Jan 23, 2020
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PaulCasey:Thanks for joining me for today's episode with C.A. Hurst. C.A. isa youth advocate and a professed professional dot connector. So, wecan't go any further, C.A., with you without you explainingthat.
C.A.Hurst:Okay well, hey first, thank you, Paul. I'm really happy to be here.And yeah, professional dot connector. What does that mean? What onearth am I talking about? What it means is, I see connectionsbetween resources and needs and also see connections between peopleand other people. And years ago, I started kind of developing this,not consciously, but it just kind of happened. And what I'velearned over time is that, especially in our world today wherewe're all connected so much, that's really a cool skill tohave.
PaulCasey:It is, it is. Well, we'll dive in after checking with our Tri-CityInfluencer's sponsors.
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PaulCasey:Thank you for your supportive leadership development in theTri-Cities. Well, welcome again, C.A. I was privileged to meet you,we just figured it out, it was over 10 years ago at a youngprofessionals networking event and neither of us were young at theyoung professionals event, which I think was pretty funny.
C.A.Hurst:I think we were the two oldest guys there.
PaulCasey:I think we were. And what was cool, even though they probablylooked at us strange was that we both wanted to give back. And wewere there to be, if anybody wanted any kind of mentoring or, we'rejust both learners too. So whoever was teaching whatever, we wantedto be in the room. So, that was a pretty cool connection. And tostay connected throughout the years via social media and books thatwe've read has been really a joy. So that our Tri-City influencerscan get to know you, take us through your past positions that sortof led up to what you're doing now.
C.A.Hurst:Oh, man. Okay. Well, I'll try to keep this short because I got like40 years worth of stuff.
PaulCasey:Sure, sure. Yeah.
C.A.Hurst:So, in 1970...
PaulCasey:I was born in a hospital.
C.A.Hurst:Okay, so, in 1970, in July of that year, this is like the year, thesummer before December, after I graduated from high school, beforeI started college, I had a massive born-again experience. There wasa little church in, well, actually Washington, called BethesdaChristian Center. That was part of the Jesus people movement.They're just young people coming in. And they really didn't knowwhat to do with us because we were just responding to theiropenness to loving us, right? Anyway, so I had this massiveborn-again experience in the summer of 1970. And then I spent myfirst year of college at Central Washington State College at thattime, now a university. So that fall, I had dived into reading theBible because I'd never read it before. And so I was hungry,hungry, hungry. I'd taken a study break. I was in one of the littleparks near the dorms there at Ellensburg, sitting under a tree.
C.A.Hurst:I'm not sure I could find the same tree, but I know I remember thisbecause I was reading in Ephesians about, "And God gave some to beapostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers." I hitpastors and teachers and I got this little thing in my heart thatsaid, "Yeah, that's you." I said, "Oh yeah, really? I don't thinkso." So I responded to that, though that's where that started. Andfinished out my year at Central.
C.A.Hurst:Then the next year, I was doing Bible college stuff in Wenatchee.And I eventually, then when I graduated from there, as you and Iwere talking a little earlier, I ended up on staff at FaithAssembly here in the Tri-Cities, way back when, in the '70s whenthey were in the building that now houses the Hungry GenerationChurch. So, cool stuff there. But through a number of events, justlife events, I ended up needing to reinvent myself. My ex-wife andI had ended up in Montana. We started a church there. Then weseparated in 1990. And that began kind of an interesting rollercoaster for me of reinventing myself and reinventing myself againand again and again in truth, figuring out how to take all theskills that I had learned as a youth pastor and a pastor and afounding pastor, taking those skills and interpreting them for thesecular world, which is a huge challenge.
C.A.Hurst:Eventually, I ended up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The highlightsthere is I was the program director for Residential TreatmentCenter, horribly damaged young people. Really cool experiencebecause I was able... we as a team of, my guys and gals that workwith me, we were really able to touch some of those lives and helpthem. And then I spent eight-and-a-half years as a counselor at theAlbuquerque Job Corps Center. We had a capacity for over 400students, 8 counselors on staff, so everybody had at least 50students on our caseload at all times.
PaulCasey:Wow.
