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SUMMER CONFERENCE & EXPO
BY DON HARRIS
Having a Positive Attitude Gets
You rough the Journey of Life
SAM GLENN
Sam Glenn has an attitude – an attitude that emphasizes how told my wife I had to eat with the guy or he was going to press
humor can improve your journey through life. charges,” Glenn said. Until that point, Glenn always felt he had a
Glenn, the keynote speaker July 21 at AASBO’s 63rd Annual good attitude, but, “Other people messed it up.”
Conference and Expo, kept his audience in stitches and got them Addressing school district issues, Glenn said, “Excellence
thinking – about attitude. “Attitude can be getting in the way or in education starts with enthusiasm. If you’re not excited about
making the way,” he said. “We determine which every day.” what you do, it shows up in your work. We need to rekindle our
Glenn said he “came from the other side,” and explained: “I enthusiasm. Some people have no awareness of how their attitude
was a negative guy, and it was not working for me. I was the guy a ects everybody else.”
you didn’t want to work with, the guy you didn’t want to have a Glenn recalled a comment from the late motivational speaker
relationship with.” Zig Ziglar, who recommended “a checkup from the neck up.”
e change occurred at a bu et. Glenn, a robust 6-feet, 6 inches At this point in his presentation, Glenn stepped to a large black
tall, 280 pounds, said he knocked a guy down while in line. “I’m canvass and using chalk began to sketch a colorful scene depicting
not a bu et bully, but he was bu et browsing,” Glenn said. “Come a man on life’s journey. A couple of times he rubbed out what he
on – you scoop it, you drop it, you move it.” e guy invited Glenn had drawn, but they weren’t mistakes. He was adding texture to
to have lunch with him and his wife, which was awkward because
Glenn’s family was sitting on the other side of the restaurant. “I CONTINUED ON PAGE 28
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