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Nov. 24, 2007 “Making It” - Column Series: I wrote this song sometime in 2003. I found an old notebook I had from the days when I worked as a loan officer with Coast Federal Bank. I found the page I wrote it on, and it didn’t have anything else written on it but “SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!!” It was capitalized and underlined several times, like the four exclamation marks weren’t a reminder enough! So what did these words mean? Here’s the story: I was lucky enough to go through my banking experiences in the mid to late nineties. Between 1995 and 1999, I worked as a loan officer for (take a deep breath) Great Western Bank, Coast Federal Bank, Home Savings of America, Washington Mutual, Norwest Mortgage, then finally Wells Fargo. Two words: bank mergers. At the time, because of the changes, I considered myself unfortunate, but didn’t realize that all these moves were helping me more than hurting me. From one bank to another, I was absorbing the art of sales and various management methods like a sponge. In June of 1999, I obtained my real estate broker’s license. By early 2000, I started my own real estate and mortgage company. I’ve been self-employed ever since. With the exception of Great Western Bank, I should mention that never did I quit from any of these banks! I worked for Coast all of eight months, before hearing that Home Savings was going to purchase us. In my days with Coast, I was under a remarkable manager named Mark Chakerian. He was less than forty years old at the time and was already the regional manager, in charge of about forty different loan officers! Like everyone else, I learned a lot from Mark, and totally respected and looked up to him. I went to one of his sales meetings, and I will never forget his talk. This, in summary, is what he said: “Remember when you were young, you’d go to the store with your mother, and you’d see that shining brand new bicycle, and of course, you’d ask her to buy it for you, and she’d say: “someday, son, someday.” Then you get older, and instead of a bike, it’s now a car! “Someday, son, someday.” Then before you know it, you have your own kids, and you hear yourself say: “Someday, son, someday.” You also dream about buying a house, and many other great things, and you say to yourself: “someday”. How often do you hear people say this? All the time! But nobody ever really listens. We’ll I’m here to tell you…SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! Let me repeat: SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! He wrote it on the board exactly how it appears here. You have to go after what you need and want as soon as possible! This is called "urgency". Whenever you catch yourself say “someday”, that means you are procrastinating! Urgency is the most underrated word in the English dictionary! The best time to buy a house is now! The best time to accomplish anything is now, not tomorrow, not later, or “someday”! Here are my lyrics to “Someday Never Comes”: The sun shines every morning Your heart beats like a drum Sunflowers bloom in the springtime My dreams, keep you alive Someday never comes…Someday never comes Those eyes shine with excuses These lips whisper with lies Our lives come with a promise Though broken, yet tantalize Someday never comes…Someday never comes You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul! You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul! Someday never comes…Someday never comes Big words give you protection Deep thoughts keep me at bay Someday we’ll have everything Just you listen, to what I say Someday never comes…Someday never comes You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul! You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul! Someday never comes…Someday….. never….. This is also the title track to The Rubs’ first cd! To hear this song, please go to www.myspace.com/xxrub ------------ About the author: Robert Calixto read a simple quote, and suddenly his creative floodgates opened! One of those self-defining, quotable quotes you read on Reader’s Digest. Since the middle of 2006, he has written fifteen plus songs, engineered and produced a rock/pop album, learned to play the bass guitar, finished his motivational self-help sales manuscript, started a novel, and to add, decided to write a biography. The scifi/political thriller about chemical warfare and a miracle cure is due out in the summer of 2008, and the biography will hopefully be finished by the end of the same year. The biography is about his grandmother, an unlicensed midwife who delivered thousands of children in the Philippines. He is anxiously awaiting his trip to Manila in January of 2008, to finish his research on his grandmother’s life. Professionally, Robert has been in the real estate industry since 1992, and has operated his own real estate and loan office since 1999. He’s also taught real estate from 2001 to 2005. In the same period, he taught Confirmation at his local community church. He is currently writing columns to keep his focus on his newfound challenge, writing! Oh yeah, and the quote?... ”You don’t find yourself, you make yourself.” Visit The Rubs on myspace: www.myspace.com/xxrub Email Robert Calixto: calixtorobert@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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