Wednesday, October 05, 2005

THE PHOENIX PRINCIPLE

A man is sitting on his porch in Kentucky.

He's just retired from the post office.

His first Social Security check arrives.

He's very, very discouraged.

He thinks, "Is this my life now - sitting on the porch waiting for my check?"

He made a list of all the blessings and capacities he had.

The list was long.

In the list was his mother's recipe for fried chicken.

It used eleven different herbs and spices.

He went to a nearby restaurant and asked if he could cook the chicken.

It soon became the most popular item on the menu.

So he opened his own restaurant, then others, then a string of restaurants.

Eventually Harland Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise across all of America.

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