C.A.Hurst:If somebody got sick or was out for a while, at one point in time,we were down four of us. So we all had a hundred kids on ourcaseloads every day, all day, every day. And we got really good atwhat we did. I spent a year and a half as the counseling manager.The job of a counselor at the Job Corps Center is to actuallyprotect a student from the bureaucracy. That's a governmentprogram. But then a counseling manager then, once you bump up, nowyou're protecting both the kids and the counselors. So I kind ofrubbed everybody, I rubbed the upper management, the wrong way fortoo long.
PaulCasey:You contrarian, you.
C.A.Hurst:So, anyway, I need to brief this up. At this point in time, thelast time I counted, I reinvented myself either in a small way or alarge way about 37 times.
PaulCasey:Wow.
C.A.Hurst:But out of all of that, what I've learned to do is morph and tofigure out how to function in our world today. So, it's been aweird ride but it's bearing good fruit.
PaulCasey:Yeah. Yeah. That reinvention is so critical. Some people go theirwhole lives without reinvention and you've done it 37 times. I didit for my first time following a divorce as well, over 13 yearsago. And it sort of hits you in the face and you're just like,"Okay, I can stay down and wallow in this tragedy or I can reinventmyself." Every time you pick yourself back up and reinventyourself, I tried, I did thirteen, no, it was 11 things. And itwasn't magic. 11, right? I don't know why, it's not even a roundnumber.
PaulCasey:But listeners, if you ever want those 11 things of how to recoverfrom a traumatic experience in your life, I'd be happy to sendthose to you. But looking back, it's like I needed all of thosehabits, those new habits in my life. That's when I started playinggolf. That's when I got more male friends. It was just like,there's just so many different things that happen on the other sideof that. So, in your life, what do you feel like you're very goodat, like what are your talents, your strengths, and how do you usethose on a day-to-day basis to be successful and help others besuccessful?
C.A.Hurst:Okay. So, when people ask me what I do, what I really do, my lifecalling, is working with young people. That's where I've been forthe past, going on 50 years. I am so proud of that. On next year,2020, that it will be 50 years since I actually started counselingwith people and doing that kind of thing. And my specialty area hasbeen young people. When I was working at Faith Assembly, we endedup doing a lot of outreach to young people here on the Tri-Cities,and of all different walks of life but especially the kids thatnobody wants, and nobody wanted then and they still don't wantthem. I do. I do. I didn't have a clue what to do with them when Istarted, because I was like 20-something. And I would spend a lotof time praying about, "Hey, God, so what do we do with this guy?"And I don't have a clue.
C.A.Hurst:And the answer was always the same, just love him. Or if it was agal, just love her. Just accept them the way they are. So, that'sthe biggie for me. That's the undercurrent of everything that I do.That's what I do. So, that gives me context for everything elsethat I've studied over the past 40 years. See, you already knowthat I'm a huge reader.
PaulCasey:Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
C.A.Hurst:Right? And one of the coolest things that's happened in our worldin the past 10, 15 years is that, because of social media, becauseof all of the high-tech communication stuff we've had, the peoplewho write and people who are thought leaders have a much easiertime sharing what it is that they know. So, I've still got thatyoung person perspective, but because of my age and because I'vehad to reinvent myself 37 times and because I have been desperatelyscrambling for answers, I've read. Just read and read and read andread and read and read and read, and without trying to beproselytizing anybody, done a lot of praying like, "Hey, God,what's next? Where do I, where, where, where? And so, what I'velearned is the most important person to learn how to lead isme.
PaulCasey:Yep.
C.A.Hurst:That I've had to learn how to lead myself from, "Okay, here's whereI am. This is not working, so I need to do something else. Where doI go from here? Where do I go from here? Where do I go from here?"And honestly, that to me is probably the very most important thingthat any adult could possibly learn in our world today. In fact, asa parent, I would encourage people to begin shifting our thinkingand teaching their children that same kind of a thing. Justlearning how to be self-reliant, learning how to beentrepreneurial, even if you're going to work for somebody else,still consider yourself an entrepreneur-
PaulCasey:If anything, could be an intrepreneur, right?
C.A.Hurst:An intrepreneur, whatever you want to call it. But reallydeveloping you, and your own unique abilities. So, I would say oneof my unique abilities is communicating. I've always loved towrite, and I've done more writing in the last, oh, five, no, six,seven, eight, eight years, about eight years with Facebook.Nobody's going to tell you you can't. You might get a couple ofshots across the bow for what you write, but you can go ahead andwrite. So, I've been really having a lot of fun with that.
