Dien,

Thanks to the link to Dennis's story. Very inspiritional and instructive.

Here's another one you might enjoy:

Least Likely to Succeed

This story could be the inspirational story of the year.

Terri Bowerock's grades were so bad in school that her "friends" called her stupid. She was also voted least likely to succeed. Her grade school teacher used to whack her on the back of her head with a yardstick and call her "dumb as a cue ball." Good for the self esteem, huh. She admits getting through high school by cheating and was only reading at a third grade level when she "graduated." She wanted to get a job but couldn't because she couldn't fill out a job application. Could anyone have a worse "resume" for future success?

Turns out Terri wasn't stupid but she was very dyslexic. But instead of letting other peoples expectations of her ruin her life she became more determined that ever to take care of herself.

With her limited abilities, she created a business plan in crayon and borrowed $2,000 from her grandmother. Her idea? A furniture consignment store. Her experience in the furniture trade? Zero, Nada, Zilch. With some extra furniture from her mother as her first inventory, "Terri's Consignment & Design Furnishings" was born in 1979.

From those incredibly humble beginnings, Terri's little company grew to be the largest consignment furniture company in the world with annual sales of over $26 million and employs over 300 people. Her amazing success has not gone unnoticed. She's been named Entrepreneur of the Year by several magazines and received numerous other awards. She is also a popular motivational speaker and has appeared on numerous T.V. shows. She recently wrote a book called, Success It Can Be Yours!: How to Be a Millionaire by Using Your Determination.

Must be fun for her to go back to her old school reunions and see her old "friends" and teachers :-) www.consignanddesign.com

The next time you think that you can't be more successful because of your background or you aren't smart enough, I hope you will remember Terri's story. I sure will!

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Thanks,

Ron




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