Actor/ Comedian Tim Allen is pulling off what Reality TV killed off on ABC. His new thirty minute sitcom Last Man Standing has latched on to 19 million new viewers.
You’d think getting back on the tube would be easy; after all Tim the Tool Man Taylor on Home Improvement became a household institution. ABC is owned by Disney; Mickey’s parent company captivated every age group with Toy Story’s one through a billion.
Welcome back or where the hell have you been?
If you’ve caught his most recent interviews he wastes no time talking about the struggle to climb back on the horse. Rather than fight it, it became his daily duty to shove acting aside.
If you stand still too long the world passes you by.
Julia Carney has a great quote, “I’m still not where I want to be but I’m not where I once was.”
I meet future Broadcaster’s everyday that want to replace Ace and TJ and John Boy and Billy tomorrow. Not three to six years. They’ve convinced themselves that this is a make it or break it moment and its all out gusto or its back to retail and Taco Bell they go.
Famed motivational speaker Dale Carnegie reminds us, “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are the small jobs. Everything you conquer makes you stronger. If you do the little job well the bigger expectation will take care of itself.”
How many people do you meet on a weekly basis whose focus is on success and nothing less? Be it the top seller, greatest driver in the delivery department, the biggest muscles to lift the giant trash barrels to the fastest on the phones to convince donations to increase for your non-profit organization? It’s completely natural to be the over achiever and the under-deliverer. It’s another great moment in humbled sports history!
Helen Keller said, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it will be my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
Tim Allen is one of very few Hollywood actors that can say, “I was Santa Claus!”
Yet in his interviews he still comes across that he’s totally missed the ship on accepting personal success. In some people’s lives Buzz Lightyear is mightier than Superman. I better stop; look what happened to John Lennon when he casually told reporters about how the Beatles were more popular than the creator of Christmas.
Edmund Burke writes, “Nobody makes the greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”
Might that be the reason why the lads and lassies after Gen-X have bluntly been accused of being the laziest collection of future leaders born this side of the year zero? What makes that statement powerful is intern Chris from Western Carolina who says, “It’s sad but true!”
How can we fix it? Is it even broken?
David Storey might paint a different picture; the new generation might not be lazy after all, but rather best represent what happens to a growing imagination when there’s no confidence.
Seized from your grips from the overbearing decision makers of constantly growing companies has been the single most potent energy given to the human race…confidence. When you have it there’s always going to be success. When you are paid very little, given horrid insurance, teamed up with office leaders that micro manage you, the janitor and every ant and cricket that sneak in through the back door…the end result is going to be an extremely weak next generation.
If you aren’t confident you can’t teach someone to lead. If you don’t hold the reins of where you want to grow…why should there be a reason to try? If this is where the boss wants me to sit, I hope my butt doesn’t fall asleep because it’s gonna be tough to walk when I find the time to pick my dreams back up and start walking again.
Tim Allen is moving again. His eyes and voice tell a different tale. How dare a bigger than life Hollywood actor make his way back to ABC? It’s like taking twenty three steps backwards and in America we can’t seem to find a reason to invest in this policy so we stay unemployed even after the checks from the government stop coming in. Our only voice is to create protest groups that march on Wall Street.
It’s an extremely small start and should be looked upon as being a brilliant display of your freedom to speak. Dante Alighieri couldn’t have said it better when softly chanting, “From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.”
A great book to read is Believe You Can from John Mason. It truly is the fuel required to reignite the little engine that could.
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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