by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
“There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. True courage is being afraid and going ahead and doing your job anyhow. Courage is the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.” Norman Schwarzkopf April 1993 –...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you’ll do it anyway. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out today. ...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 6, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Finding Hope, Uncategorized
“My friend, at one point or another, the sky will darken, the winds will rage and we will find ourselves in the eye of a storm. It is in the storms that God does his finest work, for in the storms he has our keenest attention. Max Lucado 2014 – Boise, Idaho: The...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Courage Under Fire, Iron-willed, Uncategorized
“Harriet Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery and defying slave catchers who put a $40,000 bounty on her head. This Black woman who stood five feet tall was utterly and completely fearless.” ...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2021 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Limitless Possibilities, Uncategorized
1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: Seventeen-year-old Cheryl Prewitt told her father she was thinking about entering the Miss Choctaw County pageant. “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 20, 2021 | Compassion, Finding Hope, Success, Uncategorized
July 1999 – Belleville, Michigan: Tammy and Rusty Stafford had been expecting the letter. The company where Rusty had worked for more than two decades had been sold. Rusty didn’t have a retirement plan, but the big boss, Bob Thompson, had promised that everyone would...
