Individual Initiative
When as a teenager, I built my own business clientele and began mowing lawns once a week for three customers.
I made more money with these three customers than from day labor in the farm fields; and it made me believe in me.
It's called INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE. My parents were farmers. That's what they knew, but that wasn't who they were,
because both my parents did side business for themselves and their family, because what they knew and the 'box they
were born and raised in were not big enough for them. It's called INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE. They were entrepreneurs
at heart and did not settle for the box that someone else built for them and their habitation. Yes, survival was a motivator,
but their hearts were the generator, the engine, the transmission, and the starter that got them going. It's called INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE.
There is no amount of money on earth enticing enough to create it. There is no job or career that can imitate and pretend that you have it.
It's when everything around you frowns and says, "No way, you can't do it". It's when you know something is in you that defines you and says, "I can!".
It's when you ignore the echoes of a thousand lies, and listen to God's voice. Please feel free to think differently, but I think it's INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE.
072421PS,
Copyright © Curtis Johnson | Year Posted 2021
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