A New Frontier

[pdub]

I've been exposed to so much brain training over the years....it's all the same. Leadership, Communication skills, all that stuff. From university folks and from expensive hired consultants, all that stuff. It's all just noise to me, either you're an asshole or you're not and a teacher can't help with that.

But I've got a new slant, and I want to bounce it off of you guys - I'm going to write a book about the stages of life. I can boil it down to three things. I'll get rich, and go on book tours and act like I'm an expert and stuff.

MIND - 20 years old. Everything is important. Every conversation is vital and every emotion is vibrant. The status is HURRY - do it NOW and then do the next thing.

SOUL - 35 years old. Can still do some stuff, but starting to wonder where it will all lead. Why have I done all of this, and more importantly, where is it all going? The status is PLAN.

BODY - 55 years old. You spend more time talking about poop than anything else. As long as there's somebody around to talk about it with. Poop is a great subject. The status is TALK.

I believe I can expand this into a 300 page book that will sell millions. I'll keep you guys on board as to the results of the project. And I'll remember y'all when I'm rich.

[Barry Donovan]

great idea.

and add a photo of a boxer engine.

[Loren]

Good idea...but I was thinking, just a little bit of a different angle. Would totally affect the commercial viability of this neat little scheme, InMyHumbleOpinion, meaning basically, that I might buy it or at least be more likely to stop to read the reviews on Amazon. Here goes, and believe me no criticism intended:

Mind-20 years old. Beer is important. Every beer is vital and every beer before/after that also is vibrant. The status is hurry - have another beer NOW and then have the next beer.

Soul- 35 years old. Can still drink beer. Not really wondering where it will all lead. Why haven't I finished all the beer, by gosh they keep making more. The status is PLAN, and also start early in the day if possible.

Body- 55 years old. You spend more time talking about beer than anything else. As long as there's beer, and somebody around to talk about it with. Beer is a great subject. The status is HAVE A BEER.

I do believe you can expand on this, beer is really helping me expand also. You'll make millions, and because you appreciate my input and are fair I'll get a couple of hundred-thousand, also.

[GFogg]

75 yo AH the golden years. The only thing golden about these years is my urine. Acyually just kidding. 75 is really cool. No need to prove an thing just live in the moment and relax. Life is good.

[Deaf Bob]

And at 60, you wonder what the hell happened..
You move slow, get less done, get sore from small meaningless chores that you used to do as timewasters..
When opportunity comes for something to do... You ponder and ponder..will I make it or get sore and fall down?

[Beagle]

You lost me at "Status" ... I've had too much of what you call training. I called it conditioning. Programming... so much so they gave you a Program for your Program.

Loren's agenda is easier to follow.

[Jimbo17]

Great idea but I would keep your day job just in case it does not work.

Many people write books on different subjects and some are not worth the paper their written on.

My 67 year mind tells me these things. Jimbo

[pdub]

Loren, you're a frickin' genius! I was SO close, and you made it POP!

See there? I KNEW this was the place to field it.

Loren, do want your payment in currency or in beer?

[BOOOGHAR]

when you said New Frontier, I thought you got a new truck

[pdub]

when you said New Frontier, I thought you got a new truck

No Charles, I'm having to save Bubba and Red to trade in on a C7 Corvette so Mike can take a photo of it to be on the cover of a parts calendar that will go viral. That's another project.

And after a round of sleep and further review I have to stand back and regroup. Everything the consultants repackage and call something new is done in quadrants. It must be some basic sanctity that there has to be four elements. I don't know why. Google "Johari Window," one of those things.

I've only got three elements. That'll either doom it from the start (not adhering to the Quadrant Commandment) or it will set it so far apart from the rest that it will actually be embraced as "new" and go viral.

Hmmmm....standing at the crossroads....somebody should write a song about that

[Casper]

Let's see if I can hit a home run here

[DanStokes]

I think the 4th. element (or stage or whatever you call 'em) is :

Old age, when you REALLY no longer care. You come to realize that in your earlier stages when you said you didn't care you were really trying to impress the audience that you didn't care but really you cared that they were impressed. Now you're too pooped to care. I mean tired. You probably also really ARE pooped, but that's a different thesis.

Old age can start as early as 50 but generally doesn't hit until 65 or so.

Please send my check here to the house. The S-10 needs infusions of cash.

Dan