This is the story of a completely unlucky person. His father died when he was 6 years old. His mother was forced to work in a factory. She worked hard all day but still the house could not run. When mother went to the factory, he would stay at home and take care of his younger sister and one of his younger brothers He was an incompetent student. And he was not at all fond of studying The conditions at home were deteriorating day by day due to which he dropped out of school at the age of 13 At the age of 14, he also left his home.
He forged his date of birth and joined the army at the age of 15. But he failed and was fired. Then he started painting and whitewashing houses and he failed at that too. Then he started cleaning the train and failed in that too. He started as a bus conductor and failed miserably at that too. At the age of 17, he lost many jobs after trying hard At the age of 19, he got married. Fed up with his repeated failures, his wife divorced him. Then he started a job as a cook in a restaurant, failed there too and lost that job too. This failed loser did not give up and at the age of 30, he started a boat building company and it took off. But then after a short time this company also closed down. Then he built a service station but unfortunately that too got closed. After some time he again started working in a restaurant where his work flourished.
But by then he was 60 years old After working there for a short time, he retired at the age of 65. He could not do a single job properly during all this time. He was not successful in a single job. Everything he did failed miserably. After failing so much, he now wanted to end his life. He was sitting under a tree, he thought that before ending his life, he should write down all the failures of his life on a piece of paper so that he can know what he can achieve in his life. He started writing and writing, he found that he was good at cooking. He thought why not try another in the same field.
He got up and borrowed some money from someone in this work and with that money he bought chicken and he fried this chicken with his own recipe. He went door to door and started selling the chicken he made. Everyone liked it so much that everyone started asking for it. He became famous everywhere. Then he started his own fast food business. Which is known as kentucky fried chicken (KFC) today. It is famous worldwide today At the age of 65, he was so successful that he became a billionaire. When he died in 1980 at the age of 90, he had 6,000 restaurants in 48 countries around the world.
In 2018, the number of KFCs in 136 countries of the world had reached 22 thousand. And till today they are making money in crores colonel sanders is one of the few people in the world whom misfortune tried hard to defeat, but it could not defeat him. From this story we get the lesson that you are never too late to succeed, never give up, keep trying again and again, you will succeed one day. This story proves that no failure in the world can fail you until you admit failure.
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