Quote of the day:
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.”--Ella Fitzgerald
Consider:
It’s important to stick with your dreams no matter how crazy they may seem at the time. Just like Josephine Cochrane stuck to her dreams.
Josephine Cochrane was a socialite, who, in 1886, had servants to wash her fine china. The servants were clumsy, though, and broke too many plates and cups. Josephine tried washing dishes herself, but it was a tiresome chore, and she thought to herself--there had to be a better way. She went out to a shed behind the house and started figuring out how to make a machine do the work.
She handled the transition from socialite to mechanic, but then faced a much harder task. Trying to sell her new machine, she constantly heard, “No.” In a 1915 survey, women insisted they'd rather wash dishes by hand in the evening because it relaxed them. Josephine patiently endured for decades before housewives were ready to have dishwashers in their kitchens.
Today, dishwashers are a standard fixture in most American homes. I’m thankful she stuck to it.
What dreams do you need to stick to?
Wishing you all the best,
Coach Dana
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