Thanks!

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Life is sweeter when you have Skin. In. The. Game.

Congratulations on graduating. Congratulations on becoming a father. Tell you kid how lucky he is that you’re his father.

The world is your oyster.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigedcar.com

Being an adult has been a revelation, my wife is 5 months pregnant and the due date is August 10th. It’s a boy.

Graduate in 5 weeks, drove 144,000 miles for the psychology of being an engineer.

I’m all in.

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People want a plan. Then, and only then, they want a GOOD plan.

Any plan trumps no plan.

DJT was elected because he realized a lot of people in the US were not “in the plan.”

He told them he was their plan which turned out to be a better deal than being called a “deplorable.”

Leadership is an adult word which assigns responsibilities and accountability.

Leaders do not receive power, they take it. They seize it.Taking power requires a step out of one’s safety zone, your comfort zone. Most things worth doing do.

Right now, the US wants to be a nation of victims who spend all their time cataloging their slights. What do they do? They retreat to some mythical safety zone wherein they don’t have to be adults, responsible, or accountable.

The big opportunity for leaders is to do something nobody else wants to do.

Since 1953 nobody has wanted to do something about North Korea. So what happened? Nothing.

Now, a guy is running the country at a time when NK cannot be avoided or ignored — the prospect of ICBMs w/ nuclear warheads changes our thinking.

Plus we have adults in the White House, Sec of Def, Sec of HS, I think highly of them, but that’s not the point. The point is they are willing to do the adult thing and solve the problem.

This is not an imprimatur for Pres Trump. I still intend to judge him only on results and the insanity of grading the first 100 days is silly.

Don’t be a leader. Be an adult. Seize power and make stuff happen.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

I am getting a feel for the gravity of how leading people affects the people around the people I’m am trying to lead. I think you’ve made me answer my own thoughts here… where there is hesitation there is a need for commanding. That is what I think . I also can’t stand the word leadership for some reason?

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You are ahead of the curve if you recognize your style and that it includes several variants. A little bit of “command” goes a long way.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

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[To make stuff secret, you have to bracket [xxx] it. Sorry. Now the whole world knows.]

BRC
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How did you know? Especially the “young lady” part? In those days it was Donna LETITIA Brewington. Got rid of that middle name as soon as I could. For years my mother continued to address mail to Donna L.B. White — she had a hard time letting go. And to this day “Donna Letitia” still slips out. She and Dad thought it was such a “feminine name.”

But hey BRC that’s OUR secret, okay?

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Style is always individual whether whipped off the rack or ripped off from the movies but it may not be authentic.

It is like raising teenagers — they quickly learn when you are really communicating in a genuine and authentic manner.

This is why God invented middle names. When Mom uses your middle name, you know that Mom is not kidding and that the next bit of wisdom will be genuine and authentic.

Do you know what I mean — Donna BREWINGTON White? Young lady?

BRC
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