Val's Victory: Defeat was NEVER an Option Tools and Rules for surviving well in family and business relationships, in spite of having a severe setback Val's Victory can be Your Victory! "Val shares a wonderful story of the ups and downs in her life in an interesting and inspiring way. She succeeded in the business world, and that is something she can be very proud of. Val certainly has the ability to inspire and influence the lives of a great many people. My congratulations to her." —RUTH
STAFFORD PEALE
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Middlebrook: An Inspirational Desert Woman" Val's Victory marches you through the Valley of Death as Val battles a combination of disappointment and a disabling disease, emerging determined to survive: Her "Journey into Understanding" began with an ongoing, catastrophic, invisible disease. It was ironically brought on by an injection given by a nurse, that changed her life forever when she was a young mother of two small children. "At the onset, tetanus overcame me in two waves..." Determined not to accept defeat, Val pulled her life together and developed an outstanding career in the direct sales field. Val tells, both poignantly and humorously, how she maintained a positive attitude by using Goal Setting techniques. She gives you the tools and rules she developed through life's hard lessons, as she trained first herself, and then thousands of others. Few knew of her illness; doctors were unsympathetic, and her husband Jay was disinterested, which led to a nervous breakdown: "If you think you're all right, you'll be all right..." In
1972, Val joined Rubbermaid as the Sales Development Manager for
the Party Plan Division in the western states. She spent almost
eight years with Rubbermaid, applying the tools and rules she had
developed to become a good manager, recruiter, and trainer while
continuing her struggle against lockjaw. Val moved into Executive Recruiting, in which she could be successful with the skills and talents that she had learned and developed: "People are not talked into leaving a company..." Val also developed tools and rules for the "Journey into Understanding" of her personal life. She realized that she had been trained as an "Enslaved Giver," and constructed new Goals to become a "Free Giver" by learning to accept (not only to give) "unconditional love." Not until this book was being written did Val learn of a family secret that explains why, from early childhood on, "her feelings didn't count:" Val believes that you do have to close one door before another will open. After one major negative door was closed by a divorce, a lifelong Goal was fully realized with a happy marriage to another Free Giver: "Val, you won't have to find him — he will find you!" Val
takes you through her quest to achieve self-understanding and awareness
leading to the self-fulfillment we all seek in life, as she began
to observe herself and others through the "window of their
soul." Copyright
2000 by Val Middlebrook. ISBN: 0-9700305-1-7 |
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