By the time she was 16, Romana Bañuelos had been deserted by her
husband and left to raise her two children alone. Living in Mexico, she
was poverty-stricken, untrained in any profession and unable to speak
English. But that didn’t stop her. She had a dream, one she refused to
let go. With only a few dollars in her pocket she headed for Los
Angeles, where she used her last seven dollars to take a taxi to the
home of a distant relative. Romana refused to live on the charity of
others. Immediately she found a job washing dishes, followed by a
second job making tortillas from midnight until 6 am. From her two jobs
she was able to save $500, which she used to invest in her own tortilla
machine. Over time, and with a great deal of hard work and study, she
became the owner of Ramona’s Mexican Food Products, the largest Mexican
food products business in the world. And that’s not all. She was
hand-picked by President Dwight Eisenhower to become the thirty-seventh
United States Treasurer. Romana Bañuelos exemplified what Eisenhower
had to say about dreams and discipline propelling our future: ‘We
succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a
single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to
that one objective.’
Whether you flip burgers or trade futures, remember these words: ‘Lazy
people want much but get little, but those who work hard will
prosper.'(Proverbs 13:4 NLT) God will only add His blessing to your best
effort, so today, give it all you have got!
