Finding Your Best Opportunity

walker-talk-volume-09-2_1.jpgIt is amazing to hear stories of how businesses are started and how people find their best opportunity. There is often a struggle and a series of false starts and dead ends. Such is the history of Walker Manufacturing. I watched my father, Max Walker, work hard all of his life on several different projects. Often, there was not much to show for the effort except a lot of hard work. Finally, in developing and manufacturing the Walker Mower, it seems the company has found its "best opportunity." There is nothing more satisfying than to reach the point where you are working at your best opportunity and there is return for the effort.

How is opportunity found? Part of it is beyond our control. Some talk about luck or being in the "right place at the right time." I personally think along the lines of "good providence" from the Giver of all good things. Yet there is a part we play- opportunities don't come to people who do nothing. There is persistence in looking for opportunity, not just settling for a job. Some people never find their opportunity because they are paralyzed looking for the "big" opportunity, failing to see what is right at hand and forgetting to get started. From what I've seen, the path to the best opportunity is often disguised by an unimpressive start using the small resources at hand. Beyond that, working hard while continuing to think, dream, pray and keep an open mind should bring you to your personal best opportunity. I believe such an opportunity is available to each person who makes the effort to find it - this is the American Dream.

As a company, we have been pleased to have many reports that our machine is helping people find opportunities, build companies and work at their best. In turn, that makes it a "best opportunity" for us. 

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