[Music]
hey we’re all ordinary but we can do
extraordinary things and if you question
whether you’re ordinary or not I have
two simple questions for you if you can
answer yes to either your very ardently
did you convince this world’s a baby are
you gonna go out in a casket good
ardently I’m ordinary but we can do
extraordinary things we’re ordinary but
we are full of untapped potential no
matter how much you’ve achieved to death
you are still leading them with
incredible potential and there are
extraordinary things that you can do
tonight I want to tell you three
principles that will enable you to do
extraordinary things
the first is believe it’s possible we
live in a cerebral mindset society
culture queer everything is in the head
we’re not a very heart culture we’re not
I’m not being religious but we’re not
particularly faith believing culture and
there’s so much that we can do if we
believe we can actually make things that
are not as if they are if we simply
believe they are the first step of
believing is to dare to dream some
people talk about day dreamers as if
it’s a negative thing but do you know
dreamers change the world
in fact dreamers are the only people
that change the world
every new invention every new creation
started off as a thought in the mind
that allowed that thought to become a
dream to become a passion to become
purpose I’m dreaming it’s the first step
in releasing a creativity we’re all
incredibly creative beings we’ve got so
much ability to create whether we think
we have or not it is sitting right
inside you free yourself for from
self-imposed limits there are so many
limits we have in life that are actually
imposed by ourselves we see it’s not
imposed by our self we see it we
shouldn’t we couldn’t we mustn’t because
of something external but imagine if you
could change your student to maybe you
couldn’t – possibly
and everything else – I will free
yourself from this horrible self-imposed
limits unless you want to believe it’s
possible surround yourself with people
who see your potential a murder can tell
you who you are today but it takes
someone with better vision a bit of
insight who can actually look into you
and see the gold can see the potential
and can help you move from where you are
today to the place for you want to be so
first believe it’s possible second
prepare yourself on the prepetition
might not be what you expect empty
experience in life can be useful the
good ones
well maybe the good ones can be useful I
think we learn a little they confirm
what we already believe
but the bad and the painful ones teach
us so much other horrible experiences a
teenager I lost a sister to suicide one
of the most painful things a teenage boy
could experience yep in hindsight it
changed my world at the time was painful
with and as I tried to deal with the
pain I dealt with it the wrong way i
transmitted my pain i washed out in
under with my pain because i didn’t know
what to do with that pain it was too
much for a little boy to cope with yeah
that time came in my life when i became
able understood that i didn’t have to
live in pain that i could actually pop
my pain transform and whatever language
you want to use whether you want to call
it transformation being able to let go
being able to forgive being able to move
on so something happened that made me a
very very very different person and I’d
encourage each of you pit will happen
that’s not the encouragement but Larrin
hope to cope with pain if you want to
prepare yourself to do something
extraordinary other thing I’m repeating
yourself look to help others develop my
life that’s about giving develop a life
isn’t egocentric it’s not about me it’s
about giving it’s about serving it’s
about putting something back into this
beautiful world that we live in because
as we give there is some law that means
we keep getting a lot more than we can
give other thing of preparing yourself
is be grateful be able to see the good
in the things around you people too to
just be thankful for the beautiful
things the wonderful things so that our
eyes don’t drop and look constantly at
the negative things a friend used to say
develop an attitude of gratitude and
it’s a wonderful but cheesy but it’s a
wonderful preparation if you wanted you
extraordinary things
another beautiful thing to do if you
want to do something extraordinary is to
develop an abundance mindset but not I
mean actually believe there’s enough to
go around
do you know there’s enough food for
everyone in the world listen up money to
provide shelter there’s enough
opportunities for all of us you we all
can be an amazing success and it doesn’t
mean if I must success that you have to
be a failure or that if you’re going to
be a success that I need to be I feel
that we can have win wins in every
interaction but to have win wins I think
we need to believe there’s actually
enough for all of us under this and the
last thing in preparing yourself be
faithful in the small stuff often we
want to do something extraordinary and
we think we need to do something really
big to do something extraordinary but
the extra ordinance starts in the little
things in simply being faithful with
whatever has been trusted into your care
I’m doing the best job you humanly being
faithful in a small fix now this is a
whistle-stop in being ordinary and doing
extra my third and last point is turn
thoughts and dreams into plans and
actions you could probably pale but what
I’ve said already I believe in dreams I
believe in thoughts my head is full of
them if I could have so many thoughts
and dreams my little head something some
people think it’s a big head but almost
you already can’t contain them but you
need to turn these thoughts and dreams
into plans and actions if you’re
actually going to do something to do
that first of all you need to see your
opportunities and then you need to grow
a spur opportunity will not land in your
lap you need to see it you need to take
it you need to make it you know
they need to listen to the right voices
I’m a bit biased now listen to Ben
production and the things that I’ve done
because I’m Highlander and we’re
