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Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

Have you ever looked at your calendar with, oh, why did I agree to that?

Yeah, me too.

A while back, I worked with a vendor on one of our programs and the work had been intense

and he did a great job.

He had been particularly inspired by the material in a way that he never expected since

he's an engineer and he's not usually concerned with the content, just the technical execution.

At the end of the project, he said, I am the committee chair to pick the commencement

speaker for my son's university.

It's a progressive liberal arts university and I think that they would love your message.

It's just what they need to hear.

Graduation is in late May next year, which was a whole nine months from when we were having

this conversation.

You'd be fantastic, he said, as the selected commencement speaker, would you do it?

Feeling very flattered and grateful for all his great work.

I said, sounds great.

Fast forward eight and a half months later, I'm in the thick of my other urgent and important

obligations and I look at my upcoming calendar and I see the commencement speech.

Ah, a pit in my stomach forms and I think, why did I agree to that?

The same thing has happened when people I know are writing a book and they tell me that

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