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Monday, December 1, 2008
Trying To Survive
Ben Carson was just another kid trying to survive.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll."
Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out and read two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right.
Yes, of course he had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so.
It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men
Curtis an engineer,
Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life. She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation
maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way,
don’t give up when it gets tough
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll."
Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out and read two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right.
Yes, of course he had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so.
It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men
Curtis an engineer,
Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life. She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation
maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way,
don’t give up when it gets tough
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Just fix it
Lori laughed as the baseball pinged off the fence.Rounding 2nd base and then 3rd, she knew she'd make it to home plate.
Her dark hair flying in the wind, she laughed again.
A friendly but fierce competitor, Lori determined to win every time she played and even more than that, to do what was best for the team.
Hitting home plate, her teammates cheered.
Her family whooped!
And she felt loved. Lori's Hopi Indian name is Köcha-Hon-Mana meaning White Bear Girl.
Piestewa, comes from a word meaning "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain."
This fact would bring comfort to her family one day, but neither they nor she knew that on the day she won the baseball game.
"Mom, Dad, I've decided I have to do something.
I have to take care of Brandon and Carla.I can't do it here in town.
There's too much unemployment.
I have joined the Army.
"Lori looked expectantly from one parent to the other.
They knew without speaking the thoughts on the other’s mind.
Both Lori's dad and Grandfather had served.
They knew the security the military offered its members.
Lori and her children deserved a better life.
They also knew of its personal challenges and the ultimate danger.
The year?2003 and it was the Iraqi War Lori went to fight.Lori left behind her beloved children, family and Hopi Nation.
She left Arizona, deployed first to Fort Bragg, TX and then into Nasiriyah, Iraq.Later, in an interview, a comrade spoke of that fateful day in Iraq.
"I asked her to switch places...
We knew the drive back was even more dangerous than the first go round
.She knew she'd be driving us straight into enemy fire.
She maneuvered the Humvee like it was second nature.
I asked her to switch.
She said no.
She was committed to finishing her duty.
Completing her assignment.
That was Lori." As part of a support unit of clerks, cooks, and repair personnel, they first got lost through the dry torrid, desert in Southern Iraq.
Then they were ambushed.
The Army called what hit them as "a torrent of fire.
"At first it looked like Lori might out maneuver the enemy fire.
She even stopped to help out two other vehicles with soldiers... as was their duty.
By their very nature, this Unit was a support unit... their mission: repair.
Their motto "Just Fix It."However, a large grenade propelled by a rocket exploded into the driver's side of the Humvee that Lori drove.
Three other soldiers died on the scene.
Lori suffered a head injury and was taken as a prisoner of war.
Back in Arizona when the news of the attack on her Unit and the captured soldiers aired, the citizens, family and friends put up signs declaring:
"Put your porch light on, show Lori the way home.
" As they waited out the long days and nights to hear any news of her, they even spelled her name on a hillside with stones outside her hometown.
Tragically, White Bear Girl, Lori Piestwa, died of her injuries.
She was the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military.
Honored in many ways, from the coveted Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal, posthumously promoted from Private First Class to Specialist, to monuments, highways, and memorials throughout the U.S., Lori fulfilled her duty with the ultimate sacrifice.
In the Hopi tradition, the souls of the dead return to earth in a different form.
Not as angels but as moisture from the sky.Not long after she died, in the hot desert of Iraq, it snowed in April in Lori's home town of Tuba City, Arizona.
As her last name means "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain" her family believes that this snowfall was White Bear Girl's spirit bringing them a message of peace.
She had returned to them after all...
she always did what she said she would do.
She came home.
Wow, I hope that today you catch the determination of White Bear Girl. She loved and lived with principle and belief in doing the right thing.
I know that it is tempting sometimes to take the easy way out or to find a short cut.However living with yourself when you've cheated yourself can be very tough.
I know Lori would probably agree with me when I say, to the best of your ability, "Just fix it."
Do it the right way and you'll never go wrong.
Lori believed in her Army family as much as she believed in her own children...
I want you to know that you can do whatever you have to do today.
Her dark hair flying in the wind, she laughed again.
