Sleep: The Cousin of Death

Much ado about Nathan's hot dogs and the Dragon Coaster @ Coney Island....


Ferris Bueller:
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Why might I quote that of all things, today? Simple, because the secret of getting to where you want to be is in realizing where you've been and where you are now.

The more I think about where I'm going, the more I realize I've already been there and that the answers are nowhere...but here...inside of me.

CUT TO:

A younger, brasher Midas lounging at Miami International waiting for his hop to JFK and the comfort of New York City. Full of himself and in fact precisely the type of guy who would tell a story like this in the 3rd person. Sitting next to me is a goofy, gawking, patrician character with snow white hair, ice gray eyes and a tone so serene he could drop a battalion of insomniacs with an exhale.

He seems to be talking to his wife, then his son. It all sounds boringly sterile to me. I'm too busy missile locking the blond across the aisle. Somewhere out of his sedative drone I hear him say:


the ghost of Midas's past:
"yes, we purchase companies...yes, keep management aboard...yes...yes, we believe in buying good companies at a reasonable price...yes, if they are well managed and we can value them properly"
.

The words stick in my mind like glue. After all, I'm a young entrepreneur at the time and can't believe I'm hearing this. I know everything about everything. Why would I ever want to sell to a guy like this? Or know them him at all.

What kind of a fool would think that someone would sell him their business and stay aboard as an employee? This guy surely would be out of business in a week.

I wonder what kind of a jackass he works for?

Needless to say, hindsight is always 20/20 and the Monday A.M. QB is always a Hall-of-Famer in his own mind. As the years passed and my awareness caught up with my avarice, I was snickering at the episode much like some of you are at this moment.

I can't put my finger on it, maybe it's my mind playing tricks on me...but I swear the guy who nearly put me to sleep said something about "call you when I get to Omaha" and "we'll see what he says".

That doesn't really matter. The fact that I slept on it...does.

Seizing the day. Turning to yourself. Staying focused and receptive to possibilities, no matter how foreign. Not everything is as it seems at this moment. Remember that.

Creating opportunities is slavery, seizing them is divinity.

Most of us have opportunities every single day to make our lives richer...get the substance, not the style.

Keep your eyes open.

Never.

Ever.

Sleep.

 
happypantsmcgee:
Midas Mulligan Magoo:
Creating opportunities is slavery, seizing them is divinity.

Fantastic quote

As a person who cold calls all day long this really hit home...

great quote

 

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