KFC Colonel Sander’s Inspirational Story

Sander’s was born in 1890. When sander’s was 5 yrs old, he lost his father. His mother who was housewife had to go out to work to earn for family and sander’s had to take care of his siblings. He used to look after and cook for them. By age of 7 his skills got good with cooking.

At age of 10, he began to work at local farmer. Soon, his mother remarried and sander had tumultuous relationship with his stepfather due to which he dropped out of 7th grade and left his home by himself.

At age of 14, he took job for painting horse carriages and then moved to Indiana to work as farmhand for 2 yrs. At age of 16  he falsified his date of birth and completed his service commitment as teamster in Cuba.

At age of 19 he met Josephine while working on rail road. Soon, he got married to her. They had three kids (son and two daughter). His son died at early age. Now, he found a job at Illinois central railroad but soon had to lost even this job due to brawl with his colleague and his wife left him and moved to her parents with kids.

He used to study Law by correspondence. After losing job he started to practice law but even his legal career ended after a fight with his own client. He moved back to his mother and again went to work as labor for railway. Here he started to work as Life insurance agent but eventually fired.

At age of 30, he established a ferry boat company which was an instant success. After 3 yrs he sold all his shares of ferry boat for 22,000$ and used this money to establish a company manufacturing lamps but even this venture failed. After this sander’s moved to Winchester, Kentucky to work as salesman but soon he lost his job also.

In 1930, Sander was offered a rent free station to run by Shell oil company where he began to serve chicken dishes and other meals. Slowly his popularity grew and soon his service station became famous throughout Kentucky. It was called “Kentucky Fried Chicken of Harland Sanders.” All customers noted the quality of its seasoning, which he prepared from 11 different spices. Life began to improve.

Harland Sanders bought a service station, motel and cafe at Corbin, a town in Kentucky. He left Claudia, as manager of the North Corbin restaurant and motel. He started to work as assistant cafeteria manager in Tennessee.

In 1947 he divorced his first wife and in 1949 married Claudia.

For first time sander franchised “Kentucky Fried Chicken” in 1952. Restaurants sales lead to popularity of KFC and increase in income but life hit hard on him once again, due to some reason his sales dropped drastically and he was forced to sell all his property to pay his debt.

At age of 65 he was broke and was living off on Social Security Check of 105$. At this time he started to think about all and upon reflection he decided that he can sell his recipe to other restaurants. He wandered throughout U.S. with his spice recipe and pressure cooker visiting restaurants of America. Even this time it took long before he could find his first customer. After 4 years KFC was very successful and after a deal his net worth estimated at $3.5 million.

In 1980, at the age of 90 years, Harland Sanders died. In recent years he was traveling, playing golf and ran their own restaurant Claudia Sanders Dinner House with his wife.

Moral:

Never Give Up. Staying Positive and Passionate can help us to go through hard time in life and start again. Despite getting failed again and again we should not lose Hope.

King Invitation and Doubts

Once there was King who used to go on round of his Kingdom in disguise. Every night he would go to see whether things were alright or there was some trouble about which he didn’t know.

He saw a very beautiful and silent man standing under a tree. Whatever time of night he went, that naked man was always standing there silently, just like a statue.

King got curious and finally one day he asked, “What are you guarding? I can’t see anything”

Young man laughed, “I am guarding myself. I don’t have anything else. Guarding itself, being alert and aware is greatest treasure. You have much but you don’t have the guard.”

King was puzzled but was intrigued by that man. Slowly, a great friendship arose.

Naked monk never asked King’s about his identity.

One day King said, “I have been asking you so many questions but you never even asked me – who you are?”

Young man said, “If you knew who you were, then you wouldn’t been asking me many questions. I simply accept whoever you are. I never asked the trees, I never asked the animals, the birds, I never asked the stars – Why should I ask you? I am perfectly at ease with you and with everything.

Nothing can be predicted. Everything goes on moving into more and more mysteries and I am perfectly at ease. Whatever is happening is a joy. Each moment is so sweet and so fragrant, I cannot ask for more. I don’t know any other way to relate with existence.”

King replied, “But i have fallen in so much love with you that i wait whole day for night to come and i go on my round.

I am always afraid some day, you may not be here. I want you to be closer to me. Can i invite you to my palace? I will arrange everything as you want.”

Without even a single moment of hesitation, man said, “This is good idea.I can just go with you right now. I don’t have anything to carry with me, no arrangements have to be made.”

King was shocked. As he was expecting young man to refuse that offer, because he looked like he has renounced the world.

Doubt arose in King’s mind that perhaps he has been be-fooled and this man is not saint and he has only be pretending and been waiting fr this moment.

