Resolutions

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
-Ferris Bueller

The world, somehow, continues its rotation. Much like Don Birnam and his misplaced weekend, I seem to have lost 2009. What sort of year was it?

I've had better.

But the arbitrary nature of modern, ordinal event tracking, allows one to file events in the catholic recycle bin and hit the virtual delete button.

A good scotch performs this same function.

I missed out on most of last year, as it pertains to...well, everything and racing in particular. I was aware of racing, much the same way someone is aware of their own breathing; you know it is a function simply because you are not dead. The autonomic system is brilliant. Someone should patent it.

Racing, unfortunately, does not have the luxury of operating on autopilot, although I would argue that in most instances it is mindless. Real things need to happen. Real changes are needed and all the bemoaning and carping is not going to make a damn bit of difference when the butcher's bill comes due.

I am going to take this blog in a different direction and I need help in doing it. I am no longer satisfied to take potshots at mediocrity and then laud my own wit.

I intend to outline and initiate simple tasks that can be achieved in order to provide some resolution to the intransigence and incompetence that pervades this game. I want a seat at the proverbial and literal table (I imagine they must sit at a table sometime). I intend to engage in meaningful and actionable steps that can provide genuine solutions. I want to help.

I'm not deluded enough to think anyone will actually listen and I am fine with that.

It will afford me the opportunity to then take potshots at mediocrity and laud my own wit.

Debate is good but at the end of the day, debate does not solve problems. As Peter Drucker wrote, 'In fact no decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. Until then, there are only good intentions.'

I have no idea what I am doing. I don't know where to start or where the hell I want to go with this but I know I can't do this alone. I do know a few things-If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

I am looking for anyone and everyone interested in actually doing something, no matter how insignificant it might seem, to help me.

In the coming weeks and months I hope to make this forum a nexus for meaningful and lasting change. There are no projects, only tasks. The focus of this blog will be to determine what if anything can be done and then to actually, you know, do it.

I want the debate. I want to hear all sides of the issue but at the end of the day I am going to filter all that noise out and determine, with help, what, if anything, can actually get done.

Bloviating is for empty shirts and I no longer choose to be in that cadre.

Resolutions without action are wishes. As my old man used to say, 'You can want in one hand and shit in the other. Tell me which one fills up faster.'