Maintenance Engineering President Curt Kesselring “Give It Forward!”

Christmas is my favorite time of the year! One of my many reasons for liking Christmas is the transformational effect it has on everyone. Total strangers wish you a Merry Christmas with genuine good wishes. I think that they, like I do, think of them and their family as I say Merry Christmas!

I’d like to ask everyone to join me in “Giving it Forward.” Everyone has heard of “Paying it Forward”; this is the same except we exchange the Christmas Spirit for money or material goods. In 2011, I ask that everyone continue their “Christmas transformation” by starting out every day by brightening the day of every person you meet; a cheerful greeting, a compliment, or a charitable act. Leave every person more positive than when you met them. Joe Labbadia one told me that his goal is to create such a positive reaction in a stranger that they will remember him.

The best thing about “Giving it Forward.” is the payback you receive. In order for you to do this you must first create that positive spirit within yourself. You can’t give something that you don’t have so this concept results in your being positive and energized with the Christmas Spirit everyday all day long! Give it forward and it will pay you back.

Join me and we’ll have a nationwide impact. People we come in contact with will be uplifted and unconsciously join us in “Giving it Forward” to the next person they meet! Together we can make America more positive and we all know what positive people can and will accomplish.

Happy New Year and Give it Forward!

Curt Kesselring