Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurels at upon. - Mary Kay Ash Mary Kay Ash (May 12, 1918 – November 22, 2001) She born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Hot Wells. After divorced with her first husband after the World War II. Ash started working in Stanley Home Products since 1939. After her retirement in 1963, she decided to found Mary Kay Cosmetics with her new husband George Hallenbeck . Although he died a month before the occupation of the brand, she still try to complete their plan. She received lots of honors and awards for her business and also her actions on charity, including: - The 100 best companies to work for in America - Equal Justice Award - Most Outstanding Woman in Business in the 20th Century - etc. Mary Kay Inc. founded by Mary Kay Ash in 1963 Running of selling - Multi-level marketing model Distributors are called beauty consultants in the company, they can sell directly or recruit others to further expand their range of customers. Mary Kay Inc. had 318 consultants and $198,154 in sales in 1963, it grew gradually to $500 million in sales by 1991 through 220,000 consultants. Until 2017, Mary Kay Inc. had 39,000 directors, 600 national directors and 2.5 million consultants with sales of $3.7 billion. Production facilities - Main manufacturing facility: Dallas, Texas - Second plant: Hangzhou, China (mainly for manufacture and package products for that market) - Third plant: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland ( For the European market, closed in 2003) Never rest on your laurels. Most of us have goals or targets that we can finally achieve if we keep working hard. However, what should we do after we get the laurels? Should we take a break because we might get tired after walking a long way? If we start thinking this way, we will easily regress. Nothing wilts faster than a laurels at upon. Why is it easy for us to regress? If we take a break, at most we stop moving, so why does it become a step backwards? Time is running and we are all walking along it. If we stop moving forward, we will gradually fall behind others, which is another kind of regression. When we have a goal, we understand that "we still have things to do". Once we lose our goal, especially if we have accomplished it and not lost it for some other reason, we may not immediately set another goal. In this case, we will easily enter our comfort zone and become increasingly reluctant to step out of it. Goal Setting Never resting does not mean that we can never rest on the path to achieving our goals. What it does mean is that we can never be without any goals at any time. If we spend a long time and energy on something and you feel very tired, try to set some easy goals. The only thing we must not forget is not to give up any opportunity to improve ourselves. Here are some tips of goal setting: Take reference to criteria like SMART - Ensure our target is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. Learning from failures - We have faced many failures and experiences in our previous work, try to learn from them and have improvements in the next attempt. Find like-minded people - Sometimes it's hard to seek certain types of goals, and if we find some like-minded people who work together to support each other, we'll have a much easier time achieving them.