Have To Let It Go To Let It Grow

So last night Liberty Harper-Simonsen (nope, we're not related) presented The 8 Minute Ripple to the Women's Franchise Network out in Los Angeles on my behalf. This was big for me as up until now, I have been the only one to host and coordinate a 'Ripple.' However, I had a conflict in my schedule and could not travel to Los Angeles to present to this important group of women so I asked Liberty to go in my place.

From the early returns it was a success!

I would be lying to you if I didn't share with you that I was a little nervous. Not that Liberty wouldn't do a fantastic job but that the same passion and intent behind why I created the concept in the first place would somehow not be the same without me. Well that was just plain wrong.

Liberty knows why this concept works. She understands why it is sooooo applicable for people in the all types of businesses, including franchises. She got it the first time she heard me talk about it. She really got it when she saw me do a 'Ripple' for the first time and knew how much this process would have helped her former Franchisees.

She drank the Kool-Aide and in the process taught me a lesson.

In order for me to get where my concept needs to go, I have to trust in myself and let go. I have to be willing to let the concept grow and expand and develop outside of Steve Harper. I literally have to let it go to let it grow.

I don't know if Liberty actually thought that she was teaching me this lesson but over the past twenty-four hours, it was a lesson I actually learned. I am just glad I was paying attention.

Thanks Liberty for believing in my dream and adding a little piece of your "star power" to the Ripple!!!

Start Living

I know this song has been out a few years but every time I hear it I keep telling myself, tomorrow, I need to really follow its advice. Yes tomorrow! Definitely tomorrow! Or just as soon as I get this project done, finish this speech, or return the 400+ emails that are piling up in my inbox. Then I can do it. Then I will start.

This morning I could have easily been hit by a truck on the way to the office.

Maybe I shouldn't wait until tomorrow. No, definitely I shouldn't wait until tomorrow because in life, tomorrow is never guaranteed.

Good advice Tim McGraw. God advice indeed!

That Is An Opportunity

I want to let you in on a little secret.

Sometime during this upcoming week there is going to be a situation where you will find yourself with an unbelievable opportunity.

It might be an opportunity to do something amazing.

It might be an opportunity to do something small.

It might be an opportunity that, unless you already knew you were supposed to be watching out for an opportunity, you likely would have let it pass you by. Now you know so don't let that happen.

It will be an opportunity that will make you feel amazing.

It will be an opportunity that will forever alter how you perceive your impact on this world.

It will be an opportunity from which you will discover more about yourself than you ever thought imaginable.

What is that opportunity you ask?

You walk out your door tomorrow morning; Monday morning and a whole new week of opportunities awaits you.

There will be someone who needs to hear a kind word. That is an opportunity.

There will be someone who really needs to get over into your lane. That is an opportunity.

There will be someone who is having a bad day and just needs a little patience and understanding. That is an opportunity.

There will be someone close to you who needs to hear how much you love them. That is an opportunity.

There will be someone who has a dream that you can have a hand in making come true. That is an opportunity.

There will be one, two, ten, twenty, dozens, hundreds of people your life will bring you in contact with this week. There are opportunities aplenty and yes you should do something about them. All of them!

There is an entire world out there that right now isn't as good because you aren't giving it your all. That is, you guessed it, an opportunity.

This week is chalked full of promise and opportunity, oh yes, opportunity.

Be ready.

Ripple On!!!

Steve


P.S. I hope you will be kind enough to come back here in a week and share what opportunities you found and what you did about them.