LESSON: Thoughts become things

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LESSON Thoughts become things
Aight now are you ready?
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LESSON Thoughts become things
Finding The Purpose of Your Life in Six Lessons
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LESSON Thoughts become things
I have a big hairy audacious goal
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My BHAG is
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This speech will create over 100 millionaires
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By November 3, 2012
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LESSON Thoughts become things
So raise your hand if you are a millionaire today
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Raise your hand if you want to become a
millionaire within 5 years
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LESSON Thoughts become things
Now, raise your hand if you think youll become a
millionaire within 5 years
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LESSON Thoughts become things
There is a problem here
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LESSON Thoughts become things
If you dont think youll become a millionaire
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LESSON Thoughts become things
There is almost no chance you actually will
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LESSON ONE Thoughts Become Things
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What you think about, turns into what you do
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And over time becomes tangible and real
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So throw away all the negative thoughts,
energies, and influences
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And create an ambitious and measurable goal
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For example, to become a billionaire by age 40
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Or a millionaire by November 3, 2012!
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Let your mind focus on how to achieve that goal
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You dont need to know how youll reach your goal
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To set your goal
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So start now, set your goals, and aim high
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And never ever let your mind, or others
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Tell you what you cannot accomplish
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Once you determine what specifically it is you
want to achieve
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The universe will connect you
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With the people and knowledge that you need
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So put your Big Hairy Audacious Goal out into the
universe
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But what does put it out into the universe mean?
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Write down your goals, frame them
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And hang them in your room!
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Harvard Business School conducted a study in 2003
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So write down your goals!
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And frame them!
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As soon as you get home!
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Do you promise me that
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You will write down your goals in the next 7 days?
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And Frame Them?
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And hang them in your room?
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men
say, I just watch what they do. - Andrew
Carnegie
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LESSON TWO There is Purpose to Life
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Why we are here is really confusing
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It makes no sense at all why were alive
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Were really just a spec of dust
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On a pale blue dot in the vastness of space
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Were right here
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Here we are!
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Its hard to keep things in perspective sometimes
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We have these strange instincts
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And we all have secrets
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And tragedy
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Yet there is meaning
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And while life is short in the Grand Scheme of
Things
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We do have time to make an impact, to create
change
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The purpose of life in my opinion is to be happy
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And help others
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But note that happiness is first
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You cannot help others if you are not happy
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So only associate with constructive vibrations
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Only associate with positive people, and thoughts
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And have a positive mental attitude
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As you decide how to interpret events
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You are the only one who can create your story
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LESSON THREE It takes 5 Years From When You Start
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It takes 5 years to break through
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Once you are in the game
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So get in the game today
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Are you in the game?
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If not, do you want to get in the game?
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I said, do you want to get in the game!?
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So start your five years of paying your dues now
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There is no better time in human history to start
a company
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There is no better time in your life to start a
company
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Get out of your comfort zone a little and take
action
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Five years ago on November 3, 2002
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I was sitting in those very seats
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I was 18 years old
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I decided then to get in the Game
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After hearing an inspiring speech
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Two days ago, November 1
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We hit 10 million in all time sales
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And well do 10 million more in the next 10
months
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Build up, to break through indeed
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It takes five years, so start now
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And surround yourself with great mentors along
the way
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LESSON FOUR Whatever You Believe, You Will
Achieve
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I know what you are going through
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I know what its like
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Ive been there
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Its hard
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Its lonely
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Few people believe in you
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Your parents might doubt you
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Your friends might doubt you
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But you must focus
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And persevere
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End any negative associations
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Focus on the positive
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And visualize
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So take a moment
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Close your eyes
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Take a big deep breath
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And slowly let it out
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Keep your eyes closed
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Now envision
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What you want to accomplish in your life
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What do you see?
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One day you will no longer be on this earth
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And in your place you will have left something
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What will that something be?
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How will you be remembered?
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What will you create?
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That continues on after you are gone?
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What will be your legacy?
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Think about it
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Okay you can open your eyes
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You know, the people in this room believe in you
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And if you believe in you, you will figure out a
way
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To reach places you cannot yet fathom
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If you believe, you can in fact achieve
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But first, you have to get out of your comfort
zone
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Hold up, do I hear Soulja Boy?
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Give the person next to you a strong high-five!
