To get what want…give it away first!
20 July 2009Welcome back!
Growing Good Corn
Growing Good Corn
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.
“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improves.
So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
Author: Unknown
You can practice this principle starting by waking up each morning, asking yourself what you need? For example: If you felt sad, than you need joy. If you felt unappreciated, than you need appreciation. Once you defined you need joy, than make it a point to bring some joy to everyone see. Or if you determine you need appreciation, than tell as many people as possible what is it about them that you appreciate.
Getting the idea? You will find that by giving out what you wished to have in your world, you will receive what you wish in your world. Whatever you want, start giving it out first. If you want love, give out love. If you want happiness, make more people happy. If you want to be wealthy, help more people build wealth. If you want more out of life, give more.
Those who understand the true meaning of success, are the ones who share.
Giovanna Garcia
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How to make a wise decision?
19 July 2009
Make a Wise Decision.
It’s a popular myth that women are more emotional than men. Perhaps in some circumstances this might be true, or maybe women tend to be more outwardly emotional, but in my experience as a success coach, I’ve found that nearly everyone—women and men alike—let their emotions guide them when it comes to making decisions.
Even people who are logical and who weigh the facts, figures, pros, and cons of a situation before making a decision still tend to make their decisions based on emotion at the end of the day. This is a problem when it comes to achieving success. You can’t focuses on what feels good now and not what is going to help you in the long term to find success and happiness. You will need a good balance between being emotional and being logical when it comes to making decisions.
The truth is we are all emotional creatures. A big part of having passion and having that fire inside of us to succeed is having emotion. However, too much of anything is a bad thing. Making good decisions requires you to get the right mix of emotion and logic. You first must know and understand your emotions. Then you have to separate yourself from them to make a logical decision with all the tools at your disposal.
When I still owned my computer networking company I encountered this dilemma many times. I was working in a male-dominated industry and any time a client or competitor challenged me in a business meeting—whether they were questioning me or my product—my first instinct was to be defensive and angry. That is a perfectly natural emotion to have. But as a business woman I had to let that go, take a deep breath, exhale, release the emotion and look at the situation logically. That meant understanding my emotions, but also stepping into the other person’s shoes and understanding their emotions. That is a huge part of making good decisions: being an empathetic thinker.
We rarely make any decision in a bubble. Our decisions impact those around us and oftentimes the decisions we have to make are in response to someone else’s actions or words. If you can first understand your emotions, then step into the other person’s shoes to understand their emotions, you now have all the tools to make a well-informed, rational decision.
In those business meetings where I was challenged, I wouldn’t allow myself to get angry. Instead, I would step into my client’s shoes. Why weren’t they happy with the product? Was it because I had not explained it well enough? Was it because it didn’t provide the services they needed? Was it the price? Why weren’t they happy with me? Did they feel threatened because I was a woman? Was I overlooking one of their needs as my client?
Asking all these questions requires having both emotion and logic. You must be empathetic and understanding. If you can do that, you will have all the tools at your disposal to make a good decision. More importantly, you’ll have already distanced yourself from your own emotions by seeing the other person’s emotions. This will make it easier to make the right decision. Don’t go for the quick fix and what feels good now, but instead go for what in your mind and heart you know is the right decision for you to be successful and happy in the long run.
Giovanna Garcia
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Working smarter the right way.
16 July 2009
Stack of flyers
A little 8 years old boy name Peter and his best friend got their first job. Peter’s mother has a friend name Suzie, who is a realtor; she hired the two boys to pass out flyers in the neighborhood.
The two little boys were told to put one flyer to each house. Peter is the kid who does everything the right way, and his friend is the kind of kid who is smart and he always look for short cut.
Each work day, Ms. Suzie hanged out two stacks of flyers to the boys and they each took one side of the street.
Peter took his stacks of the flyers and he walked up to each house and tucks the flyer under the door mat. Some houses didn’t have a door mat and Peter would look for rocks to hold down the flyers. Peter’s process took a while and his friend would always finish before him.
