Autobiography or Audio Book
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I had a very hard time accepting the divorce from my first husband. For almost a year, I felt that I had failed as a woman, as a wife and as a person. Being in such an emotional frame of mind caused me to have physical symptoms that several doctors diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis. Finally, specialists at the renowned Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, told me my condition was progressing so rapidly that within a matter of months I would be totally disabled. I couldn't bear the thought of returning home and having my mother support me and my three Children. She had worked hard all her life, and asking her to take responsibility for us was an unthinkable prospect at this time. I was working for Stanley Home Products and making 10 to $12 for each sales demonstration party. I had to give three Stanley parties every day if I simply hoped to make ends meet. I realized that in order to be successful, I had to leave my personal problems at home, so I decided that no matter how I felt, I would go in there with a smile. And as I succeeded in my career. My health improved until finally all symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis disappeared. The doctors continued to insist that I was simply in a remission and that my arthritis would some day return. So far, they've been dead wrong. I think those physical symptoms were induced by my extreme emotional stress, and they stopped when I took control of my attitude. You see, the funny thing about putting on a happy face is that if you do it again and again pretty soon, that happy faces there to stay, it becomes the real you. I discovered that by maintaining a cheerful attitude during those Stanley parties, my problems seem to go away one by one. Conversely, if I had allowed myself to stay depressed, I wouldn't have done a good job and I wouldn't have made enough sales commissions.