Setting and Exceeding Expectations
Bill Warner Tuesday, January 20, 2009
At last week’s Business Clubs of America meeting we met an amazing young man that all entrepreneurs can learn from. Logan Aldridge, at the age of thirteen, lost his left arm in a tragic boating accident. His recovery was long and painful. During that time he had hundreds of visitors who expressed sympathy and also unknowingly set expectations that life will never be the same again for Logan. Well, Logan was going to have none of that gloom and doom, and quite frankly did not accept that life was never going to be the same. He proceeded throughout his recovery therapy to set goals, one day at a time, to work himself back into regular life. He had to learn to write with his right hand, because he used to be lefty. He had to learn how to eat, dress, tie his shoes, brush his teeth and the hundreds of things we all do everyday with two arms. Once he got the basics of living, he went back to water skiing, learned to surf and wrote a book. He played lacross and became the team captain.
As he matured, he became and ever increasing inspiration to the people around him. He continues to be a very active full time student at Ravenscroft and most people can’t keep up with him. His motto is “beyond expectations.” This is a young man that all business people can learn from. Don’t let others determine what you can and cannot do. Certainly listen to good advice and coaching, but don’t let the limitations of others become yours. Take every day, one day at a time, and have goals that drive your work and play. Put all your energy into meeting and driving past those goals by exceeding every expectation you have about them.
Now at the age on eighteen, Logan has his own website at www.loganaldridge.com where he talks about exceeding expecations. He will try to sell you a book too in order to finance his growing foundation, but it would good for you and your children to read and become inspired by Logan’s message
Filed Under: Raleigh Happenings, Starting a Business
Bill Warner is the Managing Partner of Paladin and Associates, a business consulting firm in the Research Triangle Park area of central North Carolina, and is the Chairman of the Triangle Accredited Capital Forum, an angel investor network with over one hundred members throughout the southeast.
Bill Warner is the Managing Partner of Paladin and Associates, a business consulting firm in the Research Triangle Park area of central North Carolina, and is the Chairman of the Triangle Accredited Capital Forum, an angel investor network with over one hundred members throughout the southeast.
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