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 2: my both setups, some locations, lots of stuff like that.

1175
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 2: So there's going to be a shooting related goal in

1176
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 2: there for myself. And then I'm also setting some non

1177
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 2: hunting goals that are kind of adjacent to hunting. I

1178
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 2: want to do a big new physical challenge. Maybe that's

1179
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 2: doing my first marathon this year. Maybe it's a harder

1180
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 2: half marathon, but I'm thinking through that kind of stuff

1181
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 2: and all that I think helps me as a deer

1182
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 2: hunter and an outdoorsman. So all of this leads me

1183
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 2: to the final step, which is once you have your

1184
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 2: smart goals written out, or whatever version of goals that

1185
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 2: you want to do written out, what my final step

1186
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 2: is is that I like to go through and I

1187
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: think through action items for those goals, what are the

1188
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 2: next steps that I need to take to actually move

1189
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 2: forward on these things? And a kind of next level

1190
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 2: thing to do is something that I read about in

1191
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 2: a book called Atomic Habits by James Clear Really really

1192
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 2: really recommend that book. If there's any book I could

1193
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 2: recommend to you related to this kind of stuff, it

1194
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 2: would be Atomic Habits. It really walks through a great

1195
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 2: way like how you can set goals and achieve them,

1196
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 2: create new habits, break bad habits, whatever. It might be

1197
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 2: a lot of these things we're talking about, not all

1198
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 2: of them, but many of them could be related to habits.

1199
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 2: And he talks about not just writing down action items

1200
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 2: for your goals, but actually writing down systems, like thinking

1201
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 2: about not just like what's the next step I can

1202
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 2: do today, But what's the system I could put in

1203
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 2: place to make those steps easier to do? And I'm

1204
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 2: trying to think of what a good example of this

1205
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 2: might be. I guess, let's say with a shooting Let's

1206
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 2: say I have a goal around shooting and continuing to

1207
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 2: grow in that. In that way, an action item might

1208
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 2: be like, Hey, I'm just gonna shoot more. That's like

1209
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 2: the simple generic action item of a way that I

1210
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 2: pursue that goal. The system based approach would be to

1211
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 2: think about, okay, like how do I actually build a

1212
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 2: system that makes sure I do that? So a system

1213
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,439
Speaker 2: to make sure that I shoot more might might include, Hey,

1214
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 2: I'm going to put a calendar notification for every day

1215
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 2: at the end of my work day from four thirty

1216
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 2: five that says, go shoot your bow. And then I

1217
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 2: also know that it's easy to maybe forget that too,

1218
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 2: So I'm also going to put my bow in the

1219
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 2: mud room next to the door so that every time

1220
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 2: I come in out of the house, I'm reminded of

1221
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 2: my bow being there. Or maybe I'm going to move

1222
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 2: the target to the front yard so I can't leave

1223
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 2: the house or get back to the house without seeing

1224
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 2: it there. And you know, maybe I'm going to do

1225
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 2: one last thing, which is adding a training kind of incentive,

1226
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 2: you know, sign myself up for a competition or something.

1227
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 2: Those three things would work together as a system that

1228
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 2: would pull me forward on that goal. This can look

1229
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 2: a lot of different ways, but think about how you

1230
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 2: can build build like an ecosystem, a thing that will

1231
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 2: help you move towards that goal. That would be the

1232
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 2: kind of the jiu jitsu move on how to take

1233
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 2: these goals to that next step. Again, I'm not doing

1234
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:27,919
Speaker 2: a great job explaining how exactly to do that. Check

1235
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 2: out James Clear's book Atomic Habits. That's that final step,

1236
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 2: talking through, writing down how what kind of steps you

1237
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 2: can take, what kind of systems you can build, what

1238
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 2: kind of changes you need to make in the coming

1239
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 2: weeks or months to actually move you forward on those

1240
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 2: top three or four goals that we've talked about here today.

1241
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 2: And that's it. That is the year end review and

1242
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 2: the year coming preview. That's the process I go through

1243
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 2: to prepare for the year and for the hunting season.

1244
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 2: That's what I've just kind of completed or just kind

1245
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 2: of started really Yesterday's started that process today and the

1246
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 2: rest of this week, I'm going to be continuing to

1247
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 2: fine tune. I'm going to be start kind of taking

1248
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 2: my brainstorm goals and turning them into quote unquote smart

1249
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 2: goals and start working through my action items. And all

1250
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 2: of this might seem I mean, it doesn't seem. This

1251
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 2: is kind of nerdy, right, I get it, this is

1252
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 2: kind of I don't know, maybe some people are thinking

1253
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 2: this is way too much work to go through for hunting.

1254
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 2: We're just hunting. Just go out there, have fun. And

1255
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 2: you're right, like, if that's good for you, good, go

1256
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 2: have fun, Go do your thing. Don't worry about taking

1257
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 2: things to this level. But if you're someone like me,

1258
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 2: and if you listen to this podcast, you are probably

1259
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 2: kind of like me in one way or another, I

1260
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 2: think this is a way that you can, you know,

1261
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 2: learn to better appreciate this season. We just had learn

1262
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 2: from it more effectively and put yourself in position to

1263
01:04:55,080 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 2: have a more satisfying, joyful, successful hunting season in the

1264
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 2: new year. And that's my hope for you, that's my

1265
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 2: dream for you. My reason for doing this podcast now

1266
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 2: for ten plus years has always been that I hope

1267
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: that you can grow alongside of me and come to

1268
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 2: love hunting even more, come to be more successful as

1269
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 2: a hunter, and eventually, you know, be able to give

1270
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 2: back to others, bring other people into this community, into

1271
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 2: this lifestyle, and give back to the landscape and the critters.

1272
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 2: We can have more successful hunters, that will lead to

1273
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 2: more hunters, that will lead to better conserved landscapes, that

1274
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 2: will lead to healthier wildlife populations, and the cycle continues.

1275
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 2: That's my, I guess hope for all this, and that's

1276
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 2: why I'm here today and why I'm really thankful to

1277
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 2: be here in twenty twenty four, still doing it. So

1278
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: thank you guys for tuning in today, thank you for

1279
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 2: being a part of this podcast. Thanks for listening all

1280
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 2: of last year. It's been the honor of a lifetime.

1281
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 2: Excited to do it again this season. Check out the

1282
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 2: new Wired Hunt hats over at the Mediator Store if

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Speaker 2: you want to support the podcast and rep the Wired

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Speaker 2: to Hunt brand for your buddies to see. And I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty sure it's going to be a lucky hat, So

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Speaker 2: get them while they're hot. That's probably the number one

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Speaker 2: thing we can all do to have a successful hunting

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Speaker 2: season here in twenty four. But in all seriousness, appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Have a great day, have a great week, Enjoy these

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Speaker 2: first couple days of the new year, and until next time,

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Speaker 2: stay wired, Tom