Kites

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ~ Winston Churchill

One of the things that no one tells you about when you open a company is that sometimes you are just going to end up feeling like hammered shit. Things are going to go wrong, and just when you think you've gotten a handle on something another item pops up that makes you want to pull your hair out.

The above quote came to me in the mail on a Boys & Girls Club invitation on a day that truly sucked. It was perfect timing. Persitence is the only answer to anything. When things get bad, and then get worse, the only thing that you can do is keep grinding. Keep your eye on the prize and keep pressing. The only failure would be in giving up.

In Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow rich there is a great story about a 49er who went to California as part of the gold rush. He bought a plot of land and began to mine for gold. For months and months he toiled with no success. Frustrated and broke, he gave up the mine and walked away. He sold the mine for pennies on the dollar and went home.

The man he sold it to went down one of the failed mine shafts and began picking away. He went 3 yards further than the man that had given up and ran in to a major vein of gold. It turned out to one of the richest mines in California. After digging and digging for months, the original owner had come within 3 yards of a fortune for generations to come and had given up.

I don't want to give up 3 yards from the gold.