post 250 ●A REAL STORY● ■■©©©©©©©© CHRIS GARDNER ©©©©©©©©■■ ⊙:- A person who didnot have even a house to stay but now he is a multi millionaire-:: ¤::-- one of the famous movie PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS was made on him.... Chris Gardner is a father, an ambitious businessman, and a multi-millionaire, but his life wasn’t always a glowing portrait of stability. In his late twenties, Gardner found himself homeless on the streets of San Francisco with his infant son. The father and son were forced to move from place to place seeking shelter wherever they could. They spent many nights in a church-operated homeless shelter, but on nights when the shelter was full, Gardner and his son found refuge elsewhere, including spending the night in a subway bathroom. Through it all, Gardner said, his top priority was to be a good father to his son. Gardner never knew his real father, and his step-dad was unkind to him. “I made the decision at 5-years-old that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was,” Gardner said. “And that no one would ever treat my child as I was being treated.” Gardner’s luck changed when he applied for an internship with a stock brokerage firm. He secured a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds training program. Gardner knew nothing about the business, but he was determined to do whatever it took to succeed and impress his employer. This ambitious spirit was not a new mind-set for the young man. As a young child, his mother encouraged him that he could do anything he wanted to in life. “I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother,” Gardner said, “who though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me her child, that I could have dreams, and that I did have a responsibility and the power.” Once, as a young boy enthralled by professional ballplayers that made millions, Gardner was encouraged by his mom that he too could make that much money one day if he wanted to. “I just had to find the right venue,” Gardner said. “It took me 15 years, but the day I walked into a Wall Street trading room, I knew, this was the place my mama was telling me about.” His hard work at the brokerage firm paid off. He was the only trainee in the program to be offered a job with the company. He rose through the ranks there, eventually accepted a job at another firm, and later went on to start his own firm, Gardner Rich & Co., in Chicago. Now a multi-millionaire, Gardner looks back on those days and remembers the pain he suffered. He is thankful that he now has the opportunity to reach out to others who are facing the same struggles. Speaking around the country, he meets single fathers who are struggling, but who desire to make a better life for their kids. “I’m encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children,” Gardner said. “So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I’m seeing a lot of men doing something about it.”
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:55:45 +0000
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