Like the Colonel

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

~ Caterina Fake

Sitting at my desk, staring at the pile of bills, and the balance of my bank account at the same time, my shoulders slumped as I sank into my chair.

Life just seems to feel like such a struggle.

And now, on the brink of my 65th birthday, I found myself asking if this is as good as it gets.

At 65, have I passed my prime and are my best days behind me?

I questioned whether or not I had any more great ideas or has that ship sailed.

After all, I am going to be 65.

If I was going to be a success,shouldn't it have happened by now?

I've been at this came for decades and I have yet to find the secret ingredient to becoming an overnight success.

I wasn't feeling defeated.

I wasn't feeling desperate.

I certainly wasn't feeling dejected.

My fear was that I might be feeling content to just play out the string.

Then I opened a message from my mentor Darren Hardy that I had received a few days earlier.

His message that day shared with us the Harland Sanders story.

Making a long story short, Harland Sanders,also known as Colonel Sanders,after years of trying to make a business based around his fried chicken recipe and having little luck or no luck or a times what seemed like bad luck,hit on his "overnight" success story.

His story is an amazing one that was fraught with stops and starts ,with many setbacks including and not limited to a deadly shoot out,a fire which consumed his motel that he had opened and the onset of WWII.

After numerous attempts at entrepreneurship,the Colonel launched his Kentucky Fried Chicken store and began franchising it.

He eventually sold KFC for a whopping 2 million dollars ($15.3 million in today

dollars).

By 2013 there were over 18,000 KFC franchises worldwide.

Harland Sanders was 65 when he launched what we now know as KFC.

I guess that means I still have a shot at becoming an overnight success as well!