Taking a Risk Does Payoff

Welcome to another Mornings with Mark!
I want to share with you an idea that really hit me this morning as I’m here at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, getting ready to board a plane. Ironically, many, many years ago I flew here to Atlanta to take a big risk. It was a huge risk. At the time, I was working in Portland, Oregon with General Foods Corporation, and there was an opportunity for an account manager in Knoxville, Tennessee. The manager and the office were both actually in Atlanta, so they asked me to fly down here and interview. I thought maybe I’d get the job and be able to move. People told me, “Why would you want to move from the west coast? Why would you want to move from Oregon? Your family’s there. It’s where you grew up,” and all this other stuff.
But you know what? It was a risk that