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A Need for Inspiration
So after 48 years of working and 18 months of retirement, I will shortly be returning to work, although this will now not be well, er…work! Why? Motivational Speaker, Harvey Mackay said,
“I don’t believe in age,” he said. “Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. You find people like that at any age level. Age doesn’t limit people one-tenth of 1 percent.”
I don’t know if he’s right or wrong, I just know it inspires me! I have wanted to influence and motivate people all of my life. As an athlete in my younger years, motivation came easy. It was never difficult to “get up for the big game” because that was just what we did back then. “Pep” rallies are a thing of the past but way back when there was no internet, there were no cell phones, and communication was face to face so naturally if you wanted to join the excitement one had to “show up!”
Sorry, I digressed. Kinda! So after retirement, I promised myself, knowing I would have to return to the workforce, that I would absolutely, positively do something I loved doing. Often, when sitting with friends over coffee discussing personal issues and philosophy I would be asked, “what do you want to do?” And, I would say, “ just what I’m doing now, talking with people, encouraging them, inspiring them to do what they love doing too!”
