"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...