PaulCasey:Yeah, you have. So, I'm hearing you're a lover, a learner, and awriter.
C.A.Hurst:There we go. Thank you. That works.
PaulCasey:Core value of love, core value of just constant personal andprofessional improvement. And then, the writing or adding value toothers. So on the flip side, what would you consider one of yourbiggest liabilities? And how do you mitigate that so it doesn'tlimit your influence?
C.A.Hurst:My greatest is, I've learned this in this last six months, that mygreatest liability is, even though I've been a very strong advocatefor others my entire adult life, I haven't done a very good job ofadvocating for myself. So, I've been learning a lot about that overthe past six months. And I've also, oh, asking for help.
PaulCasey:Asking for help.
C.A.Hurst:Asking for help. Do you know who Brene Brown is?
PaulCasey:Oh, yeah.
C.A.Hurst:Okay. So, have you read Daring Greatly?
PaulCasey:Yes and Dare to Lead, her newest one too.
C.A.Hurst:Okay, yeah, we're reading Dare to Lead right now. So, DaringGreatly, I read that, oh, about eight months ago. And now here Iam, I ended up, recently I'd had a little toe of my left footamputated. It was in June of this year, and I needed help. I neededhelp from people that I've known for years and I've needed helpfrom our community. And it's embarrassing to ask for help,especially as guys, it's embarrassing to ask for help because we'retrained not to. Then yeah, "We want you to be in touch with yourfeminine side," Brene Brown. "We want you to be in touch with yourfeminine side." Go ahead, try that out. I dare you. Let's see whathappens. Oh yeah, now you're really going to get beat up anyway. Sothat's what I've really learned over the past several months. I'vejust not been good at asking for help when I've needed it.
PaulCasey:And yet it's a strength, not a weakness at its core, right? Becausewe're robbing other people of the blessing of what they've beenwired to do, which could be to help us at this moment to get usunstuck or to that next opportunity. So when we go, no, I'm goingto pull myself up with my bootstraps and be self-sufficient, weactually rob others of the opportunity to give.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah, there's that balance of being self-sufficient and thenknowing when to ask for help.
PaulCasey:Yes.
C.A.Hurst:Not codependent. Nobody is truly independent.
PaulCasey:Right.
C.A.Hurst:What we need to be, interdependent.
PaulCasey:Interdependent, I love that word. I love that word. Totally believethat and that's a core value for sure. And what I love is that asan amputee... Amputay?
C.A.Hurst:Amputee.
PaulCasey:Yes. You have not made that a liability in your life. You said yousurrounded yourself with a community of others who have gonethrough that, that only you guys can really understand.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah, yep.
PaulCasey:You're not letting that hold you back. I mean, it holds you backphysically. You probably do way more if you could but you're notletting that hold you back from your influence.
C.A.Hurst:You're right. And one of the biggest lessons I've learned, I'vealways known that the value of being quiet, I've learned that wayback when, when I was going to Bible college, that kind of thing.Just one of those things that they taught us, sit down and shut up,sit down-
PaulCasey:Seen and not heard.
C.A.Hurst:And listen. God's trying to speak to you but you're so busy runningaround and you're making so much noise, you can't hear what he'ssaying because oh, when he speaks, it's with that little stillsmall voice.
PaulCasey:Yeah. Yes.
C.A.Hurst:So this last, actually, it's the last several years, I've ended upspending a lot more time being ultra-quiet than I ever wanted to,on the one hand. On the other hand, that has been yielding thecoolest stuff I've ever learned in my entire life, that you knowthat. And also, the biggie has been, I got you. I got, I got you.You're okay. I got you. Because, so, I got my leg amputated, myright leg amputated below the knee when I was 59 years old. You getkind of attached to a leg after 59 years.
PaulCasey:I would think so, yes.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, all of a sudden, it's not there and you arein another universe. There's just no way to describe it. It's like,where am I? Who am I? Honest to God is, who am I? I woke up fromthe surgery and it was gone. I don't even know who I amanymore.
PaulCasey:It cuts your identity.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah, it does. It just... So I've ended up spending a lot more timebeing a lot more quiet than what I thought I should be. It's like,I need to be doing this and I need to be doing that. I need tobe... And that's been part of what God has been speaking to me.It's like, no, no, I got you. Just shut up.
PaulCasey:Yeah.
