I’d like to give you some free advice. Some of the best advice I ever got was stay close to the flame. 🔥 What I mean by that is simple. Don’t hang around the sidelines. Get right up next to the heat. The CEO, the board members, the money makers, and the real make-it-happen doers. Those are the people who actually move things forward. They’re the ones making the big calls, writing the checks, and turning ideas into results. When you stay close to them, you see how the game is really played. You hear the conversations that matter before they happen. You pick up the mindset, the shortcuts, the lessons that nobody writes in a book or teaches in a class. You get visible. 👁️ You get trusted. And when opportunities pop up, the real ones not the scraps, you’re already in the room. It’s not about kissing up or being fake. It’s about adding value, showing up, and being useful where it counts. Ask smart questions. Volunteer for the tough stuff. Deliver when nobody else will. Do that consistently and the flame starts pulling you in instead of you chasing it. Do this and you’ll win. Not overnight, but faster than most people ever will. Because success isn’t random. It’s proximity plus execution. Stay close to the flame and you’ll learn faster, grow faster, and win bigger. Simple as that.