Listen To What Heroes Marketing Consultant Willie Crawford Says When He Answers the Heroes Question "Who are the HEROES in your life now?"
Willie Crawford: You know I thought about that earlier. I don’t really have any heroes. My heroes were people I discovered in books because I didn’t have the role models that did things that I wanted to do in my community when I was growing up.
I will say that teachers take on one of the toughest jobs in the world, shaping young minds, they are heroes, and soldiers and policeman and fireman they’re heroes, but there is a lot of other people in our society are heroes to me too.
Volunteers are heroes. I went through some medical procedures recently and as I’m sitting in the waiting room, this young lady who is a Red Cross volunteer, who herself was dying with cancer and knew it, she worked as a volunteer you know just to cheer people up while they are in the waiting room waiting for a family member to pull through surgery.
I thought that is so giving. She said I’m not going to set at home thinking about my misfortune, I’m going to reach out and touch someone else.
She was honestly dying she knew she had maybe four months to live. Yet she spent her time as a volunteer in a waiting room just cheering up other family members. That was so profound. So my heroes are volunteers, people who just give of their spare time or their spare assets to help others.
There is a saying; I felt bad because I had no shoes until I saw a man that had no feet. No matter how bad your situation, if you look long enough and hard enough you are going to find someone who has it worse than you do.