WINNING STYLE FOR WINNERS

This was my first view of winning style.

As a very obedient child, (checking references,) I did what I was told.

Go to a corner? On my way. Stand over there? Okay.

Or bask in the moment like Muhammad Ali?

It was an eye opener for little kids learning the sports ropes before rope-a dope.

Ali was a fighter with flash and dash, moving around the ring like a tap dancer while everyone else waded around like they were in quicksand.

He was The Greatest while he traveled the world from the Thrilla In Manila to the Rumble In The Jungle to his last fight, the Drama In Bahama.

At the end he was a resume item for other boxers.

Beat Ali to a pulp? Check.

He was a stepping stone like some of the guys he fought on the way up, guys in the game like Tony Esperti, Jim Robinson, Donnie Fleeman, Alonzo Johnson, George Logan, Willi Besmanoff, LaMar Clark, Doug Jones and Henry Cooper.

After that he fought the same fight we all fight.

 

The Greatest? Try Again

We all fight for the same things, starting with our peace of mind.

‘Why did I do that? Why didn’t I do this?’

Ask yourself that question, keep the answers to yourself, and be happy.

If you screw up? Fix it and move on.

It’s different when someone else asks the same questions. Like your wife who notices everything all the time.

Then you hide, hedge, and tell a version of how things are based on how much you don’t want to say anything.

 

Them: What’s wrong, honey?

You: Wrong? Why would you think anything is wrong. Honey?

Them: You’re so quiet.

You: Quiet? Ha. I’m loud and proud.

Them: That’s why I’m asking.

You: Asking what.

Them: If you’re okay.

You: Okay about what?

Them: Just okay.

You: Yeah, I’m fine. Thank you for asking.

Them: Something seems off.

You: Let’s look at the tape: You asked me a question. I answered. You asked me another question. I answered.

Them: Because I care.

You: Try caring enough not to root around on everything until you find what you’re looking for. So, why don’t you tell me what are you looking for. I’m busy.

Them: Busy doing what?

You: Busy doing nothing.

Them: That’s what you said when I asked yesterday.

You: I’m not finished.

 

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Winning Style With Love

This is an image of two warriors, two gladiators, celebrating.

They must be friends on the same team, or one of them would be dead.

Instead, they wiped out their opposition, along with the lions and tigers and bears.

I’m guessing they are not family men who returned home after a hard day at the office.

They go to battle, depend on each other, and return to their holding pens afterwards.

How do I know this? I saw the movie.

It was a man’s game for young men who would never grow old.

Growing old isn’t for everyone?

Keep that in mind on your next birthday, boomer.

 

Two Old Warriors

These two old codgers faced off against a great evil and saved the civilized world.

Both of them were has-beens before they  joined forces to fight for the free world.

 

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career.

 

Between 1906 and 1940, Churchill served in the British Cabinet in charge of Board and Trade, Home Office, Admiralty (twice), and the Munitions, War and Air Ministries. From 1924 to 1929 he headed the Treasury as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position once held by his father.

 

When called to lead their nations in war they were ready.

When called to lead their nations in peace they were ready.

Neither time required they strip down to loin clothes and lay into other men with axes and swords, or beat other men half to death with boxing gloves.

They were tasked with stopping the world from slipping into a routine of mass round-ups, mass deportations, and mass murder.

Those two old guys kept the wolves at bay, kept the Holocaust as an historical reminder, instead of building local death camps for the sake of convenience.

Without a doubt in my mind these are the two men who fulfilled their duty.

After their time was up, one with two terms as President, the other with two terms as Prime Minister, Eisenhower and Churchill took on the role of elder statesmen.

Instead of the low shit talk of slime that passes for crude statesmanship, the two old lions indulged other interests.

 

“LEAVE THE PAST TO HISTORY ESPECIALLY AS I PROPOSE TO WRITE THAT HISTORY MYSELF.”

 

He wrote a lot.