self-effacing and you know world your
Thompson’s barons and we’ll just get on
but if I hadn’t great voices around me
people had a lot of people in respect
people I trust who speak positively into
me every good thing I’ve achieved
there’s been ten voices saying James you
can’t do that that’s not possible no
one’s done that before but the voices
I’ve listened to are the ones that said
you can’t that’s possible and I’ve been
supportive positive voices listen to
they’re not just always seen nice cuddly
things they also see some challenging
things and that’s great too we also if
we want to do anything incredible we
need to take some measured risk now I
had an experience where I took a bit of
risk and I did a partnership jump for
charity which seems really saying that
like a really really really clever idea
on a to golf in Paris right in this
plane that was a really nice plane I’m a
very good player and we circle and go
higher and higher until we were
thousands of feet above the beautiful
pear sure compensate that plane seemed
really good I was struggling to see any
logical reason to launch myself and the
do it and then I thought of the
reassuring words of my instructor your
policy James has a 99.3% successfully
deploying
have you any idea how big point seven
percent can become it was immense in my
little head and then he helpfully said
on if it doesn’t work you have an
emergency heute I think that was meant
to bring comfort
it just made the 0.7% a whole lot bigger
so as I sought with one the top Matic
for anyone who doesn’t understand
healing in the plane my fingertips
touching the plane everything in my body
screamed fall back into the plane it’s a
better idea but when the instructor said
go I threw myself I had one of the most
exhilarating right then through the sky
my parachute opened I landed safely I am
here today but if we don’t take measured
risks we watching will just be at who
take metric wrist a fine fellow
travelers this part of do things that
are slightly different slightly edgy
will get criticism or it may get lonely
it might if you don’t have people around
you that are supportive encouraging
challenging not just you have people
that you see will them get people
challenged and be constructive have them
around you it’s not as one of the great
things that stops us from getting out
and lastly and turning your thoughts and
dreams in the plans and action be
determined if you like anything in skill
and gift in talent be done right
determined can make up for it just that
determination that says you know I’m
gonna see this through I will make this
happen no matter what gets in my way I
believe in what I am doing
and I will see it through determination
wins people gold medals and Olympics
determination is more powerful than we
often give it credit for be determined
we’ve established for all ordinary all
of us failure what extraordinary thing
are you gonna do
and you order life or put a different
way what you want your legacy to be
reflect ponder and once you answer a
question just do it
[Applause]
hey we’re all ordinary but we can do
extraordinary things and if you question
whether you’re ordinary or not I have
two simple questions for you if you can
answer yes to either your very ardently
did you convince this world’s a baby are
you gonna go out in a casket good
ardently I’m ordinary but we can do
extraordinary things we’re ordinary but
we are full of untapped potential no
matter how much you’ve achieved to death
you are still leading them with
incredible potential and there are
extraordinary things that you can do
tonight I want to tell you three
principles that will enable you to do
extraordinary things
the first is believe it’s possible we
live in a cerebral mindset society
culture queer everything is in the head
we’re not a very heart culture we’re not
I’m not being religious but we’re not
particularly faith believing culture and
there’s so much that we can do if we
believe we can actually make things that
are not as if they are if we simply
believe they are the first step of
believing is to dare to dream some
people talk about day dreamers as if
it’s a negative thing but do you know
dreamers change the world
in fact dreamers are the only people
that change the world
every new invention every new creation
started off as a thought in the mind
that allowed that thought to become a
dream to become a passion to become
purpose I’m dreaming it’s the first step
in releasing a creativity we’re all
incredibly creative beings we’ve got so
much ability to create whether we think
we have or not it is sitting right
inside you free yourself for from
self-imposed limits there are so many
limits we have in life that are actually
imposed by ourselves we see it’s not
imposed by our self we see it we
shouldn’t we couldn’t we mustn’t because
of something external but imagine if you
could change your student to maybe you
couldn’t – possibly
and everything else – I will free
yourself from this horrible self-imposed
limits unless you want to believe it’s
possible surround yourself with people
who see your potential a murder can tell
you who you are today but it takes
someone with better vision a bit of
insight who can actually look into you
and see the gold can see the potential
and can help you move from where you are
today to the place for you want to be so
first believe it’s possible second
prepare yourself on the prepetition
might not be what you expect empty
experience in life can be useful the
good ones
well maybe the good ones can be useful I
think we learn a little they confirm
what we already believe
but the bad and the painful ones teach
us so much other horrible experiences a
teenager I lost a sister to suicide one
of the most painful things a teenage boy
could experience yep in hindsight it
changed my world at the time was painful
with and as I tried to deal with the
pain I dealt with it the wrong way i
transmitted my pain i washed out in
under with my pain because i didn’t know
what to do with that pain it was too
much for a little boy to cope with yeah
that time came in my life when i became
able understood that i didn’t have to
