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Dr. Crossbar

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  1. It's easy to get caught up in the romantic aspects of starting your own business, setting your own hours, not working for the man, working from home, controlling your own fate, the possibilities, the lifestyle, etc. What you really need to do is honestly assess who you are, your association to risk, why you want to start your own business, and what it is that motivates you each day in order to make your business a success. There are many ways to start your own business but you first really need to know what type of person you are. I mean, honestly at your core. Running a business requires discipline, organization, commitment, follow-through, drive, focus, planning, punctuality, adaptability, self-starting, initiative, energy, and so much more. It's one thing to work within the structure of a 9 to 5 job and get a cheque every two weeks. But it's completely different when you have to create that 9 to 5 structure from scratch by yourself. A business needs a working structure and needs to be treated as just that, a business. I know so many people who started their own businesses who weren't honest with themselves. They were caught up in wanting a certain lifestyle but once they began, they had to confront certain truths about themselves - they were afraid of risk, were lazy, not disciplined enough, had issues with follow-through, lacked motivation, weren't self-starters, lacked commitment, etc. It's not enough to believe you're disciplined, you have to KNOW and be honest. It's not enough to believe you're capable of starting your own business, you have to KNOW that you're capable. It's not enough to believe you'll do whatever it takes, you have to KNOW at your core you'll do whatever it takes. There's a difference. When the chips are down, and you're struggling, a lot of times YOU are all that you have to rely on for support. Before I started my first business years ago, I had issues with discipline, motivation, and follow-through. I knew that there was no way I could succeed unless I got honest with myself and changed certain things about my life. I looked at various aspects of myself and spent an entire year identifying problematic areas that needed improvement and put all my energy into aligning myself to what it took to succeed in my own business. It wasn't about business or a great idea, it was first about me and what I needed to change about myselt in order to do it right over the long-term. I had to first align and optimize myself to the process of running a business and what it takes. The more I learned about myself, changed certain things about myself, the more I uncovered hidden talents I never thought I had. For me, running a business was deeply tied to ongoing self-discovery and learning. At the very core base level, there was always a personal return on my investment beyond the business.
  2. Definitely! Could be worse problems to have. It's still a problem though. Like you, I do think the OP could be onto something, especially with Demko's contract ending before the expansion draft, but there are still way to many variables. We still have this season and 20-21. So much can happen. At least that gets DiPietro into the pipeline. Ultimately I think JB values experience in the net. Especially if we're in the thick of a playoff spot. And I do think Markstrom is just hitting the best years of his career. I'd say he's got a 3 to 4-year window at the very max. But it really is going to come down to performance this season.
  3. Tbh, I wasn't being all that serious. At times this entire board feels like one big ongoing "what if" conversation of things that haven't happened, could happen, may happen, etc. At least you added a spaceship to your last post!
  4. You've descended into fantasy here ... too "what if". Marky could decide to become an astronaut in that time period, too.
  5. Agree completely! I was going to post this earlier. If we're a playoff team, Benning will absolutely go with experience and lock Markstrom up.
  6. Tonight I saw that little potbellied "Shout at the Devil", "Looks That Kill" fella!
  7. Before this thread dies and fades into the nether regions of the CDC, I've been thinking about the original pic I posted and Jim Benning's time as a Leaf back in the day ... It's interesting how fans see Acquilini as a meddling, controlling owner yet in The Hockey News pic above, Benning's first year as a player with Leafs was under Harold Ballard, one of the most controlling, meddling owners in NHL history. I'd love to ask Benning, now that he's been GM for a few years, what he learned as a player under an owner like Ballard, what he saw, and how that informs or compares to working with ownership in today's NHL. In the extension interview a couple days ago, Benning mentioned how he likes that ownership is passionate, involved and wants to win. It makes me wonder what he took away from those Ballard years in TO that helps him today as a GM.
  8. You mean this GOAL magazine? Found it in the same box.
  9. That's a good way to look at it just on a general level. When looking at his time here to date, I think it's important to separate the team he inherited, and the decision-making dynamics, from the team he created and the decisions made post-Sedins. I think his belief in the project is largely tied to ownership having the patience to look long-term so things are done right. It seems like we really are at that place of a unified vision from top down in the organization.
  10. Excellent perspective! That ethic also has a ripple effect. Good benchmark for players to see their GM applying it himself. That ethic and character often wins the long game, which I believe Benning is just starting to win.
  11. I just looked at Benning's final year stats for the Portland Winterhawks. In 72 games, he had 28 goals and 111 assists. No wonder he went Top 10.
  12. I thought the same thing. Don't remember Ottawa being in the expansion talk that early when the Rockies were playing. It was full decade before Ottawa entered the league. Oilers went from "slumping" to "thumping" lol
  13. Cool that you remember this issue. When I found it, the cover instantly transported me to that time period. Funny, I think there was another earlier issue of THN with just Benning on the cover after the draft. I had that as well. It may have been a magazine but I thought it was THN. I remember Benning was the only person on the cover. Used to read it cover to cover as well.
  14. They had ads for rollerblades before they were called "rollerblades". TO on year 15 of the rebuild at the time of this cover. The year before this, Benning was drafted #6 overall.
  15. So, a couple years ago I went back east to sort old boxes of things I packed up from growing up and found this below. I've been meaning to post this. It's been on my phone for two years. This is an issue of The Hockey News from January 29, 1982. The cover photo features Toronto's defensive youth movement - Bob McGill (center), Fred Boimistruck (left) and our GM, Jim Benning, 37 years ago. Interesting how we're comparing our rebuild to that of Toronto all these years later since this cover. Thoughts?
  16. People need fake news. It's justifies their fantasy. The truth is too hard. The local media hating on this extension is an opportunity for fans to say enough, we're smarter than that.
  17. That's way too polite! In fact, it's not the media that's the sole problem, it's the people believing the media who are the other half of the problem. #craycray
  18. Yeah, at least he addressed it. We've moved on from Hutton though.
  19. The way the last two letters from FA read, it sounds like ownership is truly committed to the longer term process of getting this right ... as long as the goals are being met and things continue to go in the right direction. Interestingly, with the new signings, FA still says it will take time to achieve the longer-term goals. So that indicates to me ownership is fully aware that more time is needed beyond this coming season. Especially with the prospects in our pipeline. I could be cynical about it. But to me it looks like once the Sedins were gone, ownership went all in with Benning's vision to give him a legit shot with the team he created rather than the team he inherited. So that timeframe of a 3 year contract for Benning only makes sense. We're still not where we need to be yet and more time is needed. For Benning to lose his job next year, the train would have to REALLY fall off the rails this coming season on an epic scale of the Torts season.
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