Paul Harvey has said, "you can tell when you are on the road to success. It's uphill all the way."

A young man in Kansas city, with a burning desire to draw, understood the uphill climb to success. He went from newspaper to nespaper trying to sell his cartoons. But each editor coldly and quickly suggested that he had no talent and implied that he might want to choose another line of work. But he persevered, determined to make his dream a reality. He wanted to draw, and draw he would.

For several months, the rejections came. Finally, in a move of "GRACE", he was hired by a minister to draw pictures advertising church events. This young artist was not discouraged by his unusual opportunity. Rather, he remembered the wise words of Benjamin Disraeli: "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Working out of a small, mouse-infested shed owned by the church, he struggled to be vreative. Ironically, this less-than-ideal working environment stimulated his most work. He called it Mickey Mouse. And, of course, the man whom we are talking was Walt Disney.