OUR ATTITUDE in many ways ties directly to
our inner voice that forever asks the question ...
"Are you moving toward your dream?" If your
answer is yes, then hope breeds contentment.
However, if the answer is "no, it's too late," despair
may fester within your subconscious. You might
not even realize why your life lacks joy.
I can say this with conviction ... "It is never too
late to be what you might have been." Dreams are
free, and just having them can make your life
worth living.
Ray Kroc is one of my business heroes. he
founded McDonald's when he was 52 years
old, after trying for over two years and talking
to more than 100 people to raise the
money. Fifteen years ago, I had the good fortune
to talk to Tom Seay, one of the potential
investors whom Ray approached. Tom told
me how Ray had come to his office one
Friday afternoon with his business plan for
this "crazy idea" called McDonald's. For
$100,000 he was offering Tom 30 percent of
the company. Tom told him that he didn't
have the time to review it then but that he
would take it home over the weekend.
Monday morning rolled around, and Ray
was waiting at the front door when Tom got
to his office. Tom invited him in and said,
"Ray, I read this plan three times; even shared
it with a friend. And we both decided that
there's no way in the world you can make
money selling hamburgers."
We all know that Ray thought otherwise;
and the rest, of course, is history.
Learn more about Mac Anderson, founder of
Successories and author of the Simple Truths book
series.