Tommy Douglas

Well I did carry around my little note pad and came up with a few challenges around delivering what I promise. I have been having challenges in remembering to bring things I need for the day. The other biggest challenge I have discovered in delivering what I promise is remembering what I say. I found that through out my busy day a lot of my conversation would happen in the middle of doing something or on the run. There for I have come up with a few ideas that I think will help me to be able to deliver what I promise. One is to keep caring the little note pad in my pocket. I will use it to keep track of things I need to do and remember. Also to keep track of what I promise and when I have promised to have it done by. The other idea I have is to stop myself one hour before I go to bed and prepare for the next day and for bed. I will take this time to pack everything I will need for the next day. I have problems in the morning remembering to bring what I need, because I am not a morning person. I like my father his father and his father before him believe that a man is only as good as his word. Great people deliver what they promise. Tonight I watched a movie about Tommy Douglas. While watching it I also looked him up on the internet. Then started to look at the web site entitled “The Greatest Canadian” that is hosted by the CBC. I will put a link at the bottom of this blog. I looked at some of these names that are on this including Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox, David Suzuki and Lester B. Pearson. There is something I feel all these people have in common that is a strong belief in what is right, a passion to stand up for what they believe in and integrity. This goes for great people of the world like Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gaudi. They also all have these characteristics. I think the world needs more people like this, and more people need to strive to live like other people they admire. I also think we need to recognize our local heroes and outstanding members of our community.

“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.” Tommy Douglas

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/