Terry is the author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life to help people find and live their uncommon and extraordinary life. Join the community: SustainableExcellenceMembership.com Watch on YouTube “What are your 4 Truths and how did you come up with them?” 1. Control your mind or your mind is going to control you. 2. Embrace the pain and difficulty that we all experience in life and use that pain and difficulty to make us stronger and more resilient individuals 3. What you leave behind is what you weave into the hearts of other people. 4. As long as you don’t quit, you can never be defeated. The three F’s of Terry Tucker’s life: Faith, Family and Friends He has reinvented himself frequently over his professional career. "After I graduated from college at The Citadel, where I played NCAA Division One basketball against Michael Jordan and James Worthy at University of North Carolina in 1982, the year they won the championship, and played against Jim Valvano, coach of 1983 N.C. State National Champions. Right out of college, I was employed in the Marketing Department at the corporate headquarters of Wendy’s International in Dublin, Ohio. From there, I worked in hospital administration for Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. After getting married and moving to California, I became the Customer Service Manager for an academic publishing company in Santa Barbara. We then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, I became a police officer with the Cincinnati Police Department, where I was a SWAT Hostage Negotiator. Following a family relocation to Texas, I started a school security consulting business and coached high school girls basketball in Houston. "But my greatest challenge began in early 2012 when I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Acral Lentiginous Melanoma, which presented on the bottom of my foot. By the time the melanoma was detected, it had metastasized to a lymph node in my groin. I was treated at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center. After two surgeries to remove the tumors, I was put on a weekly injection of the drug, Interferon, to help keep the disease from coming back. "I took those weekly injections for four years and seven months before the Interferon became so toxic to my body that I ended up in the Intensive Care Unit with a fever of 108 degrees. "The Interferon gave me severe flu-like symptoms for two to three days after each injection. I lost fifty pounds during my therapy, was constantly nauseous, fatigued, and chilled, my ability to taste food significantly diminished, and my body constantly ached. There were times I felt so poorly and was in so much agony that I prayed to die. Each day was a struggle to use my mind to override my body's apathy and distress.I was no better at dealing with pain and discomfort than the next person. But every day, I found a way to survive. Join the community: SustainableExcellenceMembership.com