She was black, a divorced high-school dropout, living in a public housing project in Paducah, Kentucky, with four children under eight. The mother was in a seemingly hopeless situation. However, a wise man once said there are no hopeless situations, only some people who lose hope in their situation.
In his publication, "Better Families," Dr. J. Allan Petersen tells of an experiment conducted by a psychologist friend, Dr. Lacy Hall. Dr. Hall worked with a large number of people to determine the percentage of input into a human brain in the course of a day which was positive and what percentage was negative.
We do live in a hurry-hurry world, and despite all of the time-saving, labor-saving approaches and devices available to us today, despite all of the technology for streamlining, it seems that our wishes and desires require more additional time than the new technology and planning provide.
Somebody once said that success without adversity is not only empty, it is not possible. One of my favorite observations is that the only way to the mountaintop is through the valley, and in most cases, a series of valleys. I think of one of the greatest books ever written, Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan during a six-month imprisonment in Bedford Jail.
You can take these letters and make them say "no where," or rearrange them and they will say "now here." I'm talking about opportunity in America today. There are some who say it is "no where," but many others are saying opportunity is "now here." Needless to say, I agree with the latter because 80% of the millionaires in America today are first-generation millionaires.
Question: How would you feel if you lost an Olympic Gold Medal by two-thousandths of a second? You probably wonder, "How could they measure that closely?" Mathematically speaking, the distance you can swim in two-thousandths of a second is about the thickness of a coat of paint or about one-tenth of the time of a typical eye blink.
The Ziglar Show #303: Priming The Pump - should you ever stop?
Date: January 22, 2015
Show Host: Kevin Miller, Ziglar Brand Ambassador & Marketing Strategist (B.A.M.S.!)
Special Guest: Dan Miller of 48 Days, bestselling author of '48 Days To The Work You Love' - www.
From time to time someone gives another individual the ultimate compliment when he or she says, "You are a 'class act,'" or they simply describe a specific behavior and say, "That's class." From time to time a master of ceremonies will introduce an individual by saying, "If you go to the dictionary and look up the word 'class,' you will see a picture of your speaker this evening.
