Ethics & Launching Leaders

 IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT!

This week I learned about Randy Pausch, who was a professor of computer science. He gave a speech on the a series called The Last Lecture, where he spoke about going for whatever you want and dream of. He did this speech while being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had only a few month's if not weeks to live. However, you'd never know this, he was doing pushups during this lecture. He looked very healthy, especially for a guy who had a fatal illness.

In this lecture he stated something that really made me think this last week about obstacles. We all have obstacles, whether they are health challenges, financial problems, or just telling ourselves we can't do it. Randy tells us in this Last Lecture a brick wall is there in many cases to show how badly we want something, not to keep us out. Most of us would say, "Well there's a brick wall or an obstacle, it must not supposed to be" Why don't we fight for it? Why do we put our head down, and turn around and go pout in the corner?

Why don't we take the word NO as a challenge? 

Alright Johnny just told me No, I'm going to go get my tool belt on and I'm going to work so hard Johnny will never tell me No again.

What did Randy do differently that we don't? He didn't let the brick wall stop him. His parents never told him "Randy, you can't do that!" They encouraged him! He had good mentors. He believed in himself and surrounded himself with those who believed not only in Randy but themselves as well.

Randy said in his Last Lecture speech, "If you lead your life right, the dreams will come to you!" I think what he was trying to say, if you live your life with integrity and a lot of drive and hard work, people who think and dream like you will come to you. "If you build it, they will come" I say if You dream it and work towards that dream God will put those in your path to make that dream come true.

One of my dreams is to make sure my family is financially secure and show my kids with hard work they can achieve anything they want to. I've had several challenges in my life. My next challenge is to over come my fear of failure of starting my own business. That's my dream.

There's a country song out right now and it has a line in it, that is one of the best lines I've heard in a song in several years. "If you've got a dream chase it, cause a dream won't chase you back"

LET'S CHASE THAT DREAM BECAUSE IT WON'T CHASE US!