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No Time Lost Enterprises Presents OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS http://www.notimelost.com Opportunity Knocks. Will You Answer? Presenting the Opportunity Knocks EZine Produced by Tim
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1, Issue 6.1 Welcome to the OK-EZine! Presented here are ideas, concepts, strategies and tactics for those ready to embrace the New, the Daring and the Possibilities. Feedback is always welcome. Please send all comments to timj@notimelost.com. Positive and Negative are welcome. Who are three people who would like to read this EZine? Please pass this EZine along to them. If you have received it from a friend, formal subscribe and unsubscribe information is at the end of the message. CONTENTS: 1.) Illustrated Points About Opportunities 2.) Advertising Info 3.) Subscribe/Unsubscribe Info 1.) Illustrated Points About Opportunities Quick story to pass along. I don't know if this is true or not. It doesn't matter if it is really, because serendipitous things like this happen all the time in everyone's lives. It illustrates my points about opportunities being everywhere and in a variety of types. Farmer Flemish didn't know he was presented with an opportunity when he refused the quick money, but he was. He accepted the education for his son and the world is infinitely better for the consequences of his two selfless acts. These acts saved the life of the boy who would one day discover penicillin and in turn would save the nobleman's son's life. That man would go on to lead Great Britain in the second World War and I don't want to think how it might have been different if someone else were the PM and if penicillin weren't discovered. Thanks and God Bless, Tim
Johnson -----Original Message----- His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life." "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work
like you don't need the money.
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