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How
to Succeed as a Home-based Speaker
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in the early 1930s, Patricia Fripp's grandfather - a Welsh
coal miner destined to die of black lung disease in his early
50s - was a champion pigeon racer. Legend has it that when
Joe Greene entered a meet, the outcome was a foregone conclusion:
His birds always roosted first. Desperate to learn the secret
of Greene's success, competitors spied on his choice of feeding
formula, snooped into his breeding methods, and imitated the
design of his coops. In the end, though, they were forced
to give up. Whatever magic the coal miner worked on those
birds, they reluctantly admitted, would forever remain a mystery.
Until
now, that is. Thanks to his granddaughter, the secret can
at last be revealed: While his rivals blithely snoozed away,
Joe Greene rose at 3 each morning to fly his pigeons. Given
twice the training of other birds, their winning was a certainty.
"My
grandfather," Fripp explains, "worked harder, longer,
better, and more than anyone else. And what worked for him
has worked for me."
An
almost messianic belief in hard work is the consistent theme
of Patricia Fripp's life. Again and again, in her personal
conversations, speeches, books, articles, and videos, she
extols the virtues of hard work and its allies - determination,
ambition, and focused goals.
Complete
article in the December 2000 issue of House of Business
magazine on pages 92 - 97. Pick up a copy today!
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