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  • Hey everybody! Michael Gebben here and I'm super excited to be with you on another rockin'

  • Wednesday. Today, I was walking with my grandpa, basically the other actually and we were talking.

  • We're talking about what shapes what people become. What gets people motivated? What gets

  • people excited? How do they end up the way they end up? What makes that happen? Is it

  • our parents, friends, family, society? What is it? I'm gonna narrow in on one specific

  • thing. If you're a kid listening, still live at home, you're highly affected by your parents,

  • this will be for you and hopefully you'll get some nuggets. If you are someone who is

  • over somebody else. I don't know how to say it but maybe that's the right way to say it.

  • You have a child. You have somebody that you look out for. You're a family member, whatever

  • and you have somebody that you're influencing. I think that's the best way to say it. You're

  • influencing somebody. Here's the thing. So, I know that there's a lot to talk out there

  • about education, going to college, getting a degree, having a resume, getting a job and

  • albeit, that college is great. I will say great for some. I personally did not go to

  • college. I've had a lot, a lot of success. I have worked my butt off and I want to tie

  • back though to anybody out there who's like I said, an influencer. I wannna talk about

  • my parents for second... from my perspective. So here's what I think that really, really

  • benefited me. My parents were huge, huge, huge in influencing me. The thing about it

  • is when I was talking about my grandpa, I was talking about how there were people...'coz

  • there are people in your life who tell you you shouldn't do something, that you can't

  • do something, that that's not possible. In my case, when I chose not to go to college,

  • except for my parents really, there were a number of people who told me that if I did

  • not go, I would not succeed. Luckily, my parents allowed me to do it. I won't say that they

  • were like, "Oh my gosh, don't go to college. That's the greatest idea on the planet." I

  • won't say that they said that but I will say that they allowed me to make my choice. They

  • allowed me to try which is the biggest thing that I encourage each and every single one

  • of you. If you don't wanna go to college or you have something that you want to do...now

  • this is the key here. If you have no idea whatsoever in any way, shape or form then

  • whoever is influencing you should probably do their best to guide you in some sort of

  • direction. Right now, although there'll be some other ways that might be the best direction

  • to send you in. For any of you listening, who have an idea for what you want to do,

  • then what I suggest that you do who's ever that person influencing you or overlooking

  • you or helps you make decisions, whether it's your parents, friends, grandparents, family,

  • whoever it is, here's what you need to do. If you have even an inkling of something that

  • you'd like to try, you need to do everything in your power to do that thing, to try that

  • thing, to try that thing but you need to be very, very convincing that you need to at

  • least be able to try it. In talking to my grandpa, you'll regret nothing more than the

  • things that you did not try to at least do or accomplish but you cannot just go, "I don't

  • wanna go to college. I don't know what I'm gonna do." If you seem like a dead beat and

  • you have no idea what to do, well then I can't help you as much. But if you can be convincing

  • in what you wanna do and basically for me, I said I don't wanna go to college. Let me

  • have at least one year to try to start this video production thing. Just one year and

  • I can always go back. Man, once I had the fire inside to make this work. But what I

  • hate seeing is people out there... and this is for anybody who has that child or has somebody

  • that you're influencing. Do not, if that person has anything inside of them that they want

  • to do. If you're a doctor let's just say and you're trying to press your kid into being

  • a doctor but you can't get him motivated but you keep pushing... "You're going to this

  • school. Do this and do that." You're gonna have a difficult time motivating that person.

  • That's the same thing for you if you're a teacher and you've got these kids. I know

  • again, college and higher education is important. I believe in education. You need to learn

  • all the time. Again, if there's that kid who has something burning inside of them to do

  • something else, if you encourage them to do that, you help guide them down that path to

  • at least let them try, great, great, great things can happen. I assure you. Do not pressure

  • people into doing things they don't wanna do. That's why you see so much in highschool

  • and different places like that right now where someone whether it's a teacher, a family member,

  • a parent, whoever is pressuring someone to do something they do not want to do and then

  • they have rebellion and all these bad things happen, and a lot of negative comes out of

  • that. I just encourage you to always embrace and help encourage someone else to pursue

  • that thing that's inching inside of them so that that dream can really light up inside

  • of them so that they can pursue it and at least give it a try. For all of you listening,

  • you need to try and try quickly. The thing that I found is the best thing to do is to

  • fail and fail fast. That's another way of saying it. Try those things. Because for me,

  • I've had things like I had an event called "The rockin' life" event. When I was planning

  • it, I decided to do it. Four weeks later I did it. I said to myself, "I'd probably have

  • a whole bunch of these things." As everything progressed and then finally doing it, I learned

  • that putting on events quite regularly probably isn't the thing for me. If I would've taken

  • 9 months to do that, it would take me 9 months to figure out that wasn't something I wanted

  • to do. So try things. Do them. Just go after it. Just go after it. If you're getting a

  • lot of push back from people, you have to find a way to pursue it because you'll regret

  • nothing more than the thing that you did not try not the disappointment that you may have

  • provided to someone else because you didn't pursue what they did. No, the disappointment,

  • the regret will come from the thing that you did not do. If you do it and you succeed,

  • believe me, all the people who wanted you to do the other thing, they'll embrace it.

  • They'll be happy for you... most will at least. Because even my grandpa said, "Well you know

  • what, I'd probably be one of those people who said you should've gone to college." But

  • I don't believe that one second anymore. I shifted his mindset and he believes totally

  • different. He agrees to everything I'm saying now. You know he's one of those people who

  • believe there's one way before and he sees the light. That's what I want you guys to

  • see the light. Either encourage others or know that you need to have confidence and

  • go at something with such conviction that people will do nothing more than want to stand

  • behind you. If they don't, then they better get out of your way so that you can prove

  • them wrong. Rock & roll my friends. I truly appreciate each and every single one of you.

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