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Co-Founder and CEO of ZeroMils - Social Impact Consulting Firm - Our Mission is to Create #MilitaryThriving Cultures and Communities
This is worth reading every now and again — when you’re working hard to make change and you have doubts or fear failure. “It is not the critic who counts; not the person who points out how the strong man or woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man or woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself or herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his or her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” — President Theodore Roosevelt When I read these words, I think about changemakers and #unsungheroes — the men and women in the arena and “doers of deeds” — who we serve alongside every day, as part of our work at ZeroMils. Two and a half years ago Paul Cucinotta and I made a decision to create #MilitaryThriving cultures and communities to help change the broken Veteran narrative from surviving to #thriving. It’s with our partners and other changemakers that we’re calling on our #Military and #Veteran connected community to stand and be heard. The truth is it’s easier to sit on the sidelines rather than stand in the arena and effect change. Even if the difference you make is one community, one corporation, one nonprofit, or one individual at a time - it is worth every ounce of effort. It’s easier to stay quiet than to shout from the rooftops what you believe even when it is not always well received by the masses. It’s easier to make a commitment with words than to act with deeds. I’m proud to be in the arena with Paul, Monica, Trish, David and our partners from across a growing #MilitaryThriving community that is changing the narrative and how we are seen in the workplace and in society. To all the men and women in the arena doing great things in their own ways in communities across the country — thank you and stay the course. You know who you are.
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