AeriesCon Fall 2021 Live Keynote and BIG Announcement

in the fourth grade he essentially stopped going to school and officially opted for his ged at 17 years old few would have thought he would ever earn a doctorate join the fbi become a green beret or become a successful entrepreneur apollo continuously took unconventional and sometimes sometimes counterintuitive steps to achieve his success he extracted what he has learned as he reached milestone after milestone and distilled it into a system that helps others achieve seemingly impossible personal and professional feats apollo is the ultimate coach consultant and accountability partner to help high performers stay focused on the strategies and actions that they commit to today apollo will challenge each one of us to reach for greater personal and professional achievements in the service of the students parents staff and faculty we all support please join me in welcoming both brent and apollo this morning [Applause] [Music] all right thank you laura good morning everyone welcome really excited to see so many faces here back in person and that kind of goes into our theme our back to the future theme which you'll hear a little bit throughout this presentation as how that can tie in with this great event seeing so many beautiful faces out here with masks on but i can see your eyes and you can get a lot out of people's eyes so laura already introduced us i'm really excited to to kick us off my kind of big announcement will be a little bit short and then the rest of the morning will be dedicated to dr amica here and i want to say i kind of had a speech prepared a week ago that i was practicing for i was ready for and that speech that presentation has been thrown out we got something brand new for you and i want to show you why this was me practicing last night my hotel room getting ready for today's presentation all right brent all right so you know tomorrow morning uh laura's gonna do your bio uh she'll do apollo's bio yada yada yada all right so hit it all right great all right good morning valued aries customers okay great scott friend lloyd i found you you don't understand brent you've got to build the area of the future automation climate change artificial intelligence everything is different brent floyd it requires a different type of student information system i've loaded everything you need to know onto these zip disks uh zip disks yeah we haven't had anything that can read these for like 20 years man i'm gonna need something else like uh like uh i seem to have miscalculated uh the timeline of course how how silly of me here go ahead check in brandon where's your port uh we don't have those either do you have like a thumb drive or something oh of course here no no i mean like you know like a flash drive like this you know you know little small flash drive [Music] here why didn't you say so before there you go perfect here are the requirements for the sis that will change the world brent lloyd you have to do it for california for texas for the entire country for the world for the martian colonies i said too much i must go wait wait is this the year that the raiders won the super bowl is this the year that they started 3-0 yeah i've said too much build it brent lloyd build it for the future okay this is a flashlight guess we'll figure it out ourselves so there you have it thank you [Applause] that was uh and directed and largely acted by dr apollo amica you'll see him a little bit later but this presentation this morning we'll be talking about the future of ares i'll be talking about a really big announcement thinking about the future of aries but as i mentioned he handed me a flashlight on a flash drive so we had to build it ourselves we had to figure it out ourselves and the signs are there if you look at gartner's report produced two years ago it talked about everyone needs to prepare for the eventuality where student information systems will be delivered in the cloud now we've had a cloud offering for years over a decade we have a good amount we'll talk about the numbers in a minute but when you think about all the services all the solutions all the software that you deal with these days most of it is browser-based you're working through a browser just like aries these days we don't have the client version anymore working through the browser and most of it's delivered behind the scenes through the cloud even in edtech you talk about your learning management system you're probably using that through a cloud-based version that you don't have access to or control to the direct management of but it's all running running smoothly it's going great but student information systems having been around for a long time now 40 50 years now it's kind of a remnant of seeing people still have that installed on their servers something that you have to keep updated buy new hardware keep up with i talked about where we're going and the future of aries is in the cloud now what does that mean compared to where we are today right now about 62 percent of all aries customers are already hosted by air software we manage all of your updates a lot of your third-party connections and integrations all that fun stuff that you can now rededicate back towards your time at your districts to focus on other important tasks rededicating time back to your students so we already have a lot of people in the cloud but where's where are we going what is the difference between where we are today with our cloud offering and where we want to be the aries of today is cloud adapted we have a solution that works great uh we've we've shifted into the amazon web services environment aws no longer on our co-located environment but we're shifting moving people over into aws to take advantage of all the great features available in