Veronika Scott Empowers Homeless Women in Motor City With Jobs Making Sleeping Bag Coats To Keep The Homeless Warm

There is a lot of talk these days about the decline of values in our youth and their self centered nature. From my vantage point I believe those theories are either overstated or just plain wrong. In March 2013 I posted an article about 6 year old Dylan Siegel who wrote a book to help his friend suffering from a rare illness. Our future is in good hands if the two new examples below are representative of today's youth and young adults and I believe they are.

Yesterday, as I entered an Albertsons grocery store in Boise, an 8 year old girl named Emily and her 6 year old brother were near the entrance selling cups of Kool Aid (Peach Mango and Strawberry) to raise money for a classmate with cancer. She explained to me that her friend was undergoing Chemo Therapy and had lost all her hair. Emily wanted to buy a wig for her friend so she would not be self conscious about her appearance. Emily and her Mother went to a wig shop and the owner told her that if she could raise $30, the wig shop owner would contribute the rest of the money for the wig. I am happy to report that as I left this young entrepreneur with heart and purpose, she had made almost $80 in just one day. That is a lot of Kool Aid at 50 cents per cup. Many people gave Emily up to $10 to support the cause.

Perhaps Emily will grow up to do something similar to 23 year old Veronika Scott, a remarkable young woman filled with passion and purpose. For Veronika's “Design Activism” class at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Professor Stephen Schock charged his students to “Design to fill a need” that wold benefit the disadvantaged in their community. Students had to design a project that was doable.

Veronika Scott
Founder of The Empowerment Plan

Veronika decided to do something to help the homeless, a group that tugged at her heart and for which she was passionate about assisting in some way. One in every 42 people in Detroit are homeless, some 20,000 people. Scott's passion stems from her own family situation. She tells ABC News, “I was raised in a situation of poverty. It wasn't abstract as it is for most people. So knowing that can happen to my family means that can happen to anyone."

Veronika went to the Neighborhood Service Organization, a community development center in Detroit and started talking with the Homeless.

Scott tells the New York Times what she was able to glean from her research; “I noticed that there were people sleeping outside of shelters even when they could have been inside. There are many reasons why people are homeless, but I could see one thing all of them needed: warmth.”

Ultimately, Scott came up with the idea to design and produce a coat that would double as a sleeping bag. Now that is imagination!

According to a blog post for ABC News, “For five months, and even after her class ended, Scott worked with the homeless at the shelter Neighborhood Service Organization in Detroit to develop the first prototype of the coat.”

Sleeping Bag Coat
Photo by Brittany Thomasson

The result is a self-heated waterproof coat that transforms into a sleeping bag at night.

“I became known as the crazy coat lady,"Scott said.

Scott says her original concept was to offer comfort, warmth and pride to the homeless, but one homeless woman's words would not only alter the concept, but propel Veronika Scott in a direction should could never have anticipated.

"This Homeless woman told Veronika, “Your coats don't matter, jobs matter. We need jobs, not coats.”

"It was then about who I could employ." said Scott. At that point the coats became a creative and worthy by-product to aid the homeless, but her true mission became to give the homeless what they needed most, a job.

As for the coat/sleeping bag itself, Veronika probably did not even realize what she was on to. “The truth is Veronika’s garment has great international ramifications,” Imre Molnar, a dean at the College for Creative Studies tells the New York Times, “Her coat could be used by refugees or for disaster relief operations.“She came up with a great idea that is simple, but well researched. Because of her passion for the homeless, I can’t see her not succeeding.” It has been reported that the Red Cross in interested in the coats as well.

In December of 2011, Veronika Scott founded a non-profit organization called, “The Empowerment Plan.” The Empowerment Plan's mission is;

“We're a Detroit-based nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the homeless community. We hire homeless women from local shelters to become full time seamstresses. These women manufacture a coat that transforms into a sleeping bag, which is then given out to homeless individuals living on the streets at no cost to them.

We believe in giving second chances to those who want it, and providing warmth to those who need it.”

"At the end of the day, people gravitate to the coats because it's easy to understand, but the uniqueness in what we do is who we hire," Scott said. "That woman really changed the whole direction."  (Source: Crains Detroit Business.)

