by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 6, 2018 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds
1930 – San Francisco: He weighed eleven pounds at birth, and the hospital nurses nicknamed him Samson. His father was a migrant steelworker and the family frequently moved up and down the West Coast as his father chased jobs during the depression. The family...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Compassion, Long Shots, Uncategorized
1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 19, 2018 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Refusing to Quit
On the day he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, his uncle nicknamed him Sparky after a horse named “Spark Plug” in the Barney Google comic strip. The nickname stayed with him and confirmed his destiny. Throughout his childhood, Sparky and his daddy shared a special...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 16, 2018 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds
He knew the pain of being labeled inept, incompetent, too old, and too unconventional. He was considered to be a B-rated cowboy movie yahoo who might have done okay as governor, but wasn’t smart enough to handle U.S foreign policy and certainly not capable of being...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 1, 2018 | Adversity, Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream
Summer 1997 – Los Angeles, California: Too disappointed to speak, fifteen-year-old Misty Copeland sat on the sofa in the living room of her ballet teacher, Cindy Bradley. Misty held the rejection letter from a top American ballet academy. It read, “Thank you for...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 29, 2018 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Getting Fired, Uncategorized
Sunday, December 18, 1983 – Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Head Football Coach Lou Holtz had just returned from church when Athletic Director Franks Broyles called and asked him to come by his office. When Holtz arrived, Broyles got right to the point, “Lou, I want...
