[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: Thinking Positive

Wed Sep 1 12:40:56 UTC 2021

From: Larry Perry <larryperry at performancepress.ccsend.com> On Behalf Of Larry Perry
Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:10 AM
To: mmoore11 at kent.edu
Subject: EXT: Thinking Positive

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Letter from Larry

Wednesday

September 1, 2021

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone:

Back in my heyday, I used to do a lot of public speaking around the 

country to audiences in the hopes of motivating them to live their lives

in a positive way to achieve their own success in life. In the next few

days I will share with you some of the stories I used in the talks. I

hope you learn and enjoy them.

THINKING POSITIVE 

Back in the early 1900'a. a church bishop was accustomed to paying 

an annual visit to a small religious college. On one such visit, the 

bishop engaged in an after dinner conversation with the college's 

president. The religious leader offered the opinion that the millennium 

could not belong in coming since everything about nature had been 

discovered, and all possible inventions had been made.

The college president disagreed, stating that he felt the next fifty years 

would bring an amazing discoveries and inventions. In his opinion, 

human beings would be flying through the skies like birds within a 

relatively short time.

"Nonsense!" shouted the bishop. "Flight is reserved for the angels!"

The bishop's name was Wright. He had two sons---Orville and Wilbur!

The stories of most of the truly great achievements of history can 

almost always start with the words, "They said it couldn't be done!" 

Remember, Winners are like rivers. They find---or make---a deep 

channel and follow its course from where they are to where they want 

to go. Stand beside a great river sometime and think about how 

powerful it is. It can generate electricity, move the earth, and provide

 a great setting for great wealth.

Why?

It concentrates all its movement in one direction!

What are you doing with your life regardless of your age? You are

 never to old to pursue your dreams: Remember that losers are 

known for the projects they start, but winners are remembered 

by the projects they complete.

 Take a look at these track records:

(1) Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally 

succeeded.

(2) Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete

 of all time and famous for setting the home run record at the time....

ALSO holds the record for the most strikeouts!!

(3) Grandma Moses who became one of the world's greatest artists, 

didn't begin her painting until she was 78 years old.

(4) Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bach's 10,000 word 

story about a "soaring" seagull, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, before

 Macillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than

 7 million copies in the US alone.

(5) Bill Gates is now one of the world's wealthiest individuals, but 

he didn't earn his fortune in a straight line to success. Gates entered

 the entrepreneurial scene with a company called Traf-O-Data, which

 aimed to process and analyze the data from traffic tapes (think of it

like an early version of big data). He tried to sell the idea alongside 

his business partner, Paul Allen, but the product barely even worked.

 It was a complete disaster. However, the failure did not hold Gates 

back from exploring new opportunities, and a few years later, he 

created his first Microsoft product,

(6) Steve Jobs was fired by his own company. Steve Jobs was an 

impressive entrepreneur because of his boundless innovations, but 

also because of his emphatic comeback from an almost irrecoverable

failure. Jobs found success in his 20s when Apple became a massive

empire, but when he was 30, Apple's board of directors decided

to fire him.Undaunted by the failure, Jobs founded a new company, 

NeXT, which was eventually acquired by Apple. Once back at Apple, 

Jobs proved his capacity for greatness by reinventing the company's 

image and taking the Apple brand to new heights.

In each of these cases, the winners were like the river...they

dug deep channels and moved in one direction! If they can

do it, so can YOU!

Remember:

You are a WINNER...and WINNER's Never lose 

and LOSER's Never WIN!!

May God place His Grace on you and yours and be thankful for 

what you have!!

Larry

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