Jack’s Winning Words 8/15/18
“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”  (Henry Ward Beecher)  Scott Steinberg tells of people who turned disappointment into success,  J,K, Rowling, without a job, depressed…but “I’m still alive!”…then came Harry Potter!  Steve Jobs, fired by Apple because of poor sales.  Later came back and made Apple the richest company on the planet.  Michael Jordon, when cut by the high school basketball coach, saw it as a challenge, and set out to prove that the coach had made a mistake.  “You can be better than you are!”   ;-)  Jack

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  All great examples-if at first you don’t succeed, try try again!===JACK:  During your teaching days, did you ever use The Little Engine That Could, as an example for your students?===SHIRL:  Not for teaching school but for my children and grandchildren. I love that book!

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  This reminds me of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French journalist (Ed.of Elle magazine, and a popular newspaper columnist) who at 43 suffered  a stroke that totally paralyzed

his body. He had "Locked-in Syndrome, his mind active and alive, but unable to communicate this, until he mastered blinking ONE eyelid, and using this to denote what letter he wanted, with the help of a publisher friend, devised a way to write a best-selling book, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY about his condition!  What a wrenching, insightful book, showing his curiosity and love of life; I'll never  forget it!  He died 2 days after his book was published, before he could complete other projects he had in mind! So if you can move even a single eyelid, you have

something to give. No excuses! :-)  On a personal level, when my teaching job in Springfield didn't pan out as I had  wished, the subsequent teaching job for 20+ yrs. in a  nearby locale were much  easier, pleasanter and satisfying. I loved teaching!===JACK:  A Winning Words reader, with Lou Gehrig's Disease, operates his computer by visual movements.  Amazing!

FROM HONEST JOHN:  Beecher on the other hand followed great successes with a bad tumble....fell into adultery.===JACK:  Jesus is the only paragon that I know of.