aws but again it is a cloud adapted solution and so where we are going is towards a cloud native solution now on top of that we could have just committed to going cloud native and what that means is that we are able to fully take advantage of the power of the cloud we can maximize our security which is supremely important important with student data management but we also can maximize our performance and scalability automatically where we are having our system adapt to the amount of users on the amount of disk space the amount of the speed of the program itself and actually automatically scale to give you a great experience no matter how many users are using the software and that sort of flexibility is really important to have everyone have a great experience with their student data but it's also about performance it's about cost effectiveness maintain maintainability it's taking advantage of the innovation of the cloud things like machine learning and artificial intelligence that amazon web services already has many access to within their system and the ease of use for both the end user yourselves and for our dbas that are working on and maintaining your system on the back end and it is also about achieving a high high as much as possible availability uh uptime of the software itself with amazon web services they have their high availability availability offerings that allow you to automatically hot fail over from one region to the next without anybody even losing access to their software including during software updates so your updates will be seamless you will be able to continue to use aries without any sort of downtime as we go through that again we could have committed to all this without the second part of this but the second part is really important too our code restructure we're not only restructuring our code and converting it over to work in a cloud native environment but we're tackling a lot of the things that might hold us back as we want to do things into the future so that's like creating a longitudinal database having 100 api coverage implementing full testing automation optimizing our code to capitalize on cloud native and more so with that we plan to become the most widely used student information system to be designed and built from the ground up using cloud native technologies and getting into some of those thank you getting into those some of those things i mentioned the 100 api coverage so that means every data point within the system will be covered through the api and that means that you'll have 100 percent control and access to all of your data even as it's managed within the cloud and that helps with maximizing our interoperability your work with third party and integrations making sure that you our vendors are able to access any data that they need access to that they can get to and you can help give them access to through this new system again i mentioned 99.9 uptime that's that multi-zone hot failover that i mentioned through aws through a serverless design for high scalability and with those seamless updates that i mentioned enhanced security i talked about how important security is in our field so this will allow us to be compliant with all sorts of security standards like nist industry leading platform and software security throughout the entire software suite we will be able to achieve a new level of security through the cloud native that we wouldn't before uh and i wanted to address a common kind of concern that people have with the cloud and talk about what i what i mentioned earlier the difference between a cloud adapted in a cloud-native environment when you hear about the sorts of data breaches or downtime or data leaks those typically almost exclusively are with cloud adaptive solutions because they are not optimized to a cloud environment to maximize security and so that's the big difference here is we will be able to take advantage of the full availability of a cloud native solution with security the full testing automation is really important so as we control your updates those are able to go through a more traditional continuous integration and deployment process without you even having to know about it but of course we're going to keep you informed we're going to give you all the information as aries is being updated in the product itself in our blogs in a lot of places an important part is preventing bugs nobody wants to update if you're going to deal with with bugs with things that are going to lose functionality that's going to lead to headaches for your users and so full testing automation is one of the things that's really important about our code restructure and the way that we're breaking down our data to allow for testing automation multiple levels of testing automation from the unit testing to our ui testing to api testing all sorts of testing automation that will allow us to eliminate the majority of the bugs that you might experience today so that is a really important part one of the my favorite undertakings of this whole initiative is to prevent bugs from ever seeing the day of light for end users the longitudinal database right now you have a school year by school year based database in aries this will allow us to have a longitudinal database that will allow you to access and analyze data across multiple years without having to change years being able to see trends from year to year which is really important as you're analyzing what's going on in your school district and also as you're going through your state main mandated and federal mandated uh data analysis and going through creating your lcap reports creating all of your different sorts of reports that you need to see on a year to year basis what are we improving on what can we continue to improve on and where do we need to