Risk & Business Magazine Cain Insurance Fall 2015 | Page 18

One of the other learnings would be to find the best person literally in the world that has done what you want to do before or something close to it and talk to them about whether they would want to be a guide to you in doing it again or whether they would give you advice and counsel. Getting the very best people in the world together on a team to help and support you and then making sure you’re resourced properly and you’re not under-resourced to undertake a large initiative or goal. Can you explain the concept of celebrating your “death day”? All of us have a birthday. There is another day we all are going to pass during this coming year, and that is the day that you’re going to pass on. We’ve already had our birthday. The question is: what day will we pass on? a lot of planning and breaking them down. But if you set your mind to it, most things can be achieved. What are the parallels between planning and climbing mountains, and being an entrepreneur and trying to run your own business? First of all, let’s start with setting stretch goals. In business planning, people often refer to them as Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Setting an inspiring stretch objective with the buyin from your whole team together is a parallel. Setting goals like mountains that you might want to summit or large business goals you want to achieve would parallel. The second would be in preparing. You have to take a step back and understand: how can I become prepared? How can I train for it? How ca