One day Ms. Suzie called both of the boys in for a meeting. As it turns out Peter’s friend was tossing the flyer to each house without securing the flyer against the wind. Ms. Suzie was getting phone calls from the entire neighborhood, because her flyers were blowing up and down street.
The boys have to go back and clean up the street. As a result they lost their job.
While they were picking up loose flyers, Peter asked his buddy what happened. His friend told him that after the first couple of times passing the flyers, he started to think about how he can finish faster? The boy said, “It took too long to tuck the flyer under each door mats and then there are those who have no door mat and I had to look for ways to secure the flyers…it was just taking too long!”
Do see people like Peter and his friend at your work places? A guy like Peter takes his time to do his work the right way. Or a guy like Peter’s friends smart enough to think of ways to improve productivity but sacrifice the quality…working smarter the wrong way.
A better solution for the boys would be to take 15 minutes to attach a rubber band to each flyer beforehand. This will create a quick and easy system for them to secure the flyer to each house, by hooking the rubber band to each home’s door knob. That is working smarter the right way!
Giovanna Garcia
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7 year old earn $10,000 dollars and build orphanages in Haiti.
15 July 2009
Isabelle Redford is a 7 year old little girl who loves to draw, but her art is more than just kid stuff.
She is an artist. Her drawings are good enough to earn some real money but she isn’t spending it on toys or candy. Isabelle draws cards and raise money to help the orphans.
It all started when Isabelle was 5, her mother Kelly Redford told her a story about twin girls in Haiti whose mother died during childbirth. Isabelle immediately asks her mother, “What can we do, we have to help.” Isabelle brainstormed and thought of a way to help by making cards because she loves to draw.
She started by selling cards at garage sales and to her friends and family. Her sales took off and, now, the cards are sold through the Global Orphan Project in Kansas City, Mo., a charity that builds and runs orphanages around the world.
Isabelle has earned more than $10,000 — half of that was enough to build an orphanage in Haiti and she was able to visit her own orphanage in person. When Isabelle arrived to the Isabelle Redford House of Hope, the girls were chanting her name and they gave her the warmest welcome.
Isabelle spent two nights with her new friends at her House. “I also loved the girls in my house,” she said. “I was glad that six girls had a place to live. We were just friends immediately and I, we didn’t have to speak the same language. We just were having fun and we laughed and played a lot.”
One orphanage is not enough for Isabelle. She continues selling her artwork and collecting money to put toward her next project.
Her mother said, “I thought we’d get to $5,000 and then she’ll feel like she’s accomplished something and she’ll be done. We got to $5,000 and the amount of money that she received was actually more than she needed. … And she quickly said, ‘Well, no Mom, this is a perfect amount for the start of my second home.’”
The Global Orphan Project is about to break ground on another Isabelle Redford house — this one in Malawi, Africa.
“I really want to do this all over the world where they really need it,” Isabelle said.
Her mother is not surprised. “Her heart and her compassion and her love is just so huge, and really from as early back as I can remember,” she said, “she’s always been full of compassion.”
Isabelle is changing the world ‘one card at a time’. Anyone can make a difference, big or small, young or old. All you need is the willingness to do so.
Giovanna Garcia
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Rules to live by
14 July 2009
Rules
Rules for being human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life on planet earth. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. “Failures” are as much a part of the process as “success.”
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it–then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” becomes a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that again looks better than “here.”
8. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas: you do the painting. Take charge of your life–or someone else will.
10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract–therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn’t help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.
12. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others: as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.
Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott (edited)
Live your life well, with whatever rules you have. Just live up to your best.
What are your rules?
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Who is accountable for you?
