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As we enter March Madness I would like to reference
what I believe are two of the most inspiring stories in
college basketball history - which are in fact actually
related. The first is the North Carolina State basketball
team's run to win the NCAA Championship in March
of 1983 with Coach Jim Valvano at the helm, and the
other is life of Coach Valvano after this incredible
triumph.
In 1993, ten year's after this NC State championship
win, his tumultuous battle to remain as a coach, a
successful sports announcing career, and becoming
a highly sought after motivational speaker, Coach V
would be delivering a final goodbye as he accepted
the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPN ESPY's
award dinner. Frail and unsteady from the final
stages of bone cancer he managed to deliver a life
lesson that should not be overlooked by any of us
today or any day, only to die two months later.
I have borrowed his instruction of the three things
we should do every day in our lives in the note below -
number one is laugh, number two is think, number
three is that we should have our emotions brought to
tears, could be happiness or joy. In Coach V's words:
But think about it. If you laugh, you think,
and you cry. That's a full day!
The founding of the Jimmy V Foundation For Cancer
Research with ESPN was announced that night and
has raised over 100 million dollars to date. To find
out more on how you might help go to the
Jimmy V Foundation Website. Below is the video
of Coach V's award dinner message to assist anyone
who may need to fulfill their positive cry requirement
for today.
REACH AGAIN
Reach today for the positive thought,
the positive mood, the positive expression
of you living this life – being clear, true,
and intentional in every action, every
moment, every movement of this day –
enthused by the possibility and potential
reachable.
Reach today for more than expected or
readily obtainable in each interaction –
looking for common ground, a mutual
win-win ensuring all are heightened
by their encounter with you – no one
left behind or lacking but instead
empowered and emboldened.
Reach today for a memory to last a
lifetime, a distinction to set this
day apart from the blur of automatic
living, laugh heartily, cry touchingly,
and think enormously until you have
exhausted all this day has come to
offer, as you reach again for the
unreachable.
AT 3.21.13
Thank you for reading.
With love, G.
George Bryant Cronk