C.A.Hurst:Just chill out, dude. You know? I got you. It's okay.
PaulCasey:Yeah. That reassurance is amazing. Also, I think the breakthroughhas really happened in solitude. And because where we surroundourselves with our distractions and our noise and we get in the carand my last car, the radio just popped on automatically. It's justlike we're just surrounded by so much noise and we can't becreative. We can't have those breakthroughs of what's next.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah, we do need to get quiet. In fact, one of the greatestconcerns I've had over the past couple of years, and then actuallyover the past several months, is that with social media, everybodyhas a voice, which is really, really cool. However, extrovertsbeing extroverted, I liken it to be in a band. I'm a bassist. Myjob is to be in the background. Okay, I'm not a lead guitarist. Thelead guitarist's job is to be in the foreground or the vocalists orwhatever, right? Oh, I liken it to the lead guitarist because theextroverts are lead guitarists, or vocalists, so they're alwaysencouraging everybody to be a lead guitar. So it's like, "No, no,no, no, no. No, no, we just need one."
PaulCasey:You wouldn't have a band.
C.A.Hurst:We love you to pieces. And we love what, we love those riffs but weonly need one of you. So we've thought, "Well, you're talking aboutall the noise. That's what I'm hearing out here on social medialand is just that overwhelming, you got to be on 24-7, 365. You'vegot to hustle and grind 24-7, 365. It's totally unsustainable. Iget it. I get it, I get it. Especially if you're in your 20s or30s, you need to be out there hustling and you need to figure outwhat that's all about, and you need to be staying up late at night,reading, reading, reading, reading, reading-
PaulCasey:Did you say reading?
C.A.Hurst:Studying, digging, doing all of that stuff. But then as you get alittle bit older, then you need to take all this stuff that you'vebeen studying and you need to begin to mold something that's moresustainable, that you can teach to other people, that you can lookto other people and say, "Listen, here's what happens when you doall of this study and all this reading." What you're doing is,you're growing roots. And you want to grow a strong, complex,sustainable root system so that when the storms of life come along,not if, but when, because it is going to happen, that then ratherthan that or that rather than breaking, you're going to bend andsway and you're actually going to become stronger through thosestorms.
C.A.Hurst:But you have to take time to grow that root system. And that's whatyou do in your late teens, early 20s and to your 30s. But then youneed to be able to start kind of mellowing out a little bit. Andlet me use Eric Clapton. Okay. So, if you listen to Eric Claptonplaying with Cream, way back when, well, in the '60s, right? Andyou listened to him in the '90s, whatever. He just matured. And sohe still plays brilliantly, but it's got a different flavor to it.It's like a fine wine.
PaulCasey:There you go.
C.A.Hurst:Mellows.
PaulCasey:Yes.
C.A.Hurst:That the taste mellows and that's what you want.
PaulCasey:So you've got the root system metaphor. You've got the winemetaphor, Eric Clapton metaphor. Woo.
C.A.Hurst:I got them all, man. I've been doing this a long time.
PaulCasey:You came at it three different ways. Well, hey, before we head intoour next question on a few of C.A.'s life hacks, let's shout out toour sponsors.
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PaulCasey:So, C.A., what are a few of your life hacks that help you besuccessful on a daily basis?
C.A.Hurst:One of my buddies, online, is a guy by the name of Tim Sanders, whowas Yahoo's chief solutions officer way back when, when they werethe thing, right? He wrote a book called Love Is The Killer App,and a bestseller, and I got acquainted with Tim through Dan Pink,who's another best-selling author. And I connected with him. Hewrote a book several years ago called, Today We Are Rich. So,number one life hack, feed your mind good stuff. He has an entirechapter. He opens with intros, it's a couple, three chapters ofjust kind of background stuff. Then his first main chapter is thatfeed your mind good stuff. And that life hack right there, that hasliterally saved my life over and over and over and over and overagain. That's it. I mean it's so, it's not complicated.
C.A.Hurst:We live in what's called a knowledge society. So, everybody is aprofessional whether they want to be or not. Everybody. It's like,guys, this is where we're at. So, if you pay attention to what youallow in your heart, your mind, your soul, your spirit, then you'regoing, whatever comes along, you're going to be able to fight back.You're going to be able to push back. Let me talk a little bitabout being an amputee. Depression. You ain't lived until you'remissing part of your body. You can't get away from it. You can't,you're depressed, and you can't get away from it. And you caneither give up or you can get up, one or the other. What enablesyou to get up is what you've been feeding into your heart, yoursoul, your mind, your spirit.