13 July 2009
Accountability
When I was in my mid twenties. I started my company in my living room with a $300 investment, making 100 cold calls a day. Within six months we were doing well enough to move into a shop. We had our ups and downs, of course, but over the long term we grew and within a few years we had a tangible product and were successful enough where I decided to buy a BMW. The salesmen opened up the showroom for me and I drove off in a brand new car from the showroom floor, something that a few years before would have seemed crazy! The company was doing well, and being the person that was in charge, I took accountability for our success. That’s the easy part, right? Everyone likes to take credit for the good times.
Well, shortly after buying the car, I made a bad decision that hurt the company. It wasn’t so bad that I needed to sell the new car to make ends meet, but I knew it was my fault, and that I had to take accountability for my actions. You can’t take credit for the good times if you’re not accountable for the bad times. So, I stuck that brand new car in the garage for six months and drove around my old Junker until I’d mended the mistake I had made. I didn’t need to do that, of course. I was the boss after all, but in my mind I needed to take accountability for my mistake, otherwise I’d lose my edge and quit making good decisions. Because what it comes down to is when you quit taking accountability for your actions, you’re taking fate out of your hands. You are letting someone else take accountability for your actions and when you do that, who knows what the outcome will be?
Sadly, too often I see people with no sense of accountability. They are so worried about protecting themselves or putting someone else on the hook. Therefore, nobody is accountable of anyone’s action.
I once slipped on a broken bottle in the grocery store and the store employees came rushing to help me, worried and eager to do whatever they could to appease me. They were worried I would sue the store, of course, and that they would get in trouble. And while I understand that it’s their responsibility to make sure the store isles are clean, it was honestly my fault that I tripped. I simply was not paying attention to where I was walking. I was embarrassed. The last thing I was thinking about was suing the store, but that’s often the way our society thinks and it’s this type of attitude that keeps us from taking control of our lives, this attitude that we can blame someone else or sue someone else when things don’t turn out our way.
We must take responsibility for our actions, good or bad, otherwise we’re letting someone else (or no one!) be in control of our lives.
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A story that will inspire you to take some risks and break some rules.
11 July 2009
Billy
Billy
A number of years ago (1983-1987), I had the opportunity to play the character of Ronald McDonald for the McDonald’s Corporation. My marketplace covered most of Arizona and a portion of Southern California.
One of our standard events was “Ronald Day.” One day each month, we visited as many of the community hospitals as possible, bringing a little happiness into a place where no one ever looks forward to going.
I was very proud to be able to make a difference for children and adults who
were experiencing some “down time.” The warmth and gratification I would
receive stayed with me for weeks. I loved the project, McDonald’s loved the project, the kids and adults loved it and so did the nursing and hospital staffs.
There were two restrictions placed on me during a visit. First I could not go
anywhere in the hospital without McDonald’s personnel (my handlers) as well
as hospital personnel. That way, if I were to walk into a room and frighten a child,
there was someone there to address the issue immediately. And second, I could not physically touch anyone within the hospital. They did not want me transferring germs from one patient to another. I understood why they had this “don’t touch” rule, but I didn’t like it. I believe that touching is the most honest form of communication we will ever know. Printed and spoken words can lie; it is impossible to lie with a warm hug.
Breaking either of these rules, I was told, meant I could lose my job.
Toward the end of my fourth year of “Ronald Days,” as I was heading down a hallway after a long day in grease paint and on my way home, I heard a little voice. “Ronald, Ronald.”
I stopped. The soft little voice was coming through a half- opened door. I
pushed the door open and saw a young boy, about five years old, lying in his dad’s arms, hooked up to more medical equipment than I had ever seen. Mom was on the other side, along with Grandma, Grandpa and a nurse tending to the equipment.
I knew by the feeling in the room that the situation was grave. I asked the
little boy his name - he told me it was Billy - and I did a few simple magic tricks
for him. As I stepped back to say good-bye, I asked Billy if there was anything else I could do for him.
“Ronald, would you hold me?”
Such a simple request. But what ran through my mind was that if I touched him,
I could lose my job. So I told Billy I could not do that right now, but I suggested that he and I color a picture. Upon completing a wonderful piece of art that we were both very proud of, Billy again asked me to hold him. By this time my heart was screaming “yes!” But my mind was screaming louder. “No! You are going
to lose your job!”
