Colin SprakeInvestor & Mentor Driving Multi-Million Dollar Growth

Unlock Your Potential: The Power of Being Early

3 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that arriving early is an underrated skill that dramatically improves personal and professional outcomes. He contrasts his past habit of rushing to airports and meetings—resulting in stress, discomfort, and sub‑optimal performance—with his later practice of being early, which brings comfort, networking opportunities in airport lounges, and the ability to calmly prepare for meetings. The speaker claims that early arrival lowers emotional arousal, raises cognitive clarity, and enables better organization, leading to more successful interactions and business results. The overall message is that consistently being early unlocks a higher‑performing version of oneself.

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The most underrated skill in life for me is being early. But man, does it change the downstream benefits that you get from it. Let me share this with you. So I used to always rush to airports last minute, get on the plane as quickly as I could, and I'd be sweaty, smelly, because I'd be like running to the airplane. Then I'd also go to meetings and I would get to meetings just on time, get my papers out and be doing certain things. Guess what? When I learned to be early, which was decades ago, it changed my world. I'd get on the plane, I'd be more comfortable. I would get to meet people. I'd actually get to the lounge and meet people in the lounge. And I've met some amazing people I've done business with through meeting them in a lounge and being early. When I get to meetings, I get there early. Allows me to prep, put my papers on the table, get my thoughts together. Because I can guarantee you one thing, the best version of yourself is not the person that shows up just on time, rushed, or maybe even a little bit late and in panic mode. Because your emotions are high, your intelligence is low. But when you show up early, you are calm. You get in there early, you do things the right way. You plan, you prep, you're organized, and you get so much from it. It's the most underrated thing in the world, is being early, but it's definitely one thing that will change the results you get probably from every meeting