I hope you had a Mom as good as mine. Growing up, I knew that mine was pretty special when girlfriends told me how their moms acted. My brothers and I knew that, even though we might complain a bit, we were pretty lucky to have the parents we had.
Mom passed away from metastatic breast cancer in 1998. That last Mother's Day, it was pretty obvious that she was going to be leaving us very soon, and I struggled with what sort of gift to give her. Then it hit me - I should give her the gift of knowing how she shaped me.
I wrote a list of the lessons she taught me, some silly, some profound and one or two were little secrets the two of us had. I printed it on pretty paper, framed it and gave it to her. After she passed away, Dad gave it back to me. It sat on my desk for years, when one day I realized it was a book outline.
I'm happy to share the resulting book with you. "The Original MBA - Succeed in Business Using Mom's Best Advice" takes fifteen of those lessons and fleshes them out with stories of how I first learned each lesson and of how those lessons served me in business later in life. The book is perfect for those just starting out in their working life, those starting a business or making a mid-life career shift. It's available at Amazon.com and the publisher's website.
One of the lessons or parents taught us was to share, and in the spirit of that lesson, 10% of the proceeds (not profits, proceeds) of this book will go to two good causes: It's The Journey, Inc., an organization that helps women who are fighting breast cancer and Billy's Building Fund, a portal for donations to the University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital building fund.
If you buy and read the book, thank you. Please post a review on Amazon.com or email me with your thoughts by hitting the little white words above this post. And I'd love to have you join the conversation about the wisdom of Moms on Facebook.
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