This second time that Billy asked me, I had to ponder why I could not grant
the simple request of a little boy who probably would not be going home. I asked
myself why was I being logically and emotionally torn apart by someone I had
never seen before and probably would never see again.
“Hold me.” It was such a simple request, and yet…
I searched for any reasonable response that would allow me to leave. I could not
come up with a single one. It took me a moment to realize that in this situation,
losing my job may not be the disaster I feared.
Was losing my job the worst thing in the world?
Did I have enough self-belief that if I did lose my job, I would be able to pick
up and start again? The answer was a loud, bold, affirming “yes!” I could pick
up and start again. So what was the risk?
Just that if I lost my job, it probably would not be long before I would lose first my car, then my home…and to be honest with you, I really liked those things. But I realized that at the end of my life, the car would have no value and neither would the house. The only things that had steadfast value were experiences.
Once I reminded myself that the real reason I was there was to bring a little
happiness to an unhappy environment, I realized that I really faced no risk at all.
I sent Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa out of the room, and my two McDonald’s escorts out to the van. The nurse tending the medical equipment stayed, but Billy asked her to stand and face the corner. Then I picked up this little wonder of a human being.
He was so frail and so scared. We laughed and cried for 45 minutes, and talked about the things that worried him. Billy was afraid that his little brother might get lost coming home from kindergarten next year, without Billy to show him the way. He worried that his dog wouldn’t get another bone because Billy had hidden the bones in the house before going back to the hospital, and now he couldn’t remember where he put them.
These are problems to a little boy who knows he is not going home.
On my way out of the room, with tear-streaked makeup running down my neck,
I gave Mom and Dad my real name and phone number (another automatic dismissal for a Ronald McDonald, but I figured that I was gone and had nothing to lose), and said if there was anything the McDonald’s Corporation or I could do, to give me a call and consider it done.
Less than 48 hours later, I received a phone call from Billy’s mom. She informed
me that Billy had passed away. She and her husband simply wanted to thank me for making a difference in their little boy’s life.
Billy’s mom told me that shortly after I left the room, Billy looked at her and
said, “Momma, I don’t care anymore if I see Santa this year because I was held by Ronald McDonald.”
Sometimes we must do what is right for the moment, regardless of the perceived risk. Only experiences have value, and the one biggest reason people limit their
experiences is because of the risk involved.
For the record, McDonald’s did find out about Billy and me, but given the
circumstances, permitted me to retain my job. I continued as Ronald for another year before leaving the corporation to share the story of Billy and how important it is to take risks.
Author Jeff McMullen
Somethings are more important than rules…
Giovanna Garcia
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Passion or Obsession?
10 July 2009
Passion or Obession
Passion is one of the most important keys to success in any arena of life. When you have passion in your life you wake up excited about your day. You make the right decisions, you get more done in less time, and things flow for you. If you harness your passion, people will believe in you, trust in you, and want to support you. No greatness can happen without a person’s passion behind it. But what exactly is passion?
Passion is a love of something. It is a strong feeling of desire to achieve something. In a way, it is almost like an obsession. It guides your thinking, it dictates your logic, it motivates you, it propels you to continuously take action. You can’t put your passion down, you can’t wait to get up in the morning and pursue it. You can never get enough of it, and you would do it whether you got paid or not. It’s that special something…
That special something can’t be a material object, though. That’s the difference between passion and an unhealthy obsession. Passion is based around a goal, an internalized goal, a core value. When you participate in your passion, it gives you a sense of achievement and accomplishment.
An obsession is just wanting something really badly. For example, wanting the newest and hottest fashion items so badly that it dominates your thinking and dictates your actions is not about passion. If getting new shoes and handbags and outfits drives you and motivates you in your everyday actions, you are obsessed and that’s not good. On the other hand, loving fashion and wanting to do whatever you can to be around it, whether it be designing clothes, blogging about the newest products, starting your own retail outlet, or anything else: that is a passion. It’s a subtle difference, but an important one.
