I first heard this story from Clifford Mee in an email. Most people know Henry Ford as the inventor of the Ford motor car. What most people don’t know is that a by-product of making the wooden interior of the Model T Ford was a substantial amount of wood cut offs. Henry Ford didn’t like the idea of waste. So, with some research, Henry Ford learned of a process that involved chipping wood into small pieces, charring them and adding a binder to make charcoal briquettes.
Henry Ford then co-founded a company (with a relative, E.G. Kingsford) calling it the Kingsford Charcoal Company. A charcoal plant was built to manufacture charcoal briquettes (primarily from the wooden cut offs from the interior manufacturing work of the early Ford motor cars). The Kingsford Charcoal Company was profitable right from the start. It still exists today, with annual sales in the region of 350 million dollars.
What under-utilized, “hidden” or unrealized assets do you have within you that could, with a bit of “repackaging” or “re-purposing,” yield you more success in your life?
Are there limiting subconscious lies about yourself you are believing, which are keeping you from being the best version of you possible? Mark 9: 23 records the words of Jesus who said, ‘Everything is possible to the one who believes.” What do you believe about the person who looks back at you in the mirror? It would be worth giving this some serious thought and reflection to this. Consider saying YES to improving your relationship with the one who you greet in that moment.