Karl Sherrill

What if I'm the one who fed into what might be self-talk for a person to say, I don't know why I'm here.

Nobody cares about me.

What's the deal?

I don't have any hope.

Why am I here?

And then you interact with Carl at the airport, and he's frustrated already because he's missed a couple flights, and we have this interaction.

And I don't even know you, but we have a bad interaction, and I'm really negative to you.

And then off you go because I've just confirmed the self-talk you already had that there's no reason to be doing this anymore.

Everybody's out to get me.

And that just became a real moment for me to say, I'm going to be an impact to somebody every time I interact with them.

I will never be perfect at it, but I'm going to try to do the best I can to be the positive influence on people.

And so that kind of started me down this path of be the one.

And so that's the message that I talked to people about when I was already having an interaction, like the message is just getting out.

But as I talked to people, I was saying, why don't you be the one that makes a difference though?

A positive difference.

Like, why don't you be the one that, and since people would come and complain to me, even at work or at home about stuff in a community.

And I'm like,

Let's just talk through that.

What if that person just needs you to be positive?

You don't have to agree with them.