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Video conference fatigue has definitely set in. I found myself NOT participating in three conferences this past week that I really wanted to attend.
\\nI regularly attend the New Orleans Investment Conference each year in New Orleans. It\\u2019s the longest running investment conference in the US. The conference organizer Brien Lundin is a friend. Spending time with the attendees is one the highlights of the year. Conferences always have two components: The speakers and the attendees.
\\nI love spending time with the attendees. I find that conferences compress timeframes when it comes to relationship building.
\\nI love spending time with Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart of Peak Prosperity. They had their conference this past weekend.
\\nThe Podcast Movement conference is underway and there are some amazing speakers. The content looks fantastic.
\\nInstead I attended two masterminds this past week.
\\nOne is with Kyle Wilson. Kyle used to be business partners with Jim Rohn before he died. Kyle has attracted some of the most amazing people into the mastermind. Kyle has been a past guest on the show on Nov 4 of 2018. I find the time we spend together to be uplifting, grounding, nourishing of the mind and spirit.
\\nThere were so many profound things said during the mastermind.
\\nIt got me thinking about folks who regularly post quotes on social media. Quotes are fun and thought provoking. But they rarely have lasting impact by themselves. I found that quotes DO have lasting impact when you know the author of the quote, but most importantly the context in which the statement was made.
\\nThis week, during the two day mastermind there were so many quotable moments.
\\nI\\u2019m going to share three quotes with you from this past weekend. But all of them have a context. So here we go.
\\nThe quote first is by Robert Helms. We were talking about the uncertainty that is present in everyday projects. This could be a project delay introduced by the city. It could be the result of a regulation change, a hurricane, or perhaps a pandemic. The reason doesn\\u2019t actually matter.
\\nThese surprises are like a bend in the road. Robert said \\u201cA bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.\\u201d
\\nSo here we are in 2020, with a bend in the road. So the question for you is, \\u201cAre you prepared to make the turn?\\u201d
\\nLater in the session we were talking with Dr. Tom Burns. Tom Burns was a guest on the show about a week ago and he has a new book \\u201cWhy Doctors Don\\u2019t Get Rich\\u201d launching on October 27. We were talking about how Tom always seems so calm and never in a hurry. Tom is a real estate developer and also an orthopaedic surgeon. I asked Tom how he doesn\\u2019t allow the pressure of deadlines to affect his day to day life.
\\nHe said very simply. \\u201cMy Time is not defined by other people\\u2019s priorities.\\u201d He went on to explain that he rarely feels time conflicts. When his children were young, he would reschedule patient surgeries if it was his day to read stories to the first grade class. He would forego income, and inconvenience his patients because he was clear on what his priorities were.
\\nThe third quote is from Mitzi Perdue. Mitzi was married to Frank Perdue from the Perdue Chicken fame. When her husband was in his early 80\\u2019s Mitzi and her husband Frank worked together on preparing an ethical will. Now an ethical will is all about legacy. Frank was a wealthy man and no doubt he left a sizeable inheritance to his children.
\\nBut there\\u2019s a difference between inheritance and legacy. Inheritance is what you leave your children, whereas legacy is what you leave within your children. So the ethical will was all about legacy. I\\u2019m going to share one of the items from his ethical will.
\\nIf you want to be happy, think about what you can do for others. If you want to be miserable, think about what is owed to you.
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