Without clear intention, effort scatters and you miss your target. The speaker uses an ice-cream market example to show how entrepreneurs misjudge demand, then reframes luck as preparation plus relentless action. Gary, a short basketball player, credits his success to hard work, not chance.
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Hey, my friend, listen. I just want you to pause and pat yourself on the back. You, you know, you are just those type of leader that start and finish. And not only that, when you start this journey, you are pressing on and then you are putting action. I'm so glad we closed this gap. Everything starts with intention. I always say if you don't know where you are going, you find yourself everywhere. Now we deal with, we close so many things that could have sidetracked you, right? So know that you are a champion, know that you are a leader. And today we will drop this with expectation gap. I thought it would be easier than this. I mean, the truth is that most of the time we underestimate the journey. You know, remember when you start that business, you probably had a business plan, say, well, There's maybe 220 million people in Nigeria. I want to do ice cream. I'll sell it to 1 million. 1 ice cream for a dollar. I make about a million dollars my first year, blah blah blah, right? Yeah, we all been there. And then when you start, you're like, whoa, a lot of people are not buying ice cream. And then boom, like, whoa, I overestimate or I underestimate. Hey, that's— it's just a journey. But the good news is that, you know, there's something that we call luck. You know, some people say, I'm unlocking. And the truth about luck is, you know, it's all about preparation, and then it's all about attitude, and then we have to know— have to seize the opportunity. Put up massive action. When you do that, you can see the results, and that's what we call luck. And what you are doing here is part of your preparation. That's why you've been to this course. That's why I'm taking you to over 700 courses this year. Every day I'm dropping this nugget on you. That's gonna— that's what it's gonna make you. Some people will say, hey, you are lucky. But the truth is that you prepare yourself and you have attitude and you, you learn how to seize the opportunity and you press and put a massive action. You did something about it. It's not just say, oh, I'm gonna grow. It's not just have a zeal. It's not just, you know, look for opportunity. It's not just about doing something about it, but it's the combination of all this. That's what probably makes you the lucky guy. Maybe in your family they say, man, you, you're a lucky person. But you put this in practice. Even though the journey may be tough, even though things can get tough from time to time, you always prepare yourself. You have that, you know, never give up attitude. You, you have that toughness. Even when it's raining snow, you can jump out and do what needs to be done. You keep doing over, and you know how to look around and seize opportunity and jump on opportunity, just like the way you came to this school. So many people say, well, you know what, let me just wait for next year. I don't have a dollar to go into school like this. I'm not going to prepare myself. And they keep wondering why they're not lucky. And they keep calling you a lucky person, right? I love this young man who plays basketball. His name is Gary. He's a very, very short guy. People always say, Gary is lucky. And they quote— I hear the journalists call him. They say, Gary, you are lucky. And they even call me a diminished Gary. He's a very short guy. He said, Gary, you are— they always tell me, Gary, you are very lucky. And he turned around and said, the harder I work, the luckier I become. I want it to be yours. The harder you work, the luckier you become. People, if somebody say you are lucky, tell them the harder I'm prepared, the tougher my attitude is, the more I seize opportunity. The, you know, the, the harder I press on with action, guess what? The luckier I become. People, you know, blame luck in my own life, but they just don't know my journey. They don't know that I started in 7, 8 hours a day. Sometimes I'm here in studio, I'm here in the office on Sunday at midnight, I'm here teaching. The harder I work, the luckier I become. One of the things I want you to understand is preparation is everything. Preparation is everything. And action. Seize opportunity and do something about it. That's how we are closing our gap. Tomorrow we will jump on something different and I will carry you into a, a sales process again at a higher, higher level. Thank you so much. Like I said, I want you to pat yourself on the back again. You are a leader. Celebrate this day. Go ahead and just relax and enjoy because you are in a process. The world will know you. I always say that the champion is not revealed in a day of competition, but the champion is making a day. But the competition only reveals the champion. And I think a lot of leaders say the same thing, and I'm sure you agree with me. Hey, just press on, and I'll see you all at the top.
