On this day in History in 1961, Six Flags Over Texas, the
first park in the Six Flags chain opened up in Arlington, Texas. The park was a pioneer in many ways from the
one all-inclusive admission price to being the first to offer many rides like
the log flume and later the first 360 degree looping roller coaster.
The park was the idea of real estate developer and oilman
Angus Wynne Jr., who looked at it as a short term way to make a buck from
vacant land before turning it into an industrial complex. It took one year to build and 10 million
dollars. Wynne soon changed his mind
about the parks temporary status. In its
first ten years the park had 17.5 million visitors and became the Lone Star
states number one for profit tourist attraction. These days average annual attendance at the
park is about 2.8 million people.
This reminds me of a joke where a rich man walks into a bank
in New York City and asks to borrow 2 hundred thousand dollars. They check him out and quickly find out he is
worth millions. Being the way banks are
they still asked if the man had any collateral since it was an unsecured
loan. The man produces the keys to his
Lamborghini. As the car was worth more
than 2 hundred thousand dollars they gave him the loan and accepted the car as
collateral. A week later the guy comes
back in the bank and wants to pay back the loan plus the interest.
The Bank Manager asks him why a person of means needed a
unsecured loan for a week? The man
replied he didn’t need a loan as much as he needed a safe and cheap place to
park his car while he was in New York for the week.
I am convinced that if you learn to look at problems
differently and turn them into opportunities your outlook as well as your life
will become transformed.
Success is the journey to a destination. Too many times people get obsessed with the
destination as the goal and when they get there they are left feeling empty,
disappointed, and disillusioned! Enjoy
where you’re at in life. Enjoy your
life! Suck the marrow out of every bit
of it!
If you can’t be happy and content where you’re at right this
second then having all the material things the world has to offer isn’t going
to make it happen either. If you enjoy
the journey everyday will be a tumultuous, wondrous miracle that is your life! Find your happiness first. Love yourself so others can too. Then the world is your oyster!
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