- I was away for more than almost five weeks.
So literally we just came back from Orlando, Florida.
It was a Dan Lok Inner Circle™ Mastermind.
So we landed 10 PM last night.
This morning we got up at 6 AM, getting ready,
and now we're going to Vancouver Playhouse for TEDx SFU.
I was comparing while we were waiting in line at Disney
rehearsing my speech, even when we were riding the Uber.
Then on the flight back, it's a long flight,
so that gave me another 10 hours to prepare.
I would say for TEDx, I would say about roughly 100 hours.
Just because TEDx,
although people see it on stage as only 20 minutes,
but I would say on average every minute that you're on stage
requires about an hour of preparation.
That includes script writing, PowerPoint slides,
also rehearsing the speech.
So, but for TEDx specifically,
because there are a lot of requirements you need to meet,
so we craft the script
and we go back and forth with the team multiple times,
many, many times, revision after revision, after revision,
and then we rehearse and then revision again.
So I would say about 100 hours.
One of my missions
is to impact a million entrepreneurs world wide.
So with TEDx I think it's a good platform
to get my message out there.
And also for this particular one, is TEDx SFU.
For people who don't know, SFU is one of the most,
probably one of the most more well known universities
in Canada, Simon Fraser University.
So I'll be speaking to a lot of young minds,
impacting them at a young age.
So I'm honored.
This is the second time
I'm the opening speaker for a TEDx talk.
So, I'm very excited.
I always say, people ask me the question all the time,
how do you measure impact a million people?
The way I do it, it's quite simple.
Does it mean I have a million downloads of my podcast?
Does it mean I have a million views on my YouTube channel?
It's none of those things.
Every time I get a thank you message,
a thank you comment through social media,
through the mailbox, through email, I will print it out.
Every time I get one of those thank you messages,
I consider that one impact.
That means I've touched their lives in some way.
When I get a million of those, that's a million impacts.
Every time I print it out at my home,
I have a box of gratitude.
I'll put it in my gratitude box and when I get to a million,
I'll know I've done the job.
I do a number of things.
Number one, I will listen to my attitude of gratitude audio
because it gets me to be in a very good state
so I feel a lot of feeling of gratitude.
I do that visualization.
I go through the, depends on how big the theater,
the room is, but I try my best to go touch each chair
because I want to connect with each person.
I will touch each chair and kind of visualize
and connect with each person.
Because when you have a big audience, it's very difficult.
I think today we have 600 people or so,
so I would do that and then I would also do a physical,
what I call power move, to elevate and up my energy.
So now I'm probably like a three or four.
But before I go on stage, I would do a shift,
do a power move, then I'll go up like a 10,
boom, then I go up on stage.
When I go up on stage, time just disappears.
Then I'll lose myself and just present,
connect with the audience, and that's that.
I don't focus on myself.
People think of the 20 minutes as not a lot,
but actually it takes a lot of energy.
Like, I'm still sweating and things like that,
It takes a lot of energy.
so there you go.
That's the behind the scenes of a TEDx speaker.