Wednesday Words
To Go Where Your VisionPoints, a few inspiration points for you and your business.
There is plenty of room at the top, but not enough to sit down.
—Fred Shero
Get up and make it work!
In keeping with yesterday’s theme, a great quotation from a guy who always had the right kind of demon at his back.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
P.S. Bonus points if you noticed the second quotation here and know where it’s from. No Googling!
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12 August 2009, 10:48 am
Hmm. Get up and make it work is from a Van Halen song. Is that the quote you meant?
12 August 2009, 10:56 am
Second quotation: Get up and make it work!
Author: Larry the Cable Guy
This was an early version of his quasi-classic “Get ‘er done”. Tried the original line in his routine at a comedy club/pool hall and diner in Georgia on July 23, 1996. The joke fell flat, causing much jeering from the crowd. One heckler shouted “Git off, yer done” and epiphany struck. Along with a empty beer bottle, which is why he didn’t get to first use the line until a gig up in Dayton later that month.
(And no, I didn’t Google that…)
Incidentally, read the title and thought this post would somehow relate to the trend (fad?) of setting up your home office on a treadmill so you can work while you walk all day… Sounds good in theory. But besides the obvious drawbacks (lack of breath while talking on the phone, shin splints, eventual heart attack), wouldn’t this just make you feel more like a hamster in a wheel?
Anyway, pithy quotation. Really underlines the fact that even when you’ve “made it” there is still work to be done.
Speaking of which…
~Graham
12 August 2009, 11:01 am
I guess it depends on which paradigm you believe in.
There’s the paradigm of scarcity (where there is only so much of the pie to go around, and bigger slices other people get, the less YOU have).
Or the paradigm of plenty. Where there is more than enough pie to go around, we can all get a slice, if we help one another. (Think “Win-win”).
I learned this from Stephen Covey.
(OMG…I just left a comment that’s RELEVANT to this post!)
Shhh..dont’ tell anyone. I promise it won’t happen again.
12 August 2009, 11:13 am
That’s right Friar.
I believe that too. I can make a business in a crowded market because my solution will be unique.
And if anyone copies me, I’ll send “Vinnie” to his house for a little “visit”.
(think a horse’s head in the bed)
12 August 2009, 11:25 am
@Brett
Or maybe Olaf, the Viking Enforcer
(And he’ll leave a Lute-fisk in the bed, instead).
12 August 2009, 12:21 pm
I figured I’d send Vinnie, because if I send Olaf, everyone will know I did it
(Similarly, the mafioso are making good use of Olaf’s “skills”.)
12 August 2009, 1:22 pm
Ah Brett,
Separated at birth, we were. Ding-ding-ding—Bonus points to you!
Erm, and to Vinnie. Because I don’t want a visit. Eeew.
Graham,
Larry the Cable Guy has been listening to the same stuff Brett and I did… before Brett discovered the dark side.
Glad you like Coach Shero’s quotation!
Friar,
You know, Covey’s one of my idols. Win-win rocks. And I think you hit what Shero meant with this exactly. (But I won’t tell. We can’t have folks thinking nuclear-engineers-slash-renaissance-dudes are deep or anything!)
Regards,
Kelly
12 August 2009, 1:23 pm
@Brett
Hmmm….Vikings and mafioso co-operating, using synergy….
That’s what you call a “Win-win” situation.
Stephen woudl be proud.
12 August 2009, 3:01 pm
Kelly,
Well, we are both part Irish, right?
Hee hee “the dark side”, well, I suppose VH is considered “the devil’s music” if you head far enough into the right part of the country still! I bet that more than half of the “scary metal dudes” would list VH as a strong influence.
12 August 2009, 5:07 pm
Friar,
A patented Friar-toon of Vikings and mafiosi would be brilliant. Is there a funny post hiding in that?
Brett,
We’re both old enough to remember VH being considered fairly dark, but I know (now) that they were cream puffs compared to what came later.
(My parents used to think… wait for it… Billy Joel would lead me down a bad path. Oh, how times have changed.)
Darn straight they’d better be on most scary metal dudes’ lists of influences. Want to watch me go off-topic (because right now this is so relevant?), say one word against those boys. Heh.
Until later,
Kelly
12 August 2009, 7:42 pm
I remember when I brought home Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast (google the album to see the cover, it was pretty nasty looking at the time) – my mother just about had a heart attack…
As for cream puffs… Well, remember the song “Ghost Riders in the Sky”? Pretty cool song, lyrics are a bit spooky but your folks can listen to it (you know, if Johnny Cash does it).
Anyway, it’s all how you play it. I have a black metal version that makes it sound right out of hell itself