I recently read a short little blurb from Lou Hecker that I’ll now share with you:
I’ve been thinking about “elevators” — the people who help us get to the next level in our professions and our lives. This was prompted by a nice piece in the New York Times about Al Horford — a professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics and a former player here in Gainesville for the Florida Gators. At age 38 (when MOST players are long retired) . Horford is still very much a contributor for his team — one on which some players are close to half his age. He credits Tom Brady, the former NFL quarterback who told him how he lasted so long as a pro…Duke Werner, a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Florida, who taught him about injury prevention…LeBron James (one year older than Horford) who gave him some ideas about longevity in sports…and even the professional cook who has prepared meals for him for the last ten years!
So are YOU an ELEVATOR. OR, are you just some random pusher of buttons that’ll never knowingly take people DOWN or UP without ever really knowing which way for sure?Come on, as Caring Catalysts in our own ways, we possess the power to always take Another up another level they never knew existed, but one of the hugest questions of all, person by person, situation by situation is:
WILL WE?
We all need a LIFT, Right
WE CAN ALL BE A LIFT,
Right. . . ?
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