Title: LESSON: Thoughts become things
1LESSON Thoughts become things
Aight now are you ready?
2LESSON Thoughts become things
Finding The Purpose of Your Life in Six Lessons
3LESSON Thoughts become things
I have a big hairy audacious goal
4My BHAG is
5This speech will create over 100 millionaires
6By November 3, 2012
7LESSON Thoughts become things
So raise your hand if you are a millionaire today
8Raise your hand if you want to become a
millionaire within 5 years
9LESSON Thoughts become things
Now, raise your hand if you think youll become a
millionaire within 5 years
10LESSON Thoughts become things
There is a problem here
11LESSON Thoughts become things
If you dont think youll become a millionaire
12LESSON Thoughts become things
There is almost no chance you actually will
13LESSON ONE Thoughts Become Things
14What you think about, turns into what you do
15And over time becomes tangible and real
16So throw away all the negative thoughts,
energies, and influences
17And create an ambitious and measurable goal
18For example, to become a billionaire by age 40
19Or a millionaire by November 3, 2012!
20Let your mind focus on how to achieve that goal
21You dont need to know how youll reach your goal
22To set your goal
23So start now, set your goals, and aim high
24And never ever let your mind, or others
25Tell you what you cannot accomplish
26Once you determine what specifically it is you
want to achieve
27The universe will connect you
28With the people and knowledge that you need
29So put your Big Hairy Audacious Goal out into the
universe
30But what does put it out into the universe mean?
31Write down your goals, frame them
32And hang them in your room!
33Harvard Business School conducted a study in 2003
34So write down your goals!
35And frame them!
36As soon as you get home!
37Do you promise me that
38You will write down your goals in the next 7 days?
39And Frame Them?
40And hang them in your room?
41As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men
say, I just watch what they do. - Andrew
Carnegie
42LESSON TWO There is Purpose to Life
43Why we are here is really confusing
44It makes no sense at all why were alive
45Were really just a spec of dust
46On a pale blue dot in the vastness of space
47Were right here
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50Here we are!
51Its hard to keep things in perspective sometimes
52We have these strange instincts
53And we all have secrets
54And tragedy
55Yet there is meaning
56And while life is short in the Grand Scheme of
Things
57We do have time to make an impact, to create
change
58The purpose of life in my opinion is to be happy
59And help others
60But note that happiness is first
61You cannot help others if you are not happy
62So only associate with constructive vibrations
63Only associate with positive people, and thoughts
64And have a positive mental attitude
65As you decide how to interpret events
66You are the only one who can create your story
67LESSON THREE It takes 5 Years From When You Start
68It takes 5 years to break through
69Once you are in the game
70So get in the game today
71Are you in the game?
72If not, do you want to get in the game?
73I said, do you want to get in the game!?
74So start your five years of paying your dues now
75There is no better time in human history to start
a company
76There is no better time in your life to start a
company
77Get out of your comfort zone a little and take
action
78Five years ago on November 3, 2002
79I was sitting in those very seats
80I was 18 years old
81I decided then to get in the Game
82After hearing an inspiring speech
83Two days ago, November 1
84We hit 10 million in all time sales
85And well do 10 million more in the next 10
months
86Build up, to break through indeed
87It takes five years, so start now
88And surround yourself with great mentors along
the way
89LESSON FOUR Whatever You Believe, You Will
Achieve
90I know what you are going through
91I know what its like
92Ive been there
93Its hard
94Its lonely
95Few people believe in you
96Your parents might doubt you
97Your friends might doubt you
98But you must focus
99And persevere
100End any negative associations
101Focus on the positive
102And visualize
103So take a moment
104Close your eyes
105Take a big deep breath
106And slowly let it out
107Keep your eyes closed
108Now envision
109What you want to accomplish in your life
110What do you see?
111One day you will no longer be on this earth
112And in your place you will have left something
113What will that something be?
114How will you be remembered?
115What will you create?
116That continues on after you are gone?
117What will be your legacy?
118Think about it
119Okay you can open your eyes
120You know, the people in this room believe in you
121And if you believe in you, you will figure out a
way
122To reach places you cannot yet fathom
123If you believe, you can in fact achieve
124But first, you have to get out of your comfort
zone
125Hold up, do I hear Soulja Boy?
126Give the person next to you a strong high-five!
