Richard Kemper, Jr.

This is John. He was my Uber driver on the way to the airport yesterday. He asked me why I was traveling, and I said it was for work. Then he asked me if I was around 28 years old. I said 27. John then told me that his daughter had died suddenly at the age of 29. He had tried to save her, but he found her too late. He also confided in me that he was holding his son in his arms when his own father died. "I wish I could have done more. Why couldn't I bring her back?" he said, his voice breaking with pain. Then he added: "I'm sorry to bring all this up. I've never met anyone so kind and understanding. You made me feel like I finally had someone to talk to." He gently patted my arm and said, "Please don't let the world change you. Keep smiling, keep being kind. You've shown me how much kindness a stranger can offer. You never know what someone is going through, especially behind a smile. Thank you, my dear. Be kind to others. Always. Show compassion, listen to people, ask how their day is going, smile at strangers, say hello in stores, and perform small acts of kindness every day. Strike up a conversation with your Uber driver. It could mean far more to them than you realize and help them in ways you never even imagined.

Nick Saban says his dad had a rule when he worked at the family service station as an 11 year old that he carried into coaching, if you didn’t do the job right you did it again “Treat people the way you want to be treated... That was number one... The second thing was accountability. We grew up with a lot of responsibility. I worked at my dad’s service station from the time I was 11 years old.” “I don’t care what the task was, there was always a reckoning. Did you cut the grass? Did you trim? Did you sweep? Did you clean the mower? And if you didn’t do all those things right, you had to do it over.” “I remember my dad saying to me, ‘If you don’t have the time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find the time to do it over?’” “Because you are going to do it over. So accountability was really important. And the last thing was, and this was probably the thing that helped me always look for the next challenge was, no matter how many games you win, it’s never good enough... I asked my mom, ‘it’s never good enough, how come?’ And she said ‘It’s not about beating the other guy, it’s about, did you play as good as you could play.’ We're you as good as you can be? As a leader, as a player, as a teammate.”

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