Leader - Motivational video

"Someday" isn’t on the calendar...

That’s very important lesson for all of

us mortals here today.

We're all taught that life is tough,

life is a bitch

life is hard

but it's not

It’s pretty easy. Right?

It’s pretty easy to skate by

and go through life. Right?

We wake up everyday,

most of us in the world

with a roof over our heads

a big comfy bed under our butts,

fridge full of foods

never have to worry about

starvation or homelessness

We have friends and family

that will help us out when

those things come

Those were are the things

that made life dangerous 100 years ago

Now we complain that life isn’t convenient

This isn’t a statement

on modern society.

This is a statement about motivation

Life is easy. It is easy to skate by.

It doesn’t even sound that bad,

it’s called skating

Skating is fun!

Who doesn’t love skating? I love skating.

Who doesn’t love skating?

It is pretty easy to grow up,

put your dreams aside,

leave your passions behind,

take a job that you don’t even really

mind, raise some kids

that would most likely be inspired

to do the exact same thing.

Go from point A to point B

to point C until you end up at point Z.

When you’re passed away and

and there is a line of people waiting

to get up and tell everyone else

who knew you, what a good life you had.

Nothing bad about that.

Nothing wrong with that.

But nothing great about it.

Nothing inspiring about that.

The awful truth is, is that life is easy.

Living...

truly living, chasing a dream and

truly living is hard...

Living is a bitch...

Living is tough,

especially when you switch it

it you ask yourself

what am I dying to do?

What is it that puts that fire

in my heart?

Answering that question

isn’t the end, thought.

It’s really just the spark.

Because once you get that

fire burning you need to feed it.

You need to keep reminding yourself,

putting new coals in there,

remind yourself everyday about that goal.

Because we’ve all taken up

a hobby or a goal or a workout

that we stop for just a couple of days

and we never pick them up again.

You need to constantly remind yourself

that you are dying.

And that you are dying to do something,

because the minute you forget,

life creeps right back in.

And life is easy.

Living...

truly living, chasing a dream and

truly living is hard.

Living is a bitch...

Just Imagine if you will being

on your death bed,

and standing around your bed

the ghosts of the dreams,

the ideas,

the abilities,

the talents

given to you by life.

And you... for whatever reason

you never pursued those dream,

you never acted on those ideas,

you never used those gifts,

you never used those talents...

And there they are staring at you,

as you lying on your bed,

with large angry eyes saying

"We came to you!

Only you could have given us life!

And now we must die with you... forever...

And the question is...

If you die today...

what dreams,

what talents,

what abilities,

what gifts,

what ideas

would die with you?

The worst place in the planet

it's not in the forest,

it's not in South Africa

whether dining lions...

The worst place in the planet

is the cemetery,

there you see potential never realized,

there you'll find books never written,

there you'll find ideas never acted on.

And maybe that's why

Henry David Thoreau said

Oh God! To reach the point of death

only to realize you have never lived,

only to realize that you never scratched

the surface of your potential

Let me say it again

Live full...

Die empty...

I think that

the most important...

the most important thing about

running a company is to remember

all the time what a company is.

A company is simply a group of people.

And as a leader of people

you have to be a great listener,

you have to be a great motivator,

you have to be very good at praising

and looking for the best in people.

People are no different from flowers.

If you water flowers, they flourish.

If you praise people, they flourish.

That’s a critical attribute of a leader...