now who has been in a car with a GPS or is Sat Navs
very good or a global positioning device or any other kind of device that might
get you to your destination very good so I need a lot of people in my travels and
they want to tell me about their relationship with their GPS and they do
have one imagine you're on a road at night alone in the dark it's raining and
you're lost well people really like to think that that voice in the GPS is
guiding them and is a friend to them and when I meet people they want to tell me
their GPS stories so I've had Janice call me from Los Angeles and say I've
just arrived at LAX and you're you're directing me around LA and I was talking
with Ryan and he said to me last week and you and I took the most fantastic
trip we went to my cousin's wedding in Milwaukee and then there was the woman
that I met at an event who said you guys I'm gonna make the rest of my
girlfriends because if it wasn't for you we would still be lost in the mountains
of Italy but there is this one word people want to tell me about this one
word that they don't like they really don't like this word and that word is
that's right recalculating but I'm here to tell you that recalculating is good
news by the time you hear the word recalculating you're already back on
track headed to your destination now when we're in the car and we take a
wrong turn and we're driving along and we hear the word recalculating we take a
few turns and before we know it we're back on track headed to our destination
but in life when we take a wrong turn we can wander around aimlessly on a back
road sometimes for years if only we chose recalculating the
power of recalculating being able to start again at any moment wouldn't it be
great if there was a GPS for everyday life that would tell us where to go and
what to do and give us directions all the time
who would want one of those and we all have one I'm going to teach you how to
be your very own GPS now I have some directions for you are you ready
please turn to the person next to you
tell them how lucky they are to be sitting next to you today
now I'm going to teach you how to be your very own GPS turn to your other
neighbor and in your very best GPS voice say it's never too late to recalculate
say you're on the perfect path
recalculating okay we're going to learn the five directions for recalculating
say I'm ready to recalculate very good now that first direction for
recalculating is to notice you are off route noticing we are off route the very
first step we cannot even begin to recalculate until we remember we're
willing to admit we are lost I'm gonna take you right back to the beginning at
the age while I grew up in a town called Makai near Australia's Great Barrier
Reef where are my Aussies Queensland awesome so I'm I'm from North Queensland
we have sugar whites and we have turquoise blue waters and nine out of
the ten most poisonous snakes in the world it's paradise at the age of seven
I was sitting in our family living room and I was watching television in our
suburb of Mount Pleasant and on came this the most influential most important
person in the whole world Olivia newton-john and when I saw her my
life changed he was this blond Australian singer
who'd moved to America and everybody loved her and I knew what I wanted to do
with my life I had direction I was gonna be a professional singer and I was going
to move to America now speeding ahead a little bit further down the road at 31
years of age I was living in Sydney Australia in my own apartment I had a
fabulous life I owned my own apartment right downtown
I was singing five nights a week in venues and in 5-star hotels and you
could not turn the radio or the television on in the 1990s in Australia
without hearing my speaking or singing voice I just released my first album but
I was living in the wrong country you see I'd had that dream ever since I
was a little girl that I was going to grow up and be a professional singer and
moved to America but I'd stopped where are you offer out what dream have you
had for your whole life that you gave up on what aspect of your life and business
is not going exactly how you would like it to go turn to the person next to you
and say notice you are off route
it's never too late to recalculate your it's never too late to recalculate
recalculating the second direction for recalculating is to be willing to change
direction being willing arguably the most challenging aspect of recalculating
we can notice we're off route in fact there are many occasions where I've
noticed I'm off route for quite a long period of time but it's being willing
are you willing to do things differently to get where you want to go