Yo guys, what's going on? It's Timmy Hamm, aka Sloth, back with another daily short. It is December 5th. It's like 4:50 PM.
Both yesterday and today late podcast. It's all good, though. Just been crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Just actually got done finishing a 6 foot by 5 foot canvas painting.
I'm calling it the lost desert of Arizona. It's actually, or the lost desert, lost beach of Arizona. I'm actually digging it. A lot of times I do art.
I actually don't end up liking it. I don't know why. Probably just because it's my own work. But I like this one.
So, hopefully yesterday you guys got some helpful little tips. Today, I'm just gonna, just a little Tuesday motivation, Tuesday giving you guys a little hope out there. And I just want to say, I just want to say, don't believe the hype. You know, one thing I've noticed over the past eight years of trying to pursue, you know, my passion and this thing, like this dream job, you know, whatever that means, is it's so easy to get caught up in believing the hype that the grass is greener on the other side.
And just a little kind of like a quick, quick little story where I actually believed that, believed the hype and I regretted it for a long time. And I'm really happy where I am now. But kind of a little story, a tidbit of me and when I believed the hype and how it did me wrong was, you know, I was playing Division I football. I was on a full-ride scholarship and I just kept getting played with injuries and setbacks.
Um, you know, unfortunately my senior year in high school, I had scholarships and offers and I could have played all sorts of places my junior year. I was getting letters from every single D1 college. Um, I was one of the top running backs in, if not the top running back in the state of Arizona. And then going into my senior year, you know, I thought, like, I had it, I had everything, you know.
I was going to go to a major D1 school and play running back. And I was plagued with injuries after injuries my senior year. I only ended up playing four games, broke my collarbone, broke my wrist, came back in the playoffs my high school, my senior year in high school and rebroke my collarbone. And all of my scholarships pretty much went, went away.
You know, I only ended up having a couple offers and luckily I was lucky enough to still get a full-ride to go play Division 1 football. But, you know, it went from having any school, like having all these schools want me to literally probably 3 D1 schools and a couple of D1 AA's. And so, that was the start of it. And then my freshman year in college, um, going out, actually sharing, got healthy, got back to where I needed to be, killed it in fall camp, was sharing time as a running back as a true freshman with a senior.
Um, first week into the season, got hurt again. In practice, Washington State got hurt. And I just, another setback. And then I was out for the whole season, another shoulder injury.
Um, and then came back the next year as a sophomore. That senior is graduated. The spot was mine. I was gonna be a starting, um, sophomore, I guess you could say, because they didn't end up redshirting me.
And same thing, fall camp, went into fall camp, got hurt again. So I had, for four years, literally four years, I had gone from back to the top of my game, knocked down to the bottom, back to the top of my game, knocked out, back to the bottom, back to the top of the game, knocked back. Constantly, four years. And I had been playing football my whole entire life.
And so, what happened is, after my sophomore year, you know, I honestly, like, looking back, I could have kept playing. Um, and most football players would keep playing, you know. They would keep, they would keep pushing and they would just keep after it. You know, they would, they would keep pushing and keep playing.
But, you know, after my sophomore year, getting hurt again, you know, I, I let the hype of the grass is greener on the other side start to sink in, you know. And I kind of started to lose sight of what I had been working my whole entire life for and what I have been blessed genetically to be able to do. And hanging out with, uh, some of my best friends to this day, and it's not their fault, but just people that weren't focused in the same areas that I was focused in. And that led me to transferring back to Arizona and not playing football.
And I went back and forth for a long time, you know, went out for football on a different team, went out for arena, uh, pro football, and it just kind of kept going back and forth. But I always wondered, you know, like if I wouldn't have let that soak in, I wouldn't have let, you know, the hype of, oh, well, it's easier on the other side, you know, like, I'm just gonna hang up the hat now. Like there's, I've been having too many setbacks. It just isn't for me.
And what would have happened, you know, because I, I'm not trying to be conceited, but like, I honestly think I could have played in the NFL. Like I was fast enough. I was strong enough. I was good enough.
And, um, and injuries are just the name of the game, you know, like I, I, most, my roommate that I was with at the time, he's just got done with his ninth year in the NFL. And so, and he had injuries every single year. You know, that's just part of the game. And, but I, I believe the hype.
I believe that the grass is greener on the other side and I was, didn't want those setbacks. And what I didn't realize is there are setbacks in everything. And so fast forward to where I am now, you know, many, I still think about that all the time. I'm extremely happy where I am now and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, but it does in the back of my mind.
I do often sometimes daydream and think about like, what would have, if I would have stuck with that, what would my life be like? And, uh, for a long time, it was really hard for me to swallow. It was probably the one regret I have in life is giving up because of setbacks. And so when I started doing art, I told myself that no matter what, no matter how many setbacks there are, no matter what, I will fully commit to whatever I choose to do.
And when I decided to go down this road of like the creative life and sloth and, you know, doing my own thing as an artist, I literally like, there was nothing that was gonna make me not do this because I knew what it was like to believe the hype and quit after setbacks because I saw everyone else, uh, having these awesome lives and doing all these things and not having to worry about and hustle and grind as hard as I was grinding. And, you know, and I looked at that and I thought, oh, that looks better. And I told myself, I'm not going to do that with my next, my next like move in life. And so when I started Sloth, I told myself, you know, I'm not gonna believe the hype.
I'm not gonna, I'm not going to go that route. And it has been super, super hard over the years. A lot of times I think, man, it would just be so much easier just to go to a nine to five and get a paycheck and then come home and just do my thing, you know, but it's not, you know, it's so whenever you're doing whatever you're doing and you're gonna have setbacks all the time forever, it's all, you're never not going to have setbacks. So like just get that in your brain that setbacks are going to happen always and setbacks are not bad things.
You're just progressing and you get better with setbacks, but just get that in your mind that like, I, I thought like that my setbacks in football would just go away and then everything would be great and I'd be playing and I'd be healthy, but I was just immature. And so when you're pursuing what you want to do, just keep in mind that it's not greener on the other side. You will be much happier sticking with something and sticking it out and being patient and being consistent and sticking with it for the long run because at the end of the day, you have to live with yourself. And if you regret that you didn't pursue something because you just settled for an easy job where you can collect a paycheck, you're gonna regret that, you know, and life is more than just paying the bills and dying.
Um, so don't get discouraged with the setbacks. The more, honestly, when you, when you start to have more setbacks, I feel like that's right when you're on the edge of something huge. It's literally right when you're on the verge of something epic, setbacks happen. They happen.
And right, what I've noticed is like, right when I get the like urge to just like kind of go easy and just kind of give up, it's like, it's always right before something great is about to happen. It's like at that tipping point, you're like so close and then you're, for some, whatever reason, the world and your mind is just like, oh, just like, just stop. But you're like so freaking close. Um, so don't believe