Scott encountered her share of people suffering from what I call Negavitis in Don't Seek Success – Be Happi. The Empowerment Plan website explains it this way;

Veronika Scott with one of her Employees
Photo by Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times 

Veronika started the Empowerment Plan as a 20 year old product design student at The College for Creative Studies in Detroit. It started as a class project and became a non-profit organization when she graduated in December 2011. During the creation of the project, she was told over and over again that this organization would never succeed. Not because the person running it had no business experience but that the homeless women she hired would be almost worthless, that she would be lucky to have anyone show up, let alone make a coat. 



"Everyday I enjoy proving all of those people wrong. The homeless women I hire are powerful, driven, and I am privileged to be a part of their lives."

Veronika is quite proud of her first employee, Elisha, a homeless woman living with her children in a homeless shelter. Veronika and Elisha started making their coats in a room the size of a closet at a Detroit homeless shelter, where they did not even have enough room to layout the coats. Today, The Empowerment Plan has a staff of 14. As for Elisha, she learned new job skills, earned money and was able to move herself and her family out of the shelter and into their own apartment after just a few months. (Source; Forbes).

In 2012, The Empowerment Plan distributed more than 1,000 coats to people in need, and Scott said it plans to hand out 4,000 coats nationwide through other organizations.

Veronika tells Crains Detroit Business, "I never in my wildest imagination and dreams ever expected it to become like this," Scott said. The non-profit raised $25,000 last year with a goal of $700,00 this year. Contributors include companies like General Motors which also donates materials that allow the coats to self heat.

Veronika is not resting on her laurels. Next up is a For Profit company based on a one for one model. Scott explains her vision of the For Profit Company to the New York Times this way;

Veronika Scott models the Sleeping Bag Coat

“For revenue, I want to sell them online to individuals who can afford to buy them,” Ms. Scott said, explaining that anyone purchasing the coat will automatically be given a second one that can be sent to various shelters and charities anywhere in the world.”

Veronika Scott found her profitable passion and purpose through her desire to help the homeless. She came up with a very imaginative and creative idea to provide a practical garment which would provide comfort, warmth and pride to the homeless. But as one insightful homeless woman bluntly told her, pride and self worth come from jobs, that is what the homeless truly needed. Veronika could have ignored that advice and continued on with her coat/sleeping bag design, but Veronika listened and her mission evolved to not only produce a valuable asset for the homeless but to empower them with a job giving them a sense of purpose, a second chance and a way out.

When brainstorming and researching your profitable passion, keep your eyes and ears open, your original idea may very well evolve into something you did not initially imagine. In last week's post, Shelly Fisher was making costume beaded jewelry to aid various charities, but when somebody asked her to design a attractive custom designed medial alert bracelet, she listened and her passion evolved into something spectacular to help save lives.

To learn how you find your own profitable passion and purpose in life, see Don't Seek Success – Be Happi.

Be Great!

MB

Life is Good continues Optimism and Heart in the Wake of Boston Bombing Tragedy

Bert and John Jacobs believe life to good. So that is exactly what they named their now thriving company, but it was not always that way. In 1989, the brothers began selling t-shirts door to door and on the streets. As they tell it on their website, the early years were something less than profitable. They lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and as two single guys at the time, they say “chicks were not impressed.”

Searching for an answer, but ever optimistic, they found it in the form of a drawing on their apartment wall that served as a kind of early brand and logo called “Jake.”

Bert and John recall;

“Jake's contagious grin, simple as it was, seemed to express everything the Jacobs brothers believed in.

  

One fateful September day, they printed up 48 Jake shirts for a local street fair in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They laid the shirts out on their rickety card table. By noontime, all 48 of those tees were gone. A star was born.

Soon Jake was introduced to local retailers, and his simple message of optimism was embraced like nothing the brothers had ever seen. As demand for product soared, Jake's team grew, and the Little Brand That Could began to spread across America.”

Today, Life is Good has 260 employees and continues its emphasis on simplicity, humor and humility.

The more you learn about this company, you will find, they have a whole lot of heart and an abundance of love.

Life is Good is based in Boston and during the Boston Marathon, the company had several employees in the crowd promoting the company’s brand. One was seriously injured.

In a story for Inc. Magazine Chief Optimist Bert Jacobs says, their employee was badly burned, but grateful he survived and knew that others were much worse off. (Sounds like a perfect employee for Life is Good to me.)

Bert continues; “The day after the attacks, our employees started asking whether we could do something to raise money for the victims and their families. I said no. I felt like we had to get our own house in order, to feel like it was OK to get back to work, before helping somebody else. But we're a brand about the power of optimism. We should be leaders of the spirit when bad things happen. So by Sunday, I changed my position and said we should make a T-shirt.”

