Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961), known to Americans as Grandma Moses died at the age of 101.

By Neil Eskelin

At the age of eighty, a farmer’s wife in Cambridge, Virginia, suffered from painful arthritis. The mother of ten children and many grandchildren — and great-grandchildren — loved to do needlework, but her fingers could no longer manipulate the large needle to embroider.

The elderly woman looked for something else that would keep her occupied and found she could hold a small paintbrush much easier than a needle. So she tried her hand painting. She thought her farm and country scenes were good enough to show at the Cambridge Fair, but only won prizes for her jams and canned fruit. There were no blue ribbons for her art.

Then one day an art collector from New York City was travelling through the village and noticed several of her paintings for sale in a local drug store. When he showed them to his friends in the art circles of Manhattan, they were more than curious.

Soon, ‘Grandma Moses’ gained an international reputation. Her widely-collected works of art were featured on calendars, greeting cards and in exhibitions in leading galleries including the Modern Museum of Art in New York.

Even more amazing, twenty-five percent of her 1,500 popular paintings were done after she was 100!

There goes to show again that age does not matter and if our heart is in it, you can do anything!

So what are you going to do with your business over the next twelve months?

 Have a GREAT Day!

Stuart Lockley

Have you ever noticed how sometimes it does not seem to matter how hard you try you just cannot achieve something you are aiming for. There are times when it seems that the harder you try, the harder you work, the more difficult things become.

You work hard, you work long hours, you struggle and yet at the end of the day the thing you are attempting to achieve just seems further away than ever. At the same time you just know you should be able to do whatever it is you are attempting.

Then you give up and mentally say “oh, what the hell.” You relax and then things start to fall into place. It almost seems that the less work you do, the less effort you put out, the less struggle you engage in, the more successful you become.

Perhaps we should treat our lives like a board game. Do not take seriously and have some fun while trying to win.

Maybe we would be more successful. Even if we were not more successful we might just enjoy our lives more

What has this got to do with your business? Are you working long hours, struggling, feeling stressed and still not achieving the things you wish to achieve in your business? Is it time to turn your business into a game?

 What do you think?

Have a GREAT Day!

Stuart Lockley