Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
Regardless of your circumstances – today is your day. Today! Not yesterday, not tomorrow, not next week – TODAY! Read it, believe it and take action. Write down what you need to do to conquer your mountain – it is not going away on its own and you can’t outsource it for someone else to conquer it for you. 🙂
Your mountain is there for your emotional, spiritual, physical and mental growth. Accept and embrace your mountain as a gift whether it be a difficult relationship, struggling to make ends meet, getting rid of bad habit or unemployment something that is going to make you a better person on the other side. See yourself on the other side and reflect daily on this image. So get on your way.
Facts about Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel but his friends and family called him ‘Ted’.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts and died of throat cancer on September 24,1991 in San Diego, California.
- Ted Geisel was a stepfather.
- Ted Geisel married twice but never had any children. When people commented about this, he used to say “You have ‘em; I’ll entertain ‘em.”
- Ted’s parents were called Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta (Seuss) Geisel. His father managed a brewery in Springfield and was the son of German immigrants. Ted had one sister called Marnie.
- While he was at college, Ted wrote for a college magazine called the Jack-O-Lantern but was forced to resign after he and some friends were caught drinking gin in his room, violating the Prohibition laws of the 1920s. He continued writing for the magazine but started signing his work with the pen-name ‘Seuss’, his mother’s maiden name and his own middle name.
- Ted worked as a cartoonist and then in advertising in the 1930s and 1940s but started contributing weekly political cartoons to a magazine called PM as the war approached.
- The first book that was both written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel was And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. The book was rejected 27 times before being published in 1937.
- The Cat in the Hat was written as a result of a 1954 report published in Life magazine about illiteracy among school children. A text-book editor at a publishing company was concerned about the report and commissioned Ted to write a book which would appeal to children learning to read, using only 250 words given to him by the editor.
- Ted was fascinated by research into how babies develop in the womb and whether they can hear and respond to the voices of their parents. He was delighted to find The Cat in the Hat was chosen by researchers to be read by parents to their babies while the babies were still in utero.
- Writing as Dr Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote and illustrated 44 children’s books. These books have been translated into more than 15 languages and have sold over 200 million copies around the world
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