Now, it was difficult for King to take invitation back. Sadly, he took man to palace and gave him best place in palace to stay and also best services were provided.

King was still hoping that young man would refuse but young man said, “Great! This is the right place.”

King couldn’t sleep at whole night. From next day, young man was eating luxurious food, was no longer naked, he was using costliest robes. He was not looking worried about woman as most beautiful women from palace were serving him.

Young man was quite at ease, as if nothing had happened but it was too much for King. It was becoming a wound in King’s heart thinking that he had really been be-fooled and cheated.

King started to think of ways to get rid of young man. King went to young man and said, “I have been wanting to ask you a question for sometime.”

Young man replied, “I know – not from sometime but from the moment i accepted your invitation.”

King was shocked and said, “What do you mean?”

Young man replied, “I know you were expecting me to reject your offer. If i had refused then you would have respected me, touched my feet but i don’t reject anything.

My acceptance is total. Weather it’s palace or place under tree. Now, you can ask me question, although i already know it.”

King said, “Then answer me. All i want to know is, what is difference between you and me?”

Young man laughed and said, “I will answer, but not here because you will not understand it. We will go in morning and at the right place, at the right moment, I will answer.”

Next morning they both went on horses for morning ride. They rode long way but young man still hadn’t talk about answer.

Finally, King said, “Now this river is the boundary of my empire. Beyond the river I cannot go. That belongs to someone with whom we have been enemies for centuries. We have ridden miles and now it is time enough. It is getting hot, the middle of the day.”

Young man replied, “Yes, my answer is – this is your robe, this is your horse”

Then getting off his horse, young man took off the robe and said, “I am going to the other side of the river because I don’t have any enemies. This robe was never mine, and this horse was never mine. Just one small question: Are you coming with me or not?”

King said, “How can i come with you? I have to look after kingdom. My whole life’s work, struggle, fight, ambition is behind me in the kingdom.”

Young man replied, “That’s difference. I can go. I don’t have anything in palace. I don’t have anything to lose, nothing belongs to me. As long as it was available, i enjoyed suchness of it. Now i will enjoy wild tree, river, sun.”

King realized that he was mistaken, young man was not deceiving him and was man to realization.

King got on his knees and said, “I beg your pardon. I touch your feet. Don’t go. Otherwise, i will never be able to forgive myself.”

Young man smiled and said, “To me there is no problem. I can come back but you will still start doubting, so it is better that you let me go.

I will be just standing by the other side of the bank under that beautiful tree. Whenever you want to come you can come at least to the other shore and see me.

I have no problem in coming back but I am not coming back because I don’t want to disturb your nights and days, and create tensions and worries.”

The more he became reluctant, the more the King started feeling sorry and sad, guilty about what he had done.

Young monk said, “You could not understand me because you don’t understand the experience of suchness: wherever you are, you are in a deep love relationship with everything that is.

You don’t have to change anybody, You don’t have to change anything, You don’t have to change yourself. Everything is as it should be, It is the most perfect world.”

Husband And Wife Sad Story

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.  Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly.

She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?  I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.  She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane.  When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions.  She didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month, we both try to live as normal a life as possible. Her reason for this conditions were simple.  Our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.  She requested that every day for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife’s divorce conditions. She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.

On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.  Suddenly it hit me. She had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last-minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly, it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy.  I drove to office and jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind.  I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.

Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.  At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The sales girl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, “I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart”.

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed – dead.

My wife had been fighting cancer for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce. At least, in the eyes of our son— I’m a loving husband.

Moral:

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other.

Young Girl Love for Prince

In ancient china, It was tradition that if prince has to be married before he can become crowned emperor. There was a prince who was about to be crowned. So he needed to find a young woman whom he could trust and get married to.

Once there was a  who had to be crowned in few days so Prince decided to summon all the young women from his kingdom in order to find most worthy candidate.

There was an old lady who used to serve at palace. When heard the news she got sad because she knew her daughter nurtured a secret love for prince. After getting home she told her daughter about it. Her daughter decided that she would go to palace. Old lady got worried after knowing her decision.

Old lady said to her daughter, “What will you do there?? There will be all beautiful and rich girls from kingdom will be present there..”

Daughter replied, “Mother I know i won’t be chosen but it’s my only chance to spend time with prince and that makes me happy. I will go to palace tomorrow.”

Next day when young girl reached palace, she saw young women from all around kingdom were present there wearing beautiful cloths and jewelry, prepared to do anything to seize this opportunity to marry prince.

In presence of all members of court and girls prince announced a challenge.

