Terry Tucker – Learning to Survive Cancer One Day at a Time

Terry Tucker is the Founder of Motivational Check LLC and the author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life.

I have reinvented myself frequently over my professional career. After I graduated from college at The Citadel (where I played NCAA Division I basketball), I was employed in the Marketing Department at the corporate headquarters of Wendy’s International in Dublin, Ohio. From there, I worked in hospital administration for Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. After getting married and moving to California, I became the Customer Service Manager for an academic publishing company in Santa Barbara. When our daughter was born and we moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, I became a police officer with the Cincinnati Police Department, where I was a SWAT Hostage Negotiator. In 2004, I obtained my Masters degree from Boston University. Following a family relocation to Texas, I started a school security consulting business and coached high school girls basketball. Each time I took on a new job, I had to develop new skills and faced different challenges. There was always a significant learning curve with every new position.- From Terry's About me Page

Terry Tucker Vroom Vroom Veer Stories

Terry remembers getting a giant stuffed dog named fluffy when he was about 2 years old, he climbed all over it and tried to eat itSpent his childhood running the streets in Chicago spending all day on his bike looking for things to do and people to hang out with; probably got hurt sometimes and that's pretty coolIf he could talk to his younger self what would you say? Don't be afraid to do something you want to do. You won't regret the things you did; you will regret not doing things you wanted to do4 year old Terry was upset that his parents told him to go upstairs and brush his teeth; he was expressing his anger towards his parents while brushing his teeth; his dad heard that and put him to bed for the rest of the nightMJ showed up at basketball practice to pick up his kids; that turned out to be a bit of a distraction to the other kids on the teamWent through the stages of grief when was first diagnosed with cancer; when on interferon he was praying to die; god gave him the strength and resolve to fight to live and win each dayAdmiral Stockdale survived the Hanoi Hilton by learning to control what he could control; breathing and thinking; face the fact that you may die here; it's up to you to decide to survive

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