If Punching Your Ticket, Make Sure It’s a First Class Ticket!

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

If you’ve attended my boot-camps or heard me speak, you know I’m not a “get rich quick”, rah-rah, wham-bam thank-you-ma’am kinda guy. I’m about changing lives. I’m about making things better for you, for your families, for the charities you and I hold near and dear to our hearts, and I’m about helping you achieve ultimate happiness by giving you the freedom to pursue and live your dreams. I’ve said it a million times (and I’ll say it a million more) – I’M IN THE HELPING-PEOPLE BUSINESS.

This blog entry isn’t for the people I’ve already helped (not that they can’t read this, too). This is for the people who haven’t let me help them. This blog entry is for the doubters. This blog entry is for the skeptics, or maybe for the folks that have been burned in the past and have trouble trusting another pretty face (well, my face is “not ugly”, can we agree on that?) telling stories and getting everyone excited.

First, it’s OK. The most successful of my students and partners all started off the same way with similar worries and concerns. It’s OK …it tells me you have a brain. But at some point, you need to stop listening to the brain, and start hearing what your heart and your gut are saying …and in this case, they’re saying, “GO FOR IT!”

Last week I took that 20-hour flight to Australia (give or take 2 hours) and about 9-hours in, some poor guy had some sort of attack and needed immediate medical attention and it was touch and go and SCARY AS HELL! Not just because everyone on board felt panic rush over us, but because there but for the grace of God, go I.

I say it all the time, and I mean it. Get busy living, or get busy dying. Seeing it play out five rows in front of me at 20,000 feet in the air made it hit home all the more.

Truth is, tragedy can strike any one of us at any time and if you or I are the next in line for that stroke of bad luck, what will go through our minds when the unthinkable happens?

Most of us at one point or another in our lives did something crazy. Most of us did something outside of our comfort zone. Maybe we asked the prettiest girl in school for a date. And then maybe later, we stole a kiss and the rest is history. Maybe we left a job and changed careers. Something. Tell me you’ve done something crazy at some point? Sang karaoke? Walked across hot coals barefoot? Ate fruit cake?

Can I convince you to do just one more crazy thing? And what if I told you what seems crazy now (buying a ticket and coming to a seminar NOW …or hopping a flight to San Antonio to see me speak about delegating 100% of your work and making more money than ever) …what if I told you what seems crazy isn’t really crazy at all?

Trust me. It’s not crazy. What’s crazy is spending one more moment overthinking things. What’s crazy is not living your dreams and helping people and being happy. What’s crazy is sitting on an airplane bound for Australia with everything touch and go and having regrets. Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

I know I can’t recreate what happened on the airliner last week, but PLEASE … don’t delay what your heart and gut are telling you to do. Do it. Do it now. And let me help.

 
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