YOUR HIDDEN POTENTIAL
The story below illustrates how we can underestimate the
potential within our grasp.
“Colonel Harland Sanders
was born is 1890. His father died when he was just six. Young Harland took care
of his younger brother and sister and did much of the family cooking while his
mother went to work. Aged ten, he started his first job on a farm; and at
twelve he left home for another farm job. He had several jobs over the next few
years. He was a streetcar conductor, a fireman and a soldier. Later he studied
and practised law. He sold insurance, operated a steamboat ferry, sold tyres
and operated service stations. When he was forty, the Colonel began cooking for
hungry travellers who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Kentucky.
Over the next nine years he
perfected his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices and the basic cooking
technique that is still used today. In the 1950’s a new highway was built, bypassing
the town of Corbin. It destroyed the Colonel’s business. After he had auctioned
off his operations and paid his bills, he was forced to live on social
security.
In 1939, Colonel Sanders gave
the world a taste of his famous creation. He began franchising this business at
the age of 65. Since then the KFC® business has grown to be one of the largest
fast food systems in the world; and more than a billion of his “finger-licking
good” chicken dinners are served annually (in more than eighty countries).
The Colonel had a multi-billion dollar idea growing inside him for most
of his life. Still he lived an average life until a crisis stirred up a passion
within him. Take one simple idea – a secret recipe of herbs and spices – add
some energy, loads of courage and hard work and we end up with a huge business
empire.”
- Would you think that one of your ideas or recipes would have
the potential to create a billion-dollar empire?
- Was the KFC empire started by a crisis that forced an old
man – living on social security grants – to finally do something great with his
recipe?
Think about the enormous potential that lies within you!
Will it remain dormant?
Will it take a crisis to spark you into action?
Too many of us spend our time and effort focusing on
what went wrong in our lives and who is to blame.
Instead, we should focus on what we CAN do to improve the
situation.
Sometimes, the biggest crises are the things that ‘make’
you!
Take the control back.
If you want something to be
better in your life, then YOU have to make it better.
Life will be better – WHEN YOU
make it so!
