Here is a piece that you absolutely must read. Its very inspiring and we all could use a little of that in our lives.
The Two Magic Powers | Frank Kern Internet Marketing:
Occasionally, the unthinkable occurs.I run out of the trash-fiction that I like to read – and as a last resort, I pick up “emergency reading material” like Oprah Magazine. (My wife gets it. Not me! I swear! I only read manly stuff like “Liquor Soaked Brawler’s Digest”.)
And usually, like I do with all magazines, I just like to read the ads. I was about 78 pages into it when, for some reason, I started reading an actual article about successful women.
And that’s when an amazing lady jumped out of the page at me. Her name is Madam C.J. Walker and here she is: And let me tell you, this lady could have… Kicked All Of Our Asses …Combined!
Here’s why: First, the article in Oprah didn’t say much about her except that she became extremely successful selling hair products door-to-door.
All I can really remember is it had her picture and then it mentioned her success. Now, being a former door-to-door man myself, I decided to check her out.Here’s what I found: First, she was born in Louisiana. On a farm. In 1865. Not really an ideal time and place to be born if you’re: 1. A woman.
2. African American.But she had plenty of additional challenges to face. She was an orphan at age seven. At age 14, she got married …reportedly to escape the abuse that she was suffering at the hands of her brother-in-law.
She became a mother at age 17, and a widow at age 20. She supported herself and her daughter by picking cotton on a farm, by being a laundress, and by working in a barber shop.
From what I can tell, the most she ever made during that time was $1.50 a day. But It Got Worse At around 25 years old, she began to develop a a condition that caused her to start balding. Can you imagine? As if she didn’t have enough to deal with…now the poor lady’s hair is falling out. (And we whine when our cell phone drops a call every now and then… kind of embarrassing.)
Anyway … Here’s Where It Gets Good It shouldn’t surprise you that she quickly became a student of “how to fix this damned balding problem”. In fact, she researched all kinds of treatments, and eventually discovered that sulfur could abolish the scalp disease that was causing people to lose their hair.(Apparently, people lost their hair a lot back then because they didn’t bathe as much. They would get some nasty scalp infection and their hair would fall out. But if you treated the problem with sulfur, you could knock it out.)
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