Make a T-shirt they did.  Bert tells Inc., “We looked at what was already out there. A lot of "Be Strong" and "Boston Strong," that tough Irish mentality. I don't knock that. But it's almost like they're suppressing emotion: We're so strong, let's just move on. Life Is Good focuses on what's right in the world.

No matter how you slice it, this was a hate crime. But instantly afterward, all these people--the first responders and the people who helped people on the street and opened up their homes and ran to the hospitals to give blood--performed acts of love. So we created a shirt that says "Boston" on the front and "There is nothing stronger than love" on the back.”

The company’s sales plummeted after the attacks, and Jacobs says the T-shirts helped to head the company and sales bounced back because of the t-shirt. “We have 260 employees, and there is not a single person who did not touch that shirt. From start to finish, we got it out there in just under 30 hours. We're not built to turn something around that fast, but our people figured it out. They worked day and night. We're proud of their hustle,” said Jacobs.

In fact, according to Jacobs, the T-Shirt may be their fastest selling product ever with over 70,000 units sold in the first week. Life is Good had a goal of raising $50,000 to $100,000 and now it looks like they could hit a half a million. All proceeds are going to One Fund Boston.

Life is Good’s good works are not limited to the tragedy in Boston. Fox News reports, has raised over 9 million for kids in need.

Without a doubt, Bert and John Jacobs and the entire Life is Good team emulates the Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi model. They focus on core principles like Belief, Enthusiasm, Heart, Attitude, Passion, Purpose and Imagination. What they call optimism. They believe that by focusing on and staying true to their core values, that success will find them and it has in a big way.

Life if very good for Life is Good.

Click here to learn more about the Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi model.

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MB

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby Puppeteer Makes a Difference with Passion, Purpose and Imagination

I was watching the Tonight Show with Jay Leno a few weeks ago and one of the guests was Chris Jenner, the Matriarch of the Kardashian family. Apparently, Jenner is slated to begin hosting a new daytime talk show. In promoting her new show, Jenner said they would be sponsoring a content in which the winner will get to spend a whole day with the Kardashians. Oh joy. Leno quipped that maybe the prize should be not having to spend a whole day with the Kardashians.

Fast forward a week or so down the road and in a local promotion for the same contest, a 13 year old girl was asked why she wanted to win the contest and spend a day with the Kardashians. Her response; because they are beautiful, rich and famous.  Unfortunately, she is not alone. A year or so ago, I received an email promoting a television show entitled “The Next.” The logo graphic’s tagline was “Fame is at your Doorstep.”

We live in a culture that pushes fame and fortune as the key to the good life, the key to happiness. We buy it hook, line and sinker. Whether we are Kardashian Krazed or just celebrity crazed in general, we hang on every word, every outfit and every move celebrities make. We dream of being just like them.

It is hard not to believe that being rich and famous is the answer to happiness when society in general and the entertainment media in particular bombards us with that notion 24/7. The problem is we are buying off on a big lie, a myth.

In Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi, I document in detail how fame and fortune, in and of itself is not the answer to happiness and argue that we will only be truly happy once we discover are passions and true purpose in life. When you discover passion and purpose (the fifth and sixth core principles in the Be Happi model) and combine them with Belief, Enthusiasm, Heart, Attitude and Imagination, you do not need to seek success, success and happiness will find you!

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, street artist, performer and Sesame Street puppeteer is a perfect example of somebody who is living the Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi model. Leslie says, “You can only really measure success by what you contribute to the world.”

Leslie is the creator of "fairy-in-training" Abby Cadabby and the puppeteer behind the Sesame Street character. In a profile and video interview for Yahoo Shine, Leslie says that she started “cartooning and drawing when she was a child with a big imagination. She even told her sister that she was moving to Sesame Street, because she knew she belonged there. But when Leslie was 11, her brother was killed in a motorcycle accident. After, she says her family dynamic changed, making the arts even more important to her.”

Leslie designed her own major at San Francisco State University in Child Development through the Arts. After college, Leslie worked at a street artist and performer before landing the gig with Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street in 2006.

Leslie explains to Yahoo Shine, that shortly after she came up with the idea for "fairy-in-training" Abby Cadabby. “Sesame Street was looking for a strong, female role model who could have a different perspective on what it's like to be new on Sesame Street. Leslie, a fan of fairies, put on the puppet and knew exactly who she was. "Well, I'm a wish fairy," says Leslie as Abby Cadabby.

