He went on to say that how I lived from this point forward, and how I showed myself as a leader, would be my real test, not only to the corporation but to myself.

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This thinking led me to make consistently poor decisions about how I lived, what got my focus, and where my emotional energy was expended.

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That year I changed my career path to family medicine in the hope I could make a difference in how people lived and how they died.

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In a TV interview I saw not long ago, Cheech Marin spoke about how he lived near Jonathan Winters and would always see him in the supermarket.

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How would I convince her to check out a book about a small-town schoolteacher who lived quietly and died young, unknown beyond our rural Louisiana parish?

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And I think about the life that she lived and the life that lay ahead of her, and most of all, I think about how, when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now -- for Grace.

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