The Morning Pep Talk #1: "Unselfish"

"It's amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit."

~ Coach John Wooden, retired UCLA men's basketball coach

TGIF to the JWT Crew. Today is another chance for us to get better. I want everybody to get dialed in and focused. Here is the word for today...

UNSELFISH

I want you all to get out there today and try to be a little more unselfish. Try to make it less about ME and more about WE. Let me paint you a picture.

You're driving to work. There is this guy behind you, honking at you, harassing you, wondering why you're not driving faster, endangering lives. Okay but did you ever stop to ask yourself WHY he is driving like a maniac? Did you ever stop to think that maybe you could help him fix his problems?

Maybe he just overslept and if he's late one more time he gets fired? Maybe his wife left him because he has a drinking problem? So now he's suddenly single AND he has a drinking problem. Maybe he's just in a hurry to get to work because he's been trying to build up the courage to go ask his boss for a raise and today's that special day? Who knows? I'm not a mind reader. I'm just taking guesses here.

So let's say you do the right thing, you try to be UNSELFISH, and you help this guy out. You speed up or you let him pass. He gets to work and you know what, the boss gives him that raise. Now his wife wants to come back home because she's been wanting to redecorate the living room anyway, in a class way, and now with the extra money she can do that.

So now this guy got a raise, he got his wife back, he enrolls in some AA meetings to fix that drinking problem. And how did all this happen? Who did that? YOU DID, because you're a champion. You're all about helping people, and that's why I love you. That's why you're special.

So get there and be UNSELFISH today. Let's make it happen.

#JWT