“She is actively involved in Sesame Street's outreach programs that focus on problems kids face. Leslie says she's helped kids with everything from divorce to food insecurity. "It's an honor to be doing what we're doing," she explains. "The way your characters reach is beyond what we could possibly imagine.

Leslie is also working on a side project called Wake Up Your Weird, featuring a puppet named Lolly Lardpop. Lolly deals with self-esteem issues and bullying, Leslie says. She recently took Lolly to visit a high school. Nervous to pull a sock puppet out in front of a group of teenagers, Leslie says Lolly received a warm welcome; the teens took it as a "permission slip to feel joy and empathy." (Yahoo Shine.)

As a result of her bothers fatal motorcycle accident, Leslie has learned that everyday counts. She believes one person can make a difference and Leslie is doing exactly that with her passion, creativity and imagination. She says, “I'm really grateful that I've found a place that I get to keep giving."

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph may not have the degree of fame and fortune of a Kardashian, but through passion, purpose and an amazing imagination, she has found the true key to happiness and fulfillment.

For more on passion, purpose, imagination, see Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi.

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MB

Karen Bostick has Passion and Purpose with Petspage.com

Karen Bostick and Tinks
petspage.com

I have not posted in a couple of weeks, not for a lack of inspiring stories worthy of the Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi Model, but rather because I have been helping my friend Karen Bostick with the media for her new website, petspage.com. So this week, I am doing two blog posts. See also, Seattle Mom Robyn Rosenberger Uses Heart, Passion and Purpose to Create Tiny Super Heroes.

If there is one thing I know about Karen, she filled with passion, purpose and incredible energy. Indeed, it is easy to be energized when you have passion and purpose in your life.

The primary mission of Karen and petspage.com is to make pet owners aware of a higher level of veterinary care that can often save pets' lives when all else fails. This higher level of veterinary care comes in the form of veterinary specialists, which most pet owners don’t know exist. These vet specialists can literally save a pets’ life when a primary vet is stumped or does not have the expertise to treat a dangerous life threatening illness.

Petpage.com is not however, a dry pet health education website.

Petspage.com is a social community designed to connect pet owners with other pet owners as well as vet specialists, and other pet professionals in a fun, friendly and interactive way!

Petspage.com is in the final week of a beta launch and will officially launch on July 15^th. 

Check it out at petspage.com.  You will love Tinks!

Look for a more detailed post in the Profit by Imagination Blog during the petspage.com launch week, July 15th.

For more on passion, purpose and finding your profitable passion, see Don't Seek Success - Be Happi. 

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MB

Seattle Mom Robyn Rosenberger Uses Heart, Passion and Purpose to Create Tiny Super Heroes

Robyn Rosenberger
and some of her Tiny Super Heroes

Seattle Mom Robyn Rosenberger is using Heart, Passion and Purpose to turn children suffering from illness and disability around the world into tiny super heroes. "I want the world to know we think of kids with illness as different. Truth is, they are extraordinary because they overcome things we can't imagine and they do it with a smile," Rosenberger told ABC News.

After a move from St. Louis to Seattle, Robyn renewed her interest and passion for sewing. She sewed a super hero cape for her 2 year old nephew. She had also been following a blog of a brave little girl named Brenna who was born with a rare skin disease. Rosenburger decided that Brenna needed a cape too. So she sewed a special cape for Brenna with a big “B” on the back and “Super Brenna” was born. Needless to say, Brenna loved the cape.

Super Brenna with her Cape

Robyn tells ABC News, that she “...quickly realized there were other kids out there who actually were tiny superheroes."

After featuring “Super Brenna's” cape on her Blog, Rosenberger received dozens of requests for other tiny super heroes who needed a cape.

In six months, she's sent 700 personalized capes to sick children in 45 states and 11 countries. Each cape comes with a handwritten message.

Rosenberger now gets 10 to 20 requests a day. She quit her job and has pulled friends in to help.

Super Hero KE, a 10 year old suffering froma severe gastrointestinal
disorder never takes his cape off.
According to his mother, He has taken it to his biopsy, to the emergency room,
showed it to other patients,
'it gives him a sense of comfort," she says. ABC News

“We are building a Tiny Superhero squad. Together these kids can make a difference. We cross-reference their stories," she said. "Then, by sharing them we can help raise awareness. Raising awareness brings funding, funding leads to more research, and research brings cures.”