make significant efforts from one ear to the next and this will also include refactored data models for better normalization so being able to attack some of the things within our database now that we feel are holding us back and not allowing us to push into the future as we want to and this last one is is about extensibility so that's both expanded within the product itself with your ability to customize data and reports your queries taking that to a whole new level integrating artificial intelligence and and machine learning into queries and your data transformation tools we're really taking that to the next level that's our plans to move this forward we're also introducing an online extensions marketplace of sorts things that you might see in a sales force or in a variety of solutions these days where we will be releasing an sdk for people to be able to work with the api and create your own custom solutions and put those online available for all of our aries users to share and create things that we alone can't do alone and so being able to expand and call upon the entire aries network with over with close to half of all airy schools using or all california schools using aries we'll be able to share all of your custom solutions data validations all sorts of great tools that will crowdsource together and so from here what what we want to see from you is is we want to hear from you we want to hear from you on our open forum today and tomorrow we want to hear from you through email and aries ideas and we want to hear from you if you are interested in applying for advisory committees we'll be meeting every one to two weeks for about one to two hours you can apply here at aries dot link slash adv dash apply but more of this is available in cam's session our vp of product cam islif will be presenting at our vision for the future class and he'll go more much more in depth than i'm going on any of these things and so that will be your best opportunity to learn more about what the future of aries is going to be where we're going with our cloud native code restructure and more so that is on-site today and virtually thursday the replay session will be available online for the thursday virtual uh session and that's available for everyone that's attending ariescon virtually or on site as are all of our replays through the end of this calendar year so if you're not able to attend if you already have a packed schedule this week you can always catch the replay later throughout the end of this calendar year and so the time is now we're really looking forward to the future we've got a quite a bit of work ahead of us in the months ahead we're excited to hear from you to have you participate and help us kind of consider every uh data area within area aries with every process within aries as we look to build it again and do it even better this time so thank you very much the future of aries is in the cloud you can play a part in helping us build the best aries can be and that will start with the conversations and your participation participation starting today and so with that i will be passing it over to someone else talking about the sorts of decisions you can make today that will have a huge impact on your future and that is dr apollo amica our high performance leadership coach hey good morning good morning am i on here can you hear me can you hear me should i talk like this the whole time good morning everybody that's me this is me and doc brown was also me so i'm going to talk about forgetting the most important days of your life today and the secret of time travel so we're going to talk about the secret of time travel people i'm about to break it down for you you're welcome okay but before you can get introduced to these high level concepts right if i just dump the secrets of time travel on you right now your heads would explode okay so what we have to do is we have to do something that's even crazier than learning about the secrets of time travel before we do it so that way when we get to the time travel stuff oh you're like man i did something way crazier than this at the beginning of the presentation okay so you know uh like they mentioned my background is in uh army special forces and a lot of the ways that we train are you over train you over prepare for reality so if i know i'm going to have to carry a 60 pound pack i'm going to train with a hundred pounds so that way when i get to the 60 it feels lightweight so again this is kind of in that theme okay we're gonna we're gonna learn some heavy stuff about time travel but first we have to over prepare for that time travel so that it doesn't seem weird compared to what we're about to do so what we're about to do is on this fine monday morning we're going to do a little bit of karaoke okay so i'm going to start singing a song and then i want you all to sing the next line i wrote a couple of songs down here just because i i wasn't sure you know what kind of musical tastes we have in here and just i just want you to know before you all started judging me okay nowhere in that bio anywhere did it say i was a singer okay so don't be nice to me okay don't judge me when you see me walking in the hallway all right i'm this is it takes a lot for me to do this okay all right so are you all ready for the karaoke are y'all ready for karaoke there we go there we go i know i saw people at the bar last night with more excitement than they got right now so i know you can get there okay all right so it's just gonna be a quick one line and then i want you to say the next line okay i wanna rock and roll oh all right give yourselves a round of applause okay you're still warming up you're still warming up you're still warming up okay here we go we got i think these are kind of in chronological order okay so we'll see maybe