It's never too late

In a magazine I was reading there was a great article about this 89 year old man who finally got his high school diploma. He talked about how important it was to him and how pleased he was to have that diploma. Isn't that a great example of not giving up but doing what had to be done to earn that recognition? After all those years he finally finished what he started many, many years earlier.

Here is the point for me and I hope for you. It's never too late to finish what you start. Every once in a while I get the question like, "Why do you keep on working this business?" I only have one answer.  I truly enjoy doing what I do and I love this business.  I'm not finished. I have actually said that many, many times...I just don't feel like it's over.

I grew up in a single parent home in the 1940s and 50s. My mother was a tough lady and very smart.   She had three boys and one girl and in those years it was unusual to be a single mother of four kids.  My mother was our model for the kind of people she wanted us kids to be. What we heard in our home over and over and over was: be polite, be on time, if you tell someone you will do something, make sure you do it, if you start something, finish it.

Did you begin this business with a dream in your mind about what you could become and what you could have? Have you reached that dream? If  you have not reached what would be your dream, is that dream still alive in your mind and heart? Finish! Don't allow that dream to be idle just because of obstacles and setbacks. Finish! Don't compare yourself with anyone else, just be the very best you can be. Finish!

It's never too late to finish.

Enthusiastically,
Gary Burke