The Ripples Of Our Actions Reach Further Than We Know

I haven’t told many people, but I had a goal for my TEDx:

I wanted it to be viewed 3M times.

Currently, it’s around 117K views — almost 3M short.

Is this a failure? Am I embarrassed to share this? To admit I’ve fallen almost 3M short?

Not at all.

I set that goal to have a target to aim for — but it was way more than that. I set that target to create the person I needed to become to hit 3M views.

Here was my process and, more importantly, why the process matters more than the outcome.

I set the target: 3M Views.

I set my why: To reach the one person who needs to hear the words in my talk.

I asked questions:

How does a TEDx get that many views?

What does the speaker do to earn the time (our most precious resource) of 3M people?

How do they show up on stage?

What’s important to them?

Do they hold back? Or do they go all in?

What does a person with 3M views do every day leading up to the talk?

How do they prepare?