some people will start falling off maybe some people will start picking it up no judgment no judgment you're not judging me i'm not judging you okay they say two thousand zero zero oh my goodness prince is rolling over in his grave right now i'm sorry prince whoo okay all right here we go all right oh wait you know what this one i i should have put this one at the beginning this one is definitely definitely the first one okay the hooves are alive hey there we go okay okay so that was the oldest one that that one might have got the most people we're only going going forward from here so it might just be me and i don't know sonia or something singing here in just a second oh here we go in west philadelphia look at some i know somebody in here knows the whole thing oh this right here i no joke i did not have my first drink of alcohol until i was 31 but this was a song that just made me feel like a happy drunk from the time that i was like 17 years old it goes like this i don't ever wanna feel i take me to the place i love [Music] hey that's what i'm talking about all right let's see here i think we got uh oh we got two more we got two more are you all ready you feeling a little bit looser than when we started feeling a little bit because yeah i mean just during the cloud stuff you're like what's the cloud the head is in the clouds where am i what is this what's happening okay nobody is is there anybody in here from texas yeah we got one person one person go ahead stand up give her a round of applause coming all the way from texas she's the only one who's allowed to be jet lagged none of you else have an excuse nobody else okay all right all right give her a round of applause too [Applause] i love it okay we got two more we got two more okay i think you're almost ready for the heavy for the heaviness for the time travel okay i'm like a bird oh poor nelly furtado yo who there it is okay listen i know you all have like a casino night and some special stuff going up raise your hand right here she's been singing every song she's gonna be the party okay follow her follow her all right last one i'm sorry miss jackson look it up [Laughter] all right okay all right thank you everybody give yourselves a round of applause [Applause] telling you if you all are still in this room the rest of the part is going to be easy okay all this is going to make so much more sense now you know like they said i'm i i i didn't do a lot of school growing up and so i'm really nervous to present in front of a bunch of educators because here's what you're gonna find is a bunch of typos in my stuff but remember this is a no judgment zone okay i'm not judging you you're not judging me right there we go okay all right so here we go so for getting the most important days of your life when brent came to me and said hey uh what do you think about presenting at our conference i was like yeah yeah that'd be awesome let's do it um i have this karaoke idea and he said don't do that and look at me now so i started thinking about it and i was like man what am i going to talk about they've got this huge massive undertaking that is going on we've got uh uh an an industry a sector that has just been completely rocked and devastated by this pandemic what are we gonna talk about and i started thinking about you know what what is important to us what might be important to you all and i started asking people this question of uh what have been the most important days of your life what have been the most important days of your life and i started kind of casually having this conversation and then i took to social media did a little social media story to ask folks what's the most important day of your life and this is some of the things that folks said i don't know if you can see it but i'll give you a second just to kind of just kind of take it in so if you notice these answers these responses have kind of two common themes they are either things that you have almost no control over or there were things that were largely ceremonial right like life death graduation starting a job these things that we can remember and my wife was gave me one of the my favorite responses when i asked her what have been the most important days of your life she said most important or most memorable and i was like oh yeah okay i think you're on to something because the funny thing about that first day of at the new job that graduation right the things that we can remember are often just ceremonies uh that are the result of decisions that we made way before that ceremony right if you don't attend graduation are you still did you still get your degree yeah right like the graduation is the ceremony the marriage is the result not of unless you're on 90 day fiance or married at first sight or something like that right is the result of multiple decisions that you made sometime before that ceremony but these are the things that the human brain is tricky in that we have to have these kind of anchors in order for us to remember things right we remember graduations we remember weddings but like where was anybody on september 7 2018 right like it's hard to remember unless there was something attached to that date back to the future was all about really two things right it was about marty making sure that he still existed and it wasn't he didn't go back to try to make sure that like their wedding went perfectly right it was this decision that he was trying to influence he was trying to influence this decision and this what seemingly chance encounter but his mom and dad had to decide to go to the dance he had to decide to stand up to biff these things these things are the things that led to marty's existence right is the small decisions that we often forget about we think the marriage is the most important day of our lives when