Don’t Believe The Excuse You Can’t Make A Difference
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
It was the first home game in October 2021 for the new Seattle Kraken hockey team. If you’ve been to or watched hockey games before, you will see fans pounding on the plexiglass around the rink to distract and intimidate the visiting players.
On this night, one fan did it for a different reason. Nadia Popovici was in her stepfather’s season tickets when she noticed something on the neck of the Vancouver Canuck’s equipment manager’s neck.
She banged on the glass and got Brian “Red” Hamilton’s attention and held up her phone to him. It read, “The mole on the back of your neck is possibly cancerous. Please go see a doctor!”
The mole was type-2 malignant melanoma that hadn’t penetrated the skin yet.
He had no idea that he had a mole there and as he left the arena, he started rubbing his neck to check if he felt something. He asked his wife and she encouraged him to see the team doctor who took a biopsy and sent it for testing. When it was identified as cancerous, a larger amount was removed and he has been cancer free since.
Hamilton was told by his doctor that he wasn’t pulled out of a burning car but from a slow-burning fire. In 4 or 5 years he would have been dead.
You do if you use your voice instead of succumbing to fear, insecurity or some excuse.
Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2022
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job
Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 2200 episodes. He also hosts Job Search TV on YouTube, Amazon and Roku, as well as on BingeNetworks.tv for Apple TV and 90+ smart sets.
If you have a quick question for me, you can get it answered with a 3-5 minute video.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching? Please click here to see my schedule to book a free discovery call or schedule time for coaching.
Connect with me on LinkedIn. Like me on Facebook.
Join the Career Angles group on Facebook.
We grant permission for this post and others to be used on your website as long as a backlink is included and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator plus a backlink to www.TheBigGameHunter.us.
