One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.
I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.