{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F389b0b68-06da-4cb2-9942-963a3667111c","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Finding Motivation and Focus During This Messed Up Time \u2013 Work In Sports Podcast\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/389b0b68-06da-4cb2-9942-963a3667111c\"></iframe>","title":"Finding Motivation and Focus During This Messed Up Time \u2013 Work In Sports Podcast","description":"Hey everyone, before we get into today\u2019s special Friday edition of the Work in Sports podcast a couple of notes:1: We developed this really robust curriculum focused on the strategies and tactics everyone should learn and utilize to get hired in sports. We\u2019ll over the last month, I made an abridged version, and we\u2019re giving it away for free on WorkInSports.com -- that\u2019s right, Academy Essentials is 100% free to all users.\u00a02: You also may be wondering -- why should I visit WorkInSports.com right now -- wit no games, there must be no jobs. That would be false. In the last week, we\u2019ve added 183 sports active jobs -- now that\u2019s way off our average, we\u2019re normally closer to 75 fresh sports jobs a day. But there are jobs and opportunities out there, so if you need work, we have the opportunities.3: Which brings me to my third point -- starting next week, we\u2019re going to make all part-time jobs free to access for all users. We know many of you working game day events have been furloughed or laid off, so we\u2019re making access to all the seasonal and part-time roles free on our site.4: And finally -- look for an email from us early next week. We are dramatically dropping the price of a WorkInSports membership to serve you better. Yes, we are a service site, we provide a value of fiding all the sports jobs and putting them in one place for you...and we charge a fee for the service...but we are dramatically dropping the price to help as best we can.Ok, let\u2019s start the countdown...\u00a0---Hey everybody, I\u2019m Brian Clapp, VP of Content and Engaged Learning at WorkInSports.com and this is a special Friday edition of the Work In Sports podcast.So...I want to be really honest with all of you right now.\u00a0I\u2019m not one of those guys that always tries to act like they have all the answers and that their model for doing things is perfect. I get annoyed when I see \u201cmotivational speakers\u201d always having all the answers, never sad, never conflicted\u2026the world appears very black and white to them, and they are the only ones who know where the right color is.\u00a0When you know in reality, backstage they are popping pills to get them ramped up. Or they have a failed marriage for cheating on their spouse, or they are miserable in their day-to-day.\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.workinsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/qa_cover.png\"></a>Not all, but many.\u00a0All that is inauthentic to me. To come out and preach a system acting as if the sun is always shining in your world.\u00a0It\u2019s not.\u00a0So, I try to be honest. There are things I am very confident in, and I speak on them as often as I can, with all the authority that I can. BUT, I am far from really having anything figured out.\u00a0This week was tough.\u00a0I\u2019m struggling with motivation and focus, so trust me this is not at all an \u201cI\u2019ve got this figured out, come follow me!\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s more of, I know I am struggling with this, which means you likely are too -- so let\u2019s see if we can figure some things out together.I mean\u2026 my wife texted me a picture of an emoji yawn from upstairs in her office, and it made me yawn downstairs at the kitchen table. I\u2019m so unmotivated right now.\u00a0The weather isn\u2019t helping, it\u2019s been Seattle here for the last week. Light rain, grey, low clouds, cold, raw. I love Seattle, lived there for 10 years\u2026 but I moved for this reason.\u00a0The weather is not happy. I\u2019ve definitely realized that about myself, my own little self-audit, I am affected by weather. Sunny and cold, I\u2019m fine. Grey and cloudy\u2026 not good.I watched a video of James Harrison crushing an egg in his biceps -- damn thing popped like a zit. And I thought to myself...\u00a0 I should try that, that looks like fun.\u00a0That\u2019s what our days have been reduced to!Now, I get it to all those people saying Anne Frank spent 761 days in a secret annex and I\u2019ve spent 2 weeks in my nice home so suck it up...and I get that I should have some perspective, but I\u2019m sorry some days it\u2019s hard.I\u2019m looking at things I am supposed to do and I\u2019m like \u2026\u201dmeh\u201d.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/11dbc32a-5b95-4e37-9610-8abc46805aaf/wispod-cover.png"}