Dr. Turner Pryce who recovered from Stage 2 invasive breast cancer did not go under in despair. She turned adversity into service to help others in similar situations. The lessons we learn from her experiences include;
Being Solution Oriented
Being prepared to do one’s research for better service even to the point of gaining suitable qualifications if necessary
Sharing the positive results of healthy lifestyle changes with others .
Dr. Turner Pryce made promoting healthy lifestyles into a business. She showed enterprise and innovation in sharing. All of us do not necessarily have to go into businesses but we can still display these qualities in other ways as we help others.
Developing her own lifestyle changes including attending self-help or gymnasium-based classes.
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- E. Anthony Allen
- Aug 14, 2018
Many times persons do not become empowered because they see obstacles as an instruction to give up. Yet for other people, obstacles are an invitation to advance and to find ways of overcoming the odds.
Mervin Thompson is one such person. There is a link to a newspaper article below with regards to how he overcame. Let us look at some secrets to overcoming the odds that we can learn from his experience.
Have a vision and never let it go. Mervin had a vision about his working life from age 11. His mother had other dreams for him but he did not let this stop him.
Mervin started with whatever small opportunities he could find. He did not look down on doing menial jobs on the way to fulfilling his dreams. He did not let financial deprivation and childhood disadvantages hold him back.
Mervin did whatever honest work came to hand until he landed his opportunity. He was willing to sleep in the market and push handcarts on his way to empowerment.
Others taking advantages of him such as robbery did not prevent Mervin from getting back on the street.
He became very innovative in creating opportunities in providing services to people however small.
He was willing to save despite small earnings. This is a critical financial path to successful business.
He marketed his services. He took opportunities to learn his craft to become certified.
Mervin found innovative methods to acquire equipment and to get others on board to help him establish his business.
He took advantage of every opportunity. Always being prepared for these to come.
He became a mentor to youth who started where he did to prevent them from using their obstacles as reasons to quit.
He says “Hope is there as long as you are alive and have ambition. Hope come with ambition, It nuh come with education; it nuh come with money; It nuh come with degree; it nuh come with a diploma, it nuh come with nothing. Mi can show man who can’t spell his name and him a make money, “
Too often the gift we are given to share, our “genius”, is unrecognized by our own- in our schools, families, communities, workplaces or nations.
Thankfully a solid performance that has truly impacted many will shine on its own. The world beats a path to the door of the best rat trap maker.
As Carolyn Cooper reported in her article, ” More than 50,000 visitors viewed this truly inspiring tribute to our musical culture. It’s called ‘Jamaica, Jamaica! Innovations and Inventions of Reggae Music”.
Read more about this here: “From Columbus to Kartel”
Your gift will shine!
Go global if possible.