Be You. Are You Honking at Me? Answers? Born to Be Alive.
- Quote of the Week: “Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.” – H.G. Wells
I do not know the specifics behind this H.G. Wells quote. What I do know is that I agree with the four-time Nobel Prize nominee. Words can be cheap, and the cliche “easier said than done” may be our first takeaway from his quote. The reality is that all of us, to be honorable, virtuous, and successful, must sometimes step out of our comfort zone, lean into things we are not always good at, and to whatever degree continue to reinvent who and what we are. In year 2024, and quickly heading to 2025, complacency, hesitation, and procrastination will probably not play out well for you.
H.G. Wells’ quote and actor Jason Statham’s words below resonated with me for many reasons. Many years ago, as a final step to accepting a position as an officer with a publicly held company, I went through a one-day battery of tests and assessment from a corporate psychiatrist. His assessment was positive, with the overall designation of my persona as ‘sigma.’ A sigma male, by definition, “is popular, successful, an independent thinker, self-reliant, and someone who stays away from the social hierarchy by their own choice.”
I had no idea how this psychiatrist assessed all that with written and verbal testing, but I felt that his take on me was fair. Though I am independent in many ways, I do look for my friends and business associates for advice and consultation. I have never put an emphasis on the number of my friends, but the quality of friends that I do keep close. H.G. Wells’ quote and Jason Statham’s words are pointed and decisive. Do their words resonate with you?
- This could be a top ten video of all time. Regarding Jason Statham’s view of being your own person and not letting other people influence who you really are, we could all learn from this woman trying to cross the street. No yelling. No screaming. No violence (other than the airbag). She quickly, and simply, dealt with this moron. 🙂
Thoughts for the End of September
- Free covid tests are available again. Does the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledge that there is another Covid-19 variant on the horizon? Let us hope not.
- Does anyone care to take a guess with how far mortgage rates will fall in October and through year-end?
- Bad blood and sportsmanship during the 2024 Presidents Cup? I think rivalries are very good for golf.
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says pedals pilots use to steer the Boeing 737 Max on runways can become jammed because moisture can leak into a rudder assembly and freeze. The following is Boeing’s recommendation to overpower a jammed rudder: “Pilots are to use maximum pedal force.” Seriously, Boeing?
- Amazing that we are only fifty-nine days from Thanksgiving and 86 days from Christmas. 🙂 I am excited and ready for the holidays!
- Thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes for all effected by Hurricane Helene. Thank you to all who reached out to me here in Orlando. Orlando, other than minor damage and power outages, was spared. Many along the “Big Bend” of Florida’s coast, Georgia, Tennessee, South and North Carolina were much less fortunate.
- Pure Talent. My taste in music is widespread, due to my brother’s influence and the neighborhood where I was raised. You cannot tell me that no matter where you lean with music that you do not enjoy the 1979 worldwide hit “Born to Be Alive.” Patrick Hernandez = Pure Talent.