Former baseball manager is changing the world, one note at a time: ‘Find a need and fill it’
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Clint Hurdle began sending daily notes of inspiration to a dozen colleagues in 2009 when he was managing the Colorado Rockies. He would offer support, discuss leadership ideas, and simply check in with them. His list now numbers more than five thousand people.
The Bible consistently calls us to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). We are to “let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” (Ephesians 4:29).
Why is encouragement so important? Because it is so needed.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.8 | Forum and featuring Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:12.1 | Hi, I am Jim Denison, the Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article Special Edition for |
| 0:16.2 | April 30th, 2020. Clint Hurdle began sending daily notes of inspiration to a dozen colleagues in 2009 when he was |
| 0:23.7 | managing the Colorado Rockies. He would offer support, discuss leadership ideas, and simply check in with |
| 0:29.0 | him. He might borrow a line from the website, the Daily Coach, that said, the time is now to live more |
| 0:34.8 | strategically and courageously while engaging in work that is filled |
| 0:38.4 | with impact and meaning. |
| 0:39.8 | Or he might offer a list of his week's resolutions such as offer loving kindness to my inner |
| 0:44.7 | critic. |
| 0:45.7 | Two years after guiding the Rockies into the World Series, Hurdle was fired. |
| 0:49.7 | He was on a rare spring vacation when a Rocky staff member told him his words of wisdom were sorely missed. |
| 0:56.4 | His wife asked him about filling the void. |
| 0:58.5 | Clint took a walk and decided he would resume sending the notes. |
| 1:01.9 | His list noun numbers more than 5,000 people. |
| 1:05.2 | You can subscribe as I did at clintherdell.com. |
| 1:08.7 | Hurdle was a major league player for 10 years and a manager for 17 more before he was fired by |
| 1:13.2 | the Pittsburgh Pirates last September. |
| 1:15.2 | Now he's writing up the coronavirus pandemic with his family in Florida and scouring blogs and |
| 1:20.2 | podcasts for things to share. |
| 1:22.1 | He said, when the number started growing more and more, I go, this is crazy. |
| 1:26.3 | But nobody's mailed us back and said, |
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