I Almost Killed Harrison Ford

…and Calista Flockhart

About 2 years ago, I was in Brentwood driving my scary-looking Hummer H2 (yeah yeah, I’m trying to sell it, get off my back) and started to make a quick left into a driveway on a residential street. Two people stepped in front of me (they weren’t visible behind some foliage before) and I slammed on the brakes…

It was Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart.  They froze and we locked eyes, and I waved them on.  So if you enjoy the new Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, make sure you thank me for not killing him before he had the chance to film it. 

The reason I remembered that is yesterday I was driving past a spot where there’s a retirement home on one side of the street and a grocery store on the other (do you see where this is going?) and senior citizens routinely try to walk through busy traffic (and get hit fairly often) instead of walking about 20 extra feet to the crosswalk.

Yesterday some old lady started walking across the street about 10 feet from the crosswalk against the light (with traffic coming at her) and I actually yelled at her to get back to the curb and use the crosswalk… and she did!  Who knows, maybe I saved her life.

There’s a bird that starts chirping very loudly in my backyard every night at exactly 11pm and continues until I go to bed. It’s the only bird singing in the entire neighborhood, and I don’t think it can figure out why no birds respond to it. (IE, it doesn’t understand that birds aren’t nocturnal. It must be very frustrated.)

A few months ago a marketer posted a description of a potential product he might develop and asked if anyone would be interested in buying it if he did. Every single person who responded told him the product would not serve a purpose and that there’d be no market for it.  A couple months later he re-posted to the thread that he’d decided to go ahead and develop the product anyway (?!)

There’s currently an argument raging on a business forum about whether it’s mathematically possible for a “system” to give the player an edge at Roulette. (Hint: the answer is ‘No’)  When someone tried to prove their point with this quote:

No one can possibly win at roulette unless he steals money from the table while the croupier isn’t looking.”   Albert Einstein

…The person he was arguing with remained unconvinced.

Focus: Don’t fight reality. What wrong-headed, wayward, misguided beliefs are you stubbornly clinging to that are causing you enormous frustration and standing in the way of your success? Maybe it’ s time to take inventory…

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