CEO and Serial Entrepreneur Chris Kay Helps Businesses Discover Their ‘Acre of Diamonds’
- jessi988
- Jan 29, 2015
- 2 min read
Chris Kay is the owner of an online marketing company, a high-fashion jeans designer and investment manager. Initiating his advice from Russell Conwell’s famous ‘Acre of Diamonds’ speech, he offers speaking engagements where he introduces his ‘acre’ and helps others discover their own.
The tale Chris Kay bases one of his lectures on describes a man who left his home and sold his land to travel the world in order to find diamonds. His desperation to find the precious stones and ultimate failure to do so drove him to his end. The story continues that after his death, the man who bought his farm discovered the very fortune its previous owner had left to pursue.
The original speech-giver, Russell Conwell and Chris Kay use this anecdote to awaken the sorely misguided advice to “go and seek your fortune.” Instead, they encourage achievement through using your existing resources and surroundings.
“The wandering dreamer has become a plague upon success,” says Kay. “If we can learn to focus on what we have and breed accomplishments from our own capabilities and assets, fortune becomes a reality instead of a distant hope.”
While the advice Conwell gives transcends time, the distractions that make following that advice difficult have changed radically. With a 21st century spin, Chris Kay hopes to help professionals, artists and “wandering dreamers” find their footing by identifying the shiny objects that are pulling them away from success.
In his Acre of Diamonds-inspired lectures, Kay identifies the biggest threats to seeing your own “acre”:
Social Media and Technology – Though there are great benefits of social media and being engaged with the online community, there is also a price to be paid. Kay outlines how to use social media and technology to benefit your “acre” and how to identify the moments when it is starting to draw you away.
Broad Education – Though the formative years leave very little room for choice in education, college and beyond are a wide-open arena. However, Kay has found that most continue to choose a broad education that pulls people away from the diamonds in their own skillset. During his lectures, Kay seeks to draw people back to the roots of their success and hone in on the education that will help them harvest those diamonds.
Misplaced Values – Like the fable suggestions, reaching for fortune can be the very thing that takes you away from it. Kay helps people pull away from fortune as a goal to help them determine deeper motivation that will ultimately get them closer to the prosperity they seek.
For more information on Chris Kay and to inquire about booking him for an Acre of Diamonds lecture at your next event, please visit http://www.chriskay.com.
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