A friendly but fierce competitor, Lori determined to win every time she played and even more than that, to do what was best for the team.
Hitting home plate, her teammates cheered.
Her family whooped!
And she felt loved. Lori's Hopi Indian name is Köcha-Hon-Mana meaning White Bear Girl.
Piestewa, comes from a word meaning "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain."
This fact would bring comfort to her family one day, but neither they nor she knew that on the day she won the baseball game.
"Mom, Dad, I've decided I have to do something.
I have to take care of Brandon and Carla.I can't do it here in town.
There's too much unemployment.
I have joined the Army.
"Lori looked expectantly from one parent to the other.
They knew without speaking the thoughts on the other’s mind.
Both Lori's dad and Grandfather had served.
They knew the security the military offered its members.
Lori and her children deserved a better life.
They also knew of its personal challenges and the ultimate danger.
The year?2003 and it was the Iraqi War Lori went to fight.Lori left behind her beloved children, family and Hopi Nation.
She left Arizona, deployed first to Fort Bragg, TX and then into Nasiriyah, Iraq.Later, in an interview, a comrade spoke of that fateful day in Iraq.
"I asked her to switch places...
We knew the drive back was even more dangerous than the first go round
.She knew she'd be driving us straight into enemy fire.
She maneuvered the Humvee like it was second nature.
I asked her to switch.
She said no.
She was committed to finishing her duty.
Completing her assignment.
That was Lori." As part of a support unit of clerks, cooks, and repair personnel, they first got lost through the dry torrid, desert in Southern Iraq.
Then they were ambushed.
The Army called what hit them as "a torrent of fire.
"At first it looked like Lori might out maneuver the enemy fire.
She even stopped to help out two other vehicles with soldiers... as was their duty.
By their very nature, this Unit was a support unit... their mission: repair.
Their motto "Just Fix It."However, a large grenade propelled by a rocket exploded into the driver's side of the Humvee that Lori drove.
Three other soldiers died on the scene.
Lori suffered a head injury and was taken as a prisoner of war.
Back in Arizona when the news of the attack on her Unit and the captured soldiers aired, the citizens, family and friends put up signs declaring:
"Put your porch light on, show Lori the way home.
" As they waited out the long days and nights to hear any news of her, they even spelled her name on a hillside with stones outside her hometown.
Tragically, White Bear Girl, Lori Piestwa, died of her injuries.
She was the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military.
Honored in many ways, from the coveted Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal, posthumously promoted from Private First Class to Specialist, to monuments, highways, and memorials throughout the U.S., Lori fulfilled her duty with the ultimate sacrifice.
In the Hopi tradition, the souls of the dead return to earth in a different form.
Not as angels but as moisture from the sky.Not long after she died, in the hot desert of Iraq, it snowed in April in Lori's home town of Tuba City, Arizona.
As her last name means "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain" her family believes that this snowfall was White Bear Girl's spirit bringing them a message of peace.
She had returned to them after all...
she always did what she said she would do.
She came home.
Wow, I hope that today you catch the determination of White Bear Girl. She loved and lived with principle and belief in doing the right thing.
I know that it is tempting sometimes to take the easy way out or to find a short cut.However living with yourself when you've cheated yourself can be very tough.
I know Lori would probably agree with me when I say, to the best of your ability, "Just fix it."
Do it the right way and you'll never go wrong.
Lori believed in her Army family as much as she believed in her own children...
I want you to know that you can do whatever you have to do today.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Five star diamond company
Life was different back in the 1800's.
Charles Tiffany was only 15 when he completed his formal education and went to work managing a general store for his father who owned a Connecticut cotton mill.
He worked long, hard hours – learning new things every day.
Over the next 10 years he was given some additional education, as well as working in the office of the cotton mill, but by the time he was 25 he still had nothing to call his own – and very little money.
It was time to change his life – time to create his own success.
I can imagine the conversation he had with his friend, and new partner, John Young.
"We're going to New York!"
"To do what?" John asked warily.
"We're going to open our very own stationery & notions store on Broadway!"
By now John was looking at him like he'd lost his mind… "With what money?"
"I've talked my father into loaning us $1000."
"$1000! That's all? How are we supposed to start a new business and have money to live on with just $1000?"