Rosenberger has mailed capes to children affected by Oklahoma's recent tornadoes.

She hopes to establish contacts with children's hospitals and ultimately have a Tiny Superheroes center “that takes our relationship with the children outside the virtual world.” (Source: ABC News for GMA on Yahoo.)

Robyn Rosenberger used her heart in finding a way to turn her passion for sewing into an incredibly worthy cause helping young children suffering from rare and life threatening illnesses find courage and comfort as tiny super heroes. In a nutshell, Robyn found her life purpose through her heart, passion for sewing and imagination in wanting to help a brave young girl named Brenna become Super Brenna and it snowballed from there to create hundreds of tiny super heroes.

Rosenberger says, “If you would have told me six months ago that this would be my life, I would have paid a million dollars to make this my life, but I wouldn't believe you,”

Do you have a passion in which you can use your imagination to create a life purpose to help those in need in your community, country or even the world? We all do and it is up to us to find it and implement it. All it takes is a little heart and imagination!

For more on heart, passion, purpose and imagination, see Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi.

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MB

Phillip Donlay Contiues Lifelong Passion; Finds New Purpose After Career Tragically Ends

One might say Phillip Donlay was born to fly. His grandfather was a private pilot and would take Philip up and let him steer the plane at 4 years old. Donlay writes for  the Huffington Post in an article entitled, “Philip Donlay, Former Pilot Turned Author: 'I Wanted My Swagger Back,'” “I would sit on his lap and he would let me steer. It would scare me to death, but I couldn't wait to get back up.”

Philip’s passion for flying continued through his teens and he became a licensed pilot at 17 and by the time he was 20, Philip was a co-pilot of a jet plane for a Saudi sheik. That experience gave Donlay valuable jet experience and in 1980, he became a corporate jet pilot – a job he loved and held for 28 years.

During the height of his flying career, Phillip started feeling pains and had trouble sleeping in his mid-twenties. By the time he was in his forties, he suspected something more was going on. As a jet pilot, a physical was required every 6 months. Philip writes, “It finally got to the point where I had to find the answers. I didn't want to hear them -- in my mind, jeopardizing my career and not being able to fly would be the absolute worst thing that could happen to me. As it turned out I did have medical issues. It took my career away from me…I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ankylosing spondylitis at 52 -- it's an autoimmune arthritic condition.”

In an attempt to salvage his career and love of flying, Donaly says, “the quality of life without drugs was just almost unberable. I went to the Mayo Clinic to get a second opinion on this just to salvage my career. They uncovered some cardiac issues. I had arterial blockage. I had a triple bypass heart surgery [in 2008 and] that was the end of my career at that point.”

Phillip Donlay, Corporate Jet Captain working in a job he was passionate about and gave his life purpose was grounded!

Phillip recalls, “It was horrible. I don't like change. I loved my job, I loved doing it and I still miss it. It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me at that time. I was a wreck. It took me a while to try to find my purpose again. I think we all need that, and men are even worse at -- we are what we do. One day I was a senior jet captain, the next day I'm just a guy living on the 4th floor.”

With almost unbearable pain and a career cruelly taken away from him by an unfortunate medical condition, Philip Donlay could have easily become bitter, angry and resentful, looking out the window of his 4^th floor home, wondering, “why me?”

Phillip would have none of that, though. He explains, “When I couldn't fly anymore I really did need a purpose. I was really lost. I needed something that would give me some focus and some drive. I wanted my swagger back. I wanted the swagger that I had as a jet pilot.”

Donlay found his swagger by turning his passion for airplanes into a successful career writing novels with, what else?, airplanes in them!

Of his writing career, Phillip says, “Writing gave me that. [Purpose] It gives me a reason to get up in the morning; I have to use my brain, I have to be useful, I have a purpose now. I have goals and I set them for myself. Everything was rescaled from flying around the world in a private jet -- including the salary. Once all of those issues that I thought were the worst things in the world settled down, it turned out to be the best thing.

Phillip concludes, “I've seen the world at 600 miles an hour and now I get to see it at 60 -- so it appeals to me. As a novelist I can write anywhere. It's a better world now than it was 10 years ago, and I would never have guessed that. I'm healthier and happier now than when I thought I was at the top of the world and where I wanted to be.”

Phillip Donlay did not let the end of his career end his passion for airplanes and flying. Instead, it was a new beginning. Phillip no longer flew around the world and no longer had the big salary, but he found purpose in his writing and a way to continue his lifelong passion for flying and airplanes. He simply found another way.

