Part I of III
Since 2007, I share my biggest lessons from the previous 12 months during December. This year meant change and adaptation for most everyone. Here are my personal learnings:
Still Waiting – The Covid journey continues… 21 months and counting. We are enduring the challenges of health care crises, supply chain disruptions, return to work, and the great resignation. I believe all this perseverance will be rewarded when the universe rebalances. Here’s wishing wonderful blessings to all those on the frontlines, especially doctors, nurses, hospital workers and the many researchers who delivered vaccines in record time.
Wanna Catch? – Sitting on the bookshelf next to where I type these words is “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy” by W.P. Kinsella, author of “Shoeless Joe.” That novel was the inspiration for the 1989 film Field of Dreams… the only movie I ever saw at a theater with my father. Thus, as the Yankees and White Sox warmed up for an August game at the Lansing Family Farm where they filmed the movie – and when Kevin Costner walked through the corn and into the specially constructed stadium – I had tears in my eyes. Can’t wait for the Cubs and Reds to return on August 11, 2022.
Crazy Genius – Wished I had bet on Elon Musk’s adventures back in May 2011, when I wrote about his creativity the first of three times in my monthly newsletter. He made a lot of early believers quite wealthy. During the past year, his untimely Tweets, panned SNL appearance, and outlandish style gained a lot of headlines. The biggest came when he revealed the need to sell $14 billion of Tesla stock… to pay an income tax bill he said is $11 billion, likely more than any American in history. While the world’s richest man may not deserve to be TIME magazine’s Person of the Year, he clearly keeps reinventing new ways to stay in the news.