C.A.Hurst:So that's my number one life hack is that. Feed your mind goodstuff. And then honestly, everything else just kind of flows out ofthat. I think in numbers. A number two life hack would be, stayconnected with other people. Figure out how to keep thoseconnections happening because we need each other. Even those timeswhen we are just all grumped out and we want to be by ourselves.That's okay for a while. But then you got to get back in there andyou need to reconnect with other people and let them, as you weresaying earlier, let them give back into you.
PaulCasey:Sure, sure. Yeah, I love that crucible moment that they give up orget up. The key thing that tips you to the getting up is feedingyourself that positive input every single day.
C.A.Hurst:Well, yeah. Here's what's cool. I've been doing that for years now.Years and years and years and years, right? So, it runs onautopilot. Sometimes you have, when you started, when you start agood habit, you have to fight for it.
PaulCasey:Yep.
C.A.Hurst:Okay. But once you get it established, after whatever length oftime it takes, it takes on a life of its own.
PaulCasey:It does. It does. Yeah, there's four habits that I do every day. Iget eight hours of sleep every day. These are all my wellnesshabits. I read the Bible every day. I read professionally everyday, like you're saying, and I exercise every day. And I don't haveto think about any of those four because they become so ingrainedin my life that I'll feel like, if I go too long without that,something's missing. Right?
C.A.Hurst:Yeah. Yeah, and you...
PaulCasey:That's like, I crave it. Yeah, I crave it so much because it's...But a new habit coming into your life, whether that's flossing orsomething else that you know is good for you, it does take work.And it's the 21 days, there's not a real thing. Sometimes it takesa long time to do that. So before you make an important decision,C.A., what process do you think through in your life so that youmake more good calls than bad calls?
C.A.Hurst:The reason I'm being all quiet and kind of thinking is that thelast several years had been so crazy, and that I've had a lot ofdecisions made for me. It's super, I don't, I'm not going to sayscary because it's not scary, it's terrifying. But in a more normalsetting, the stuff that I am, essentially, like the feed your mindgood stuff. I'm always thinking about, what's the best thing to dothat's going to benefit the most people, the most beneficially?
PaulCasey:Yeah, yeah.
C.A.Hurst:That's the way that I'm made. And then I begin to work out fromthat. It's like, "Okay, what do I need to do? What's my..." And Ithink of it as kind of mental or emotional reading and I go way outand say, "Okay, this is where we could go with this. Okay, nowlet's come all the way back in. And let's figure out-"
PaulCasey:What's that next step to get there, yeah.
C.A.Hurst:What's the very first tiny little step that I can take right now?Right now in order to get that process happening, because once wemake that first tiny little step, then we begin to... Then we seethe next tiny little step. Until we make that step, we can't seethe next step.
PaulCasey:That's right. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "You can't see the wholestaircase."
C.A.Hurst:Exactly.
PaulCasey:You just can only see that next step.
C.A.Hurst:Exactly. Yeah. Well, and a young guy named Richie Norton, I was onthe launch team for his book, The Power of Starting SomethingStupid. His brother-in-law, Gavin passed away at the age of 21. Ayear or so later, he and his wife Natalie had a baby that theynamed Gavin after her brother. He caught whooping cough. They'reliving in Hawaii. He got whooping cough and he died at the age of76 days.
PaulCasey:Oh.
C.A.Hurst:So, and what Richie has incorporated into his life is what he callsGavin's law, that you live to start and start to live. And he said,"I can get anything done at 76 days." That's what he does. He giveshimself, he'll create a project that takes 76 days. To live tostart, start to live.
PaulCasey:What a great motto.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah. What's cool about Richie is that he lives it and he has beenliving it. And it works.
PaulCasey:To take something traumatic and turn that into a mantra.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah.
PaulCasey:Or these 76-day chunks of life. Because sometimes, we underestimatehow much we can get done in 76 days.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah.
PaulCasey:We overestimate how much we can get done in one day.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah.
PaulCasey:But in 76 days, you can make a lot of difference.
C.A.Hurst:Oh yeah. You can, especially if you shift your mindset to that.
