Going Back In Time, What Jonathan Reckford, Brent Atkins, and Monty Hamilton Would Say To Their Younger Self

<p>Mo asks Jonathan Reckford: You get to magically record a video and send it back to your younger self with some advice. What do you say?</p> <ul> <li>Jonathan spent most of his youth thinking about what he wanted to do instead of who he wanted to be. He would tell his younger self to focus on the ‘who’ before the ‘what’ first.</li> <li>If you never fail, it's likely you're not going big enough.</li> <li>Hope is built in the community. Volunteering gives you a sense of the community and how you can bring the virtues of kindness and love into the world.</li> <li>Following your passion is incomplete. You need to search for the intersection between what you’re passionate about and where your skills, ability, and talent lie.</li> <li>Jonathan tells the story of Doris, and how he grew up in a poor neighborhood in North Carolina and how his life completely changed after his mom qualified to buy a Habitat house in Optimist Park. Doris is the first person to grow up in a Habitat for Humanity house and to serve on the board as well.</li> <li>The story perfectly encapsulates the mission and purpose of Habitat for Humanity and how giving people a platform and foundation for a stable, healthy life can impact their community and society as a whole.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Mo asks Brent Atkins: If you could record a video on business development and send it to your younger self, what would you say?</p> <ul> <li>In the early days of Brent’s business development career, he did things very differently. The first thing he would say is to listen. Brent hears more things now during the course of a conversation with active listening, which is the opposite from how his younger self operated.</li> <li>There is an impulse when you’re young and fresh to tell everyone what you know, but listening and asking questions are how you really learn how to sell.</li> <li>Every product or service has multiple ways you can position it to win. If you listen, you can be much more effective in that effort.</li> <li>Brent is a student of business devel