really for marty this moment was the moment that led to him not fading away in that picture so here it is here's how time travel works this is a super scientific explanation from a real doctor of policy all right so it goes something like this time travel is the power of hindsight plus the power of decision that's it right they always say hindsight is 20 20. looking back your vision is always 20 20. you can always recognize should have done it differently could have done it this way or that way right so it's hindsight but plus decision right so marty's going back in time he's influencing these decision points he's creating decision points so that is the secret to time travel you say okay well that's all well and good but hindsight means that you have to be looking back so if you don't have the delorean then how do you go back and influence those decision points right so again it's looking at the end result figuring out the stuff that led to it influencing that stuff that's time travel that's time travel okay so how do you make this practical it's all about knowing the future event it's all about knowing the future event and one of the ways that you can know the future event is if you literally just decide what it's going to look like you literally just decide what it's going to look like that's it so rather than being in the future looking at a past event and all the things that look that led up to it you can just have a crystal clear picture in your head of what this future event is going to look like and then you just run through the process okay if i'm sitting in this future event and by x date we have a cloud native aries that is just completely mind-boggling in terms of its ease of use and capabilities right we're sitting on that day when we have delivered that the future of aries to all of its users this is the type of experience that they're having and this is the type of impact that it's making on students performance on social equity right deciding right now gives you the ability to use hindsight on it it gives you the ability to monday morning quarterback and say okay well if we delivered this mind-blowing product on this date what happened just before that what was the precondition just before that that was necessary to result in that product and then oh let's just keep going back what was the precondition that was necessary to meet that precondition and what was the precondition that was necessary to meet that one so if you can see here the key is notice how the numbers go this way right the key is to look backwards from the future that you have decided so if the key to time travel is looking backwards from an event then what is really important is that you have clarity around that event in your brain and what that means is if all these other things that most people can name when they think of the most important day of their life are just ceremonies they're just results of decisions and what that means is that today can be the most important day of your life because you can simply decide what the future is going to look like and you can work backwards from there so uh so we'll take another back to the future example here right doc gets shot and i remember watching this scene when i was a kid and thinking i shouldn't be watching this but and being like oh my gosh what's going to happen what's going to happen right but so ok let's take that event doc gets shot we know what ended up happening is this precondition of him putting on the bulletproof vest precondition of him opening the letter precondition of marty writing this letter right these are all decisions that marty and doc made that influenced a future outcome right so doc getting shot was the memorable memorable event but him getting shot was the result of a bunch of decisions that were made up to that point so again you influence those decisions you influence the outcome so i went ahead and i plotted some of my major life events according to the responses that i got from my friends and family on social media and when i plotted those things it's so interesting i've i haven't really done this with my life put my life on on a timeline but here i was i was i was born fourth grade came home from school i was like man i hate school my mom was reading i don't know the poison wood bible or some big thick book and she said uh she didn't even look up she said oh you know we're thinking about homeschooling you i said wow you mean in fifth grade i could just not go to school she was like you don't have to go back tomorrow so that was the habit that i built was just quitting and failing like everything that i did uh and when i was 17 my mom passed away again events that you have no control over right like these are the things that we think of when we think of the most important days of our life got my ged graduated the first thing i ever graduated from was army basic and military intelligence school it was the first thing i ever graduated from went to iraq uh came back graduated college joined the fbi graduated special forces training uh married my wonderful wife sold my first business earned a doctorate my son was born my daughter was born my daughter anybody watch uh what is it mayor of east town hilarious probably shouldn't be advertising that right here just kidding don't watch it um but uh yeah so my daughter was born and uh and that's these are kind of some of the major events of my of my life and when i look at it i can see how how misleading this timeline is okay and i'll talk to you about why that is right here so this college graduation when i thought about going to school i was starting from like less than less than zero right i had not the skills the academic skills i was not a confident uh reader or writer um so i knew that my path if i was going to go to if i was gonna