Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

I had a different article scheduled to go out this week but sometimes a seemingly unrelated series of events line up to show you something you wouldn’t have otherwise seen.  Something important.  Something worth sharing.

Knowing he had only months to live, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university on the 18th September 2007 before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” he talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

And I’d like to share it with you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo (over 7.7 million views so far)

Next week I will send you the article originally scheduled for today.  It is a summary of the guest lecture (“Steps to Online Success”) that wotif.com’s founder, Graeme Wood, recently delivered to my E-Commerce class at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).