Longest Day
Countless times I have heard people say to me… Gosh, that was a Long Day. With my “irksome” humor I always say…how could it be any longer than any other day? They are all 24 hours long! They retort…, you know what I mean.
Well, over the past year or so the economy, housing market and stock market has been in a severe downturn. Businesses and individual lives have been changed forever. For them each day has been a real long day(s).
In September and October 2008 I saw things begin to go off a cliff. In trying to keep my team, business associates and friends motivated and moving forward I thought of the movie…The Longest Day. It was filled with countless stars as they depicted the events of June 6, 1944… D-Day.
One scene came to my mind, the scene with Robert Mitchum, who played General Norman Cota and his adjutant played by Eddie Albert, of “Green Acres” fame. They were pinned on the beaches of Normandy and their division was getting hammered. Rather than retreating Mitchum says his famous lines… “There are only two types of people who will be on this beach…those that are dead and those that are going to die. We are moving in land.”
With the present economic situation on top of all of us we can sit around, moan and “die” or we can move ahead. If you will get up and do something I can assure you things will start to get brighter.
Watch this short excerpt of the “Mitchum” character:
I wish you greatness!