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Welcome to my Memorial Speech!

Welcome to my Memorial Speech!. If you are here with me, please raise your hands . We will begin when all hands are raised and all eyes on screen. Looks like we’re ready. You can put your hands down  Wow. I am Honored that you are all here. Thank You for letting these slides speak for me.

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Welcome to my Memorial Speech!

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  1. Welcome to my Memorial Speech!

  2. If you are here with me, please raise your hands. We will begin when all hands are raised and all eyes on screen.

  3. Looks like we’re ready. You can put your hands downWow. I am Honored that you are all here.

  4. Thank You for letting these slides speak for me.

  5. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) aka Lou Gehrig’s disease is a complex, insidious and debilitating disease.

  6. It is 90% spontaneous, can happen to anyone, and strikes an estimated 6,000 people in the U.S. every year.It is usually fatal with in 3-5 years.

  7. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

  8. Early symptoms of ALS often include increasing muscle weakness involving the arms and legs, speech, swallowing or breathing.

  9. In my case, ALS took my speech first.

  10. But ironically, I was never more prolific, creative, and inspired than in the past few years.

  11. I believe it took losing my power of speech to find my true voice.

  12. ALS made me slow down. Savor life. Fulfill on my promise as a human being.

  13. Two years ago, before I was diagnosed, I adopted the view that everything that was happening, was happening in my favor.

  14. I may have not understood it…

  15. I may not have liked it…

  16. It may have even pissed me off!

  17. But I trusted, all was happeningin my favor.

  18. My voice, my legacy, can still make a difference.

  19. When you have an expiration date on your forehead, you are LOST if you don’t have a purpose.

  20. I had a few:~to alter the way people are managed in corporate cultures, and the way we manage ourselves

  21. ~to spread the word that productivity and wellness go hand in hand

  22. ~to raise awareness and funds for ALS research

  23. It took every bit of training and discipline I had to start my own company in the face of my debilitating symptoms…

  24. I created the Master Plan Program as a structure for an empowered mindset in spite of the uncertainty of life.

  25. People were always saying “I could never deal with what you are facing!” or “I don’t have your courage…”

  26. This is BULLSHIT.(technical term)You could and you would.

  27. What else are you going to do?Lay down and DIE?QUIT?Not so much.

  28. Do yourself a favor andunderestimating your capacity.It serves NO ONE.

  29. I was fortunate enough to have gotten a Yellow Light in life. It was the Gift of ALS. I had a warning… you might want to act as if you do too.

  30. Slow your roll, Check yourself, unplug…What are you spending the minutes of your life on?

  31. When people are fully engaged in their life and the pursuit of what they truly want…

  32. They experience being HAPPY

  33. A few months ago I had the thought, “If I’m dying, why am I so damn Happy?” and then I realized I’ve been fully engaged in creating what I want for awhile now…

  34. The results are IRRELEVANT…How long you have to live is IRRELEVANT…

  35. As long as you are in love with the actions.FALL in LOVE with the ACTIONS

  36. New research shows that Happiness Travels in Packs:YOUR HAPPINESS MAKES A DIFFERENCE

  37. “Three Degrees of Influence” is a finding from Christakis and Fowler, it says everything we do or say tends to ripple through our network…

  38. Having an impact on our friends(1 degree) Our friends’ friends (2 degrees) ANDour Friends’ friends’ friends ( 3 degrees)

  39. If a person is happy, they found it is 15% more likely their friend will be happy

  40. It’s also 10% more likely that persons friends’ friend will be happy AND 6% more likely the friends’ friends’ friend will be happy

  41. That’s a lot of HAPPY.Happiness is not only an individual matter Your happiness can infuse up to 3 Degrees of separation!

  42. “When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy one doubts nothing.”Joseph Roux

  43. Happy people are also more ATTRACTIVE.Did you ever hit on a GRUMP?

  44. Happy people with a PLAN are a force of NATURE.

  45. I know if I didn’t have a plan I would have been dead long before now.

  46. Here were some of my favorite things about planning…

  47. “A FOOL with a plan will outsmart a GENIUS with no plan”T. Boone Pickens

  48. Every minute you spend planning will save you 10 minutes in EXECUTION.

  49. If you write something down, you are 50% more likely to DO or HAVE that thing.

  50. If you review it each day, you are 200% more likely to DO or HAVE that thing…

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