Scott EmpringhamAI Marketing Strategist | Helping CEOs Scale with AI

This advice changed my life…

1 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A brief personal-reflection YouTube video (by Scott Empringham) recounting life advice from his friend Michael Klairn: “You can have anything you want. You just can't have everything.” The speaker frames this as guidance for choosing priorities—decide what you truly want, focus on it, and say no to many other things—applying equally to parenting and adult choices.

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You can have anything you want. You just can't have everything. I got some great life advice from a very good friend of mine named Michael Klairn. It was years ago when he said this, and it made a lot of sense. He said he said this to his kids, and if you're a dad or you're a mom or you're a dad, you're gonna like this. And it's so true, and it's so powerful. We were talking about raising kids, and it applies to kids as well as parents. And he said to his kids, you could have anything you want in life. You just can't have everything. So decide what it is that you want, focus in and go after it. You'll have all the time you need for those things. But that means saying no to hundreds and hundreds of other things.