PaulCasey:Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So when you've lived your life, C.A., and youthink back on your influence, how do you want to be remembered?It's a legacy question.
C.A.Hurst:Simple, a simple thing. "He made a difference."
PaulCasey:"He made a difference." Love to see that on my tombstone too.
C.A.Hurst:Yeah.
PaulCasey:They used to have those Tombstone Pizza commercials. "What do youwant on your tombstone?" I think that's actually a pretty profoundslogan.
C.A.Hurst:He made a difference.
PaulCasey:He made a difference. Well, finally, what advice would you give tonew leaders or anyone who wants to keep growing and gaining moreinfluence?
C.A.Hurst:Read.
PaulCasey:I sort of knew you were going to say that.
C.A.Hurst:Well yeah, it's like at this point, because... My buddy, I call himmy buddy, Lou is. Actually Lou Wen, Louie Wen, Ph.D., psychologist,whom I met at the Albuquerque Job Corps Center when I was on staffthere. And he worked with one of my students one day. It was aboutsix weeks after I'd been there. And he absolutely changed thisyoung woman's life in 30 minutes, helped her see what was going on,and she wept cathartic tears. Walked out of my office, a changedyoung woman. So I looked at him, as soon as she closed the door, Ilooked at him and said, "Okay, what is it that you know that Idon't know?" What he said was, "I have a book I want you to read."And his book called Warm Logic.
C.A.Hurst:And then Lou and I are still close friends, but he was the centermental health consultant for the Albuquerque Job Corps Center. Hewas there, he'd be there usually two or three days a week. Andevery time he saw me, the very first thing he'd ask me is, "Whatare you reading?" What are you reading? And again, because of theworld we live in today, that is, honestly, that is the very mostimportant habit to develop as a leader. Another one of my authorbuddies, again, Tim Sanders, "Readers make the best leaders."
PaulCasey:Amen.
C.A.Hurst:You can go through history. Everybody that's been a great leaderhas been a reader. If you want to lead, there are certain thingsyou have to do.
PaulCasey:And that's one of them.
C.A.Hurst:Reading is number one, not number two, I mean, seriously. That'snumber one.
PaulCasey:Yeah. So, I'm just going to ask you this on the fly here. Would yoube willing to write up your book list for our listeners that Icould post on our Facebook page sometime?
C.A.Hurst:Sure.
PaulCasey:Now, that would be phenomenal. Because we can go a whole nutherhalf hour on just the books that we would recommend leaders toread.
C.A.Hurst:Oh, yeah. Easily.
PaulCasey:But how can our listeners best connect with you, C.A.?
C.A.Hurst:They can, honestly, the best way to connect with me is on Facebook.I've used that. That's my primary social media platform. It worksfor me. I try to stay away from the ultra controversial stuff. Andit's just a capital C, capital A squished together, no periods,because Facebook won't let me use them. And then H-U-R-S-T. Ifpeople know who I am, my picture is my profile picture. So, I'mpretty recognizable. That's the simplest way.
PaulCasey:Okay. Very cool.
C.A.Hurst:Or they can text me. (509) 420-3515.
PaulCasey:Awesome. Well, thanks again for all you do to make the Tri-Cities agreat place.
C.A.Hurst:Well, thank you, sir.
PaulCasey:Keep leading well. Let me wrap up our podcast today with aleadership resource to recommend. It's QuoteInvestigator.com,QuoteInvestigator.com. And if you want to look for a cool mantrafor your life, it's called Just For Today. And a gentleman wrote a,it's almost a little poem and there's about 10 to 12 lines of JustFor Today. "I will try to live through this day only." And it talksabout generosity and reaching out to others and putting yourself inthat mental right state for the rest of the day. So, I found itthrough QuoteInvestigator.com and maybe that will be inspirationalfor you today. Again, this is Paul Casey and I want to thank myguest, C.A. Hurst, the dot connector, for being here today on theTri-Cities Influencer Podcast. We want to thank our TCI sponsorsand invite you to support them. We appreciate you making thispossible so we can collaborate to help inspire leaders in ourcommunity.
PaulCasey:Finally, one more leadership tidbit for the road to help you make adifference in your circle of influence. It's Theodore Roosevelt. Hesays, "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorioustriumphs, even though checkered by failure than to take rank withthose poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much becausethey live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nordefeat." Until next time, KGF, keep growing forward.
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