As I gain more wisdom (i.e. this is just a fancy way to say that I’m getting older), it’s amazing to me how much real Life correlates with Movies.

For you that know me personally I like to float and suggest all kinds of crazy ideas that seem undoable. I do this in my personal life and especially in my business life because I see this as a way to always test-the-limits or push for better outcomes.

However, as fun as being a thought-leader, innovator or evangelist is, it certainly comes with its fair share of naysayers, doubters and plain mean people that don’t want you to succeed. Sorry to say but in my wisdom, these beaten-down types of people are the vast majority. This isn’t to say that they are bad people, in fact not at all, but very few have had to build something from scratch and do whatever it takes to succeed.

This is the entrepreneurial spirit, and most people don’t want to challenge themselves this way, which is just fine. However, my mom and dad were entrepreneurial for their entire lives and I guess it’s just second nature for me.

Live Events and Movie Analogies – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Sometimes I feel these strange coincidences like the movie ‘Back To The Future’ where I’m living life in real-time but in a different dimension. You might call is Deja Vu, or I’ve been here before.

Those of you that know me can appreciate that I’m a huge Clint Eastwood fan and especially his spaghetti western films such as For a Few Dollars More, Fistful of Dollars and especially the classic of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

For those of you that haven’t seen the movie, you can know that the plot of the film was very simplistic. There was The Good, but this does not mean in the least that he’s perfect or a good person, but he’s a genuine person, although a bit rough around the edges.

Then there is The Bad, and this character is just not a good person who hurts people at every opportunity, almost as their default behavior, for their advantage. The Bad is very belligerent, lies and can’t be trusted. We probably all know this type, but this person thinks they are slick, but in reality, they are nothing but a total loser. In the end, The Bad, ends up alone, miserable and although he claims spirituality, God knows better.

And finally, The Ugly, is just a mess of talks-a lot, false promises, personal gratification and a pure gold-digging money-hunger fool. No one really pays attention to The Ugly, but she thinks she’s important, nonetheless. The Ugly is an opportunist and is totally consumed with materialistic possessions.

So now that I’ve described the three basic characters of this film, let’s imagine a life event situation closely mimics the movie of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Imagine there is this treasure somewhere that you didn’t earn yourself, but it’s legally and without a doubt your entitlement because this is what someone had gifted to you.

Then imagine, you, as The Good, is not this money-hungry gold-digger of The Ugly, or the lying deceitful hurtful person of The Bad, so you just live your best life and be respectful of your trusting gifters.

In the movie, and not to spoil the ending, but there is a final confrontation and in the end The Good prevails with their fair share. Which is reasonable and not the whole sum, as a matter of fact. The Bad gets his in a bad way because of all the previous horrible things he has done during his life and The Ugly is probably the most pathetic of all the three characters because she is a nothing, nobody loser sucking up as much money as possible.

Of course, in the movie the final confrontation was a good ole fashion gun fight, yet in this case with life events we will let the legal system play out and expose The Bad and The Ugly for their horrible behaviors.

Proud of Brandee

One important thing that I haven’t expressed nearly enough is that I am a lucky guy to have married the most wonderful woman in the world. Brandee is a very smart person whom I am continually impressed by her daily.

It’s a very special experience to watch Brandee thinking about stuff. I can always tell she is ‘channeling-her-mother’, who was a wonderful person, and we miss tremendously. Brandee’s mom was an extremely resourceful person raising five children and always making the best of situations.

She has a wonderful spirit and kind heart. I can see these amazing characteristics in Brandee as well. It’s heart-warming to know that Brandee, and her mom’s legacy live on, and Brandee wants nothing more than to help humanity be family, have fun and live your best life.

As if Brandee’s personal character wasn’t amazing enough, I am seriously impressed with all of her self-learned technical skills. I tease her that when she started to do IT Support a few years ago she was gun-shy about working on Servers and doing things with Active Directory.

Nowadays, I am SO impressed that all this apprehension is gone and she’s doing mission critical support for key clients all day, every-day. Not only are her technical skills amazing but her communication skills and client advocacy are simply outstanding.