19 years old, I was a freshman at the University of Washington here in Seattle.
And I went and did a talk for high school and I walked back to my car and he said,
I want a motivational talk for 30 minutes.
And I got back in my car and I thought, that's what I want to do someday.
I want to be a motivational speaker. Well, that was in 1969.
So that was many, many years ago.
And it wasn't till about 40 years later that I used,
I was managing stores for Nordstrom and Lowe's home improvements.
And I finally quit and said, I'm going to be the speaker.
And what had happened is having had a lot of traumas along the way,
my father had taken his own life. My mother died of cancer.
My wife passed away when my sons were young, four and 14.
And so I had a lot of tragedies and a lot of things that were kind of traumas
that needed to be overcome. And somebody said to me one day,
you need to get a gratitude journal. And I said, well, what is that?
And I said, well, it's a book you write in every day. What you're grateful for.
So I got one and I noticed an immediate difference.
And so I thought that's going to be.