how to live in this code orange world of ours now with any lack of security any
lack of predictability I mean the whole thing about security has kind of gone
out the window hasn't it mean we used to have you know financial security we used
to have job security national security personal security and all these things
seem to have just gone away I mean we used to have a career path remember the
idea of a career path now I don't know who invented that I'm not sure there
ever was a career path but we thought there was somebody said oh yeah let's
talk about your career path you know this concept of a career path you know
the whole idea was you would go ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
Florida that was it that's gone it's just completely gone and the
predictability of our lives is gone if they ever were predictable it's gone so
change so we've been talking about change is the new normal sometimes it
takes a crisis in a country in a business and a family to know who you
are to know what you stand for it and out your stand against to know what
you're passionate about to know what you're made of it's know what you want
to create sometimes it takes a crisis look back into your life when you had to
decide something and when you did look back into your life when you found
something in yourself you didn't know was there before some moment in your
life when you said yes but when you said no I'd like you to make a list of
defining moments in your life little ones big ones go back to when you were
little go back to yesterday look for it tomorrow or maybe even today a defining
moment is when that moment when you thought of yourself a little bit
differently and you found something that you can count on now
that you didn't know you had we were entrepreneurs at some point in our lives
weren't we and it's important to remember that and here's why
entrepreneurs thrive in change and chaos if they don't find it they create it
that's what they do agility agility is their middle name they never think that
what they already know is enough they never think that the way they do it is
the only way to do it rigidity is their enemy they know that you can't grow if
you don't change and you can't change if you hang on to the past you got to be
agile my father one of my heroes actually my hero always said that he
said that stay light on your feet kiddo and ready to dance because the world is
spinning too fast for you to become flat-footed so you got to let go of you
gotta shed anything any thoughts any assumptions that would weigh you down so
what do you let go of what are you gonna let go of now the people I work with I
always ask them to throw out 50 things so I'm asking you to go home and throw
out 50 things and don't say I don't have 50 things to throw out because you do I
don't say well I just went through my closets and I got my winter clothes and
I got that no no you got to do and by the way magazines you can throw out a
hundred of them and the only count as one okay cuz we're in the Morris
but you got stuff to throw out and you've got the socks that don't match
you get this one sock you know the ones that disappear in the dryer and they
never come out again did they go into somebody else's dryer did they pop up I
never so you got the socks don't match the gloves that you know and if it's
leather you think well let's I hate to throw it away even though I don't have
anyone to go with it because it's leather and everything so I'll keep it
so you can throw that out okay you got all that makeup from your last look out
thrown out you got one earring you know the other ring to go with it you know
you've got I'll see what you've got you've got that drawer in the kitchen
you know that drawers got that stuff in it it's got a bunch of those twisted
things it's got old receipts from you now 11 years ago or something and I'll
tell you what's in that drawer is keys their keys in it right there keys in
that drawer that haven't opened up anything and a decade or more okay throw
that stuff out you know throw it out you got a castle to reach you got a
fulfilling career to enjoy you got a life full of amazing possibilities to
live you got a new trap bees to grasp you got a huge difference to make you
got a truly great organization to lead into the future and this is the time
it's not a moment too soon or a moment too late to be bold to put yourself your
greatness on the line the step forward into the change with all flags flying to
rise together why not why not