{"id":10907,"date":"2022-04-12T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:35:42","slug":"scott-burrows-texas-motivational-resilience-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottburrows.319heads.com\/scott-burrows-texas-motivational-resilience-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Burrows, Texas Motivational Resilience Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hang Tough: Texas <em>Can<\/em> Do, What Texas Has <em>Always<\/em> Done\u2026IF<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/texas-motivational-speaker\">motivational resilience speaker who loves the people of Texas<\/a>, what I have always admired about Texas is its attitude. It is a <em>can-do<\/em> attitude. However, as a keynote Texas motivational speaker I know that the pandemic crippled the economy and often, the optimistic vision of Texans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About a year ago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, the Texas State Comptroller\u2019s Office called the effects of the pandemic \u201cthe <em>steepest and fastest drop<\/em> in Texas economic activity in modern history.\u201d It put nearly 1.5 million Texans out of work across all sectors of the economy. It wasn\u2019t just about people, of course, but what it did to whole economic sectors.<\/p>\n<p>By the early part of 2021, sales taxes were down 5 percent, oil production taxes were down 46 percent, natural gas production taxes were down 25 percent, and maybe most telling, hotel occupancy taxes were down nearly 50 percent. Hotel occupancy is a reflection of tourism, conventions and business activity itself.<\/p>\n<p>Then at the end of 2021, the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em> published an article based on a poll by the Texas Politic Project. Joshua Blank, the research director of the study offered:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political context here is <em>we\u2019re not in a state of \u2018the Texas miracle.\u2019<\/em> This is not 2012, when we\u2019re sitting here pounding our chests saying, \u2018Hey, Texas is fine.\u2019 You can\u2019t look at these data and say, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019ve come out of the pandemic stronger.\u2019 Or that we\u2019re even out of the pandemic as far as all of its consequences are concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to many Texans, I am afraid the pervasive attitude has become more pessimistic than optimistic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/-\/media\/Documents\/research\/events\/2022\/22txoutlook.pdf\">posted their economic forecast<\/a> in February 2022, and while there are many cautions ahead, nevertheless Texas has a higher job growth than the U.S. overall, employment is expected to increase by 3 percent and manufacturing output has improved. So, <em>why is there so much pessimism?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It returns to mindset. Why has the indominable spirit, the vision we have of Texas being a forward looking, dynamic State, gotten so bogged down in gloom? That isn\u2019t <em>like<\/em> Texas. My conclusion about all this pessimism is not based on statistics but on if we are determined to have each other\u2019s backs, and to have the grit to lift each other up?<\/p>\n<p>I love the spirit of Texas too much, to see Texans losing hope in the future. I disagree that many Texans feel defeated due to politics or inflation or supply-chain issues. We have always overcome our differences to heal one another, we have endured economic ups and downs and certainly temporary shortages. We can certainly do it again.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, Texas has always had an abundance of creativity, bold optimism and energy, what is suddenly lacking is grit. I don\u2019t believe it has disappeared, I believe we have lost faith in our dreams, our vision and unfortunately, in each other. There <em>are<\/em> miracles in front of us, because the miracle <em>is<\/em> us. All that is lacking is the resilience to adversity and the determination Texas has always had. We owe it to ourselves to get up and go forward. IF we can do that, if we are resilient enough to trust in our futures, <em>nothing will stop us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Burrows, <a href=\"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/texas-motivational-speaker\">Texas Motivational Resilience Keynote Speaker<\/a>. For more information, please contact Scott today at: 520 \u2013 548 \u2013 1169, or through this website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang Tough: Texas Can Do, What Texas Has Always Done\u2026IF &nbsp; As a motivational resilience speaker who loves the people of Texas, what I have always admired about Texas is its attitude. It is a can-do attitude. 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