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The Best Graduation Speech EVER!!!
Monday, June 28th, 2010
So I pulled some strings… Tapped into my network… Hollered at some of my people and was able to get in touch with 4 historically significant people to give some graduation advice. Watch the video to see what I mean.
Ok ok ok, so maybe I played all of the parts in the video. I know right? I am a master of disguises. And accents.
Anyway…
You’re graduating. Congratulations! Do realize what that means? It means from here, right now, you must decide. Nobody else can do it for you. What will you have? Where will you go? What will you do? Who will you be?
I have seen it happen too many times. Students who are getting ready to graduate. They have all of these amazing ideas about what they will do, how they will conquer the world and do something that has never been done before but then something happens. They spend their first summer doing the same things they’ve done every summer before that. That slowly becomes the fall, where they do the same ting they’ve done every other fall. Eventually, they forget about the things they used to want to have and the places they used to want to go.
You are standing at the beginning of an incredible adventure where you get decide every part. Are you going to stand around and do the same things you’ve always done? or are you going to carve your own path? Find your own way? and Make Your Own Lunch?
Nobody else can decide this for you.
I hope that you take some time and plan what your future will look like. Decide that it’s realistic for you to have and then decide to get it, no exceptions.
You have spent the past few years to make it here, for this moment where you get to decide, for yourself, what you will do with your life.
Decide. Decide to Make Your Own Lunch.
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MYOL TV Episode 009 – How to get what you want
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
People are lazy. Really.
What I mean is, people are always trying to find easy ways to do stuff. They buy a bunch of products from infomercials to make their lives easier, use the contraption one time and then put it in the closet with their Snuggie, Magic Bullet and Slap-Chop.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying these inventions aren’t great. I personally own a Magic Bullet and use it every single morning. And let me tell you, it is indeed magical.
BUT are you one of those people? One of those people who sit around dreaming of stuff you want to do, places you want to go, things you want to have or the person you want to become and never get off the sofa to get those things?
It’s super important to dream. To see the things you want to have but it’s almost even more important to take action. To start taking the steps towards those things. If not, you will join the masses of miserable people who eventually stop dreaming because “none of their dreams come true”.
Living the life that you want to live isn’t luck. It’s a decision. It’s the decision to have those things, it’s deciding that it’s realistic, it’s deciding to cut off every other option until you have it and it’s the decision to take action… To take action now.
What are you waiting for??
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MYOL TV Episode: 007 – Your Dream Team
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Nobody can do it alone.
The quickest way to get the things you want, to go the places you dream of, do the stuff you want and be the person you want to be, is to team up with people who can help. People who you can trust to push you and keep you focused. People who understand what you want to do and who support your vision.
Anybody in history who had accomplished something you look at and say, “wow look at what they did”. Those people, didn’t do it alone.
Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen, Batman had Robin, Ernie had Bert, Rocky had Adrian and Chuck Norris had a roundhouse kick.
The point is, to get where you want to go and to get there a lot quicker, start surrounding yourself with the people who can help. It doesn’t have to include Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, Joe Jonas or even Ozzy Osbourne.
You want to Make Your Own Lunch? Build your dream team.
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Make Your Own Lunch TV: Episode 005
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Make Your Own Lunch TV: Episode 005 from Ryan Porter on Vimeo.
Destiny. Do you believe in it?
There are too many people who leave their lives up to destiny. They say things like, “it will happened if it’s destined to be.” or when they don’t get something they wanted they make themselves feel better by saying “I guess it wasn’t my destiny.”
The people who have what they want have it because they decided to. The people who live the lives they dream about are living that way because they took action. They didn’t wait for destiny to give them what they wanted.
Make Your Own Lunch is all about carving your own path, living life on your terms and creating your own destiny.
In this week’s episode, I sat down with Kestin Cornwall, Owner and Founder of eLLIPTIC Clothing and we talked about creating your own destiny.
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Make Your Own Lunch TV: Episode 004
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Make Your Own Lunch TV: Episode 004 from Ryan Porter on Vimeo.
There are a ton of people out there who completely live for the weekend. They spend the first half of their week talking about last weekend and the rest of the week talking about next weekend… and that’s because most people don’t love what they’re doing.
They are working in jobs that they aren’t passionate about or are studying programs at school that they have no interest in whatsoever.
One of the things that every person I have interviewed has in common is that they all love what they do. It’s hard work, a lot of hard work but they don’t mind working their butts off because it’s doing stuff that they love.
Find what you love and then find a way to do THAT.
I am not trying to make it sound easy. It’s not. It takes hard work, heart break, setbacks, failure and more hard work but the payoff is better than you can imagine.
This week I hung out with one of Canada’s fastest rising photographers Jaime Hogge. He is completely passionate about his work and shared some insight into how he became a photographer and what he thinks about doing something you love.
“That’s how you know when you are really doing something you should be doing… when you want to do it all of the time.” – Jaime Hogge
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Make Your Own Lunch™ – The Second Helping
Friday, November 27th, 2009
So you’ve seen the presentation. You’ve heard the stories. You’ve laughed at my travels and mishaps. It’s now time for you to Make Your Own Lunch!
“But Ryan, I don’t know where to start!”
or
“But Ryan, I could hardly understand you with that strange Canadian accent.”
Well looky here, I just might have some help!
GET HUNGRY
The hungrier you are, the more likely it is that you will want to eat. The more you see what you want to have, what you want to do, where you want to go, and the person you want to become, the more your mouth starts to water.
Look at the menu! Start exploring the possibilities for you and your future. Anything goes! Remember you decide what’s realistic for you. Is it travelling? Is it going to school? Is it volunteering near your hometown or another country?
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Aisle #7: How to Find Your Passion
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Find your passion and you’ll be just fine.
Are you serious Yoda? This morning I couldn’t find my left sock or my right pant leg.
Ok, some people know what their passion is, others, have no idea. Some have found it and some never will. You are one of those people who have found it or who will find it. Trust me.
Here’s a shocker, it’s possible to have more than one passion.
Here’s the advice, don’t try to shove it all in one box or choose just one.
People feel the need to either; package all of their passions together or choose between them. “I like working with people BUT I also really like bottle-feeding Sea Elephants so I don’t know what to do.” (more…)
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