Cureau, I am pronouncing correct? ok good. Chuck is a San Antonio icon, he's going to

laugh about that. I've known Chuck for, since the

early 90's. He is inspirational to me if you ever

go to a Spurs game you're going to see Chuck, if you're

ever in the local San Antonio market you're going

to see him on tv, he's just a really inspiring and

positive person and I am very very thankful to get

Chuck on camera to talk to you guys a little bit

about positivity and how he stays positive because

if you ever see him or hear him you know he's a

really positive guy. So Chuck, please accept this this Positive Pin, it's just an acknowledgement

to you. Thank you, it's an honor, you know

What do you do to stay positive? What do I do to stay positive, you know

Well first off I'm only human and there are Positive days and there are days that aren't

so positive but just try to throw those days throw those instances out and you've got

to look at it as the glass being half full as opposed to

half empty because there's always people out there who are worse off than you are and I

know that's not the most positive thing to say

but there really is and sometimes seeing that and realizing

that puts it all into perspective how blessed that we

really are. And for me, as a spiritual person, it's a

God thing. I'm so pleased that Gods in my life and

he helps to keep me positive and to do what's best

for me and I think when you have a positive attitude

you see things as half full as opposed to half

empty and you think about the good things and

think that you can achieve it. I've got a quick story

for you if I might. um I've been, about 25 years ago,

well 26 years ago I wanted to be an animal trainer

at Sea World um I wanted to swim with the whales

and dolphins and sea lions and interact with them

and train them and help maintain and educate people

but there was one thing standing in my way, I didn't

know how to swim, so you can't work at Sea World

in the animal training department if you can't swim

so I joined a gym and I went there every day, I

went there every day for 9 months and there were times when it was so difficult because

you know when you live 21 years and you're afraid

to put your face under water, um, it's a tough thing

I was very frightened of that and there were times

when I'd be in the water and try to put my face under

water and felt I was choking or the world was closing

in on me I said I can't do this I can't do this so I get

out, go in the shower and sit there and go you can

do this, you you CAN Do this, so I'd put my shorts back

on go back in the pool it took me 9 months from not being

able to swim to being able to swim and pass the swim

test at Sea World and that was 25 years ago I hit my

25 year anniversary at Sea World just last week uh

and I'm so happy that uh back in the late 80's I said

I CAN Swim even though I couldn't at the time. I said

I can swim and you think enough about it it comes

to fruition. You're absolutely right and going back to

thinking about other people that's who, who may be worse

off than us, Iv'e said in previous videos, It's one

of my practices and I don't dwell on other people that are

less fortunate that I am but when we realize how how lucky

we are how blessed we are how you guys watching this

video you have the internet and the vast majority of

the population of the world does not have the internet, so

we're really blessed and and love about your story Chuck

is that positive reaffirmation that you can do something

you can do something so we all have challenges

but if you give up, it's just such a defeating thing,

you just have to have faith in yourself faith in God. A

common, a common thread in my videos if you guys have seen the other

videos that I've done is faith in God. you know several years ago I decided to create

a mission statement I've heard about mission

statements for businesses and I decided why can't I have

a mission statement for myself um and I'd love

to share that with you. Um, with God as my inspiration

using my skills talents and abilities to create happiness

for myself and others. So I try, I am by no means perfect

by no means successful all the time but I really

try whenever I can just to try to create happiness for

other people and myself and I think um, and I think if you

try to create happiness for other people you will find happiness

for yourself and it starts with being positive

You're right, that's uh that's actually one of my favorite

speakers we unfortunately lost him earlier this year

Zig Ziglar and one of his famous quotes if not his

most famous was if you help enough people get what they want you get everything that

you want yeah so it's just well Chuck thank you for

doing this Thank you, this means a lot I'm going to wear

this around town

I wear mine every day I'm gonna put it on right now brother

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