As a little girl, she remembered looking in a Sears catalog and seeing women in there with pretty jewelry on. She would only see her teachers wear pretty jewelry like the women in the catalog. She made a statement to herself saying she wanted to be like those women with the pretty jewelry.
One important fact she hit on was about having an imagination and how important it was to have it. She always imagined herself as a teacher.
When she turned 18, she ran off and got married. She had 2 years of college and ended up having a baby and having no money to complete college. While she was working a man who own the place where she worked at told her she was smart and gave her more encouraging words. She knew she wanted to finished school. She worked, went to school, and raised her daughter. And she continued until she completed college.
She stressed on how important it was to imagine herself to what she wanted to be. Now she has her degree, her masters and 1 Dissertation away from completing her Doctorate degree.
She said she was 75 years. She did not look a BIT of 75 and she said the reason why is because she hangs around young people. :) She hangs around young people to continue to learn and be ambitious. She texts her grandchildren, uses Facebook, and etc.
She concluded about start imaging what we want to be and then set goals for it.
I have taking the speech and have implanted it in my heart. I have some imagining to do and will began do the necessary steps to get to what I have imagined myself to be.