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And always remember
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Whatever you believe, you will achieve
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LESSON FIVE There Exists a World of Unlimited
Wealth
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To take a company public on NASDAQ or NYSE
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You need about 40 million in annual sales
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High-growth companies are valued at a multiple of
annual revenues
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Public companies in the space Im in
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The Software as a Service Space
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Are valued at an average of 7.5x annual revenue
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So a company in our space
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Can get to 40 million in annual revenue
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And go public
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It might be valued at around 300 million
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Thats a lot of money
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A lot more than I ever thought was even possible
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When we began five years ago
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More is possible than you think
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I did not realize
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That there was an entirely different universe out
there
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I am the son of an Episcopalian Priest and a
Social Worker
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I never knew a world existed in which
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Someone who worked intelligently for seven years
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Could earn 70 million
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And yet people do it all the time
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Once youve been in the game for a few years
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Learned some key lessons
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And have built a team of A player superstars
around you
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Its absolutely achievable
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It just takes time
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And a willingness to sacrifice short-term money
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And comfort for long-term gain
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I never knew a world existed
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In which there were hundreds of firms
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That will beg you to give you tens of millions of
dollars
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To grow your company
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But now I get five calls per week from those very
firms
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Institutional capital they call it
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The world of private equity, venture capital
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Leveraged buyouts, and strategic acquisitions
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Was foreign to me
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But it exists
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And if you get in the game today
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And get started
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And figure out how to build initial revenue
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And get over the biggest hurdle there is in
business
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Making your very first 100,000 in sales
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You will begin to meet the people
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And gain the knowledge to get access
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To this universe of unlimited wealth
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And begin to scale the great skyscraper of
business
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Ive seen the view from the fiftieth floor
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And I want you to see what I can see
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And although you may not see it yet
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Dont limit your ambition
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It will take at least five years
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And the first three will be the biggest challenge
of your life
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But it will be worth it
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So get in the game now
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Theres no better time
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Will you get in the Game now?
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Look. If you had one shot. One moment. To seize
everything you ever wanted. Would you capture it?
Or let it slip? - Eminem
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LESSON SIX Our Generation Can Change the World
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When I was 15
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I had red hair, listened to punk rock music, and
was disillusioned
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I didnt realize there was a purpose to life
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I didnt think an individual could make a
difference
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Today, I know that one young person can make a
huge difference
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I realized at 17, two facts that changed my life
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49,000 humans die every day
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From preventable disease and starvation
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Its the tragedy of our generation
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And 2.7 billion people live on under 2 per day
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I couldnt ignore those facts
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I couldnt pretend I didnt know them
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So I joined the ONE Campaign
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I got involved with social entrepreneurial
ventures
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And I decided to do what I knew how to do best
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Be an entrepreneur
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What really drives me
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What gets me up every day
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Ready to take on the world
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Is a desire
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A desire to see a world created in which
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There is equality of opportunity
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A world in which there is no more extreme poverty
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A world in which humans dont kill humans
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Through war and genocide every day
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I have a dream
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That someday, every child in every country in
this world
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Regardless of nationality, race, gender, or
geography
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Will have access to education, food, healthcare,
and technology
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And that together we can create a world
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In which world leaders realize, that which
separates us
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Is much less important than what binds us together
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A world in which we can end the Us vs. Them
mentality
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A world that is environmentally sustainable
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These are the challenges of the entrepreneurs of
our Generation
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I hope to spend the rest of my life
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Working through entrepreneurship, social
entrepreneurship
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Investing, philanthropy, and public service
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To hopefully lead a generation that creates this
change
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And I hope you will join me as entrepreneurs
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We can make a difference
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Will you promise me right now
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That you will give back in your life
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Toward making the world better?
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Whether you believe you can, or cannot, you are
right. - Henry Ford
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In Conclusion
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1) Thoughts become things
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2) There is a purpose to life
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3) It takes 5 years from when you start
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4) Whatever you believe, you will achieve
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5) There exists a world of unlimited wealth
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And 6) Our generation can change the world
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So who here wants to become a millionaire within
5 years?
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And now for the key question
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Who here thinks they will actually become a
millionaire within 5 years?
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Stand up if you think you will become a
millionaire within 5 years?
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Remember, the first step to becoming a millionaire
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Is to set your goals in writing
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Believe you will reach them
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Make a definite plan to achieve them
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And then take action
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Remember what you have promised me and yourself
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Write down your goals, frame them, and hang them
up
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And remember that your life is your message
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So lets work together entrepreneurially
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To solve the worlds biggest problems
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I am happy to help you as I can along the way
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Lets stay in touch, heres how
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You can friend me on Facebook
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Im the Ryan Allis at UNC Chapel Hill
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Or email me at ryan_at_icontact.com
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We have a entrepreneurial summer internships
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So email me if you are interested
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And if youre ever in North Carolina, look me up
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Here at the conference
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Im giving away 1000 copies of my book
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Together, lets make a statement
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That the entrepreneurs in this room
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In the next six decades
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We will change the world, together
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So say it with me now
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I will change the world
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I will change the world!
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Thank you!