05/19/25
It was my 4th year at the finance company, and I had been the Treasury Supervisor for a few months.
It was 2014, and while I recently got this promotion, I felt like I was so behind in my life.
I didn’t know what was next for me.
I was stuck.
No plan.
No vision.
No clear goals.
I made friends with another supervisor, Omar, and now and then, we would talk about life outside of work.
One day…
He offered me a flash drive that had audio recordings of personal development programs.
He said he had collected these programs for years, and he thought I would get a lot out of them.
I was at a point in my life where I was open to anything, so I went home and downloaded the flash drive and saved the recordings to my phone.
The next morning, on my way to work, I started listening to the first program titled “Personal Power: A 30-Day Program” by Tony Robbins.
I listened to it at lunch.
I listened to it on my ride home.
I put my headphones on and listened to it while making dinner that night.
I listened to it on the weekend.
I finished the 30-day program in less than 15 days.
I became hooked.
Tony was showing me a completely different way to live my life.
He opened me up to a world of thinking and feeling differently, shifting perspectives, reworking beliefs, creating a vision, and taking massive action to achieve goals.
I never looked back.
I became obsessed with reading books, going to seminars, working with coaches, and bettering myself in every way possible.
It was later that year that my father passed away, which was another major life event that shifted my entire trajectory.
What inspired me to share this with you today was a conversation I had with my fiancé, Alex, who helped me to realize that if it weren’t for listening to those audio programs earlier that year, I may have processed my father’s passing completely differently.
If I still felt stuck, with little hope or ambition, my entire life may have gone in a completely different direction after my father died.
If it weren’t for Omar…
A friend who just casually offered me that flash drive…
My life could be vastly different than it is today.
So thank you, Omar.
Thank you for being the kind of friend who offered someone help when they needed it.
Thank you for providing me with the resources that ignited so much change in me.
Thank you for your generous gift that transformed my life.
I invite you to consider how you can be that friend for others.
How can you help someone else the way Omar helped me so many years ago?
You really never know how a small act of kindness or support can shift the trajectory of someone’s life.
Rooting for you,
Jay (encouraging you to ignite positive change in others)
