The Right Associations

A mentor of mine was speaking on stage last night. He was one of the first people I met when I began working with the company that has changed my course in life. Mr. Eaton just recovered from the trial of Stage 4 Colon Cancer.
Follow me as I detail attitude and decision. You make the choice if associations are important. Without any symptoms showing a typical doctors check up reveals that Mr. Eaton is in the fight of his life. He is told that he has Stage 4 Cancer and that the odds are against him. As he has his day, yes his day only rocked with shock and pity. He decides, key word, to see for himself what type of chances he has. He does the research. He is a researching Attorney so he is able to discover more shocking news. Only 2% of the people ever make it and cheat death. This again rocks him for a short time. Then and this is key. He decides to find out the common thread with the 2%. This is what separates the classes from the masses. The common threads he went out to seek what allowed the small few to survive and then got busy. There are a lot of people reading this blog perhaps that have been affected by the horrible disease of cancer and for that I sympathize. I bring this true life story to celebrate life.
Mr. Eaton decided that he was going to be one of the 2% survivors. He found that they all had 3 things in common a strong desire to live, and a faith in the cure; were in relatively good shape (anyone who knows Mr. Eaton knows that while he is in his 60s he is probably one of the scrappiest men around); and had assembled a support team of doctors who were invested in the successful outcome. These were all 3 areas Mr. Eaton could wield control over.
This is not a story that ends after the first series of Chemotherapy, the 2nd, 3rd 4th, 5th. For 18 months Mr. Eaton has been through 26 series of treatments, his liver has been inflamed with dozens of tumors and he is walking miracle that the treatments were given that rapid fire in a short period of time. The amazing part is that the scans on Friday of this last week revealed that there are no longer traces of cancer.
To hear the story told is nothing short of inspiring. I had the privilege to sit on the same row as his daughter as he gave an hour long overview of our company to 200 guests less then a week after the disease being in remission. As I looked over and saw her expressions of relief, pride, and pain as she relived the pain of the last year and half. I knew right then the associations in life are the most important force determining success.
There is no reason to not decide today and then on a daily basis to be in the 2%.

Joshua Andrus
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