Was having a little one-on-one chat with one of my little group-home boys today and to my surprise he told me that he now wants to be a Motivational Speaker when he grows up. After hearing this, I cracked one of my signature smiles at him then asked him “Why”. “Well, it’s because I want to motivate people when I grow up.” he said.

“Little Buddy, you don’t have to wait until your older to start motivating people, you can start now.” I said. “You can start leveraging your unique story of having an abusive, absentee Mom & Dad and in spite of it all you were able to break the cycle and become something special in the world.”

He smiled and said, “Can I start calling you Dad now?” “Naaah, Uncle “C” still works best for me little buddy.” I said with a smile. We both shared a hardy laugh then went back to shooting some hoops with the other fellas.

It’s times like these that really make me feel like I’m making a difference in service to this hurting humanity. There’s a “throwaway”, overlooked and underserved generation of youngsters out there who need our surrogate guidance and support now more than ever before if they are to have a reasonable chance to NOT just survive, but thrive in a society that’s poised and ready to pipeline them to poverty or prison.

Focusing on doing for a few what I wish I could do for the entire crew has been my mission and objective over the past five years with my group-home boys and I hope you will honestly consider using some creative ways to do the same.

No, I can’t pretend to know what the future holds for my little buddy, but I do know who holds his future and he himself has a lot to do with it.

I can only hope and pray that my future statement for my little buddy years from now will be that “He didn’t use his abusive childhood checkered past as an excuse to fail, he used it as a reason to do well and leave a positive trail.”

Simply put: I hope he decides to Make it GREAT!!!

Don’t miss your opportunities to do the same and stay in the game.

Always Ok to share if you dare… 😉

GREAT WEEK!!!

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