This is the first in a series of videos of Clay Johnson (Castle & Cooke Mortgage) with Cheryl Knowlton.
Cheryl Knowlton: Hi everybody. I am so excited to be here today with one of my favorite people on the entire planet, Clay Johnson, with Castle and Cooke Mortgage. Clay, tell us your exact title.
Clay Johnson: So Area Manager, I’ve worked with Castle and Cooke now since 2009 and it’s just been awesome. We do some great things, even though we’re in 40 states, we’re based right here in Draper, Utah. So we do some great stuff all over but I love it because our corporate headquarters are right here.
Cheryl Knowlton: Wow. That is so, so cool.
Clay Johnson: Yes.
Cheryl Knowlton: So Clay and I are going to be doing a lot of videos together because he’s brilliant and fabulous and I want you all to get to know him and we’re going to be doing a series of videos on a lot of really fun and fabulous topics. But today, definitely want to talk to you about always doing the right thing no matter how convenient it is in the moment to make a different decision. And one of the things that I love so much about Clay is his ability to memorize like soliloquies of Shakespeare that are seven pages long. He’s not going to share all of that with you today, but he’s going to share a really important thought that he shared with many of you, and a lot of you have reached out and you’ve loved it. So now we want to share it with everybody. So Clay, take it away.
Clay Johnson: Well, I think all of us at one point, because we’ve been in the business for a long time and people will say, “Hey, could you do this?” And it’s a little bit off and you know it’s not quite right. So I think of this Shakespeare and it was a person who was pondering a horrible act. And as he pondered this, the thought came to his mind where it was he thought, “What win I, if I gained the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to gain a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, would with the scepter straight be stricken down?”
Clay Johnson: And I think about that and I think, sometimes we get so caught up in the moment and people feel pressured in doing things and just think, “Is it really worth it?” And it’s not. And so all that momentary satisfaction and to lose it all, it’s just not worth our license or anything else that we consider doing. That’s against that.
Cheryl Knowlton: Absolutely. Our lessons, our reputation-
Clay Johnson: Yes.
Cheryl Knowlton: And not to mention our integrity and our strength of character.
Clay Johnson: Right. Yeah. And when you’ve been here a long time like us, you want to maintain that reputation and that… you said character, absolutely
Cheryl Knowlton: It’s worth so much more than one commission. So that is your moment to think about right there, and yeah, I’d love your thoughts and to ideas on that. And we will see you next time.