All of us have passions that can drive purpose in our lives. Sadly, few of us pursue our passions and purposes in life in any meaningful way. If you are passionate about basketball, but playing the game at a high level is not in the cards, do what Phillip Donlay did, find another way to pursue your passion. Basketball teams need coaches, trainers, and the like. Merchandizing apparel with team logos is big business or come up with a new product associated with your passion. Teams need broadcasters and media researchers, bloggers and writers. You could even do what Phillip Donlay did and write a novel about basketball or a true account about a player or amazing game. All it takes is imagination! Don’t let life circumstances get in the way of your passions and purposes in life.

As Walt Disney is reported to have once said, “Think, Believe, Dream, Dare!”

For more on passion, purpose, finding your profitable passion, and imagination, see Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi.

Be Great!

MB 

Imagination Will Take You Everywhere!

Albert Einstein, said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and  "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere... It is the preview of life's coming attractions." 

In Don't Seek Success - Be Happi I wrote about how my niece, years ago turned a large box that contained a Christmas gift into a playhouse. She had more fun with that box than her actual gifts. 

A few days ago, I was reminded again of how incredible our imaginations are as children. A friend sent me a photo of her 2 year old granddaughter, McKenna was  riding in the car with her baby doll on her lap, apparently the doll was hungry, so McKenna decided to use the only thing she could find that resembled a baby bottle - a tube of Neosporin!

Indeed, a child’s imagination is a wonderful thing to behold. Yet, in today’s modern age, former hedge fund analyst Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, a non-profit with a mission to create a "free world-class education for anyone anywhere" which now has an online library of over 3,400 videos covering K-12 math, biology, chemistry, physics in "digestible chunks" about ten minutes long, suggests that we may be at risk of limiting our children’s creativity and imaginations. 

In a recent article, Mr. Kahn believes parents are doing "too much" and over-scheduling their children. "Let the students invent some stuff, create some stuff, because otherwise they're just going to create these students who are really good at performing but not that good at creating," said Kahn.

I agree.

If imagination is important to our long term success and happiness, and it is, we must not only lean to maintain or recapture our childlike imaginations as adults, we must also be careful to not hinder the wonderful imaginations of our children with over-scheduling and the like. We need to make time to let kids be kids.

What do you think? Do you agree with Mr. Kahn and me?  Post your comments below.

To learn more about how to recapture your childlike imagination to attract the life we want, see Don't Seek Success - Be Happi. 

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MB

Don't Seek Success - Be Happi Releases!

Don't Seek Success - Be Happi To Let Success and Happiness Find You! has been released! The 170 page book is available both in print and digitally exclusively on Amazon's Kindle. Don't Seek Success - Be Happi can be ordered here. The book is also available on Amazon at this link. The Kindle Edition can be ordered here. If you are a member of Kindle Prime, you can borrow Don't Seek Success - Be Happi for free. Simply log into your Kindle Prime account and instantly download the book. 

What's the book about?

Don’tSeek Success – Be Happi is the one book the self-improvement industry doesn’t want you to read and perhaps the most honest self-improvement book to be released to date. While self-improvement experts from around the globe preach success and financial well-being as the end game to happiness, Brooks argues that when we focus on success and material wealth, believing that is the key to happiness, we more often than not, wind up disillusioned and disenchanted with our lives. Something is missing, but we can’t quite put our finger on where to find that elusive missing link to happiness.

If the ticket to happiness is not money, status, and power, what is?

It is quite simply to “Be Happi!”

By practicing and focusing on the seven core principles of Belief, Enthusiasm, Heart, Attitude, Passion, Purpose, and Imagination in the “Be Happi” model, success and happiness magically finds us!

At just over 168 pages, in Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi, Brooks has written a self-improvement book for the average person, staying away from complex theory and filled with practical tips, common-sense advice, personal anecdotes and thought provoking examples to illuminate his points.

Some of what you will learn in Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi;

• How to believe in yourself and replace negativitis with positivitis.
• What enthusiasm really is and how to infuse it into your life.
• How to find what you were really born to do in this world.
• The real definition of success.
• Two dirty little secrets the self-improvement industry does not want you to know.
• How to regain your child-like imagination.

Written in a friendly, fun and engaging style, Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi is sure to motivate, energize, challenge, inspire and pump you up creating a world of possibility and potential.

Order Don't Seek Success - Be Happi today!

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