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to the camp near Traverse City before, and loved it.
When you live during the year in Arizona, there’s some-
thing magical about the water and emerald forests of
northern Michigan. It was an expensive camp, but when
I made the promise I was doing well financially, and I
was confident that they could all go.
Then as the summer neared I’d run short of money
and had to rearrange my priorities. My speaking sched-
ule had replaced much of the commissioned selling I
was doing and it looked like camp might not be in the
picture.
I remember specifically talking to my boy Bobby, who
was 8 years old at the time, about how times were tem-
porarily hard and how camp didn’t look like a good pos-
sibility any more this year. He was in the front seat of
the car and I’ll never forget for as long as I live the look
on his face. He said very softly, so softly that I could
barely hear him, “but you promised.”
He was right. I didn’t say I’d try, I didn’t say it was a
goal, I promised. And the feelings I had at that moment
were so overwhelming that I finally said to him, “Yes, I
did promise. And because you reminded me that it was
a promise, I will say to you right now that you’re going
to camp. I’ll do what it takes. I’m sorry that I forgot it
was a promise.”
The first thing I did was change jobs, and my first
condition on accepting my new job was that my bonus
for signing was the exact amount of money it took to
send my children to camp. It was done.
66. Make somebody’s day
To basketball coach John Wooden, making each day
your masterpiece was not just about selfish personal