He said, “I will give you each a seed. After six months time, young woman who brings me the loveliest flower will be my wife and future empress.”

All girls took seed and left. Poor young girl also took her seed and planted it in a pot. She nurtured and took care of it with love. She believed that her love is true and flower will grow as large as her love for prince.

Girl saw that no shoot appeared even after three months have passed and nothing had grown in her pot. Young girl consulted farmers, peasants but nothing happened. With each days he felt that her dream have moved father away.

At last six months were over and still nothing had grown in that pot. She knew she had no flower to show still she decided to go back to palace with that pot. She reached palace on final day.

On final day all court member and girls arrived. She saw that all other candidates had wonderful results and each one had lovely flower, she was the only one holding a flowerless pot.

Finally, prince entered courtroom and inspected all candidates pot and announced result. He chose Servant’s daughter poor young girl as his would be wife.

All other girls present there got angry and protested that she had nothing in her pot and prince had chosen someone who had not managed to grow anything at all.

Prince calmed them down and explained the reason.

Prince said, “This young woman was the only one who cultivated the flower that made her worthy of becoming the empress: the flower of honesty. All the seeds I handed out were sterile and nothing could ever have grown from them.”

Moral:

We should not feel Disappointed if Things doesn’t go Way we think it should be. We should have Confidence and Stay Honesty and True because Honesty is best Policy.

Lazy Prince Story

Once upon a time, there was King who was very wise and kind. He had son who was very lazy and didn’t like to do anything.

Even for little things Prince would wait for his attendants to serve him every moment. All day, he would lie on his bed and because of his laziness, he became inactive.

Only eating a lot of food and sleeping made him fat. Boy became so fat that he couldn’t move around for long.

One day, Prince started to feel sick. King got worried called doctors to treat him but nothing could help him to cure Prince’s sickness. King became worried about his only son.

One day, King got to know about Sadhu who came to kingdom a while ago. King went to meet him for his blessings while conversing with each other, King told Sadhu about his son, who was unwell.

Sadhu smiled and told King that his son could be cured. King got happy and asked, “What do i have to do, so that my son can be well.”

Sadhu asked to meet Prince and said to King, “I can only help if prince agree to come and meet me at my hut but there is one condition that he have to come by foot.”

King agreed. Arrangement were made for meet of Prince and Sadhu.

Next day, Prince accompanied by his attendants, after many years, came outside palace. As ordered by King prince had to walk all the way to reach Sadhu’s hut which was on outskirt of kingdom.

When Prince reached Sadhu hut, he was breathless, sweating and uncomfortable. Sadhu noticed this and offered cool water to Prince. He felt better.

Then, Sadhu bought out an iron ball, about size of football and gave it to attendants and asked prince that daily in morning and evening, he had to roll that ball in palace grounds.

Prince returned and from next day, he started to obey Sadhu’s instructions.

After fifteen days, Sadhu came to palace to meet King and Prince. Seeing Prince Sadhu was happy as he had lost an considerable amount of weight.

And because of weight loss, Prince was much more active and all of his sickness had disappeared. After this Prince learned his lesson and didn’t ignored his health because of his laziness and got fit and healthy with time.

Moral:

Health is Wealth. An Unhealthy Person can never Earn Wealth or be Happy in Life.

Priest and Robbers Story

Once upon a time, In a kingdom lived a priest who had magical power and knew a special spell which was given to him by his teacher. There was a condition on use of that special spell that it can be used only once a year at a specific time.

Priest had a disciple who was a very good student and was intelligent and able to understand his teacher even most difficult lessons. He was obedient and faithful and always wishing to honor and protect his teacher.

One day priest had to go on a trip faraway from village. Since trip was long and he had to pass through dangerous road, he asked his disciple to come with him.

Both priest and his disciple were going on their trip and along this road, they were attacked and kidnapped by a gang.

Gang demanded 5000 gold coins to release him. So, priest sent his disciple to get them from his village.

Before leaving disciple knelt before priest and bowed respectfully. He said to him in low voice, “Master, Tonight is night when you can use your special spell once a year but please do not use this spell. I will come back with ransom money. Please bear till then.”

After disciple left. In evening, kidnappers tied up priest tightly and left him and outside their cave for night and gave him nothing to eat and drink.

At night moon came out. Priest was in pain. He looked at and saw lining up of planet and knew that this is time his spell could work. He thought to himself, “Why should i suffer like this when i can pay my own ransom using my magical spell. My life is much more worth than jewels.

Besides this lucky night comes only once a year. I can not waste this cane to use my great power.”

