The Phoenix Principle
October 6, 2005
‘Despair leads to death. The entrance to hell in Dante’s inferno: ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.’ - Secrets of Super Achievers by Philip Baker, Webb & Partners 1997, Pg 50.
A man is sitting on his porch in Kentucky.
He’s just retired from the post office.
His first Social Security check arrives.
He’s very, very discouraged. He thinks, “Is this my life now - sitting on the porch waiting for my check?”
He made a list of all the blessings and capacities he had.
The list was long. In the list was his mother’s recipe for fried chicken.
It used eleven different herbs and spices.
He went to a nearby restaurant and asked if he could cook the chicken.
It soon became the most popular item on the menu.
So he opened his own restaurant, then others, then a string of restaurants.
Eventually Harland Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise across all of America.
Pastor Phil Pringle
Apple #1 on Wired’s Top 40 Innovators list
October 6, 2005
Wired have released their Top 40 list of technology and innovation masters, listing Apple #1 for “consistently delivering quality and flair”, citing the sale of 8.2 million iPods in 2004, and iTunes taking 70% of legal music downloads. Others on the list include Google, Amazon.com and Vodafone. Microsoft does come in, at 28. See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/wired40.html for the complete list.
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