by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 8, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Never Lose Heart, Refusing to Quit
December 2011, Mt. Kilimanjaro Base Camp, Nalemoru, Tanzania: The porters and guides gawked and giggled. They had never seen a climber this large on Mt. Kilimanjaro. They called her Mama Kubwa, Swahili for ‘big woman.’ At 300 pounds, Kara Whitely was the biggest woman...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 5, 2018 | Never Give Up, Refusing to Quit, Success
In early 2008, Terry and Regina Locklear sat in the office at their sock mill, Emi-G Knitting, in Ft. Payne, Alabama, wondering what the future held for them. The mill was quiet, and except for a few key employees, all the workers were laid off. On the days the plant...
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 19, 2017 | Finding Hope, Limitless Possibilities, Persistence, Refusing to Quit
It was midnight, and 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber was sitting alone in the bus station in Pensacola, Florida. Before leaving with her latest boyfriend, his mother had given him money and told him to buy a ticket to his 14-year-old married sister’s house in Gastonia,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 5, 2017 | Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity, Refusing to Quit
As a kid Andy Andrews loved playing backyard football with his buddies and watching the game on television with his father. After several of his sixth grade classmates decided to go out for the school’s football team at Heard Elementary School in Dothan, Alabama, he...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 24, 2017 | Adversity, Getting Fired, Never Lose Heart, Refusing to Quit
On June 16, 1995, St. Louis Cardinals baseball team manager Joe Torre was at home when he got a call from team General Manager Walt Jocketty saying he was on his way to Torre’s house. Torre turned to his wife, Ali, and said, “I think we’re getting fired here.” After...
