| uld you do if today after all the hard work on your job | | | | Lesson: Even when you are betrayed by your |
| and contribution to the companies bottom-line your | | | | employer look for the lesson. Your skills and talents |
| services were no longer needed? Your only source of | | | | have made money for your company those talents |
| income stopped dead in its tracks. Would everything | | | | can do the same for you. Don't get blinded by the |
| be ok for you and your family? Would life go | | | | situation. Look for the lesson. And once you find it take |
| uninterrupted or maybe even get better? Or would | | | | it make a profit for yourself. |
| time almost seem to stand still for a moment before it | | | | Question: What are you facing in the moment? Do you |
| started to come crashing in? | | | | see the glass half empty or full? What skills and talents |
| Well sadly, this week Ford Motor Company rewarded | | | | do you have that are transferable in starting your own |
| hard working Americans with pink slips due the | | | | business? |
| company's new campaign called, "The Way Forward." | | | | 4."The more you seek security, the less of it you have. |
| Can you believe it? The way forward for Ford is to | | | | But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is |
| sacrifice the lives of the very people that helped to | | | | that you will achieve the security that you desire," by |
| build the company. | | | | Brian Tracy |
| "We will be making painful sacrifices to protect Ford's | | | | Lesson: Most people stay in a job for the security of a |
| heritage and secure our future," Chairman and Chief | | | | guaranteed paycheck, benefits and retirement. |
| Executive Bill Ford said in a statement. "Going forward, | | | | However, when you do you give up time you can |
| we will be able to deliver more innovative products, | | | | never get back. And at the end you may never get |
| better returns for our shareholders and stability in the | | | | what you were promised. Be willing to take a risk on |
| communities where we operate." | | | | yourself and you can have all the things you want in |
| Is this guy for real? He has the nerve to talk about | | | | life and more. |
| protecting the heritage of Ford while thousands of | | | | Question: Are you playing it safe and as a result risking |
| people aren't sure where their mortgage is going to | | | | everything? |
| come from. | | | | 5."I had to make my own living and my own |
| It was hard for me to watch the news and read the | | | | opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for |
| stories about men and women who simply had no | | | | the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!" |
| idea of how they were going to support their family. | | | | - Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of |
| While talking to a friend who lives in Indianapolis he | | | | African-American hair care products and America's |
| shared how the plant closed that day. Thirty six | | | | first black female millionaire in 1919 |
| hundred jobs were gone in a blink of an eye. He said it | | | | Lesson: She was a woman who came from the |
| was devastating to his community. People were crying | | | | cotton fields of the South. From there she was |
| as they left the premises. Some people even left their | | | | promoted the wash tub. However, in her defining |
| cars in the company parking lot with signs on them | | | | moment she promoted herself into the business of |
| simply saying," Please take over payments." | | | | manufacturing hair goods and preparations. She didn't |
| And I keep hearing the economy is getting better...for | | | | wait for an opportunity she created one. |
| who? | | | | Question: Are you creating your opportunity or are you |
| As I reflected throughout the day I was reminded once | | | | simply hoping it will come? |
| again that as Americans we owe it to our families to | | | | 5."You can't make someone else's choices. You |
| take our lives back and build wealth from home. | | | | shouldn't let someone else make yours, "by Gen. Colin |
| Will you? | | | | Powell |
| There are five famous quotes which were shared | | | | Lesson: If you fail to make choices for your life |
| with me early in my life and have a great impact. Each | | | | someone else will and you may not like it. You have |
| one also came with a lesson. I hope they give you | | | | more control over your life when you take charge of it. |
| something to think about. | | | | Have a plan for yourself at all times. |
| 1."There is no future in any job. The future lies in the | | | | Question: Ask yourself, are you letting others make |
| man who holds the job." By George Crane. | | | | choices for you? |
| Lesson: Unless you own the business you have | | | | 6."Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America," |
| nothing. The power is in the ownership. | | | | by Ronald Reagan |
| Question: How much power do you currently have? | | | | Lesson: For some reason people have forgotten that |
| What might happen if your only source of income | | | | this country was not built on the backs of Fortune 1000 |
| stopped? | | | | companies. It was built on Entrepreneurship. Even |
| 2."Lessons From Corporate America: By the time you | | | | today, people are willing to swim over shark infested |
| make ends meet, they move the ends." Author | | | | waters to come to America...the land of opportunity. |
| Unknown | | | | Those born here or those who come and build a |
| Lesson: There is no loyalty in Corporate America. At all | | | | legacy for their family and give other opportunities to |
| times you must remember to look at what is in the | | | | develop are the forgotten heroes. |
| best interest of you and your family. Remember to | | | | Question: What is the legacy you want to leave for |
| mind your business not theirs. | | | | yourself and your family? |
| Question: Are you minding your business? Or are you | | | | What a difference it would have made if each of |
| so busy working, you're putting yourself at risk? Stop | | | | these employees had a Plan B in place. |
| and think. What plans should you be making before | | | | Another source of income is one the best insurance |
| they change the game? Now is the time to start | | | | policies you could have. |
| thinking about home based business ideas. | | | | What happened to the employees of Ford Motor |
| 3."Assume that whatever situation you are facing at | | | | Company could happen to anyone. Are you prepared? |
| the moment is exactly the right situation you need to | | | | One of the most important things you can do is |
| ultimately be successful. The situation has been sent to | | | | explore how you can create your own Plan B and |
| help you become better, to help you expand and | | | | work from home. |
| grow," by Brian Tracy | | | | |