Your passion can’t be a desire for an object. It has to based around an internal goal, and it has to be something you determine for yourself. You shouldn’t “adopt” a passion because it’s trendy and popular. Your passion needs to be something that you genuinely feel strongly about. When you find and harness that genuine passion, you’ll have the drive to continuously pursue it, you’ll have the determination and the tenacity to forge on, and you will find a way to succeed because your motivation will push you toward your goals.
Passion is the underlying power beneath everything you do. Without it, you cannot find true success.
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Lessons from Eagles
9 July 2009Eagles symbolizes greatness; traditionally Eagles associated with nobility, authority, pride, fierceness, freedom and courage. We love and respect these special birds of prey. The question is what can we learn from the Eagles.
An Eagle with his prey.
PRINCIPLE 1
Eagles fly alone at high altitude and not with sparrows or other small birds. No other bird can goes to the height of the eagle. Stay away from sparrows and ravens.
Eagles fly with Eagles.
PRINCIPLE 2
Eagles have strong vision. They have the ability to focus on something up to five kilometers away. When an eagle sites his prey, he narrows his focus on it and set out to get it. No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.
Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacle and you will succeed.
PRINCIPLE 3
Eagles do not eat dead things. They feed only on fresh prey. Vultures eat dead animals, but eagles will not.
Be very selected with what you read and listen to. Do you only research.
PRINCIPLE 4
Eagles love the storm. When clouds gather, the eagles get excited. The eagle uses the wings of the storm to rise and is pushed up higher. Once it finds the wing of the storm, the eagle stops flapping and uses the pressure of the raging storm to soar the clouds and glide. This gives the eagle an opportunity to rest its wings. In the meantime all the other birds hide in the leaves and branches of the trees. We can use the storms of our lives (obstacles, trouble, etc) to rise to greater heights.
Achievers relish challenges and use them profitably.
PRINCIPLE 5
The Eagle tests before it trusts. When a female eagle meets a male and they want to mate, she flies down to earth with the male pursuing her and she picks a twig. She flies back into the air with the male pursuing her.
Once she has reached a height high enough for her, she lets the twig fall to the ground and watches it as it falls. The male chases after the twig. The faster it falls, the faster he chases it. He has to catch it before it
falls to the ground. He then brings it back to the female eagle.
The female eagle grabs the twig and flies to a higher altitude and then drops the twig for the male to chase. This goes on for hours, with the height increasing until the female eagle is assured that the male eagle has mastered the art of catching the twig which shows commitment. Then and only then, will she allow him to mate with her.
Whether in private life or in business, one should test commitment of people intended for partnership.
PRINCIPLE 6
Eagles prepare for training. When about to lay eggs, the female and male eagle identify a place very high on a cliff where no predators can reach; the male flies to earth and picks thorns and lays them on the crevice of the cliff, then flies to earth again to collect twigs which he lays in the intended nest. He flies back to earth picks thorns and lays them on top of the twigs. He flies back to earth and picks soft grass to cover the thorns, and then flies back to pick rugs to put on the grass. When this first layering is complete the male eagle runs back to earth and picks more thorns, lays them on the nest; runs back to get grass and rugs and lays them on top of the thorns, then plucks his feathers to complete the nest.
The thorns on the outside of the nest protect it from possible intruders. Both male and female eagles participate in raising the eagle family. She lays the eggs and protects them; he builds the nest and hunts. During the time of training the young ones to fly, the mother eagle throws the eaglets out of the nest and because they are scared, they jump into the nest again.
Next, she throws them out and then takes off the soft layers of the nest, leaving the thorns bare. When the scared eaglets jump into the nest again, they are pricked by thorns. Shrieking and bleeding they jump out again this time wondering why the mother and father who love them so much are torturing them. Next, mother eagle pushes them off the cliff into the air.
