The Hays Family: Get Motivated

Gen. Colin Powell

My mom, my sisters and I had the privilege to go to a "Get Motivated" seminar at the Spokane Arena. It started at 8:00 in the morning and got over at 5:00 pm. We ended up leaving a little bit early due to boredom. There were some really awesome speakers and some not so awesome speakers. General Colin Powell was there he did a good job he was very engaging and entertaining to listen to. My favorite note for him was "It doesn't matter where you started at. It only matters where you finish and how you got there". Rudolph Giuliani was there and to our surprise he was not so entertaining or engaging to watch ( he's the reason we left, sorry Rudy) we had higher expectations for him I must say. There were a variety of topics the speakers spoke about and I did end up getting so pretty decent notes. Zig Ziglar was there he has really aged and he is not all there anymore. His daughter helped him on the stage and the kind of did a question answer thing then finished up with a video. The key point that I got out of his deal was "tell the truth" he really didn't go into much. A man named Krish Dhanam spoke I have never heard of him before but he was AWESOME defiantly top two speakers of the day. I would love to hear him speak again and more in depth. One of my favorite things he said was "misery and mediocrity love company". Bob Cantell (SP) spoke and did a presentation about the stock market and "pitched" an investing class. I think Brandy and I are going to go to it this weekend so I will give you guys an update after that. He was a good speaker though. James Smith spoke on finances he was awesome to listen too! He was very funny and extremely engaging. He also "pitched" a class on finances/investing (outside of the stock market) we decided not to go to that one. Interesting fact I learned from him was that "people spend more money on soft drinks and coffee than after graduation on education". I took two pages of notes from him. We listened to Dr. Bob Hanson my favorite note from him was "If you’re going to be thinking anyway you might as well think bigger". My note from Dr. Robert Schuller "Cut impossible out of your life". Rick Belluzo former president of Microsoft he was a good speaker as well I got some really good notes from him but my favorite was "It matters how you win and how you loose". Over all the whole thing was pretty good we had great seats ( My camera sucked) especially for only $6 Brandy and Cassie made it on stage for a dance off to win a trip to Disney World..... guess they don't got the moves LOL! put your finger in the air and sing oh ee oh ee oh ooo ( a chant from a song/dance thing)