March 17, 2008

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Greetings!

This Boy Will Inspire You!

I’m wearing one of those rubber bracelets. Similar to the Lance Armstrong “Live Strong” bracelet but this one has a difference message and was inspired by a different hero.

I’m wearing the bracelet because a few weeks ago, before speaking to 1,600 Northwestern Mutual financial representatives, I met the one person who I was supposed to meet who told me a story about his son Connor that I was meant to hear... and share.

Tait Cruse, a managing partner in Dallas, told me about his amazing team at work, his incredible wife named Joy and his four children including his seven year old son named Connor who had been diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma and by all accounts shouldn’t be here. Yet, he is here in spite of multiple surgeries and cancer treatments and hundreds of visits to the doctor.

“Connor’s an inspiration,” Tait said. “Through it all he hasn’t complained once. Like you write in your books, he stays positive and he inspires everyone around him to stay positive. As a family we just keep on believing and people keep on praying and miracles keep on happening. The cancer just stopped spreading one day and now we’re hoping it goes away.”

Tait gave me a bracelet to wear and asked me to join him, his family and thousands of people who are praying for Connor. Now I wear a bracelet, my kids wear a bracelet and their friends wear bracelets.

Will wearing a bracelet heal Connor? No one knows for sure. But I do know that when I’m having a tough day, I look down at the bracelet on my wrist and think of Connor and say to myself, “If Connor isn’t complaining then how can I?” I think of his courage and it inspires me. And throughout my day I’ll stop for a minute and pray for him and smile at the thought that thousands of people are doing the same. I’m just one of many who have come to live their lives with more faith and hope as a result of meeting or learning about Connor.

And my hope is that he will inspire you too. To be thankful more and complain less. To focus on what you have rather than what you don’t. And to invest your energy in what matters and stop wasting it on the things that don’t. Make each day count. At home, at work and at school.

To be inspired by Connor, request a Connor prayer bracelet and join Team Connor visit www.connorcruse.com.

I’ll also be doing a book tour this summer for my new book The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work and because of Connor’s inspiration we’ll be raising money for Pediatric Cancer. If you would like to be involved email us at Team@JonGordon.com.

Sending Positive Energy Your Way!

-Jon

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