Showing posts with label orphan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orphan. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2013

From Orphan to Executive: Self-Action Leadership in Real Life

Today I share the real life Self-Action Leadership story of Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams. 
Little Nat Williams started out life as an orphan in the Bronx with all the strikes against him.  The 11th of 12 children, Nat never knew his father, and attended his mother's funeral at age five.  He still remembers the five taxis all lined up to haul him and his nine brothers and sisters under the age of 18 to different foster homes throughout New York City.  

It was in a foster home a few years later that Nat had an experience that would forever change his life.  The value of the experience was discovered not in what happened, but in how Nat chose to interpret the experience and allow it to influence his behavior.  Here is what happened...

JJ's Journal: 1986

              From the Personal Journals of My Father Rex Buckley Jensen  1986 Thursday, January 23, 1986 Annual School Picture Mesa, Arizon...