go to the school that i wanted to go to that i couldn't just you know toss my application in there like everybody else and just be competitive right i had been to by this point i had probably been to five different community colleges and and just done what i had known to do which was quit or or fail um so i wanted to go to a prestigious university and i was just thinking how am i going to do this right but i think being at this kind of deficit helped me because i knew i couldn't take a conventional route so then i had to reverse engineer okay how am i gonna get in there how am i gonna how am i gonna justify getting into a prestigious university when my resume my academic resume doesn't look like everybody else's and i and i straight up lack the skills necessary to be a decent student so how do you overcome that this is how this is how and this is not a march madness tournament this right here is how i think about organizing my life when i want something this is how i try to help the organizations and the people that i work with think about organizing their time resources energy mindset is around collapsing everything that you do to get to a predetermined outcome so this is just like the timeline that we were looking at before right but that outcome you start with the outcome and then you jump back and you say okay well what happened just before that outcome how do i get there right and it's all about a narrowing of options a narrowing of paths to get to that specific outcome this is the exact opposite of the way that most people think i bet big i encourage those that i work with to bet big you only need one path or one door to be successful that's it you only need one but we stress so often keeping our options open i'm gonna drive the the folks who are remote uh crazy here just a second because i'm gonna skip forward a couple of slides but this is how most people approach things most people start where they are and they say oh hey where can i go from here and then they go take a step and they're like oh now i'm over here where can i go from here let me take another step and what happens when you do that is you're actually creating more options as you go along which kind of disperses the impact that you can have okay i told you this was heavy i think that the karaoke helped a little bit imagine where you'd be if we hadn't done the karaoke first okay this is some theoretical stuff i'm a real doctor of policy so what you want to do is you want to not start from where you are and just think what's the next thing that i can do because that could have you out in whatever 16 different places right and where this really matters is if you are in charge of anyone or anything if you're in charge of any one or anything and you're thinking this way what will happen is if you're a manager then you might end up at the top of the bracket up here and you know everyone on your team kind of comes out somewhere else right and so if you're not aligned all the way through and you're not collapsing your options as you get closer to the outcome that you're trying to generate then then it's gonna be a mess okay so i'm gonna go back real quick yeah that's that's how time travel does not work all right so looking at this we've got just like on that timeline again these preconditions can't get too close to that mike we've got these preconditions that we've got to meet looking backwards and if you're on a team it's really important to paint the picture of like hey here's where we are going here's how we're going to stay on the same page so i want to take a look uh at a couple of examples any x-files fans in here yeah okay a handful a handful this is my over here this is you all oh man that's the party the party section over here so the uh x-files was my show okay when i was not going to school when i was growing up i was i was watching tv i was raised by the tv and y'all not even good tv okay i'm talking like you know four channels uh uh like you know watching a little house in the prairie in the middle of the day uh waiting for oprah to come on with my mom i'm talking i'm talking that kind of tv but one of the shows that i loved was the x-files and i just decided when i was 13 that i was either going to be on saturday night live or i was going to be in the fbi i just decided i decided so if we go back to that that timeline of me joining the fbi post failing everything right we would have to draw a line back to me being 13 and just like yeah i'ma find those aliens i'ma find those aliens it goes back to that so the most important day was probably an episode of x-files that i can't even remember that is what planted the seed that was when i made the decision i am going into the fbi and then i did a whole bunch of stuff that would not get you into the fbi right but i made it because i determined okay if i was going to get into the fbi what would i have been doing just before that that's where the military came in and i said okay well if i was gonna be in the military and i was gonna use that to get in the fbi what would i be doing oh intelligence cool you get a top secret clearance you know all these pre-conde so i was figuring out what those preconditions were and it didn't matter that i had done 80 or 90 percent of the things wrong because i did that 10 right i met the preconditions and once you meet the preconditions of of the the future that you've decided then it just comes to you it just comes to you marrying anissa i met my wife two weeks before i graduated from college and and shipped off to the fbi basically and uh i was i was at an event for black and latino students who were admitted to usc so every year the black and latino students that are admitted to usc those who identify as black or latino uh get an invite to come check out usc and so i volunteered to