From the Far Eastern Shore of Maryland
Hey ,
Harry Belafonte died today.
Born in Harlem to immigrants, he almost single-handedly ignited a craze for Caribbean music with hit records like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell.” His album “Calypso,” reached the top of the Billboard soon after its release in 1956 and stayed there for 31 weeks.
Coming just before Elvis Presley, it was the first album by a single artist to sell more than a million copies.
He toured and worked up until his death at 96.
Worked.
He was a huge influence on many of today’s musicians, Jimmy Buffett among them. Who is also touring / working at this moment. Jimmy is a spry 76.
He is working.
So is Jimmy’s uncle Warren Buffett, a spryer 92 years of age.
Working
The collective age of the remaining Rolling Stones is a mind blowing 308! If anyone should be dead by now (or 20 years ago for that matter) it would be the hard drinking, smoking, drugging and womaning Keith Richards…
But that is a story for another day.
Suffice it to say… The Stones are still working
I had a chance to meet and talk with Harry in 2001 at a charity event in Baltimore. I asked him…
What keeps you working?
His answer was very succinct
Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.
“I am doing what I love (performing & activism), why would I quit?“
How about you?
Has quitting entered your mind?
If it has, why?
If you love doing what you do (as I do. along with Jimmy, Warren and the Stones), why would you stop?
What? are you going to play canasta the rest of your life?
Even if you are not on the back end of life (over the age of 50) does quitting enter your mind?
- This direct response marketing doesn’t work in my business, I am quitting
- My client yelled at me, I am quitting.
- Owning a business is hard, I want easy, so I am quitting.
It is called “WORK” for a reason.
Remember, you won’t profit unless you implement,
Vance “I could have quit in 2007 when my wife almost died, but I didn’t (and neither did she!)” Morris
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