Success Is a State of Mind: My 87 Years of Learning by Living
By Carl Monson
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His story takes you through the poverty of the Dust Bowl of North Dakota, the winters of Minnesota, the rubble of war-torn Germany, the glamor and humor of Paris, the turmoil of Washington, DC, and retirement in North Carolina.
In his travels he has passed through all of the contiguous 48 states of the US and most of the countries of Western Europe.
He has been a farm hand, a soldier, a technical writer, a vagabond, a genealogist, a Sunday school teacher, a motivational speaker, a social worker, and most of all, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a great- grandfather.
This book is about the places he has been, the tasks that he performed, and the people that he met along the way.
The story is written in the format of an autobiography, with short stories included, to tell about the people and places that passed through his life.
Carl Monson
Carl Monson is the kind of guy who is never satisfied with what he has done or where he is going. He always wants to move upward. He grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota during the years of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. He went into the army on his eighteenth birthday and never looked back. He was in the military for twenty years, worked in the electronics industry for twenty years, and has been retired for twenty-seven years. He drew his first paycheck at the age of thirteen and his last one at age fifty-nine. In addition to his vocation, he has belonged to organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Toastmasters, the Mensa Society, and the United Methodist Church. He has also worked as an amateur genealogist, compiling histories and printing books on over a dozen families. From his parents and his experiences, he learned the values of integrity, hard work, and self-improvement. He has a firm belief that anyone, no matter where they come from, can have a life that leads to success and adventure.
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