127And always remember
128Whatever you believe, you will achieve
129LESSON FIVE There Exists a World of Unlimited
Wealth
130To take a company public on NASDAQ or NYSE
131You need about 40 million in annual sales
132High-growth companies are valued at a multiple of
annual revenues
133Public companies in the space Im in
134The Software as a Service Space
135Are valued at an average of 7.5x annual revenue
136So a company in our space
137Can get to 40 million in annual revenue
138And go public
139It might be valued at around 300 million
140Thats a lot of money
141A lot more than I ever thought was even possible
142When we began five years ago
143More is possible than you think
144I did not realize
145That there was an entirely different universe out
there
146I am the son of an Episcopalian Priest and a
Social Worker
147I never knew a world existed in which
148Someone who worked intelligently for seven years
149Could earn 70 million
150And yet people do it all the time
151Once youve been in the game for a few years
152Learned some key lessons
153And have built a team of A player superstars
around you
154Its absolutely achievable
155It just takes time
156And a willingness to sacrifice short-term money
157And comfort for long-term gain
158I never knew a world existed
159In which there were hundreds of firms
160That will beg you to give you tens of millions of
dollars
161To grow your company
162But now I get five calls per week from those very
firms
163Institutional capital they call it
164The world of private equity, venture capital
165Leveraged buyouts, and strategic acquisitions
166Was foreign to me
167But it exists
168And if you get in the game today
169And get started
170And figure out how to build initial revenue
171And get over the biggest hurdle there is in
business
172Making your very first 100,000 in sales
173You will begin to meet the people
174And gain the knowledge to get access
175To this universe of unlimited wealth
176And begin to scale the great skyscraper of
business
177Ive seen the view from the fiftieth floor
178And I want you to see what I can see
179And although you may not see it yet
180Dont limit your ambition
181It will take at least five years
182And the first three will be the biggest challenge
of your life
183But it will be worth it
184So get in the game now
185Theres no better time
186Will you get in the Game now?
187Look. If you had one shot. One moment. To seize
everything you ever wanted. Would you capture it?
Or let it slip? - Eminem
188LESSON SIX Our Generation Can Change the World
189When I was 15
190I had red hair, listened to punk rock music, and
was disillusioned
191I didnt realize there was a purpose to life
192I didnt think an individual could make a
difference
193Today, I know that one young person can make a
huge difference
194I realized at 17, two facts that changed my life
19549,000 humans die every day
196From preventable disease and starvation
197Its the tragedy of our generation
198And 2.7 billion people live on under 2 per day
199I couldnt ignore those facts
200I couldnt pretend I didnt know them
201So I joined the ONE Campaign
202I got involved with social entrepreneurial
ventures
203And I decided to do what I knew how to do best
204Be an entrepreneur
205What really drives me
206What gets me up every day
207Ready to take on the world
208Is a desire
209A desire to see a world created in which
210There is equality of opportunity
211A world in which there is no more extreme poverty
212A world in which humans dont kill humans
213Through war and genocide every day
214I have a dream
215That someday, every child in every country in
this world
216Regardless of nationality, race, gender, or
geography
217Will have access to education, food, healthcare,
and technology
218And that together we can create a world
219In which world leaders realize, that which
separates us
220Is much less important than what binds us together
221A world in which we can end the Us vs. Them
mentality
222A world that is environmentally sustainable
223These are the challenges of the entrepreneurs of
our Generation
224I hope to spend the rest of my life
225Working through entrepreneurship, social
entrepreneurship
226Investing, philanthropy, and public service
227To hopefully lead a generation that creates this
change
228And I hope you will join me as entrepreneurs
229We can make a difference
230Will you promise me right now
231That you will give back in your life
232Toward making the world better?
233Whether you believe you can, or cannot, you are
right. - Henry Ford
234In Conclusion
2351) Thoughts become things
2362) There is a purpose to life
2373) It takes 5 years from when you start
2384) Whatever you believe, you will achieve
2395) There exists a world of unlimited wealth
240And 6) Our generation can change the world
241So who here wants to become a millionaire within
5 years?
242And now for the key question
243Who here thinks they will actually become a
millionaire within 5 years?
244Stand up if you think you will become a
millionaire within 5 years?
245Remember, the first step to becoming a millionaire
246Is to set your goals in writing
247Believe you will reach them
248Make a definite plan to achieve them
249And then take action
250Remember what you have promised me and yourself
251Write down your goals, frame them, and hang them
up
252And remember that your life is your message
253So lets work together entrepreneurially
254To solve the worlds biggest problems
255I am happy to help you as I can along the way
256Lets stay in touch, heres how
257You can friend me on Facebook
258Im the Ryan Allis at UNC Chapel Hill
259Or email me at ryan_at_icontact.com
260We have a entrepreneurial summer internships
261So email me if you are interested
262And if youre ever in North Carolina, look me up
263Here at the conference
264Im giving away 1000 copies of my book
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266Together, lets make a statement
267That the entrepreneurs in this room
268In the next six decades
269We will change the world, together
270So say it with me now
271I will change the world
272I will change the world!
273Thank you!