Episode 025 - Chalk Talk on 3 Ds: Dream, Desire Do

In this “Chalk Talk” Coach Dane shares his simple but powerful 3 D formula—Dream, Desire, Do—for anyone who feels stuck or uncertain about their next level of growth.

Pain Point How the 3 D’s Help Athletes & Adults Lack of clear direction
“I don’t know what I really want.” Dream = Visualize. Coach shows how to picture specific routines, skills, careers, or life goals so effort has a target. Low motivation / going through the motions Desire = Get hungry. He explains fanning the flame of want—turning vague interest into the energy that pulls you to practice, study, or lead. Inconsistent follow-through Do = Act boldly. The talk frames action as the bridge between intention and progress, reminding listeners that courage beats fear of failure every time.

 

Coach illustrates the formula with his own story: returning from Turkey 35 years ago with no money but a vivid dream for a gymnastics gym, the hunger to make it real, and the willingness to act—even at the risk of failure. The result: decades of impact on thousands of young athletes.

Take-away: whether you’re chasing a new trick, a promotion, or a life purpose, combine a clear vision, relentless desire, and decisive action to convert possibility into significance.  Trike On!

Here is the transcript:

Chalk Talk on 3 D's in Gym - Dream:Desire:Do ===

[00:00:00] Okay, so for the Chalk Talk this week, I wanted to emphasize a couple of things, because now we're in trick season, right? Not in routine season. So the pressure's off right now. Now is the time when you need to visualize that means to dream. It's the same as visualize, right? You're gonna dream what you're gonna do. Mm-hmm. What is it you wanna do next year? What kind of routines do you want to do next year? What kind of tricks do you want to do next year? How strong do you want to be? All of those things. But it's also the time to really stoke up the desire. That means you gotta, you got a fan, a flame of desire, and be hungry. Lots of times I've asked you guys in the past, right, are you hungry? Right? You know, that doesn't mean eating food. That means that you have a desire to get something done, right? And the third part of this, and these are three D's, go D, right? You have the do. That's the action part. So you can have dream, but if you don't

 

[00:01:00] visualize, you can't get the other two going. If you don't have desire and you're not hungry, you could have visual all you want, but you're not gonna actually take action. And the third one is if you have a do and you don't have a dream or a desire, you probably running around in circles, right? So this is how Dane has operated all his life. If I first dream or visualize something, then I have a hunger for it. If I don't have a hunger for it, I toss it out. And then I go and I actually do it. Most people, even adults in this world, are just plotting through life. They don't have any real dream. They're just making it every day just so I can get to the end of the day or I can get to Friday, so I have Saturday and Sunday to fish or something. They don't care what's happening in between. For Kathy and I, our big dream we visualized in Turkey before we even came home, and that was to have this gym, and that was 35 years ago. So June 1st, we'll start our 36th year in this gym in this same place.

 

[00:02:00] That's a lot of time, isn't it? We've had thousands of you little critters go through this gym, right? But the bottom line is we dreamt at first, then we came home. We were hungry to do it because we had no money, no house, we had nothing. We had spent whatever we spent to get to move back to the United States from Turkey. And so we had to be hungry and then, but we actually took action. We did it. Even if we, if it was a, maybe an opportunity to fail, it was still an opportunity to also succeed. And after 35 years Yep. It was success more than that. It wasn't just successful 'cause we were able to earn a living here, it was more because of the significance that we could add value to you. Right. And to the thousands of other families and kids that came through this gym. So I want you to remember that you dream, desire, do. In other words, visualize, be hungry, and then go take action. Okay. Alright, let's have a good workout tonight. Thanks a lot. Try on. Alright.