"Don't Give Up, Don't EVER Give Up" - A Real Estate Tribute to Jimmy V

In our sales meeting yesterday, our team leader decided to make us all shed a tear in honor of the late Jimmy V (Jim Valvano, Head Basketball coach for NC State). With the ESPY awards last weekend, we were reminded of his famous speech given in 1993, when he won the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award, just months after being diagnosed with metastatic bone.......

..........he died 7 weeks after this speech.

In his speech, this was the greatest thing you can take away from this inspiration man:
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."

This clip is worth every second of the 10 minutes:

The Jimmy V Foundation (sponsored also by ESPN) is dedicated to raising money for cancer research. Since it's 1993 creation, the Foundation has raised more than $70M for research. Let's face it...everyone will be touched by cancer at some point in their lives, hopefully not personally, but at least someone you know will be diagnosed at some point in their lives. As a daughter and granddaughter of 2 survivors - I can only thank them for all of their hard work.
Just remember, no matter what happens, be it personal, career, family, whatever...
Don't give up. Don't ever give up.