Charles had the perfect answer. "It's either that or be stuck here for the rest of our lives."
The two young men went to New York… It was 1837.
The first three days of business in their new store on Broadway were certainly not promising.
Tiffany & Young raked in a dismal $4.38 in sales.
No matter.
With their sights set on success, the young men worked hard to provide products people wanted.
Within two years they were selling glassware, cutlery, porcelain, clocks and jewelry.
They had also learned a tremendous amount.
They knew to search for every opportunity.
They knew to take advantage of ways to expand their business.
They knew each year would bring new challenges and opportunities.
But Charles still had no idea what they would become.
In 1841 they added a new partner because they needed someone to travel abroad to increase their purchasing power.
Six years later they recognized a growing market for quality gold jewelry and began to manufacture their own.
Just one year later, in 1847, Europe was rocked by disturbances.
One of the results was diamonds declining 50% in Paris.
They took advantage of the situation to purchase huge amounts – gaining huge profits back in America.
4 years later they began the manufacture of sterling silver ware.
All the while they were moving into bigger and better storefronts.
The Civil War became another opportunity for them.
They supported the raging war by manufacturing swords and other articles the Union army needed.
In 1867 they moved into the famous store still on Broadway – Tiffany's.
The young man who had left Connecticut to open a stationery store became the owner of a $2 Million dollar business (the equivalent of a multi-billion dollar business now) that was acknowledged as the greatest jewelry company in North America.
There are so many "Success Secrets" to learn from Charles Tiffany.
The one that stands out most to me is the knowledge that your original dream may be just a shadow of its true potential.
Tiffany never dreamed of being the greatest jewelry company in North America.
He simply moved toward every opportunity – keeping his mind and heart open to every possibility
What is your dream?
Follow it.
Take the steps to bring it to reality.
But don't let your own ability to dream limit you.
Give the dream room to grow.
Give it every opportunity to become more.
Take advantage of your lessons learned and continue to forge ahead.
You never know what it can become.
Charles Tiffany was only 15 when he completed his formal education and went to work managing a general store for his father who owned a Connecticut cotton mill.
He worked long, hard hours – learning new things every day.
Over the next 10 years he was given some additional education, as well as working in the office of the cotton mill, but by the time he was 25 he still had nothing to call his own – and very little money.
It was time to change his life – time to create his own success.
I can imagine the conversation he had with his friend, and new partner, John Young.
"We're going to New York!"
"To do what?" John asked warily.
"We're going to open our very own stationery & notions store on Broadway!"
By now John was looking at him like he'd lost his mind… "With what money?"
"I've talked my father into loaning us $1000."
"$1000! That's all? How are we supposed to start a new business and have money to live on with just $1000?"
Charles had the perfect answer. "It's either that or be stuck here for the rest of our lives."
The two young men went to New York… It was 1837.
The first three days of business in their new store on Broadway were certainly not promising.
Tiffany & Young raked in a dismal $4.38 in sales.
No matter.
With their sights set on success, the young men worked hard to provide products people wanted.
Within two years they were selling glassware, cutlery, porcelain, clocks and jewelry.
They had also learned a tremendous amount.
They knew to search for every opportunity.
They knew to take advantage of ways to expand their business.
They knew each year would bring new challenges and opportunities.
But Charles still had no idea what they would become.
In 1841 they added a new partner because they needed someone to travel abroad to increase their purchasing power.
Six years later they recognized a growing market for quality gold jewelry and began to manufacture their own.
Just one year later, in 1847, Europe was rocked by disturbances.
One of the results was diamonds declining 50% in Paris.
They took advantage of the situation to purchase huge amounts – gaining huge profits back in America.
4 years later they began the manufacture of sterling silver ware.
All the while they were moving into bigger and better storefronts.
The Civil War became another opportunity for them.
They supported the raging war by manufacturing swords and other articles the Union army needed.
In 1867 they moved into the famous store still on Broadway – Tiffany's.
The young man who had left Connecticut to open a stationery store became the owner of a $2 Million dollar business (the equivalent of a multi-billion dollar business now) that was acknowledged as the greatest jewelry company in North America.
