 There's a concept that I love called non-zero days. The idea in a nutshell is that a zero day is any day where you allow your daily allotment of 24 hours to get away from you without doing a single thing to move your life in a constructive direction. It means that you made no plans and therefore you achieved no progress. It means you took no actions and therefore you created no results. Basically, if you have a zero day, that means you pulled a no-call, no-show on your own dreams. Now, having a zero day does not mean that you have zero potential. It just means that somehow, some way, you missed out on an opportunity to do something that could have empowered you to become a better version of yourself. Now, typically when people wake up to this fact and they start to get inspired, they start to think about ways that they can create change in their lives. They say to themselves something like this, I've spent my whole life procrastinating, sitting around, doing nothing, racking up a bunch of zero days. So I've got to make up for lost time by having a bunch of hero days. And so now you have a person who has spent their lives doing nothing and their formula for change is to do everything all at once. So instead of just giving themselves a shot at life, they literally go for the dramatic slam dunk on the first play of the game and they crash down. And they end up being more disappointed and more discouraged than they were when they just did nothing. And it's all because of one crucial mistake. The mistake of assuming in order to create change, you have to do something of cosmic proportion. That in order to turn things around, you've got to do something epic and massive. And today I want to suggest a different way of thinking about change. I want to suggest that the opposite of a zero day is not a hero day, but rather a non-zero day. A non-zero day is any day where you wake up in the morning and you say, today I choose not to start a revolution. Today I choose not to change the world. Instead, I'm going to focus on one thing that I can do to make myself better. And no matter how small that thing is, I will not despise the day of small beginnings, but I will commit to getting it done before the clock runs out and the day is over. That's what I want to challenge you to do. I challenge you to a non-zero day. I challenge you to focus on the small changes you can make. I challenge you to focus on the things within your individual grasp. I challenge you to focus on the things that don't require a committee's approval or a politician's decree. I challenge you to focus on the things that don't require you to wait for the next election day just so you can have a vote in order to feel like you've got to say in what goes on in the world. I challenge you to focus on the things that you can alter simply by stepping out and showing up and doing something small and specific. Because this is the open secret that people who get things done know. The open secret is that if you want to make big differences, it doesn't happen by aiming for the biggest goal that you can think of and trying to achieve it overnight. It happens by identifying one small feasible thing and doing it with all of your might. So my challenge to you is I want you to take all of those visionary, creative, big picture ideas and boil them down into something so concrete, so well-defined, so actionable that it becomes ridiculously easy to get started right here and right now. I know that you have dreams. I know that you've got big goals. But here's the problem. Every other motivational speech, every other TED Talk, every other commencement address is telling you to dream big, to go big and go home, to think big, that you can be the one to start a revolution, you can be the one to make a difference. And the point that I want to get through to you is that none of that talk means anything. If you can't figure out a way to translate that inspirational content into behavioral changes that show up within the context of everyday ordinary life, because this is the realm where change happens, the realm of everyday ordinary life. I want you to meet me right here at ground non-zero, the realm where change happens. And when you get here, I want you to be prepared for the following question. What's one thing you can do? Not the president, not the senator, not the mayor, not your parents, not your children, not your spouse, not your employer, not your employees, not your coworkers, not your colleagues. This is your time. What's one thing you can do to begin embodying the freedom that you say you believe in?