>> See if you don't have an exciting goal there's no reason
to jump up out of bed and pursue it.
There's nothing exciting.
There's nothing motivating.
There's nothing inspiring about boring goals.
So my encouragement to you today is not just be specific but be lofty with your goals.
I think the thing I love most about what we're doing is the impact
that I make on people's lives.
I've had some wonderful experiences.
I'm sure I'll talk about some of those in my presentation tonight.
Being a captain of the Penn State football team was an extreme honor that exposed me
to some things and to some people and gave me the opportunity to really extract some ideas
and some principles that are really timeless principles and truths.
But to be able to share them in such a way where people understand them,
people can relate to them, people can actually take them home
and put them into practice, that's exciting.
That's rewarding.
That's why I said most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss.
No, most people fail in life because they aim too low and hit.
What is the biggest challenge of being a professional speaker?
Again, let's, I learned something
from a gentleman named James Malinchak who is a professional speaker.
He runs a training program and he says, you're not in the speaking business.
You're in the business of marketing your speaking services.
And what I've learned is that the biggest challenge has been,
yeah okay you can have a wonderful message and you can impact people but if no one knows
about you, you're not going to be able to share with too many people.
So that's been the biggest challenge, it's building a business and to do it ethically
and to do it with integrity and not push yourself on people but to say,
listen I think I've got a pretty impactful message.
Here's what others have said about it.
Can we talk about the possibility of sharing with your group or organization?