There are so many "Success Secrets" to learn from Charles Tiffany.
The one that stands out most to me is the knowledge that your original dream may be just a shadow of its true potential.
Tiffany never dreamed of being the greatest jewelry company in North America.
He simply moved toward every opportunity – keeping his mind and heart open to every possibility
What is your dream?
Follow it.
Take the steps to bring it to reality.
But don't let your own ability to dream limit you.
Give the dream room to grow.
Give it every opportunity to become more.
Take advantage of your lessons learned and continue to forge ahead.
You never know what it can become.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
When you are faced with conflict
I know people who always appear confident and in control of their situation.
Do you think they really feel as comfortable on the inside as they look on the outside?
Or are they just the type who "fights" rather than "flees"?
I suspect the pulses of the fighters are racing and stomachs are churning just like those who would rather run from conflict or uncharted territory.
But perhaps the fighter's pulse and stomach are reacting to challenge and stimulation, rather than the fear of defeat.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter why your pulse is racing or your stomach is churning, as long as you face the fear and the situation with resolve.
No one's going to know the difference, except you.
I have a friend who says when he dies he wants to be found with his fingernails embedded in the last hurdle of life.
In other words, he intends to be working, growing and learning right up to the end.
He has every intention of grappling with new ideas and challenges until his last breath is taken.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
I'm with my friend and Teddy Roosevelt.
I'd rather be trying and failing, daring and facing new challenges and demands, than watching passively from the sidelines of life.
I'd rather know the thrill of something faced and achieved, and the joy of expending myself on a great and worthy cause.
What about you?
Where do you stand in that game of life?
You can choose today to stand and face your fear and began working toward your dreams or stay paralyzed by fear watching your life fade in the distance.
The courage to move comes from looking at how far you have come. . . not how far you have to go.
It really doesn't matter whether you or I succeed or fail, what matters is that we are active participants in life.
I am willing to feel my heart beat and my pulse quicken as I move toward a better future.
Will you join me?
Will you make a move to live the life you want?
I hope you will.
And today, you can make the moves you need to make
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterli. Do you think they really feel as comfortable on the inside as they look on the outside?
Or are they just the type who "fights" rather than "flees"?
I suspect the pulses of the fighters are racing and stomachs are churning just like those who would rather run from conflict or uncharted territory.
But perhaps the fighter's pulse and stomach are reacting to challenge and stimulation, rather than the fear of defeat.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter why your pulse is racing or your stomach is churning, as long as you face the fear and the situation with resolve.
No one's going to know the difference, except you.
I have a friend who says when he dies he wants to be found with his fingernails embedded in the last hurdle of life.
In other words, he intends to be working, growing and learning right up to the end.
He has every intention of grappling with new ideas and challenges until his last breath is taken.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
I'm with my friend and Teddy Roosevelt.
I'd rather be trying and failing, daring and facing new challenges and demands, than watching passively from the sidelines of life.
I'd rather know the thrill of something faced and achieved, and the joy of expending myself on a great and worthy cause.
What about you?
Where do you stand in that game of life?
You can choose today to stand and face your fear and began working toward your dreams or stay paralyzed by fear watching your life fade in the distance.
The courage to move comes from looking at how far you have come. . . not how far you have to go.
It really doesn't matter whether you or I succeed or fail, what matters is that we are active participants in life.
I am willing to feel my heart beat and my pulse quicken as I move toward a better future.
Will you join me?
Will you make a move to live the life you want?
I hope you will.
And today, you can make the moves you need to make
Replies.Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Even worse
Ben Carson was just another kid trying to survive.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and an even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson – the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll." Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons – often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential – to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out – and read – two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer – all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books – learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right. Yes, of course had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so. It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men – Curtis an engineer, and Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life.
She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation, maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way, don’t give up when it gets tough.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and an even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson – the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll." Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons – often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential – to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out – and read – two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer – all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books – learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right. Yes, of course had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so. It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men – Curtis an engineer, and Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life.
She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation, maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way, don’t give up when it gets tough.
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Replies.Monday, September 15, 2008
Formerly overweight homemaker
Jean’s background certainly didn’t indicate tremendous success for the future.
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
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