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“Life,” Al says, “is like a book. You are the author. Accepting the book you're writing, Believing in your purpose and Caring about others makes for worthwhile reading.”
 
 

 
WINNERS DON'T QUIT
 
Keynotes, Brown Bags, a Testimony and one Workshop
 
 
Meeting challenges head on—the theme of Al’s presentations—is first about strategy then about using a Winners Don't Quit attitude to power your way through tough situations.
 
While retaining core Principles, each of the first three talks can be customized to fit  different Audiences. Aside from emphasizing different aspects, the fourth talk, my testimony, is what it is.

 
 
  
 
 

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 Winners Don’t Quit (& Quitters Don’t Win)
 
(45 or 60 Minute Keynote)
                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Learning Objectives: 
 
        1. Audiences are inspired to believe in their own possibilities. 
 
        2. Audiences learn to change external circumstances by changing internal realities.
 
To deal with the aftermath of his life changing motorcycle crash, Al developed a powerful formula for  living happy.   A simplified version of the formula he elaborates on and mixes humor into is as easy as A-B-C. 
 
 Accept …the book you have been given. 

  • Discover new ways to read and write.

  • Making the most of your circumstances by developing your abilities and talents strengthens your confidence to write a happy ending.

  • Focus on what you have, not on what you don’t have.

Believe … you can write a happy ending.  

Transform your external circumstances by first transforming your internal reality. A couple of quick steps in creating a pleasant personal     reality are:

  • Trust that whatever you are experiencing right now is exactly right for you right now.

  • Lighten up! Don’t take yourself so seriously.

     

These two steps are key to Believing you have the power to endure anything and you have the right to live a life that includes laughing  and loving.
 
 Care …about others. 

  • Caring about others, paying attention to them, is the greatest gift we are privileged to give.    

  • Caring about someone besides ourselves changes our focus, so we can write happy endings.     

Winners Don’t Quit Accepting, Believing, and Caring...

 
This is Al’s signature keynote. He shares his life story in a way that helps people believe in their own possibilities.
   
 
 
Note: A marketing packet, PowerPoint, and handouts are available for this keynote presentation.
 
 
 

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Delighting in Differences

(30 Minute Brown Bag)

Learning Objectives:
 
        1. The comfort level we have with others’ differences has more to do with who we are than with who they are.
 
        2. Helping others makes our own differences seem less significant.
 
        3. The more comfortable we are with our own differences, the more comfortable we can be with other people’s differences.
 
 
 
A motorcycle crash changed Al Foxx from an active 18-year-old to a person imprisoned in a brain-injured, half-paralyzed body. In finding freedom from the tyranny of differences, he went from ordinary to extra ordinary. His long journey of rehabilitation, with help from therapists, college teachers, and friends, taught Al to accept and even appreciate his differences.
 
His personal experience of living with differences makes “Delighting in Differences” a talk that audiences find inspiring, motivating and funny. Al's humor, gained by doing award-winning stand-up comedy, opens people's minds to new possibilities. Al’s down-to-earth story and insights about differences changes the way we look at life, at everyone else and at ourselves. Everyone is different; everyone is special.
 
This quick and fun talk discusses heavy topics in a way that lifts people’s spirits as they realize their own possibilities and the possibilities of others, especially those with disabilities.
 
 

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Disabling Disability Myths
 
(45 or 90 Minutes - Keynote or Workshop)
 
Learning Objectives:
 
1.     By including bits of my personal experiences, listeners will see that, like themselves, people with disabilities can be competent, capable people with dreams and goals and senses of humor.
 
2.      To provide clear and comprehensive steps and tools that can be used to eliminate discomfort associated with or discrimination against people with disabilities.
 
3.      Expose the three myths that can color how people with disabilities are seen.
 
The following are the type of questions that will be answered in both the keynote and the workshop.
 
  • What if a speech impaired person says something to you that you don’t quite understand?
  •  When should you offer assistance to someone who is physically impaired?
  •  How can you help someone without calling undue attention to yourself or them?
 
There are definite definable strategies for interacting with people who are living with visible mental and/or physical disabilities. Invisible disabilities are tougher to identify the existence of and therefore more difficult to respond to in a helpful way. While the strategies covered can smooth interaction with people who have “invisible” disabilities, some of the covered strategies can be used with benefit on everyone interacted with.
 
 "The Four Agreements from the book by Miguel Ruiz are examined and my rehab journey is looked at through the lenses of The Four Agreements as we consider how their presence or absence affects our relationships with disabilities, with others and with ourselves."
 
Al helps attendees feel comfortable and lighthearted despite heavy topic being discussed and the necessary truths being learned.
 

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Sing Anyway A Crash Course in Accepting God's Plan

 

 (30 Minute Testimony)

 

altIf you can't sing, be the song...

 

Al’s story is really a song. When it begins, there is a happy, strong and busy tempo. Al is a physically active and mentally strong hot tar roofer. A few days before his 19th birthday, his Yamaha 650 Special crashes into a truck that ran a stop sign, his

life's tempo changed. Al lost his voice because his vocal chords fused together during his month long coma. He also lost the use of the left side of his previously strong body. Dark depression, resentment and self pity replaced the happy, joyous freedom he had taken for granted...  

 

My childhood was filled with spiritual education through my parents guidance and love. I am extremely grateful for being brought up by Godly parents, but I am not an ordained pastor nor am I a Bible teacher. I'm just a guy with a dramatic, funny and true story about how God has helped me out.  Just before my crash, and for quite a while afterward, I was concerned mainly with myself.

Over the past 30 years, God has used my rehab journey to teach me five things: 

  1. Winners live in that sweet spot because they know "It's not all about them."  
  2. Winners live in that sweet spot because they "Care about others."
  3. Winners live in that sweet spot because they "Know how to love and be loved."
  4. Negative emotions that overpowered me for so long have been replaced by a happy, joyous freedom.
  5. God hasn't brought me this far to drop me now.

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These realizations and James 1:2-4 and 2:14 are why my story is appropriately called: Sing Anyway. 

 

 

Al Foxx
Winners Don't Quit Association
P.O. Box 2347
Woodinville, WA 98072
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