Good job ... there we go. C'mon Journey people ...
I know it's 9:00am but energy is either killed or created
Alright, here we go, this side of the room...just a small town girl
Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
Alright if you're feeling good today give me 2 claps ... 2 claps ... 1 clap ... 1 clap ... half a clap ...
[ laughter ]
nothing else really matters until we
understand the power of our thoughts
the number one determinant of our success is what we believe
How many of you, by show of hands, how many of you have to be self-motivated to do what you do? Raise your hand.
Now look around at your table
If you see someone with their hand not up ... check their pulse  ...  [laugher]
think about it, motivation has business results
I really enjoyed Kevin speaking, he was a lot of fun, very engaging, you know I think he was a really good way to kick off the start to the conference
So can I get a volunteer in the first two or three rows
just to stand up ... first volunteer you get
a free book just stand up ... all right
Right there, your name? ... [Carolyn] ... can we say "Hey Carolyn"  ... [Hey Carolyn]
So Carolyn you're going to order some fish ... now I'm going to act like you're at my store
There you go, grab it ... Oh ... [ Audience laughter ]
All right, so Carolyn, she's walked into the store at the Pike Place Fish Market
Now Carolyn's going to say, "I'd like to
buy this pound of salmon."
I'm going to say, "Pound of salmon for Carolyn and then you are going to repeat it with me ...
and then she's going to throw me that fish ... so what "Would you like" How can I help you?"
[ Pound of salmon ... for me ]
...  Pound of salmon for Carolyn
[ Pound of salmon for Carolyn ]
[ Ohhh ... audience laughter ]
Hey give it up for her!
See me afterward I'll double the
value
See our thinking impacts our actions ... our actions impact our results ... so if we want to have a
change in anything guess where it starts?
It starts with us, it starts with how we think.
So a growth mindset ... envisioning
new possibility ... being aware of our thoughts
which by the way can be tough
to do. I recently saw a study that said
73% of the average person's thoughts on
a daily basis are negative.
Now some of you are thinking that's way too low ...
you don't know my husband ... [ laughter ]
... [ laughter ] ... Amen ... [ laughter ] ...
repeat with me, say "grow" ... we have to choose to grow. See our mind is fertile soil,
our thoughts our seeds and what we plant will grow
She says, "Kevin, in all my years of teaching ..."
"... this is one of the best papers I've ever read."
... [ applause ] ...
"But you have a problem. You're obsessed with this show!"
and that's when I realized, maybe I do have a "healthy obsession"
but it was a decision that I made.
Now catch this, this is very important ...
Our thoughts our seeds ...
Guess what else are seeds?
The words that we use ... not just with
ourselves ...  but the words we use with others
Guess what happened to me when Dr. Adams told me that I was really good at writing?
Guess what I started to believe, differently?
that maybe, I was good at writing
You see, I used to think my thinking
was part of the problem until I realized
that my thinking was also part of the solution.
We can be most impactful with others when we simply do ... a kind gesture ... tell them what they are really good at
Every single person ... that person that you wish ... didn't work in your department?
Or is on your committee?
Find something they're really good at and tell them. Watch what happens ...
Jumping outside of our comfort zone requires taking some risk and for those of you who have been skydiving
this is a clip of my first jump ...
a little recommendation for you would be this ... if you're going go skydiving tell your mom after you did it
but what do you think skydivers want to
do once they land?
Do it Again!
And if we felt the fear in life and did it anyway we would accomplish so much more greatness
but a lot of times we're afraid ... so here's what we're gonna do ...
Here's our activity ... each of us is gonna
have a little, little song ... about 20 seconds
This is an activity I call it, "Follow the Leader" ... follow the what? ... [ Leader ] ...
So whatever they do you gotta do. okay?
so each of us is going to have one salsas all dance with each of you so don't worry but each of
you have your own song alright would you
have to do is do what they do so
everybody stand up
put your head
hey grab a book y'all grab a book whoo
look ya'll that may have gone viral I
don't know he was phenomenal he is one
of the best motivational speakers have
been to see in the longest time he
really came out and motivated the
company he gave us lots of good
information that we can not only use in
the company but in your everyday life
and just seeing his excitement about his
dream of wanting to be on The Price is
Right and finally achieving that dream
from a little boy to adulthood
it's phenomenal it's more you gotta step
over there punch out poor hold and don't
pull out the slip in the hole what would
you do if you're driving home today
and a song came on the radio that you
did not like what would we do to that we
changed the stage and I realized he I
always thought that just because my mind
this internal voice how many of you
would admit that you've got an internal
voice sometimes it talks to you okay
some of you have to and it's kind of
scary all right I have a lot of internal
conversations with myself and sometimes
I have to remind myself that one of the
most important relationships I need to
work on is the one I have with myself
because if I listen to a song I didn't
like I would turn the station what my
counselor said was just because you have
that inside voice it doesn't mean you
have to agree with it so Kevin's an
amazing speaker first and foremost but
he really has some genuine things
I would say that for an 8:30 your
presentation I wasn't really ready to be
that high energy but I quickly took on
his energy I felt like I was connecting
with him through the whole presentation
I also feel like today I really learned
that you do have to go into any
situation whether you might think it's
negative it's only negative because you
think it's negative so you can always
change your mindset and press the reset
button and figure out how to make any
situation a positive and I want to part
with you like Bob Barker does help
control the pet population have your pet
spayed and neutered goodbye everybody
thank you so much
Wow Wow Wow
was that great or what all right all
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