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Our greatest victories are packaged in failure.

Failure will always want to overtake you, to lead you back to the comfortable places that keep you with the victim mentality.

Have you ever wanted something so bad that you kept getting up, even though no one would blame you for quitting?

The detours, road blocks, tragedies that stepped in the way of your vision could’ve made you quit, but you kept going. Knowing that breakthrough was just around the corner.

Often, our greatest victories are packaged in failures.

Failure will always want to overtake you, to lead you back to the comfortable places that keep you with the victim mentality.

We are not victims of our circumstances, and we have a choice to sit in our misery or make beauty from the pain.

The writer of The Greatest Salesman, Og Mandino, lost his family and was a wandering derelict. A hopeless alcoholic who nearly spent his last few dollars on a suicide gun. If he would’ve ended his life, he wouldn’t have inspired millions of people through his writings.

He wrote:

“So long as there is breath in me,
that long will I persist
For now I know one of the greatest
principles of success;
if I persist long enough I will win…
I will persist. I will win.”

What will you do with the breath you have?

By Mona Pinon

I am a real mom, meaning I don't have it all together, I am flawed, I make mistakes but at the end of the day, I try my best and always make things right when I am wrong. I love hard and give with everything in me to those willing to receive. It is true that I've learned through trial and error to love myself and be unapologetic for not living up to other's expectations of me. This in return gives those around me permission to be unapologetic as well. it's a beautiful thing to find the few people who love you just the way you are. I'm married to an awesome hardworking man and have 5 children, my oldest has made me a grandma x3. I had the opportunity to work many years as a stay-at-home mom, although during the time I lived with depression, it was one of my greatest joys. How Ironic, right? I have overcome many challenges throughout my younger years as well as during and after my youngest son's cancer diagnosis that left him paralyzed at just 4 months old.

A near-death experience after childbirth in 2010 had me questioning my existence, I began to wonder if the God I believed in created me to suffer. It wasn't until I looked outside myself that I was able to find hope through volunteerism. I hope to inspire others to be all that they can hope or imagine to be through sharing my experience as a person who came from nothing and decided to be the best version of who I wanted to be. I am a mom, wife, daughter, friend, community leader & advocate, but those are just my titles, who I am is much more. I believe we all were created with purpose, regardless of position or status. Being a mother to a son with a disability created situations that caused me to dig really deep to provide solutions for not only my son but for future generations.

In my spare time, I like to blog, read, listen to anything inspiring. I get most of my inspiration from Sylvester Stallone, TD Jakes, Napoleon Hill, Andy Andrews, Earl Nightingale, Les Brown, and Myles Monroe. I am very passionate about helping others and volunteering with different local organizations; my focus is not just on giving but teaching others how to do for themselves. I do not claim to have the best grammar or punctuation, I just really love writing what is on my mind and hopefully inspire someone to be the best version of themselves. My desire is to inspire others to be all God has created them to be or whatever your higher power may be. I believe we all have talents and gifts and it is up to us as individuals to pull them out. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and I will answer as soon as possible.

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