Picture this!! You are just eight and only for 20 dollars, you are singing in local clubs because there is often a shortage of food and money in your household. Yes, it is when you are just eight.

When you reach the age 13, your family has lost their home and for the shelter, you are spending your nights under the tress with your mother and other siblings. Added to your trauma, before you reach 20, you find that you have lost your parents. Then to take care of your siblings, you start working as a sales-girl in McDonald’s.

Now tell me, from there, how far you can visualize yourself – how far? You know the answer. But Shania Twain, from there, raised herself to the Grammy winning singer-songwriter.

It’s the same Shania whose third album, Come On Over, became the biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician. She is also the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA. Not bad for a girl, who once hunted and chopped wood for survival.

Now ask yourself, how tough are your challenges?

Nothing want to go my way–
Yeah, it just ain’t been my day
Nothin’s comin’ easily
Up–up–up–
Can only go “UP” from here
~ Up (Shania Twain)