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Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Ryan League podcast, where we keep things short and sweet. Today I want to talk to you about something that separates people who crush it from the people who wish they would have. It's called being ready. Not thinking about getting ready, not buying a planner and pretending that's the same thing as doing the work. Although buying a planner can make you feel like you are crushing it. But now you just, you just got a planner and mean you actually did anything. I'm not talking about reorganizing your desktop. I'll be doing that all the time. Took me an hour and I'm like, oh, I crushed it today. You did nothing. That's what you did. I'm not talking about color coding your Google calendar and calling it progress. I'm talking about actually being ready when opportunity knocks or sometimes kicks the door wide open without warning. Because what I know about opportunities is sometimes they come without announcing themselves. I know a lot of people who live in the if I had fantasy land, if I had that job, oh, I'd crush it. Or if I had their position and I'd lead differently. If I had their money, I'd be generous. But here's the thing. You are not going to magically become someone else just because your circumstances change. If you're not doing it now with what you got, you probably won't do it later with more. Your habits don't level up just because your income or your title does. Your character has to be there first. If you are waiting until the opportunity shows up to get your act together. In my humble opinion, I think it's already too late. We've all heard stay ready so you don't have to get ready. Perhaps you've heard, you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your preparation. You know, the things you might see printed on a poster in a CrossFit gym next to a photo of someone flipping a tractor tire. The reality is, it's true. You do need to stay ready so you don't have to get ready. I think it's true for every room that matters. Boardrooms, green rooms, zoom rooms. I think we really do have to be so prepared that it's not, oh, I'm going to rise to the occasion. No, you are going to fall to the level of your preparation. I recently met a new speaker friend, Shantae Lowe. She is an Olympian. If you are looking for a speaker in the future, I highly recommend Shantae Lowe, world class high jumper. And we, we were doing an event with John Maxwell a couple of months ago, and she was just sharing her story and it. It just inspired me. You see, she didn't accidentally break a record one day because she had a green juice and got lucky. No, she cleared 6ft 8 and 3 quarters inches, I believe, to break the record. You can look her story up on your own. Shantelo. I don't, I don't know the exact. It was 6ft 8 something. Okay. And all I know is that the crowd went wild. And she was asked what it felt like when she broke the world record. And she said something I'll never forget. She said, well, I'd broken the record in practice a hundred times. Yeah, I have broken the record in practice a hundred times. So you see, we were just catching up in public to who she had already been a hundred times before in private. This is what it looks like when private discipline meets public opportunity. It looks like muscle memory. It looks like, of course I did this. It looks like, yeah, I've been waiting for y' all to notice her private discipline met her public opportunity. My friends, I get to speak all around the world today. It's very fun, very rewarding. Humbled to be in the position that I'm in right now. But I'll just tell you this. In college, I had a what if note. Yeah. I used to go to leadership conferences and I would write down what I would say if I ever got an opportunity to speak at that conference. And what's interesting is every now and then I look back at those notes and it. It's emotional for me because I get to be today in public what I've been practicing in private for two decades. Every note I took was a deposit in the account of future opportunity. My friend, that's not magic, that's math. If you've got an idea and an investor asked you what you're building, could you answer in 30 seconds or less without spiraling into a full on TED Talk that no one asked for? Could you share your idea with that investor? Is it clear? Is it concise? And if the answer is no, I would just encourage you. Write your pitch. Yeah, write your pitch. Practice it. Say it out loud until you're not even thinking about it anymore. A real pro tip. Record a voice memo of yourself explaining it. And if it sounds boring or confusing, it is. Fix it. Use ChatGPT to help you if there are future opportunities that you'd love to be considered for. Keep a file, digital or physical, of your ready to go stuff, your updated resume, your reel, your one sheet, your Bio, your intro, your headshot, your website link. So when someone says, can you send me your stuff? You don't have to reply with, I mean, let me get it real quick, get it back to you in a couple of days. No, you're, you're ready. You're not winging it, you're ready. If you've ever thought about doing your own podcast, stop thinking about it. Pull out your phone and open up your voice memo app and practice a five minute episode and send it to a few friends. You don't need a podcast to practice talking into a mic. Start recording, start refining, start now. By the time the opportunity hits, you don't have to be the kind of person that's scrambling to sound impressive. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're just letting them catch up to who you've already been. Look, I get is so much easier in our day and age to scroll and wish to dream big but prep small. But the people who move the needle in their life don't wait until the lights are on to get serious. They train in the dark. So if your big break showed up today, would it find you ready or regretting? Because the best version of you, well, I think they're not surprised by success. The best version of you has been practicing in private for a public opportunity. Thanks for listening to the Ryan League podcast. If today's episode gave you that good get your life together energy, I would ask that you would just share it with somebody that you think needs to hear it. If you're feeling generous, drop a review, rate it and subscribe so we can keep showing up in your feed with short and sweet nuggets of truth. I also send out an encouraging text each and every week. If you want to subscribe to that, you can text the Word podcast to the number 469-809-1201. My friend, I hope that this week you do something in your life, this that helps you practice in private for a future public opportunity. Have a phenomenal week.