I am La Donna Samuels-Ott, a college teacher of Child Development in Los Angeles, California, and the creator and seminar leader of two workshops through my company, WITS Self-Empowerment, Inc. Presents. Sharing these seminars has become the purpose of my life.

Five years ago, I was asked to present a workshop on any subject I wished. I chose the Law of Attraction. I had searched for years for answers to my own questions about what made successful people successful. On my journey, I discovered who I am spiritually, mentally, physically and intellectually. I learned (again!) that knowledge is power. So I created the structure for fulfillment, named it "Principles to Success", and facilitated the seminar for the California Early Childhood Education Mentor Program. It so inspired the mentees that I went home filled with the possibility of bringing this to more people.

I also wanted to teach what successful, happy people know, that some of us don't. I keep working to refine this seminar to provide people the tools to enhance their lives. I know the universal principles of success can work for everyone. The power to use clarity to affirm their desires and create their present & future can be used all the time.

I call this second seminar "The People Can Fly". Since developing it, we have presented TPCF to high school juniors, seniors and college freshmen at the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, California. And at a Loyola Marymount Production Studio (space donated by Father Eddie), we also presented it to a group of high school and college students we knew personally.

As we ended each seminar, every one of the young people asked if they could participate as a volunteer to help the next group of young people. We got great letters from participants thanking us for our help in defining their dreams and making them feel like architects of their lives.

Jill Gibbs is Co-Director of WITS Self Empowerment Inc. Presents, a company started with a passion for helping others learn how to live their best lives through positive goal setting and tapping into their resources of their own potential.

Since 2007, the company has been offering workshops for teens and young adults called "The People Can Fly", and workshops for adults called "Principles to Success." Jill has been involved with the company since its founding, bringing in knowledge and experience about child and human development from her years as a self-employed licensed child care provider, her years of working in a child development centre and her years of working in an adult school. The experience and life stories of people she has met along the way and some of the challenges they faced as well as how they triumphed over adversity inspired her to want to do more to be of service to others.