Self Care Saturday 6/7: Future You Starts Today Interview with Cameron Clark, NFL Agent & Consultant

All right. Happy Saturday folks. Happy Saturday sweet spotters. You're doing it. You're doing it.

This is self-care Saturday here on the sweet spot. And wow. I've just been

reveling, really, basking. I don't know what the words to use.

Joyfully, imbibing. All of what I've learned this week. And I know you have too.

From the interaction in the exchange we've been having with our esteemed guest here.

Can. Clock. Can. Welcome back. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. And I want to thank you one more

time for once again, just being so full of integrity and giving us such profound answers to the

questions we've had here on the sweet spot all week. Yes, I'm honored. I'm honored to be here.

Well, today we're jumping into self-care. It's self-care Saturday and we always use Saturday to

remind ourselves here on the sweet spot that it's about the self too that we can't

pour from an empty cup. We've got to fill the cup. We've got to pour into the cup.

It's about recovery. It's about making sure we put deposits into the bank.

Of of our soul. So that we can withdraw when we need it.

This is true in sports too. Recovery is a big thing. You've got to put back in what you

expend. It's a choice in my life. It's a principle. And what you put in matters, how you care

for yourself matters. So sometimes we say self-care and people are like, all right, well, I'm just

going to do some bad habit things that just make me feel good and make me feel comfortable.

It's a form of care. But one of the things they say is garbage in, garbage out. So you've got to be

careful what the inputs are for yourself care. Make sure that it's natural. Make sure that it's

wholesome. Make sure that it's affirming. And another thing we talk about in self-care is that

we're not talking about just the spa or the Roman therapy candles or the hot yoga,

even though I've just learned some things about hot yoga and breathing that are revolutionary.

And in my mind about how we reset our nervous system. And I'm hoping to have a guest on

who she will agree to talk us through that. We're talking about whatever makes you happy.

What brings you joy? What do you do that resets your nervous system so that you can face

making moves Monday and take action Tuesday. So you can be a winner on Wednesday. And that you can

trust yourself more on Thursday and finish strong on Friday. That all begins right here.

Today on self-care Saturday. Because if we don't care for ourselves,

we are not at a thousand percent readiness for the rest of the week.

So Cam, I've seen you work at what I consider a phenomenal pace with the work that you do.

Not just on the field when you were an athlete in the NFL, but even as an agent. I mean, you're

always traveling, you're always on the road, you're getting it done. And you seem so balanced and

so even. So we want to know what your secrets are. You said you have no self-care secrets,

which automatically as a psychiatrist made me pause to think about maybe we need to dig deeper and

find out what the read secret is because there's something that you do that you haven't shared yet.

And I don't know if we're going to get that today, but whatever it is, I want to know. And I think

our listeners want to know what keeps Cam clock so balanced and focused with all of the pressures

and the stresses that he has on him. Go for it, Cam. Yeah, no, I love that. I love the topic and I love

the question. I must say, I'm blessed because I love what I do. And that's 99 percent to me of

why I'm able to do what I do, how I do it late nights, early mornings, you know, the phone call,

middle of the night, the being able to put oftentimes clients and above my wife, above my family,

above myself at times, right? So I love what I do. I know that I have a purpose and I truly believe

I'm walking in, walking on the path and in the steps that that God has aligned for me. So

and as well as I, this where I am right now was where I dreamed of being two to three years ago.

And reminding myself of not even just three years ago about the little kid, the young Cam,

elementary school, eight nine years old that had dreams, that had aspirations that wanted to

impact the world. And now the world is at my fingertips. And I can do so at a scale that is still

hard for me to wrap my mind around. So I'd be misleading by saying that what I do and my career

isn't a lot of what drives me, right? But we talk about recovery from a physical standpoint,

right? And just to answer your question as an athlete, I am very well immersed in recovery,

right? And when you look at an NFL player and they're scheduled and what their day looks like,

NFL players, they practice for two hours a day. And outside of those two, those two hours of

competition, the other I'd say 20 to 22 hours is spent on recovering for the next two-hour practice.

Right? So if I know a lot of people don't see that, they think NFL guys or top athletes are

anyone that's just at the top of their field, they're constantly acting and doing and performing.

That's all they do is perform, perform, perform. No, that's not the case, right? There are

guys that we'll see that are going to play on the Super Bowl or guys every single week in the NFL

that have to recover from Sunday's game all the way up until they don't start feeling good

again until the next Sunday, right? So I say that to say is that recovery is what's going to make

sure that we don't just, that we're just not a flash in a pan, right? There is sustained success.

