Thankyou Thomas
for such a wonderful honour. You've featured Adelaide really well, I grew up there and didn't know some of the things you mentioned. I suppose that's often the way though isn't it?
I've read some of the other posts you've made for others and you make the places sound so interesting. I very much admire the effort you put into making the people of the Adland Community feel recognized and appreciated.
It's so clear you do it for the love of it and from my own personal experience that's had a huge ripple effect out into my life as I believe it would in the lives of all the people whom you honour in your forums.
Personally, I'm not quite sure what I've done to have deserved such recognition so this has been a really big lesson for me.
Since Joe so wonderfully put my name forward and I was honoured with POTD the other week it has been like an awakening for me and I have a need to let you know how really impactful it's been in my life.
I've always believed and talked about to others, how just because you are you, you are special. The one thing I haven't done I've had to take stock and admit is that I've never actually taken that onboard personally.
I've done the classic thing that a very wise person once told me, I've read about it, I've heard about it, I've seen it and I've even talked about it and shown others how to recognize it within themselves. The one thing I've never truly done is allowed myself to recognize it within myself.
I will always be grateful to Joe and yourself to opening my mind to the possibility that maybe I might just be special, just because I am. Just like everyone is special just because they are.
That's the gift you give to people with the generosity you have with your time and your energy in putting together this forum.
I hope you realize how powerful this role is in the world in which you live. How that impacts the people you honour and how that ripples out to impact the lives of the people in the world in which they live.
You are an amazing man with a huge heart.