"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...