You know, so if we look at NASCAR, look at a pit stop, these are high performance vehicles going

over 100 miles an hour, right? Even these guys who were in that sport, they're for the whole game

is to cut down on time, right? So if we could go and not have a, not have a pit stop and just

perform, perform, perform, those guys would finish those races in record times, but even in a field,

in a profession, in a sport that relies on timeliness, even in the middle of the chaos,

they still find time to recover. So I think that's something that we could all learn that we could,

that we could implement in our lives and understand too is that what you get in is what you get out,

like Dr. Sweet mentioned earlier, and you know, you can't pull from a, you can't pull from an

empty cup, you can't pull from a jar that you haven't deposited in. So to me recovery is more so,

it's like investing, it's making those deposits that you know that you're going to have to pull from.

So on this Saturday, on this weekend, I hate to hijack your show, Dr. Sweet, but on this Saturday,

on this weekend, it's about setting ourselves up for making, for making moves Monday,

for taking action Tuesday, right? So what can we do today? That's going to put us in a position,

what can we deposit in ourselves today, right? Whether that's reading a book, whether that's the

decisions that we choose to fuel our bodies with food, drinks, all those different kind of type

things, all of that is going to determine not only how we perform, but how we feel about ourselves.

Well, yeah, man, what I'm going to say is yes, sir, because that's it. That's it. Again, I could just

stop the, we can say thank you, Cam and walk away. This is powerful and it's so real. Thank you

for being so clear on that. Thank you for being so clear and it's right. We are future you.

I always thought talk about future you. Future you is looking. Everybody, future you is counting on you

to do exactly what Cam just said. Future you is counting on us or future us is counting on us

to do things today that will get future you ready for Monday. And that's true if you're an athlete

or a performer. If you are at home and you're taking care of your caregiver, whatever your role is,

there is future you and future you need energy, future you needs to be balanced, future you needs

to feel good and to be ready. If you're an athlete, future you want to have excellent reaction time,

future you want to be at the top of your game and future you is depending on you right now,

current you to do what Cam just said. What actions are you going to take today so that future you

could be proud, future you could be happy. Yes, this could even be about money. Future you

ten years from now or five years and I want you to put a buck a dollar a day away,

a rainy day fund or something so that future you can be okay financially.

Future you wants to be able to be healthy so it's going to be current you to take on healthier habits.

So this is what I'm getting from this idea of self-care. Future you wants current you to

care for you now today just like Cam said. Do it right here right now. Hey Cam, I was telling

my listeners the other day that there was a locker room that I walked into a camera where

I had written on it in the locker room right here right now in big letters across the locker room.

It stayed with me because that's where the action happens. It's not future you can't do what

current you can do. It has to wait to become current you. In fact, current you is there is what

used to be a future you. So whatever decisions we want to make right here right now about our

self-care if you decide not to care for yourself today that's robbing future you

of something that future you need. But if you do decide to do something positive like you said read

a book go for a walk take a bath whatever it is that makes sense do it do it this is not about

a lecture on self-care like you have to you know buy candles and you know go to the spa it's

much more than that. Sometimes it's just spending time with yourself. Sometimes it's about letting

go to use your term what can you let go of today that would increase your self-care.

Yes. So just to be clear self-care and sports we call it recovery it is the work it's not you work

and then you self-care and then you recover it's all one you know it's the one hand washes the other

and it's just as important as performance. So just wanted to throw it at you.

Brilliant point brilliant point I'm writing this book called Sleepest Performance Medicine and

part of the recovery part of it I'm calling it the recovery revolution is exactly that the

recovery revolution is self-care it's not something you earn to your point you don't this is not a

reward for working hard this is part of why you win this is part of why you stay healthy it says

important is any other activity you do to your point that's the idea of self-care so today I'm

going to ask all listeners what is your self-care routine what are the top three things you do for

self-care think that through think that through for some of us we merely have one thing on the list

for some of us we may have none and if you don't have anything don't judge yourself it's not bad

it's just that this is where we are and what you can do today is do what we do on the sweet spot all

the time take a deep breath into your nose hold it and let the exhale be longer than the inhale just

that brings more oxygen into your brain it brings more oxygen into your body it resets your nervous

system and if you do this with two minutes or three minutes your entire body is going to thank you

if you take one minute for yourself if you go outside and you just look out at nature

I have this exercise we do at the house me and ourselves we say let's look at something as if

we're seeing it for the first time you would be surprised when you slow down and you walk around

your house your apartment you look in your car and you slow down and you just look at details

how much stuff you miss how much stuff we miss because we're not paying attention we're not

in awareness I'll bet you right now there's something in the room that you're in that if you slow

down and relaxed and just inspect a little look at it your brain might say huh I've never seen that

before and that's good because you right here right now that makes sense

out of doubt you've been listening to the sweet spot it is self-care saturday and we've been having

a conversation with camp clock tomorrow beautiful soul we're going to close this amazing week out

on slow down sunday now for those of you who are regulars here on the sweet spot you know we get a

little spooky we get spooky man we get spooky tomorrow because we're going to astrophysics we're going

to the universe we start digging in on on black holes and cosmic rays and what does the universe

have to show to tell us it's fun look forward to seeing you tomorrow camp you're up for tomorrow

absolutely let's do it all right see you then