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my life is shaped by a lot of events one of the most powerful was somebody doing these kind acts for my family when I was 11 years old we had a really really tough Thanksgiving where there was no money and no food and we would have starved we always found a way to get something but we weren't going to have a Thanksgiving dinner that's for sure certainly not a feast of any sort and now my mom and dad at the time were fighting like cats and dogs and saying things that once you say them you could never take him back the kind of stuff I'm talking about and my mom was screaming and father about how he couldn't even take care of his own family and it was horrible I have a younger brother and younger sister I'm the oldest so I was trying to keep them from hearing this conversation and then a miracle Abbot bang on the door I'm the oldest they're screaming so I go answer the door and answer the door and standing there is this giant man I was his little boy and he's holding this huge box of food and beside him on the ground was a black pot with an uncooked turkey in it and he said is your father home and I said just one moment okay I was like unbelievably aforethought this is a gift from God this is gonna change it all this could make my mom and dad happy it's gonna be a believable so I go my father's screaming at my mother through a closed door to the bedroom door and I said dad there's a guy at the door he was cool you answer the door I said I did he's got to see you as I kind of tease guitar stacking gotta come so he said fine he made one last yell at her and he walks to the door and I'm waiting there just can't waiting to see his face and my dad opens the door on his man standing there with this big box of food and my father did not get happy he looked in this man and he raised his voice to when he said look we don't take charity and then he took the door to slam it in the man's face but the man was a good-sized man he put his foot there and smacked his foot down back home he said sir sir this is not charity everybody else tough times somebody knows you're having a tough time and they want you to have a magical Thanksgiving I'm just the delivery guy he said please take this my father said we don't take charity went to slam it again and this time the guy put his shoulder against it so he couldn't it and my father steer him it's like he's two males starting to get this intense mode and one just trying to give a gift and I'm freaking and then the guy said something that I'll never forget moments I wish he hasn't said but he found a way to force my father he's hold this thing he looked at me and then he looked at my dad and he said don't make your family suffer because of your ego now my dad's level of energy increased but he was also trapped you get it so he took the food slammed it on our table and slammed the door in the man's face and everyone thank him and I had naught to do part of me wanted to cry part of me was crushed and I watched my father storm off and went on back to scream at my mother and I remember that day just thinking you know I don't understand and years and years later I began to understand a little bit what I be understand is that you look at a person's life and it's like so much life you could be joyous about like I wanted to smile you know I mean even now I can remember it I want to smile about this great gift but now I couldn't even smile because it would make him angry and then I thought you know years I figured out it our whole life is shaped by decisions that's what we've talked about today right but there's three decisions you're making every moment you're alive and the way you make these three decisions shapes your destiny first decision we're all making every moment is what are you going to focus on what are you going to focus on and you know I realized that my father's life in my life ended up very different because we made that day three decisions very differently he decided to focus on the fact that he has not fed his family and the second question you gotta decide every moment you're alive including this moment what are you to focus on second question as you're focusing on what does this mean what does it mean and the bottom line on meaning is if you think about it you get to make up the meaning and most people pick the worst one don't they that day my father decided to focus on back he hadn't fed his family I know what meaning again because he sent it out loud over and over again that he was worthless because he's not taking care of his family and then the final most important decision you make every moment you're alive what am I going to do what am I going to do and I'll tell you we decided to do he decided to leave our family shortly thereafter which at the time was it was the worst experience of my life it was the most crushing experience I felt that's been so many years now I don't have the same feelings and part of it as three years ago he passed away but at the time I knew no greater pain my family knew no greater pain I couldn't understand why I would leave I loved him so much and my life turned out very different than him I was the only one to go to his funeral no one else in the family would go nobody want to be part of it he died alone of a disease called connective tissue disorder and I can tell you right before his death he got the lesson because he looked at many said son he said I was a bastard I didn't connect with anybody and look what I'm dying of it's unbelievable so that same day I made three decisions I decided to focus on the fact there was food what a concept I like that but what changed my life was the meaning I gave it I decided that day that what this means is that strangers care and if strangers care about me and my family I decided what I was going to do is I was going to care about strangers and that completely changed my life I promised myself someday I do well enough to do this for other families like was done for me and I didn't wait till I was you know wealthy to do it I did my first one when I seventeen I remembered our seventeen I had my own car I had some money and I decided go on the greatest shopping spree in my life at that point as I was gonna go shop for two families for Thanksgiving and I was going to go do four families was done for me so many years before it was the most euphoric experience I took two baskets I went to the manager of the place I told him I was going to do and I said I want you to give me a discount you be my partner gave me 10% cheap bastard right but it was so cool I got two of everything right because I want to get a food for a family for two three days and have an unbelievable feast then I called this church in the barrio area and I said listen I want to go take care of some families that are too proud to come to the church and get food so they might suffer can you recommend some families they gave me two families so then I wrote a note because I thought you know what I'm gonna