As they shriek in fear, father eagle flies out and picks them up on his back before they fall, and brings them back to the cliff. This goes on for some time until they start flapping their wings. They get excited at this newfound knowledge that they can fly and not fall at such a fast rate.
The father and mother eagle supports them with their wings. The preparation of the nest teaches us to prepare for changes; the preparation for the family teaches us that active participation of both partners leads to success.
The being pricked by the thorns tells us that sometimes being too comfortable where we are may result into our not experiencing life, not progressing and not learning at all. The thorns of life come to teach us that we need to grow, get out of the nest and love on. We may not know it but the seemingly comfortable and safe haven may have thorns.
The people who love us do not let us languish in sloth but push us hard to grow and prosper. Even in their seemingly bad actions they have good intentions for us.
PRINCIPLE 7
Eagles rejuvenate. When the Eagle grows old, his feathers become weak and cannot take him as fast as he should. When he feels weak and about to die, he retires to a place far away in the rocks. While there, he plucks out every feather on his body until he is completely bare. He stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers, then he can come out.
We occasionally need to shed off old habits & items that burden us without adding to our lives.
By Dr. Myles Monroe (Edited)
Giovanna Garcia
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What would you do if you win the Lottery?
7 July 2009
Jane Surtees a single mom of 5 from Whitby, North Yorks had dreamed of winning the Lottery for a long time. Then one day, her dream came true and she won the Lottery of £7.5 million jackpot and she immediately started to plan her trip to African.
Jane had a wish to help the countless starving children in Ethiopia that she had seen on television over the years. So, when Jane won the Lotto; she travelled to Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa and headed straight to the Kidane Mehret Children’s Home, which cares for 120 orphans ranging from 3 years to 17 years old.
At Kidane Mehret Children Home, Jane met 2 Maltese nuns Sister Lutgarda and Sister Camilla. For over 40 years this orphanage has been taken in orphaned and needy children from the street and provides them with shelter, food, clothing and love.
Because Kidane Mehret is run purely on donations, therefore, it can only feed the kids 3 small meals a day. Once a week the children’s treat is to have meat. Living condition is cramped and books and toys are scarce.
Jane immediately donated £50,000 and has pledged a sizeable annual commitment to support Kidane and a project called Beyond The Orphanage (BTO).
Founded by Australian Geoff Hucker, BTO provides shelter, education, counseling and medical treatment for orphans who cannot find homes and those forced to leave their orphanage on reaching maturity.
During her five-day trip, Jane met 15-year-old Workeneh Fanetay one of 50,000 children on the streets in Addis Ababa. Workeneh lost his parents to tuberculosis when he was just four; he had to bring up his two-year-old brother alone. He earned money by running errands on a building site and helping neighbors.
Since joining BTO 18 months ago, Workeneh and his brother Yismalem have moved into a modest mud house, planted vegetables on their plot and both attend school.
An estimated five million Ethiopian children are orphans - 800,000 of whose parents died of Aids or HIV-related causes, a figure that is steadily rising. In the past, famine, conflict and other diseases contributed to Ethiopia’s massive orphan population.
Certainly, Jane wining the Lotto has changed her life. But for her to witness how the nuns achieved so much with so little, it is humbling and seeing these orphanage’s children, how contented the kids seemed despite having so little; that had also made a huge impacted in Jane and have forever changed her.
Jane’s new life as a philanthropist is a world away from her former one as a single mom to her 5 children Rachel, Richard, Naomi, Leona and Jasmyn. Jane has treated herself to a new four-bedroom house in her hometown, another five-bedroom one in York and three BMWs for her, Rachel and Richard.
Jane will continue to share her Lotto money with the children in Ethiopia.
What would you do if you win the Lottery? Will you share your money?
To support Jane’s Ethiopian charities, go to beyondtheorphanage.org and fcj-kmch.org.
Full story at The Sun UK
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
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