Keep Your Enthusiasm

Hey team. All right, so here we are, end of November. Thanksgiving’s coming up in just a few days, and I just wanted to reach out for our Monday message. Winston Churchill said this, and I tell you, I find it funny. What a great man. If you’ve never read anything or understand anything about Winston Churchill, for such a time and a place in life and history, for a man to be born and be put into such a position during World War II. Winston Churchill was definitely slotted for an amazing situation in a tough time and handled it in some pretty amazing ways.

Success is this: stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sometimes we think of failure and losses and things like that, and we go, “Wow, I never want to have any of that.” But typically in our lives, and if you look back, and I’m able to look back quite a few decades now. Stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm and continually getting up, drying off, dusting off, and figuring out what you made a mistake on, and then continuing to tread ahead.

Knowing that you’re likely to make a mistake again. Knowing that people are likely to turn their backs on you, knowing that people are going to stab you in the back. And knowing that there’s still hard days ahead in life, but you do it with enthusiasm, knowing that you’re making progress, inching ahead one little centimeter at a time towards the successes that you’re going for.

Knowing that there are going to be days you’re going to have mountaintop experiences and views that are just beyond measure, but then you have to climb down the mountain and walk through the next valley. Knowing those things, that is success, that you can stumble through from failure to failure but not lose the enthusiasm in the moment.

So Winston Churchill, my hat’s off to you. What an amazing guy. And that goes to our core values of humility, investment, and resolve to keep going and not quitting. Even though you failed. Even though you stumbled, even though you didn’t make it this time, getting back up and doing it again.

Seeing our patrol team do those kinds of things, make mistakes, and inch forward through it.

I can’t tell you how much I love our lieutenants and our sergeants and every officer that comes in. Sometimes beaten, battered, cold, wet, and still striving for the officer walking around the lone construction site or the lone bark pile somewhere out in the middle of nowhere fighting off coyotes with his iPad.

Now, that’s kind of a cool visual there. A dude fighting off a coyote with an iPad. I love you guys. Thank you for stumbling with us from failure to failure, inching towards success every day, and not losing enthusiasm in the process. So, God bless you guys. Have a wonderful week.

Raise a glass for me and Karen. We’re taking the boys, and we’re going to be hanging out in San Diego and just loving on family. We have our anniversary coming up, and we’re going to take a few days of RNR. I just want to again say thank you to all of you for everything that you do here at Northwest Enforcement.

God bless you. Have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you guys next week.