Let Me Tell You About My Mother

I think a lot of people would say they have a great mother, but I want to say I have a GREAT MOTHER!

When looking at her life, she has overcome some things that most people only see in the movies. She is an inspiration to me to work hard and follow my dreams. She has always encouraged me to follow my dreams and to never look back. Words can’t express how much I love my mother!

Her History:

She was born in Nairobi (Kenya), she had 12 other siblings. Life in Africa was and still is rough; she was taught to work very hard from a young age. Now I know there are people here in the United States that works hard, but it’s different when you have to work very hard just to survive! Food is scarce in Africa and if she didn’t do her part, she wouldn’t eat (as well as numerous family members).

Even with the everyday work load, her mother (my grandmother) would always encourage her to work hard and study long in school. Her mother knew there was a better life out there, but you needed an education to access it. My mother was a good student and graduated High School with good grades. In Africa though, there is very limited space so getting into college is very difficult. Her brother (my uncle) was already in the United States, so knowing how hard it would be for her to go to college; he saved up some money and paid for her to come to college in the United States.

Her Tragedy’s:

My mother was nineteen years old when she arrived in the United States. She came here for college but still had that work ethic instilled in her, so all throughout college she worked and went through college debt free. It was here that she met my father and they were married. To be honest, it was a rough marriage for her. My father started off as a good man but became a loser; he was verbally and physically abusive to her. The whole time she supported the house as she went to school to become a nurse.

Eventually it got so bad that the police had to get involved and remove him, so she was a single mother with two kids going through school, and working. Wow! To support it all she held jobs as a C.N.A., and a teacher, until she graduated and was able to get her dream job as a R.N. It was a long hard road, but she accomplished her dream!

Her Triumphs:

Since then, she has remarried and we now have a beautiful, blended but united family. She works as a nurse but also opened a daycare. In order to make it successful, she would work in the daycare during the day, but work as a nurse during the night. To this day a lot of her shifts are 12 to 18 hours. She has recently closed the daycare to open a group home for elderly adults. The whole time that she has worked all these hours, I have never heard her complain once, I’m serious, not once! She sees what needs to be done and just does it; she’s a true inspiration to me and my children!

Her life and example of doing whatever it takes to achieve your dreams is one of the main reasons for me to write my book: TALES OF THE EVERYDAY WORKING MAN (and WOMAN). Too long we’ve been happy to settle for less in our work because even though we dislike the job: “there are other people who have it worse”. Look, those people and you can be doing the work that you are truly called to in life and that’s exactly what I talk about in:  TALES OF THE EVERYDAY WORKING MAN (and WOMAN).

Do you love what you do for work? This is not just another motivational book that has a lot of “great theories”, this book is real life wisdom from one of you. I didn’t write this in my office on the 10^th floor, I wrote this at my kitchen table.

The book will be out in mid-August, so please be ready to buy it and tell everyone you know about it! Very shortly I will also be launching a website, so stay tuned! As promised, here is the cover: