00:00a crock was broke at 52 years old driving around in a car staying in cheap crappy motels trying to
00:10sell a milkshake multi-mixer to various restaurants and not doing very well getting tons of no's and
00:21tons of rejection tons of people just slamming the door in his face over and over again and
00:27every once in a while he'd make a sale to put food on the table and just barely keep above
00:33water
00:34and at 52 years old by listening to recordings every morning and every night on positivity
00:42motivation inspiration and because he was so darn persistent and he was consistent with his efforts
00:49and he was focused on becoming a success and nothing was going to stop him he he embraced
00:56the possibility thinkers greed when faced with a mountain i will not quit i'll either go around
01:02it go over it dig a tunnel through it or just stay where i am and turn the mountain into
01:08a gold mine
01:10that was his mindset called the possibility thinkers creed but he was 52 years old when he started
01:22mcdonald's and it wasn't an automatic success he got the contract for franchises the first franchise he
01:31had was in des plains illinois right down the street they just tore it down a few years ago i
01:36used to love
01:36going over there very nostalgic you could see the original first mcdonald's franchise in des plains illinois
01:42not too far from here and it was a relative success but he wasn't making very much money
01:50but he saw potential so he got other people to get franchises and by the way he didn't have
01:55to sell franchises back then because nobody would buy a franchise he gave franchises away
01:59and he was getting 1.4 percent of the sales of that franchise and when that money came in he
02:06had to give
02:060.4 of it to the mcdonald's brothers so he got just one percent and that he couldn't even pay
02:12his
02:13overheads so it wasn't a successful venture it was hard to get people to take the franchises he was even
02:20though he was giving them away for free and when he finally did get people to take the franchises he
02:25was
02:25getting such a little amount back it wasn't working he couldn't pay his bills he was behind on his mortgage
02:33he faced adversity again so he he went after his dream and then it looked like he was going to
02:40go
02:40bankrupt some people don't know this part of the story he went into the bank to try to renegotiate
02:47his mortgage because he they were going to foreclose on his house
