Am I "really" as motivated as I thought?

I Had the stange feeling yesterday that I am not nearly as motivated as I thought. You know I have all these great ideas about all the things I want to do, and the things I want to have and somehow there was a place that thought that was pretty good- you know. But what does that mean? I wasn't really doing anything, progressing, moving forward. Yep, I had a BIG SLAP IN THE FACE yesterday.


In a short break from my non-acheiving state, I ran across a program about OPRAH. Have you ever heard of her, she has a TV show. I'll give you the condensed version. It was a program about her geneology. In short using the records they had, historical information, modern technology and DNA analysis they were able to trace her roots back to a specific local region in Africa and most probably the Capelle tribe,ok pretty amazing all by itself.

As it turns out, one of her great granfathers I think his name was Constantine owned 160 acres of land. This was in about 1870 just a few years after the civil war. How is it that a former negro slave that may not have been able to read or write find the means to own land?

You can imagine that he probably didn't have the CASH. So this is what he did. He
entered into an agreement with the landowner for the purchase of the land. In exchange, he would produce 3800 lbs of cotton. Keep in mind this is still before the invention of the cotton gin.

You have to pick it all with your hands. At the top of the plant there are barbs (like on a rose bush and they tend to go under your fingernails) you have to bend over constantly, and drag around the big bag of the stuff you picked. It's probably a bit WARM out there as well.

I don't know about you, but I think that's alot of cotton. Not sure exactly HOW he pulled that off, but he DID and then he did AGAIN and bought another 80 acres.

My hat's off to any person who can pull off something like that. Yesterday I thought I had motivation, but you know it's time to DO more.

It just so happens I ran across a book that decribes this very idea, so read on and see if this fits someone you know.


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