The keynote speaker was Robbert "Bob" Whitman, Chairman and CEO of Franklin Covey. Bob spoke on 4 key points that he has attributed to his success in his career.
1) Set high goals and believe in yourself.
He posed the question, "What would you do if you know you couldn't fail?" Too many times we limit ourselves from reaching our capacity because we fear failure. Think BIG and act on it. There is not stopping a motivated mind from achieving what he or she wants. He shared a clip of a man by the name of Paul Potts, a mobile salesman, who was told by numerous people over his lifetime, that despite his personal dream to become an opera singer, he would never make it because of his fatigue, look and lack of voice. Check out what happened to Paul when he stopped worrying about failure and started working towards his dream
As we can see Paul went for his dream. Paul ended up winning that years "Britain's Got Talent", and is a professional opera singer. He has achieved his dream.
2) Be strong in hard times.
It is easy to be strong in the easy times, when everything is rolling. It is then the times get tough that the tough get going. Do the work which your goals require you to do.
3) Put God first in your life.
Weather what religion you are, God should always be number 1. He cited the Biblical scripture in Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Bob is CEO of a multi hundred million dollar company, and yet never works on Sunday. He honors his God, and believes all the success and blessings he has in his life come because he has put God first.
4) Bring others with you across the finish line.
If is easy to look at other and point our their faults and tell them why they are wrong, however this never accomplishes anything. The game of life is a team sport, always look to help others out.
Bob is working on completing his 12th Iron man (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run without stopping) while he was doing an Iron man in Hawaii he noticed a man who had a vest attached to him with a rope attached to another boy in a raft. While waiting for the race to start, he asked a fellow Iron man racer, whats the deal with that raft? In reply he learned that it was a man by the name of Dick Hoyt. This inspiring story can tell the story better than I can.( warning tear jerker)
Great story! Life is a team sport!
Thank you Bob Whitman for a great speech and inspirational stories on how we can achieve our goals in live and become better humans not only in the business rat race, but in the game of life.
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