Priest decided to use the spell. He called out kidnappers and said, “I can make you rich beyond your wildest dream. For i am great and powerful. You must trust me and untie me. Treat me properly, let me wash my head and face and dress me in new clothes. Then after honoring me properly, leave me alone to do my magic.”

Kidnappers wanted money so they agreed and did as said. But they didn’t trust him completely, they hid in bushes and secretly watched him.

They saw that. Priest looked up into sky and calculated that planets were lined up in special pattern then he lowered his head and muttered a spell into his hands and then gazed up into sky and clapped his hands.

Suddenly he was showered with the most beautiful jewels from sky.

Seeing such beautiful jewels, kidnappers came out of hiding and grabbed all precious stones. They thought that if priest can give them so much jewels why leave him. They tied him up again and took him with them.

On way they were stopped by another gang of robbers. That gang demanded money from them.

Kidnappers were less in number. They knew they couldn’t win against them so they bring priest to them and said, “Leave us alone and you can get all the riches from this priest. he knows a magical spell with which he can make precious jewels shower. He can do this for you also.”

Priest replied, “Of course i can give but now you have to wait for another year as i can do this spell only once a year. You can come see me next year and i will give you all the jewels i get at that time.”

Robbers didn’t believe him and angrily said, “You tricky priest you are lying. You made kidnapper gang wealthy but now refusing to do same for us.”

Saying this they killed priest.

Then they attacked kidnapper gang for jewels and killed them all. After getting jewels robbers started to fight between them and in bloody battle all died.

Few days later, disciple returned with ransom money. He went inside forest but couldn’t find priest and kidnapper gang. Instead he found only things left by kidnapper gang before they left in hurry.

When he continued in search and he found his teacher dead body. Disciple mourned his death and built a funeral pyre and covered it with flowers. He burned his body as per rituals and gave his last respects to his teacher before leaving.

Little further on his way, disciple found body of kidnapper gang. Then he walked little further in search to know what may had happened. He found bodies of another gang then near them he found bundles of jewels.

Seeing jewels he could tell immediately what had happened.

He thought to himself, “It is so sad. My teacher had great knowledge but not enough wisdom. Regardless of result, he couldn’t resist using his magical spell and that resulted in end of so many people.”

Then Disciple took that bundle of jewels and took it back to village and used it for benefits of many.

Moral:

When Power had No Conscience and Greed has no Limit and Killing has no End.

Nails Pricking and Dog Crying

A young man shifted to his new house. He really liked his new house and its atmosphere. But still there was one thing which was bothering him.

Ever since he had come, sound of a dog crying, had been troubling him continuously. Young man thought that dog cry would stop after a while but this didn’t happen.

Rather sound of dog crying kept coming throughout the day. Even next day, dog’s cry didn’t stop. Young man couldn’t take it anymore.

He got out of house and went in direction of sound. He reached house where he saw that a man was sitting in veranda reading newspaper and near by a dog was sitting on wooden slab crying.

Young man approached that man and said, “Sir, your dog has been crying a lot since yesterday.”

“Yeah, I know.”, replied that man.

Young man said, “Then, haven’t you tried to find out what’s wrong with it. If you know what’s his problem then you can help and he would stop crying.”

“Oh.. I know the problem. It’s just that dog is sitting on top of a nail and that nail is hurting in it’s stomach. that’s why he is crying.”, replied man.

Young man was surprised to hear the answer and said, “If so, why doesn’t it get up from this place?”

“Because for long time this has been place for his rest but yesterday there was a nail stuck there and when he sat there it pricked him, still it wouldn’t move from there. May be it’s not hurting him too much right now. When pain will go beyond his limit, he will leave himself.”, replied man.

**Like that dog, We all are sitting on prickly nails in our life. 

Some of us are sitting on the pricking nails of jobs. We are not satisfied with our nature of job, we are not happy with the behavior and work environment of the boss. The salary that we are getting is very less than our hard work. There are very few opportunities for growth and development in that job. Because of this, we keep complaining about the job every day. But even after so many complaints, one goes on doing the job.

Some are sitting on the pricking nails of relationships. Many are trapped in an abusive relationship with no love and respect in that relationship. Many are troubled by the distance coming in relationships, while many are sad about the deception of their partners. But knowing everything, one is suffering everything.

There are many nails which keep pricking us. Many nails like health, family, friendship, bad habits. There are some such nails in everyone’s life, which keep bothering with their prick. Some are being pricked by one nail, while some have to bear the prick of many nails at once.

But we do nothing to get rid of those nails, because we feel that their prick or pain is not so much right now. We go on tolerating that prick till it becomes unbearable. Remedy to get rid of the prick of such nails should be done immediately, because delay increases the problem.