LEARNING FROM MARILYN HAMILTON

Marilyn Hamilton is a former teacher and beauty queen and a successful businessman in Fresno, California. When the age of twenty-nine years, he survived a terrible accident, falling from a rocky cliff in a hang glider accident that made him a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down in 1978. In the face of difficult situations is what distinguishes successful people and failures in dealing with the situation. Hamilton Marilyn react by not focusing on that can not be done, but only focus on the possibility that he could do. He got a business opportunity instead of the tragedy he had experienced. By the time he uses a wheelchair, he was imprisoned and was obstructing the wheel chair. Then he got the idea to create a wheelchair better. He channeled his energy to designing a wheelchair that is lighter, easier to manage, with a modular frame, responsive performance and a pleasant personality.

Together with two friends founded the company named Quickie wheelchairs in California and co-founder of Motion Design in 1979. The company is recruiting employees for the first time in 1981. In 1986, the company purchased oelh Sunrise Medical. The company is a company that made the revolution of the wheel chair and now the company is a multimillion-dollar company. He also founded WOW (Winners on Wheels), which is a Boy Scout program for children with disabilities. Marilyn Hamilton currently as Vice President of Global Planning and Strategic Services at Sunrise Medical, Fresno, California.

Marilyn Hamilton has received numerous awards, completed during his life more than her partner. He has received two silver medals at the Paralympic Ski Championships and has twice won the U.S. Women's Open Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. Victory in Ski and Tennis championship has inspired a generation of athletes wheelchair. Marilyn has touched millions of lives and stories have appeared in various books, magazines, newspapers and television programs. He was awarded a California Business Woman of the Year and as a member of the California Governor's Hall of Fame for People with Disabilities. Marilyn Hamilton has given the world more than just a revolutionary wheelchair, but he has provided inspiration, encouragement and hope. Finally in 2005, he won the Hall of Fame in 2005 for the category of Entrepreneur. Marilyn Hamilton is more to see the positive side than on the negative side and try to release the limitations that. People who could see the positive side and the melpaskan of keterbatasn that will achieve success.