Clint Hurdle began sending daily notes of inspiration to a dozen colleagues in 2009 when he was managing the Colorado Rockies. He would offer support, discuss leadership ideas, and simply check in with them.
He might borrow a line from the website “The Daily Coach”: “The time is now to live more strategically and courageously while engaging in work that is filled with impact and meaning.” Or he might offer a list of his week’s resolutions such as, “Offer loving-kindness to my inner critic.”
Two years after guiding the Rockies into the World Series, Hurdle was fired. He was on a rare spring vacation when a Rockies staff member told him his words of wisdom were sorely missed. His wife asked him about filling the void. Clint took a walk and decided he would resume sending the notes.
His list now numbers more than five thousand people. You can subscribe as I did at his website.
Hurdle was a major league player for ten years and a manager for seventeen more before he was fired by the Pittsburgh Pirates last September. Now he is riding out the coronavirus pandemic with his family in Florida and scouring blogs and podcasts for things to share.
“When the numbers started growing more and more, I go, ‘This is crazy,’” he said. But, “Nobody’s emailed us back and said, ‘This is ludicrous.’”
That’s because it’s not.
Why encouragement is so essential
The Bible consistently calls us to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). We are to “let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” (Ephesians 4:29).
Solomon was right: “Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad”…
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