I had heard people talk about the movie Door to Door and recently came across a post at the Mawhinney blog, reviewing the movie. I was impressed! Bill Porter was born with cerebral palsy and against all odds became the top salesman for the Watkins company. So I did a search in Wikipedia to corroborate the facts and this is what I found:
“Porter had been told for many years that he was not employable, but he threw all of his effort into working as a salesman for Watkins. Despite the pain of his medical condition, he would walk eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers. Porter has been able to support himself, and continued to work as a salesman at the age of 69 at the time of the film’s showing.”
At the age of 76 Mr. Porter is still working; you can visit him on the web.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.– Paramahansa Yogananda
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