Comments on: What Keeps Me Going When I Need Inspiration

By: Delilah

Delilah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:19:56 +0000

What inspired me was my son Branden. I was in the Army for about four or five years. I was going no where. I had no plans, goals or desire to move up in the world. Then one day it hit me that I has 23 years old, about to get divorced and I had a baby boy. I had grown up very poor. We lived in a shack. I was so embarrassed of where I lived that I never brought any one home. Just to give you an idea of what a shack it was, in my bedroom there was bunkbed where I shared a room with one of my four brothers. There was a washer in my room that I used as a desk to do my homework. The house was only two bedrooms and one bathroom. In the bathroom you could see the ground from all the holes in the floor. We were poor. No air conditioners, not even window units or a heater in the winter.

It just hit me one day. I had always felt like I was dumb. My Mother had always told me out of all the kids she had I was the dumbest. Having my son inspired me to break all kinds of barriers I thought I never could. No one ever talked to me about promotion. I had to beg and plead on my own to find out information on how to move a head. I had made it to E-4/Specialist, and that was it. Like I said I had been in 4-5 years already. Now that I had a son I knew I had to get my life together. I started going to school at night and studying to go to the promotion board. I had to nag my boss just to get recommended to go. Several people told me I wasn’t cut out for the Army. I didn’t let that hold me back because when I looked into my son’s eyes I knew I was all he had and he was all I had. I could not fail him. I went to the promotion board and got recommended for E5/Sergeant and continued with college. With in one year I made Sergeant. Six months after getting promoted I said I am not stopping there. I once again had to beg and plead to go to the SSG/E6 board. With in two years I was a Staff Sergeant. I knew I couldn’t stop. I had to keep going. I wanted my son to have the childhood I never did. At twelves years in service, I finally got selected for E7/SFC. I was so proud of myself. I felt like I had finally come to a place where my son and I could finally be comfortable. He has always been my inspiration to do better. He was my inspiration when I was dead tired from working all day to struggle to get babysitters and go to college at night. I finished my AA degree and I still continue to work on my BA. I owe everything to him.

By: Peter Cook

Peter Cook — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:21:10 +0000

Hi,

Re what keeps you going I’d like to mention a Leadership Film just out via the UK Institute of Directors which has a number of inspiring contributors.

You can see it on http://www.business100.co.uk

Declaration of Interest: I have a cameo role in the film as the author of ‘Sex, Leadership and Rock’n'Roll – Leadership Lessons from the Academy of Rock’ – Business Leadership and Personal Development ‘tamed’ with popular culture!

Happy holidays

Peter

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By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:20:12 +0000

That is an awesome story! Thank you for sharing it, and congratulations on following your dream. :]

Kristen

By: GP

GP — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:31:21 +0000

As a fairly new innkeeper, have been frequently asked “how were you able to leave the comfort and security of the “known” and open a bed and breakfast” Early everyone dreams of moving to the country, but few people are crazy enough to actually do it. I’m one of those few. Actually when I was “knee high to a grasshopper “as they say, I had said I wanted to live in Montana because of its sense of adventure and limitleness. We finally had enough of the left coast and came up with the Montana move plan. Armed with an overenthusiastic sense of adventure, and lots of naivete, we ended up in our dream log home . It subsequently became the “dream home” after much renovating.

A combination of “feel the fear and do it anyway” and “The greatest of all victories is to be victorious over yourself” inspire me Along with Teddy Roosevelts ”
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat.” inspires me.

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