Category: Success

Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world’s population, can lay claim to the following: The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries.  The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year. Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and…

— Author unknown In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done….

We’ve all heard the haunting song, “Taps,” before. It’s the song that gives us a lump in our throats and often creates tears in our eyes. This is the true story… The True Story of TAPS — “24 Notes That Tap Deep Emotions” — By MSG Jari A. Villanueva, USAF Of all the military bugle…

— Author Unknown A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a…

Author Unknown GOOD FOR THE SOUL… The man’s name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in…

By Sonny Carroll   There comes a time in your life when you finally get it… When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out- ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child…