Simple Change Rule - Lessons From a Motivational Speaker

I desperately wanted to be a photojournalist

but I had no idea how to become one

I was walking past a bus shelter displaying an army recruiting poster. Hmmm… all the photojournalism books had lots of army stuff in them.

A week later I had signed on the dotted line and joined the army.

That’s when the yelling started. It wasn’t what I thought it would be.

But I stepped into uncertainty and grabbed and lurched and stumbled and got back up where I could. (aka. taking opportunities). Then my 3 years was up. What next?

Rinse and repeat.

I stepped into uncertainty and grabbed and lurched and stumbled and got back up where I could.

I’ve done this over and over.

We can make change as complex as we like but it always comes back to a handful of simple rules.

This one applies equally to one person or an organisation of 30,000.

To have something you’ve never had you have to do something you’ve never done.

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If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

-free-range kid to army sniper

-home movies to National Geographic cameraman

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change, I know how to make it simple, and I know how to stand on stage & make it fun so others want to do it too.

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