They hammered home idea that "education - a degree - is something no one can take away from you". As newcomers to this country, O'Brien's parents searched for a sense of permanence. Education was a solid object in a changing life. They made sure all six children studied hard. All six graduated from college, and all six attended Harvard University, one of the best of America.
It's now O'Brien's turn to encourage others. She's a mentor to high school students in New York and speaks at colleges around the country. As the mother of four children, she understand the anxiety many parents and their kinds feel about the future. "I understand when people say we want our kids to do well."
The way to help your children excel, she said, is to focus on the schools. Try to come together as a community to improve local schools. Nothing has a more positive impact on a community than to have solid schools churning out well-prepared students, according to O'Brien.
But how do you lay the groundwork for your child's success? What if your children is not doing well in school? Or what if your child is getting mixed or negative messages about her abilities? O'Brien has a good antidote, passed down from her mother. Estella: "Don't let anybody dictate who you are." You decide who you want to be and what you what to do in life. And don't spend time lamenting what you don't have, she said. Pour your energy into planning for the future and getting ahead.
O'Brien was a motivated and popular student. Her older sister Maria, the law professor, was her role model by being the first in the family to go to Harvard. However, O'Brien is the first to say there is no magic formula for success. There is a well-known and well-worn path that will help get you there.
"HARD WORK CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT"
Success in your business
The success of your business reflects the amount of love you have for it. Want a more success business? Ask yourself if you can find a way to love it more. Love is the doorway, and you are the key. Remember: education changes everything.
Gleen Head
| Frank Bettger | <------------> | Benjamin Franklin |
|---|---|---|
| Enthusiasm: Force yourself to act enthusiastic. | Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. | |
| Order: Self Organization. Take more time to think and do things in the order of importance. | Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. | |
| Think of other's interests. | Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. | |
| Questions: Cultivate the art of asking questions. | Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. | |
| Key issue. The most important secret os salesmanship is to find out what the others fellow wants, and then help him the best way to get it. | Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e, waste nothing. | |
| Silence: Listen. Keep you avoid talking too much. | Industry - Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. | |
| Sincerity: Deserve confidence. | Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. | |
| Knowledge: Know your business and keep knowing your business | Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. | |
| Appreciation & Praise | Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear reseting injuries so much as you think they deserve. | |
| Smile: Happiness | Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body. Cloaths, or habitation. | |
| Remember faces and names. | Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. | |
| Service and prospecting. | Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. | |
| Closing the sale: action. | Humility.. |
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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