help at this event and the host for the event had bailed and i was like hey i'm not shy so i can host this thing and i was up on the stage and i saw this beautiful woman walking uh up to the event and i was like oh man gonna talk to her and so i went and i talked to her and then uh man two and a half years later we were married right so the the most important day of my life wasn't the marriage it was it wasn't the wedding it was that i the choices that i made led me to this event that aligned with my values that aligned with my wife's values that put us in the same place at the same time so that we could then have that ceremonial thing years later right so what about aries what about aries so if aries is going to be the google of sis it's just going to be that thing that just works and it works flawlessly it delights all of its users it promotes learning and equity among students what are the preconditions that have to be met in order to deliver such a system well if you're the google of sis you've got mind-blowing product and support right you've got a next-level team you think about the googles the facebooks the apples people are clawing to get into these organizations they're just bursting at the seams with talent and i've seen the same potential at aries but you've got a you've got a next level team and a precondition of having a next level team is having an amazing culture so when i started working with aries like lara mentioned over two years ago that was one of the the ten year visions that they set is to be the google of sis to be among the the renowned technology companies to be in the same conversation and so now here we are two years later on this stage announcing the preconditions that we're in the process of satisfying in order to get here could have just as easily been announcing something else or nothing at all but this company decided what the future is going to look like reverse engineered it to determine what needs to happen in order to get there now we're just walking the path we're just walking the path and asking you all to walk the path with us help us make sure that we're meeting these preconditions so that way we can hit this goal for the benefit of the users in the martian colonies so what about you then what about you some of the things that prevent effective time travel is just being on autopilot following the status quo if you follow the status quo then you have a very predictable future right you're going to get whatever you've been getting you're going to get whatever you have been getting this pandemic caused a lot of us to shook a lot of things up caused us to completely re-evaluate our lives how do we want to interact with our families with our friends how do we want to interact with our co-workers what do we want for our own children what do we want for the students that we're serving for everybody that in education that is just completely tapped out what do we want so that's a good thing that it has caused us to reevaluate because now we're doing things differently we're going to get different results but you've got to be intentional about it you've got to decide what the future is going to be and then you've got to reverse engineering right so sticking to the status quo will kill your time traveling abilities so i want you to think about what is it that you can do differently the other thing that will kill your time traveling abilities is lack of decision lack of decision will kill your time traveling abilities it all hinges on deciding what the future is going to look like and right now sitting in this crowd we've all got a bunch of open loops of things that we're just in an indecision about am i going to get a new job am i going to get married am i going to get a divorce am i going to start working out am i going to go to karaoke tonight we've got i know i know i know what section's going to karaoke tonight but we've got all of these open loops that are just decisions and we're just waiting for the universe to come down and hand us an answer or we're waiting for one of these events in our timeline to just happen to us that will kill your ability to time travel it will kill your ability to time travel being an indecision so status quo and indecision are the enemies of effective time travel so i want everybody right now think about these open loops these these these areas of indecisiveness in your life in your personal life your your professional life think about these areas where you are in indecision think about the places where you have gotten just plain lazy with your thinking and you're just in the river letting the current push you wherever you want wherever it wants what could you do today what could you decide today that would make this the most important day of your life so i want everybody in the last 60 seconds here to think about what is that what is that just make one decision right now as an exercise in your brain about a future that you want to see for yourself or for your team or for your students or for your your staff what is that thing pick a point in the future pick pick a year decide right now decide right now what that future is going to look like and then time travel it you know what i want to do in the last couple of seconds what i'd like everybody to do is pull their phones out so if you could i want you to just snap a selfie with as much of the crowd in it as you possibly can because when this pops up a year from now on your phone right and reminds you of a memory i want you to remember that oh that was the day that i decided okay so we're all going to take a selfie now all right everybody thank you all so much you're amazing decide today decide go see cam's presentation on the future of aries you

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Published: Mon Oct 04 2021