What a great cocktail party discussion topic, huh?
I’m sure everyone dreams about what they would do if they had gobs of money and silver screen notoriety.
Now, as you are getting older, do you feel those dreams have passed you by?
Or, have you already made the tough decisions to arrange the priorities in your life to reach your personal and financial goals. If you haven’t yet it is never too late.
Remember, it all starts with the first step………………
Well, today, my fellow Baby Boomers, you will have to indulge me for a while while I have my own little cocktail party and prattle on about the type of person I would be if I were suddenly a member of the jet set elite. I’m not totally sure if I will ever reach that lofty status but I plan to get as close as possible.
And you may be asking yourself why would I be thinking about such a “high-brow” topic on a Monday morning when all I should be thinking about is the drudgery of work like everyone else.
Well, the first thing I did this morning was adding a few newly found birth dates into my phone calendar. Then I ran across my Dad’s birthday on April 20th and it got me to thinking about him. He would have been 96 this year. He passed away 20 years ago. So, how in the hell do I continue to remember his Birthday? Because he shared the same day of birth with one of the richest and most famous men to have ever lived on this planet.
John D. Rockefeller……Nope.
Cornelius Vanderbilt….Nope, wrong again.
Andrew Carnegie……….Sorry, wrong again.
My father shared his Birthday with Adolf Hitler. You know the guy with the “toothbrush” mustache. The leader of the German empire from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths of innocent humans.
Sometimes, growing up, I thought my father and Adolf Hitler shared more than just the same day of birth. My father was a tyrant at times. He was a strict disciplinarian and at times resorted to almost devious mental trickery to train, supervise and indoctrinate his children with a drive to be successful in this harsh world.
It was my father’s shared despotism with Adolf Hitler that has always driven me to be successful. Like I said earlier, I may not be there yet but when I am, I’ll be prepared on how to handle it.
My life trials and tribulations… 