MENTORS MAGAZINE | EDITION 3 | 7for both of their last names, Kendall
Jackson.
Yes, when Jess passed away, Forbes
magazine said his net worth exceed-
ed two billion dollars. Jess also told
me he didn’t believe
in circumstances. He
said he found his cir-
cumstances or made
them, always with
the expectation of
something great.
Another friend of mine grew up in
the same part of rural Kansas as me.
She told me she worked at the Dairy
Queen in my hometown (Hutchinson)
to pay her way through junior college.
I asked her “When you were 18 work-
ing in the DQ in Hutchinson, what did
you expect your life to be like when
you were 35. That’s how old she was
when I met her. She said something
very similar to Jess, that she had
great belief and expectations in her
personal success. That woman was
Martina McBride.
I always think if either of these peo-
ple would have told their co-workers
about their expectations that they
would have gotten a discouraging
word. I can just see Martina’s co-
workers at the Dairy Queen saying
“That’s nice, but we got to make
more dip cones.”There is one thing
that no employer,
friend or your family
can control, that’s
your ability to “think
big”. You can think as
big as you’d like and
you can make your expectations
come true. It starts with your own be-
lief system.During my entire career, I’ve heard
this over and over again, “What the
mind can conceive and believe it can
achieve.” I believe it! There is a law
of the universe that says, “What you
ardently believe and act upon, you
can achieve.” The operative word in
both of these bits of wisdom are be-
lief and action. Start today believing
in the home run. Where you are to-
day has nothing to do with where
you can be. As I’ve said before, don’t
look in the rearview mirror, you
aren’t going that way.“You can think as big as
you’d like and you can
make your expectations
come true”