You Can Do This As Well...

January 10, 2012
Tuesday
Time is marching on
I'm getting older and
my posts are getting slower.

Hey there,

All kidding aside, time is moving on.

I was surfing the web and I ran across this
story and thought I'd just more or less copy
and paste it and make my comments along the way.

Hope you don't mind but I think the ideas
and the concept in this post are important
if you want to learn more about business, and
yourself.

When Castro and his Communist regime took
over Cuba, the socialist system replaced
free enterprise and many successful people
were devastated.

I wasn't very old but hey, I remember Castro
if that dates me.

Carlos Arboleya, an accounts officer for
one of the largest banks in Cuba, was one
of them that was devastated.

In 1960, shortly after Castro took over,
Carlos arrived at work and discovered that
all private banks had been taken over by the
Communists.

The government there took over control of the
banks. Not a good thing.

Three weeks later he was able to get himself,
his wife and his small son out of Cuba.

That was a smart move on his part.

The only problem was, Carlos arrived in America
with only $42 in cash. He was unemployed, had
no place to stay, and did not know a single person
in Miami.

Again, not the best situation.

He sought employment by going to every bank
Miami but all of them turned him down.

He did try them all apparently, but he didn't
give up.

He finally found a job in a shoe factory, taking
inventory.

Not the best job in the world, but a good start.

He had to do something and that was to get some
money coming in.

Carlos worked with enthusiasm and with enormous
energy as he put in countless extra hours.

That's something a lot of people are not willing
to do these days.

but...

Results were spectacular and within sixteen months
he was manager of the shoe company. Not bad for someone
in sixteen months.

A short time later he was offered a job at the bank
where the shoe company did business.

From there he moved into the presidency of the
largest chain of banks in America.

Oh yeah, the presidency.

Carlos Arboleya did what he had to do (provide for
his family) by taking a job he was over-qualified
for and eventually landed the job he desired.

Sometimes life just works that way.

Something happens and you think it's the worst thing
that could ever happen, when in reality GOD has taken
over, and has a plan. That's what most people forget.

There's always a plan.

Just follow the plan.

May not seem right at the time, but it's a good plan.

Carlos proved that it is not where you start but that
you start that counts.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start
to be great.

Carlos’ story is simply a vignette in the overall
picture of America, the land where anyone who will
apply him or herself, and strive for that education,
can move forward to unique successes.

FACT: This is evidenced by the fact that 80% of all millionaires
in America are first-generation Americans. Think about it,
give it your best shot!

Hey maybe I'm back on track.

I'm trying and at least I'm doing something to get me
started.

Get it?

Talk later. Maybe even today.

Dr. Carney