Whenever there is news heralded by our media and our politicians that we are about to enter a recession, I simply respond with, ‘Not participating!’
So let’s take a look at the life of a man who has been attributed as the first game inventor to become a millionaire.
We can view the history play by play by looking in summary, as recorded by Mary Bellis, what is commonly considered the definitive resource on the subject, “The Monopoly Book, Strategy and Tactics” by Maxine Brady (wife of Hugh Hefner’s biographer and chess champion Frank Brady), published by the David McKay Co. in 1975.
Brady’s book describes Charles Darrow as an unemployed salesman and inventor living in Germantown, Pennsylvania, who was struggling with odd jobs to support his family in the years following the great stock market crash of 1929. Charles Darrow remembering his summers spent in Atlantic City, New Jersey, spent his spare time drawing the streets of Atlantic City on his kitchen tablecloth, with found pieces of material and bits of paints, wood etc. contributed by local merchants. A game was already forming in his mind as he built little hotels, houses and other tokens to go along with his painted streets.
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Alex Haley, the best selling author of the epic book ROOTS once said, ‘Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.’
I must admit that I personally have an affinity with the humble turtle, or rather the tortoise.
For at times I believe that what takes others five minutes to do, can at times take me anything up to five years to complete. One example being that after dating my wife for over five years, it took my mother saying, ‘Are you ever going to marry that girl’ to spark the thought and finally the corresponding action that led to marriage.
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Without a vision you’re dead.
However, with a vision you have defined the purpose for which you will rise from your bed each and every morning – to go yet again and again and again.
No matter whether you find yourself in the valley, or upon the mountain top – the vision will continue to sustain you and to guide you.
For vision is your compass to lead you through the smoke, the fire, the fog, the hail, the rain, the sunshine and even the haze – step by step – one step at a time.
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Persistence paves the pathway to a productive life. Without it you will never proceed beyond the highway called mediocrity. For the path of the persistent is only for the few, whereas mediocrity highway is traveled by many. But they who travel that way will never reach the mountain top and never experience the exhilaration of standing on top of Mount Vision and Mount Destiny.
However, the road of persistence can at times turn into a track and can even in some places disappear before your very eyes. And it is at that point that you must look up beyond the jungle that lies before you and see your mountain top destination.
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Here are the contents of a couple of emails that I had sent to me today from my eldest daughter Sarah.
When one spends their life motivating others it is wonderful to be the recipient of the same from time to time…especially from your daughter….
First a poem….
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Second a powerful statement…
“Your persistence with a single desire is destined to mow down all opposition and bring you the opportunity you are seeking.” – Napoleon Hill
