UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

When I was a young man, I was asked to fight in Viet Nam. I wasn’t afraid and I didn’t have any life plans that would get in the way. But I didn’t believe in the war and so I was at a crossroads.

But I took the two subway tokens the Army sent me, reported to Ft. Hamilton in Brooklyn, went through my physical, prepared to fly into the war zone.

All of us have dreams. Things we want to accomplish. Goals we would love to achieve. Successes we want to reach out and claim.

From birth, we are all told the things we cannot or should not do.
Interesting, but these warnings, of sort, often come before and with greater vehemence, then the advice on what we can and should aspire to.

Today, I read an article about an entrepreneur who poured his life savings into a home furnishings outlet in a rapidly growing village in the southwest, only to see the economy tank, houses foreclosed and a mass exodus from the town timed almost exactly to the opening of his shop.

Rest? Why should I rest? Ever. The waterfall of time is my competitor. If I want to win, I must race ahead of the curve and accomplish something great, something more, something enduring, before it washes over me.

Mark Stevens
CEO