put on old jeans and a t-shirt I'm going to deliver this I'm not going to get the acknowledgement but I do want to see their faces right so all go is the delivery boy which is easy I look like one and but I wrote this note I wrote I don't want to get upset like my father did so I wrote this note and I said this is a gift from a friend please know that you're loved I want you to have an extraordinary Thanksgiving you deserve it please accept this gift and then I put under it I said if you can someday do well enough to do this for one other family and pass on the gift but love a friend and then I realized I was going to an area that was more Latino and I don't speak Spanish so I thought I got a friend to write on the back and Spanish so I could flip it around if there was challenge so I got one of my buddy's old vans so I need a little room put all the groceries in and I drove to this house and it was not what I expected it was more I got to this house and I got two bags of groceries and I banged on the door door opened and this woman about this tall it stares up at me like this right and I said hi and it was very honest she was beginning English and she was let out a scream when she saw the food and by the way this woman had five children and a husband what I didn't know is the husband had left her three days before with no money no food and five kids so I got these back so she screamed and she grabbed me sucked pulling me neck and like kissing running right I said no no no I said the delivery boy delivery boy and I was she'd understand a word I'm saying so I reached in my pocket and I gave her the note flipped it over she got it in Spanish and she started a ball so then she came and start kissing me get us no no I'm the delivery boy I know you know trying to show her and she goes no no gift from God gift from God so now I'm trying not to bawl so I'm like you know where do I put this and I'm doing everything I hold it together like smiling but I want to cry and she just pointed wasn't a big house it's like a room so I went over and I put the stuff on there and just as I'm trying to put stuff on there I hear these screams all of a sudden BAM BAM two boys hit me one leg than the other these two little guys just tack on me right when they saw it when they saw the food they went crazy when I saw the pumpkin pie it was over decides to come out with me come out with me and so they came out we kept bringing these groceries in I'm telling you it was like I don't know describe he was the most euphoric fun passionate loving was like they're my little brothers and help that's we brought all stuff in they were laughing and it lit up and then you know I done it all it was time to go and I didn't want to go and they didn't want me to go this one little boys wouldn't let go of my leg just kept looking up to me and hugging me I was like you know but I had to go make the other delivery so I I turn this woman I said you know I've got to go you know and she said okay whatever her language was I don't know what it was but I knew it meant okay right so I went to leave and then she grabbed my arm and she started tears in her eyes and I and I said I wanted to say you know Happy Thanksgiving but I don't know Spanish so I went Feliz Navidad figured it was close and she started lashing from crying the laughing right and it's a grab gave me this big hug and the kids giving his hugs and I never I got out and I walked off they were all staying on the porch I got this little band and I drove it out and turn it around and as I would turn around I looked in the rearview mirror and I was feeling all this emotion building in my body and I looked in the mirror and I saw mama standing in the porch with her kids all the kids my mama sitting there crying hysterically and smiling from ear to ear and I couldn't keep it together I just I was right there stopped in the street I started bawling uncontrollably and I remember just thinking you know this is beautiful thing you know why is this making me cry and you know why is this great thing why am I so emotional about this and then I got it I realized in that moment that the worst day of my life my father leaving could actually be the best day of my life because if I hadn't had that experience I wouldn't be here today and now because of that I'm get to live this life I have the desire and the drive and the want to give him this way and so I've really realized that the worst day was the best day that that was God's gift the gift wouldn't have been there he would have stayed there's an old country song that says thank God for unanswered prayers it's a story about this man once his prayer finds out later on it wasn't fulfilled so so I tell you I tell you the story for a couple reasons one is if you want to change your life figure out how you're worse today what's your best bet you'll change everything because it is if you look for it if you find the deeper meaning it is you know there's something in you that wouldn't be there without it and the second reason is because I want to recruit your soul not for your money or business I want to recruit you in this action of going making a difference I want to recruit you for you because I know if you go do a few these things you'll get hooked and you'll make it a ritual I'll change your life you know whatever things you do in your life this is what it's really about and you know it won't be long before they'll be Thanksgiving here and we still do this you know I start out the first year I've had two families in the next year I've had four I'm going to double it next year I did eight which was a lot of work and I didn't tell anybody I was doing because I wasn't doing it for acknowledgement as doing this is right but after a while I thought I could use some help so I got my friends together so you know what they're just going to have in Turkey let's give thanks let's go build baskets with food great stuff let's deliver to people then we'll come and have a big dinner we'll talk about we're grateful for and have our dinner and so we did it and it became a ritual and it grew and then I built some companies and all my employees got involved and then 14 15 years ago I started my foundation last year we fed over a million people now in nine countries around the world now on Christmas advanced given 40 days in experience right thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so I thank you for your applause I wasn't telling you for that reason I want to recruit you and you can give your money but I'd much prefer if you would just go deliver the food because I'll tell you what's great you will be changed by that it's easy to give money but we enter an environment you give you don't give as the giver you go with the delivery person but you're the really the one that made it it will absolutely change your life

Channel: Jeff Colantuoni

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Length: 14min 6sec (846 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 10 2013