live in pain that i could actually pop
my pain transform and whatever language
you want to use whether you want to call
it transformation being able to let go
being able to forgive being able to move
on so something happened that made me a
very very very different person and I’d
encourage each of you pit will happen
that’s not the encouragement but Larrin
hope to cope with pain if you want to
prepare yourself to do something
extraordinary other thing I’m repeating
yourself look to help others develop my
life that’s about giving develop a life
isn’t egocentric it’s not about me it’s
about giving it’s about serving it’s
about putting something back into this
beautiful world that we live in because
as we give there is some law that means
we keep getting a lot more than we can
give other thing of preparing yourself
is be grateful be able to see the good
in the things around you people too to
just be thankful for the beautiful
things the wonderful things so that our
eyes don’t drop and look constantly at
the negative things a friend used to say
develop an attitude of gratitude and
it’s a wonderful but cheesy but it’s a
wonderful preparation if you wanted you
extraordinary things
another beautiful thing to do if you
want to do something extraordinary is to
develop an abundance mindset but not I
mean actually believe there’s enough to
go around
do you know there’s enough food for
everyone in the world listen up money to
provide shelter there’s enough
opportunities for all of us you we all
can be an amazing success and it doesn’t
mean if I must success that you have to
be a failure or that if you’re going to
be a success that I need to be I feel
that we can have win wins in every
interaction but to have win wins I think
we need to believe there’s actually
enough for all of us under this and the
last thing in preparing yourself be
faithful in the small stuff often we
want to do something extraordinary and
we think we need to do something really
big to do something extraordinary but
the extra ordinance starts in the little
things in simply being faithful with
whatever has been trusted into your care
I’m doing the best job you humanly being
faithful in a small fix now this is a
whistle-stop in being ordinary and doing
extra my third and last point is turn
thoughts and dreams into plans and
actions you could probably pale but what
I’ve said already I believe in dreams I
believe in thoughts my head is full of
them if I could have so many thoughts
and dreams my little head something some
people think it’s a big head but almost
you already can’t contain them but you
need to turn these thoughts and dreams
into plans and actions if you’re
actually going to do something to do
that first of all you need to see your
opportunities and then you need to grow
a spur opportunity will not land in your
lap you need to see it you need to take
it you need to make it you know
they need to listen to the right voices
I’m a bit biased now listen to Ben
production and the things that I’ve done
because I’m Highlander and we’re
self-effacing and you know world your
Thompson’s barons and we’ll just get on
but if I hadn’t great voices around me
people had a lot of people in respect
people I trust who speak positively into
me every good thing I’ve achieved
there’s been ten voices saying James you
can’t do that that’s not possible no
one’s done that before but the voices
I’ve listened to are the ones that said
you can’t that’s possible and I’ve been
supportive positive voices listen to
they’re not just always seen nice cuddly
things they also see some challenging
things and that’s great too we also if
we want to do anything incredible we
need to take some measured risk now I
had an experience where I took a bit of
risk and I did a partnership jump for
charity which seems really saying that
like a really really really clever idea
on a to golf in Paris right in this
plane that was a really nice plane I’m a
very good player and we circle and go
higher and higher until we were
thousands of feet above the beautiful
pear sure compensate that plane seemed
really good I was struggling to see any
logical reason to launch myself and the
do it and then I thought of the
reassuring words of my instructor your
policy James has a 99.3% successfully
deploying
have you any idea how big point seven
percent can become it was immense in my
little head and then he helpfully said
on if it doesn’t work you have an
emergency heute I think that was meant
to bring comfort
it just made the 0.7% a whole lot bigger
so as I sought with one the top Matic
for anyone who doesn’t understand
healing in the plane my fingertips
touching the plane everything in my body
screamed fall back into the plane it’s a
better idea but when the instructor said
go I threw myself I had one of the most
exhilarating right then through the sky
my parachute opened I landed safely I am
here today but if we don’t take measured
risks we watching will just be at who
take metric wrist a fine fellow
travelers this part of do things that
are slightly different slightly edgy
will get criticism or it may get lonely
it might if you don’t have people around
you that are supportive encouraging
challenging not just you have people
that you see will them get people
challenged and be constructive have them
around you it’s not as one of the great
things that stops us from getting out
and lastly and turning your thoughts and
dreams in the plans and action be
determined if you like anything in skill
and gift in talent be done right
determined can make up for it just that
determination that says you know I’m
gonna see this through I will make this
happen no matter what gets in my way I
believe in what I am doing
and I will see it through determination
wins people gold medals and Olympics
determination is more powerful than we
often give it credit for be determined
we’ve established for all ordinary all
of us failure what extraordinary thing
are you gonna do
and you order life or put a different
way what you want your legacy to be
reflect ponder and once you answer a
question just do it
[Applause]
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