Ryan Leak

I don't think it's fake it till you make it.

I think it's believe it before everyone else does.

You see, I think that the power of a personal vision is wildly underestimated.

One of the biggest things that I actually see holding people back from reaching their potential is a quiet habit that we have normalized.

And it's the habit of waiting.

It's waiting for permission.

It's waiting for agreement.

It's waiting for applause before we take that next step.

We're waiting for somebody else to see something in us that perhaps we could be seeing all along.

My friend, if you wait for everyone else in your life to see what you see, you are going to be waiting a very, very long time.

Because vision rarely makes sense to people who are comfortable with the present.

I remember speaking at a conference.

I don't know what it had to be.

10 years ago, and there were over 20 speakers at this conference.

And at the end, I was hanging out with the host of the event, and they had just gotten some of their data back from their survey from the app or whatnot.

And he said, hey, Ryan, I want to let you know good news.

You were actually voted the number one speaker at the event.

I'm absolutely humbled by that.

I thought, man, that's incredibly kind.

And it was what it was, but