MOTIVATION CAN BE FOUND ANYWHERE

By Author: Mr. TEAM MENTit (MENTit Both)
Affiliation: MENTit

Motivation is the push that is required for any person to work towards their dream. People need motivation because the path that leads to achieving our goals does have obstacles. But, it is not always true that a person wants to work hard. There are times where it is very difficult for a person to keep working hard. 

Yet, there are people who do not stop trying, even where they face failures or obstacles in their path. One such person is Mary Kay Ash. She is a very well-known entrepreneur who had her own skincare company.

MARY KAY ASH-

Mary Kay Ash was born in 1918 in Texas. Her family consisted of just her and her parents. Mary’s mother was her greatest inspiration. She used to work 14 hours a day to provide for their family. And many times when Mary faced difficulties, her mother would say “You can do it, Mary Kay! You can do it.” This was Mary Kay’s greatest motivation later in her life too.

Her career started with her selling books from door to door. This did earn her some good money. A few years later she joined Stanley Home Products. There she worked in the sales department and was doing very well. In a matter of few years, Mary Kay Ash became one of the Sales Directors in the company. 

In Stanley Home Products she trained thousands of people as sales representatives. Although they were mostly men and very few women. Mary Ash was overlooked numerous times for the promotions in senior posts. But there was one particular instance that caused Mary Ash to leave the company. One of her own trainees was promoted above her with twice the pay. This disappointed Mary Ash a lot and she finally left the company after 25 years of service there.

STARTING HER OWN COSMETIC COMPANY-

Due to the inequality that Mary Ash experienced, she wrote a book where she wrote all about her experiences- good or bad from the company. In her book, she wrote about solutions that can be implemented to solve these issues. This gave her an idea of starting her own business. 

With a personal investment of $5000, she started her own Sales company of Beauty products. The book she had written was of great help in starting and running her company. Her beauty products company was solely based on Mary Ash’s ideologies and beliefs.

As she had to face gender inequality many times in her previous company, she wanted to help a lot of women with the help of her own company. She created a lot of jobs for women. This was her contribution to women's empowerment. She gave women new opportunities to work. As women working was not so flexible and not much seen, she helped women to stand up for themselves; be independent financially as well. 

One of the main ways through which she motivated women to work harder was by providing incentives. Pink Cadillacs were given to top sales directors, Diamond Bee Pins were given to women who worked extraordinarily. Such were the incentives she provided to the people, especially women working in her company.

LEARNING-

From the struggles of Mary Kay Ash, it is seen that there will be obstacles in the path of our achievements but motivating oneself to still work hard is essential. Not only is that motivating others to do well also needed. Just like Mary Kay she not only motivated herself to work towards her goal despite facing so many challenges, she also helped other women build up their careers.

 

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