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"Someday" isn’t on the calendar...

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That’s very important lesson for all of

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us mortals here today.

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We're all taught that life is tough,

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life is a bitch

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life is hard

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but it's not

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It’s pretty easy. Right?

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It’s pretty easy to skate by

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and go through life. Right?

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We wake up everyday,

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most of us in the world

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with a roof over our heads

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a big comfy bed under our butts,

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fridge full of foods

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never have to worry about

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starvation or homelessness

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We have friends and family

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that will help us out when

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those things come

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Those were are the things

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that made life dangerous 100 years ago

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Now we complain that life isn’t convenient

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This isn’t a statement

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on modern society.

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This is a statement about motivation

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Life is easy. It is easy to skate by.

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It doesn’t even sound that bad,

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it’s called skating

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Skating is fun!

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Who doesn’t love skating? I love skating.

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Who doesn’t love skating?

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It is pretty easy to grow up,

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put your dreams aside,

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leave your passions behind,

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take a job that you don’t even really

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mind, raise some kids

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that would most likely be inspired

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to do the exact same thing.

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Go from point A to point B

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to point C until you end up at point Z.

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When you’re passed away and

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and there is a line of people waiting

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to get up and tell everyone else

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who knew you, what a good life you had.

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Nothing bad about that.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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But nothing great about it.

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Nothing inspiring about that.

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The awful truth is, is that life is easy.

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Living...

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truly living, chasing a dream and

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truly living is hard...

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Living is a bitch...

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Living is tough,

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especially when you switch it

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it you ask yourself

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what am I dying to do?

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What is it that puts that fire

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in my heart?

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Answering that question

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isn’t the end, thought.

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It’s really just the spark.

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Because once you get that

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fire burning you need to feed it.

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You need to keep reminding yourself,

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putting new coals in there,

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remind yourself everyday about that goal.

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Because we’ve all taken up

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a hobby or a goal or a workout

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that we stop for just a couple of days

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and we never pick them up again.

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You need to constantly remind yourself

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that you are dying.

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And that you are dying to do something,

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because the minute you forget,

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life creeps right back in.

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And life is easy.

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Living...

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truly living, chasing a dream and

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truly living is hard.

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Living is a bitch...

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Just Imagine if you will being

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on your death bed,

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and standing around your bed

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the ghosts of the dreams,

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the ideas,

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the abilities,

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the talents

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given to you by life.

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And you... for whatever reason

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you never pursued those dream,

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you never acted on those ideas,

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you never used those gifts,

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you never used those talents...

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And there they are staring at you,

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as you lying on your bed,

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with large angry eyes saying

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"We came to you!

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Only you could have given us life!

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

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And the question is...

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If you die today...

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what dreams,

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what talents,

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what abilities,

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what gifts,

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what ideas

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would die with you?

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The worst place in the planet

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it's not in the forest,

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it's not in South Africa

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whether dining lions...

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The worst place in the planet

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is the cemetery,

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there you see potential never realized,

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there you'll find books never written,

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there you'll find ideas never acted on.

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And maybe that's why

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Henry David Thoreau said

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Oh God! To reach the point of death

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only to realize you have never lived,

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only to realize that you never scratched

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the surface of your potential

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Let me say it again

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Live full...

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Die empty...

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I think that

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the most important...

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the most important thing about

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running a company is to remember

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all the time what a company is.

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A company is simply a group of people.

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And as a leader of people

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you have to be a great listener,

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you have to be a great motivator,

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you have to be very good at praising

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and looking for the best in people.

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People are no different from flowers.

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If you water flowers, they flourish.

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If you praise people, they flourish.

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