When their father, Richard Williams, told the tennis world that his two daughters: Venus andSerena Williams, would be great champions in tennis, many laughed at him in his face. Some were thinking privately: “what is he smoking”. They never believe that two little black girls from Compton, California, would ever make it past average. The Williams Sisters did not fit the profile of tennis idols. They were black and from poor background. Tennis stars are normally white and from well-to-do families.

Yet they still doubted him. But his girls dreamed of being world beaters. They went out and worked their butts off with eyes on the ball. They moved from dreaming about being world beaters to actually believing that they are world beaters! They went out there and proved it!

Moral of this story:

Never let your children or yourself think that you or they are second bests because of their background or their skin color/race/gender or that what they aspire to be is impossible. Always tell them that they can be anything they want to be, if they are ready to work hard towards that goal. Do not put an imaginary ‘glass-ceiling’ on top of their heads by telling them how difficult it would be.

All the people that never believed Mr. Richard Williams and her daughters are now the same that are celebrating their successes. They are the same ones that are calling him a genius. So don’t worry about negative people… Worry about doing what you suppose to do: eyes on the ball! The future would take care of itself when you take care of the present.