by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 29, 2017 | Perserverance, Refusing to Quit
No other industry has as many new products as the book business. In the United States more than one million books are published annually, including about 600,000 that are self-published. Book sales in this country peaked in 2007 and since then are down almost 40 per...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2017 | Adversity, Perserverance, Persistence, Success
Nocona, Texas, population 3,033, was once the “Leather Goods Center of the Southwest.” The two-stoplight town, located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, has been home to a number of boot and belt companies dating back to the cattle drives 150 years ago. Most of the...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2017 | Against the Odds, Overcoming Obstacles, Perserverance
It began with increasing clumsiness, tripping on the stairs, and by the time Stephen Hawking went home from college for Christmas break in 1963, his parents noticed he occasionally slurred his words. The shocking diagnosis came a few months later. The twenty-one-year...
