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MAY
2011
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from Go for No! |
| NOteworthy
Thought of the Month |
"Most
all the mistakes I've made in
my life, I've made because I was trying to please other people. Every
one of them. There is not one that I've made because I did something
because I really wanted to do this for myself." - Oprah Winfrey
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| This
Month's Trivia Question |
What
do chocolate chip cookies, liquid paper, kevlar, a dishwasher, and
windshield wipers all have in common? Find
out below!
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| This
Month's NOtivational
Article |
Madam
Walker's Story
by
Richard Fenton & Andrea
Waltz
You
ever feel like you should be able to succeed quicker? Easier? In this
"instant" world - where people get on a show and find fame and fortune
(American Idol for example) it is easy to fall into the trap of wanting
it all instantly and easily!
Sarah Breedlove was born was two years after the end of the Civil War,
1867, on a Louisiana cotton plantation. She worked as a sharecropper in
the cotton fields along with her parents, who were former slaves. They
slept on a dirt floor in a shack with no windows. At age 7, both her
parents died. She fled the area with a sister and at age 14 she was
married. She gave birth to a daughter, Leila, at age 18 and by age 20
she was a widow.
In 1894 Sarah married her second husband but that didn't last. Also
during the 1890s, she began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused
her to lose most of her hair. She experimented with many homemade
remedies and store-bought products including those made by Annie
Malone.
In 1905, Sarah became a sales agent for Annie Malone. She met and
married husband #3 (no it didn't last either!) Charles Walker. It was
now that she launched out on her own. She changed her name to
"Madam" C. J. Walker, founding a business selling
Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning
and healing formula.
"Madam C.J. Walker" went on a crusade
throughout the South, selling her products door to door, demonstrating
her scalp treatments in churches and lodges. She eventually had
"agents" all over the country working for her, creating a major product
line and hair care empire. She died unfortunately early, in 1919 at
only 51... one of the first black female millionaires it is
believed.
According to the story found on her website she was quoted as saying:
"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I
have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is
because I have been willing to work hard."
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| NOtable
Quotables from
the Go for No! Movie |
"Persistence
means not giving up, but persistence also means having faithful courage
that instills in our heart the kind of possibility thinking and that
frames our mindset with the potential for a better tomorrow." - Nido
Qubein
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| Richard
& Andrea
Recommend... |
... Success Magazine.
It's a gorgeous magazine full of interesting articles and the most
current happenings in the world of personal development to the timeless
truths from experts like John Maxwell, Jim Rohn, and so many others.
(Andrea had a short piece called "Reeling from Rejection?" in
the June issue!)
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| This
Month's Trivia
Answer |
They
were all invented by women.
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the Word! |
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