You have something special. You have greatness in you. I want you to think about your life right now, and I want to ask your question.

If you just took the time, if you haven't done it,

to fill out your bucket list, that is a list of things that you'd like to do, or projects

you'd like to complete, or adventures you like to experience before you leave here, what would

that list look like?

I recently decided to act on one of the things on my bucket list.

We live in an incredible time in history where we have something that we can call access,

and that is access to live our dreams rather than our fears,

access to be innovative, to use our talents, our imagination, to create the kind of life that we

desire. In 2007, Time magazine said that the computer was the person

of the year. And I'm sure people like myself were curious, why would they say that? Because for the

first time in the history of the world, everyday people have access to information that has never

been available to the masses. For the first time in the history of the world, everyday people

can start a local, national, and global business from their phone.

Think about that.

That's the time in which we live.

And so as you look at your life, look at your goals, look at your dreams,

George Elliott said something that triggered this conversation. He said, you can always

become that person that you were meant to be. That at any given point, we can decide to change the

direction of our lives. Now, a tree can't be anything but a tree. An alligator

can be anything but an alligator. You've never seen an alligator with an MBA or PhD.

Okay. There's no flexibility there. But human beings, we have the ability to train ourselves or we can choose to take our lives in another direction.

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