Dean Graziosi reflects on his stepfather's stroke and death, sharing the lesson to "not leave any stone unturned" and let go of regrets. He urges you to stop settling and decide what you're actually saying yes and no to in your life.
It doesn't matter where you were born, doesn't matter all the crap, the mistakes you made in the past, doesn't matter about the past, missed opportunities, doesn't matter how much money you have, doesn't matter what education you have, doesn't matter where you live, if you're in a big city or small. I just want to share with you, and I want you to. I hope that I can come across in a sincere enough way to let you know that you can do this. You can go to that next level of life. You can find a way to have more prosperity, to make more money, to have more independence. It's all possible if you decide it is. I told you that story, and I'm not trying to get too serious, but I told you that story in the beginning when my mom was here on Friday. Do you guys remember? And I talked about the lesson my stepdad gave me, and it was an amazing lesson. My stepdad, who's been my stepdad since nine, he had a stroke seven days ago, and he passed away three days ago. And my mom was brave enough to come here, and we were brave enough to talk about it, but we spent two days celebrating his life, and we talked about the lessons our stepdad gave us. That was the only way we could get through something like that. He was my mom. My mom and him went to the prom when they were 14. They've known each other for 60 years, and it was a big impact. But I only can look at it through. Look what he gave me. And when I saw him this week, I realized the biggest things he said to me when he could still share. And he talked to me more than anyone else, and I feel blessed. He said, don't leave any stone unturned. And he also said, I'm really sorry about a couple things that he did. So I realized he wanted to let go of some regrets. Well, simultaneously, I knew there was still more for him, more he wished he would have done. And that was the lesson, that was the gift he gave me. So I don't want to be sad about my stepdad. I want to say he gave me that, and I had the ability to share it with you. In the first hour of being here, my whole family was here. My whole family. My mom and my sister have never seen me speak on stage, ever. Stage, 400 times. They've never seen me. And it was amazing. And he brought our family together. He brought us that gift. And I want to share that gift with you. Let's look from the end. Looking backwards or looking, you know, from the end, looking behind us and say, what in our life, if today was the last week of our lives, what would we say? That we're no. What would we be no longer willing to accept? What would we say no to today? What would we say yes to today? How would we not consider even remotely the place may. How could we dare dim our light to make other people feel good? How could we in any way play smaller than what God or the universe or whatever we believe gave us the abilities to do? Are we going to play someone else's game or are we going to play ours? So it was tragic to lose Lenny, and I'm going to process it more after the event. I really couldn't live in that space, but, man, he gave me a gift, and I hope it translates a little bit to you. Now is your time. There's no reason to settle. There's no reason to keep living an okay life. We got one shot at this. I don't know, maybe we got more than one. But all I know, this is the one we got. Let's just squeeze all the juice out of this life we got. Are you guys up for that? Are you guys up for that? Let's do this.
