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Never Give Up A Story To Keep You Going

Regardless of what other people think, if you have an idea that you truly believe in, don’t give up on it just because they tell you to. People are slow to accept change and new ideas can often seem stupid or unreasonable. However, if it weren’t for the people who took the first leaps and continued working to make their ideas happen, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the many luxuries that we have today. Here is a never give up story to help you keep going and to help you pursue your dreams, goals and ideas.

Howard Schultz and Starbucks – Raking in $19.6 billion last year in revenues, Starbucks has become a household name in North America, and around the world internationally. Who is the

man behind it all? Howard Schultz. In the 1980’s, Schultz noticed the coffee bar trend in Europe and wanted to bring the idea to North America. However, the concept was so bizarre at the time that people could not perceive the idea of serving coffee in paper cups over the counter, when they could just brew it themselves at home. Coffee business at the time primarily dealt with roasting coffee to sell for home brewing. In order to bring his new idea to life, he needed $1.6 million. Schultz met with numerous potential investors, but was shut down 242 times before someone gave him a shot. Without his persistence, selfconfidence and the strong belief he had in his own ideas, there would be no tall, no venti and no grande, today.

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AAA Dad

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For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5:30 a.m., except Sunday and went to work.

For 52 years he returned home at 5:30 p.m., like clockwork for dinner at 6:00 p.m. I do not remember my father taking a “night out with the boys,” nor do I recall my father drinking. All he asked from me as his daughter was to hold his hammer while he repaired something, just so we could have some time to talk to each other.

I never saw my father home from work ill, nor did I ever see my father lay down to take a nap. He had no hobbies, other than taking care of his family.

For 22 years, since I left home for college, my father called me every Sunday at 9:00 a.m. He was always interested in my life and how my family was doing.

I never once heard him lament about his lot in life. The calls even came when he and my mother were in Australia, England or Florida.

Nine years ago when I purchased my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent eight hours a day for three days in the 80-degree Kansas heat, painting my house. He would not allow me to pay someone to have it done. All he asked, was a glass of iced tea, and that I hold a paint brush for him and talk to him. But I was too busy with my law practice and I could not take the time to hold the paint brush, or talk to my father.

Five years ago, at age 71, my father spent five hours in the sweltering heat putting together a swing set for my daughter. Again, all he asked was that I get him a glass of iced tea, and talk to him. But again, I had laundry to do, and the house to clean.

Four years ago, my father drove all the way from Denver to Topeka, with an eight foot Colorado Blue Spruce in his trunk, so that my husband and I could have a part of Colorado growing on our land. I was preparing for a trip that weekend and couldn’t spend much time talking to Daddy.

On Sunday, January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me as usual, this time from my sister’s home in Florida.

We conversed about the tree he had brought me, “Fat Albert,” but that morning he called the tree “Fat Oscar,” and he had seemed to have forgotten some things we had discussed the previous week. I had to get to church, and I cut the conversation short.

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The call came at 4:40 p.m., that day, my father was in the hospital in Florida with an aneurysm. I got on an airplane immediately. On the way, I thought of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father.

I realized that I had no idea who he was or what his deepest thoughts were. I vowed that when I arrived, I would make up for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him and really get to know him.

I arrived in Florida at 1 a.m., my father had passed away at 9:12 p.m.

This time it was he who did not have time to talk or wait for me.

In the years since his death I have

learned much about my father and even more about myself. As a father he never asked me for anything but my time, now he has all my attention, every single day.

“If you have health, you probably will befinished happy, and if you “A man is not when he have health and happiness, you is defeated. He is only finished have wealth you need, even whenallhethe quits.” if it is not all you- want.”

Richard Nixon – Elbert Hubbard

Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies. A nurse goes up to the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.”

“That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!”

A nurse says to the second guy, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!”

“That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M Company!”

A nurse tells the third man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets!”

“That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel!”

The last man is groaning and banging his head against the wall. “What’s wrong?” the others ask.

“I work for 7 Up!”

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Praying Hands

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore he could find in the neighborhood. Despite their seemingly hopeless condition, two of Albrecht Durer the Elder’s children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art, but they knew full well that their father would never be financially able to send either of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy.

After many long discussions at night in their crowded bed, the two boys finally worked out a pact. They would toss a coin. The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother while he attended the academy.

Then, when that brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy, either with sales of his artwork or, if necessary, also by laboring in the mines.

They tossed a coin on a Sunday morning after church. Albrecht Durer won the toss and went off to Nuremberg. Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financed his brother, whose work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation.

Albrecht’s etchings, his woodcuts, and his oils were far better than those of most of his professors, and by the time he graduated, he was beginning to earn considerable fees for his commissioned works.

When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner on their lawn to celebrate Albrecht’s triumphant homecoming.

After a long and memorable meal, punctuated with music and laughter, Albrecht rose from his honored position at the head of the table to drink a toast to his beloved brother for the years of sacrifice that had enabled Albrecht to fulfill his ambition. His closing words were, “And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your turn.

Now you can go to Nuremberg to pursue your dream, and I will take care of you.”

All heads turned in eager expectation to the far end of the table where Albert sat, tears streaming down his pale face, shaking his lowered head from side to side while he sobbed and repeated, over and over, “No …no …no …no.”

Finally, Albert rose and wiped the tears from his cheeks. He glanced down the long table at the faces he loved, and then, holding his hands close to his right cheek, he said softly, “No, brother. I cannot go to Nuremberg. It is too late for me. Look …

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look what four years in the mines have done to my hands! The bones in every finger have been smashed at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less make delicate lines on parchment or canvas with a pen or a brush. No, brother … for me it is too late.”

More than 450 years have passed. By now, Albrecht Durer’s hundreds of masterful portraits, pen and silverpoint sketches, watercolors, charcoals, woodcuts, and copper engravings hang in every great museum in the world, but the odds are great that you, like most people, are familiar with only one of Albrecht Durer’s works. More than merely being familiar with it, you

very well may have a reproduction hanging in your home or office.

One day, to pay homage to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother’s abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward.

He called his powerful drawing simply “Hands,” but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love “The Praying Hands.”

Moral of the story: The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, take a second look. Let it be a reminder to you, that no one – no one – ever makes it alone!

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