Well baby Abigail is here! 

She arrived on June 19 after a surprisingly easy labor (more on that later when I finally get a photo hosted and up).  Now after a six week furlough of gazing into baby's eyes, enjoying the heat (my last four babies were born in winter and it's wonderful to be up at night nursing and not freezing as well!) and marvelling at God's kindness to us ... it's time to take up our business ideas and start jogging with them again.

I think I must be allergic to negativity because nothing drives me crazier than folks continually finding one more objection as to why something is impossible. 

So today I've been encouraged reading about Mary Engelbreit's beginnings as an artist and also an entrepreneur.  Having been rejected by a publisher to illustrate books, the suggestion was made that she try illustrating greetings cards instead.  At first this stung her pride but then she decided to give it a try and found some success.  However she soon became tired of the constraints imposed by working for others. ...

In 1983, she began producing and designing her own cards. At the time, she was eight months pregnant. She shrugs off the risky move with a typical homespun Mary-ism: "Proper timing is overrated," she says. "There's always a reason not to do things – it's too expensive, or it's not the best time, or this, or that – but I believe there are wonderful opportunities sailing by, and you have to be ready to grab them."
         from ABOUT MARY at MaryEngelbreit.com

Encouraged to know I'm not the only crazy lady who decides to launch into an adventure when so pregnant!

People either ask, "Why?" or "Why not?!" of an idea.  I appreciate my husband's healthy CPA skeptism that balances out my often reckless enthusiasm, but even he has learned to say of an exciting possibility ... "What would we have to do to make it happen?"

That's one common denominator I see in the attitude of those who succeed.  So I'm not surprised to read it brimming over in Mary Engelbreit's life. 

What are you having trouble believing you can do?  Whether it's a business idea or finding your child has a learning disability or homeschooling highschool for the first time (We find ourselves facing all three at the moment) ... take heart and assume the best not the worst!

(And come back soon to see adorable Abigail Grace!)

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Aug. 2, 2006 - Inspiring Message

Posted by Anonymous

Thank you for that inspirational entry.... you are a wonderful writer.

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