Friday, October 31, 2014

2 Famous Failures


2 Famous Failures Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln The First Failure Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was destined for failure. His school teachers accused him of being too stupid to learn anything. He was let go from his first two jobs for being unproductive. Then he turned to inventing, where for a while things weren’t much better. You know Edison, among other reasons, for inventing the light bulb. But Edison actually took 10,000 attempts to create a working light bulb. As the story goes, someone asked him how it felt to fail 10,000 times, to which Edison replied, I didn’t fail 10,000 times. Not even once. I succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.” The Second Failure Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a champion and he never gave up. Here is a sketch of Lincoln s road to the White House: 1816: His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them. 1818: His mother died. 1831: Failed in business. 1832: Ran for state legislature lost. 1832: Also
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Team Start Living: Enable a Country - Help Build a School


We are sponsoring a fundraiser to build a bottle school in Guatemala. Our goal is $500 by the end of the month. We will not only be helping them to build a school but training them to build future schools and buildings on their own. Even a couple of dollars will help ... http://rondeering.wistia.com/medias/hm37m643yq
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