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From the suicide rope to the Billionaire's club.





Hello friends welcome to another new week. How did your weekend go? I hope you took out sometime to rest. If you didn't for whatever reason, start making out time for that.

Today on our new week motivation, we shall be traveling down memory lane to look at someone who defied the odds and made it at the end of the day. For mehis story is one of those that have and keep motivating me whenever I feel like giving up.

His name is Colonel Harland Sanders. The founder of the KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN empire.

This is how his life began;

-Lost his dad at age 5.

- Quit school at age 16.

- Had to care for his younger ones as his mum went off to work. Therefore he learnt how to cook and do house chores.

- His mum remarried, step dad didn't want the male children so he had to be sent to work at a farm.

- At age 17 he had already lost for jobs.

- At age 18 he got married.

- Became a railroad conductor between ages 18- 22.

- Became a father at 19.

- At age 20 his wife left him and took their little daughter along.

- He joined the army, got washed out.

- Applied for law school and was rejected.

- Became an insurance sales man and failed at it.

- Became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe.

- He retired at age 65. On the first day of his retirement, he got a cheque from the government for $105.

- He then decided to commit suicide out of frustration.

- He decided to write his will before proceeding to take his life but suddenly he ended up writing about what he would have  accomplished with his life.

- He read what he wrote and realized he could do more.

- He then remembered there was something he was extremely good at and that was cooking.

- He then went ahead to borrow $87 to buy chicken which he fried using his own recipe he had always had.

- He went from door to door in Kentucky selling his chicken.

- A new empire was born.

A man who was to end it all at 65 with the suicide rope went on to become a billionaire by 88.

Today KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN is the second largest chain of restaurant in the world, second only to MacDonald's.
KFC now has over 20,000 locations in about 123 nations of the world.

His life wasn't supposed to amount to anything based on his circumstances but eventually he found out that it is not about what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

He never knew that there was a billion dollar empire inside of him until he sat down and looked inward.

He began at the evening of his life, a time when most people would have said it's over.

Colonel Sanders is no more but he lives on through KFC. He built a success has outlived him.

I don't know what your own story is, you can become another Col Sanders if you will muster the courage to rise after the serial failure.

Have a blessed week.

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