We found out that almost every girlfriend that I had fell into one of two categories both of which were diametrically opposed to being able to get along with my personality and my sign.
At that point it was very obvious that I had been picking the wrong women forever. So what we then did was we looked forward.
Mr. Positivity
If you’re in Houston, this is one gloomy, gloomy day. I’ll tell you what. Mr. Positivity almost didn’t want to get out of bed. The only reason I did is because I am right in the middle of what we call our birthday season with the Walmsley family. We have three Libras in the family. Every one of them has an October birthday.
I also have many, many staff members that are in October. I want to give a shout out to Angela Mejia for her birthday today. So the bottom line here is that I had to get up because you need to understand how a birthday season works. This is an interesting point of view. Most people have a birthday, right? And on a gloomy day like this is today we need to talk about some fun stuff.
But I was talking about this birthday season thing. It’s pretty interesting when you’ve got three people—my daughter’s is on the 5th, my girlfriend’s on the 10th, and mine is on the 20th. So you just double it each time. What that really does is that breaks the month into three ten-day segments. So my daughter is princess and goddess for ten days, and then it’s her birthday, you know, on the 5th—I am sorry. She gets the five days and then five days after and she’s a goddess for ten days.
Then by the 10th is my girlfriend’s birthday and she gets to be goddess. And it’s interesting because we’re just getting out of one birthday—we’ve got the place decorated, the parties out, and we’re into another one right away.
Gratification
Now, these girls you have got to understand just are not the type of people that have the ability to put off gratification, so I have to be very careful when I put out their presents. Because if I don’t put out their presents at the very last minute, then what happens is they’re going to want to open them early.
For my daughter I put them out the night before her birthday. You know what my daughter figured out? My daughter had to have her birthday at 12:01 that night. Yes, on the 4th I put her presents out. All she had to do is go to bed, wake up and get the presents, but no, she had to have her birthday at 12:01. What ended up then is us starting our champagne brawl at 12:01 and not stopping this party, dancing and music blaring, and you know, we just have a very crazy family — 5:30 in the morning I think I finally passed out or slipped away and went to bed or something and didn’t get up until 3:00 o’clock the next day.
Now, what’s interesting is my daughter had to get up and go to work. I don’t have any idea how she did it. But we have this big giant dance floor in our house and it’s beautiful and we love to dance, and so we dance all night and party and have a great time.
Job
Well, here we are now we’re back to the second birthday. So I’m all primed and I have got all my stuff done and I’m all ready. And I tell you, a man’s got to be on his toes when it comes to taking care of women whether it’s daughters or girlfriends or wives, whatever it is. This is more of a job than a job, I’m telling you. Just knowing what they want and getting them what they want, and taking care of the whole thing.
It’s not anything—you could actually buy the right gift, but if you don’t do it correctly—if you don’t have the flowers and the cake and the right card and all the other stuff that goes with this presentation, you know—then it’s lost. It’s just lost in the whole scheme of things.
And then of course I’m on the 20th, so I just end up being the—you know, we’re already burned out, two parties, now it’s Del’s party time. And what generally happens is they’re burnt, and so they try to end up inviting other people to come to my party so that we have some new energy to bring some new life to the end of the birthday season. Which is very interesting because just about the time we’re done with the birthday season, we’re right into the holiday season. So it’s like a nonstop party from the beginning of October to the end of December and the first of the year.
It’s just nonstop crazy stuff. And that’s the way it is. That’s the way it is in my world, and the way it should be in your world too. Don’t your family deserve that type of a lifestyle? Don’t they deserve to have those things that in life that they want?
The Difference
Now, here is a big difference between me and some other people. Some other people think nothing of lending their kids 10, 20, or 50,000 or send them to college for a quarter of a million—wouldn’t do it.
But when it comes time to buying them gifts and things where it’s from my heart to their heart, where it’s something that’s not expected to be paid back, just something that is from my love to them—there’s no limit. But when it goes to lending them money or giving them something that they should be taking care of for themselves, I absolutely won’t do it because it will ruin them. Absolutely won’t do it. It will ruin them.
Even my girlfriend works. She doesn’t need to work, but she does. And that’s because she needs to be responsible. She needs to have her own money, and she needs something to keep her brain sharp. I mean, if you’re not doing something in life, what do you do with your brain, right? You can’t sit around and just become mush. So that’s the way it works.
The Trick
You have to ask yourself, how did I end up with three people’s birthdays all the same? There’s really a trick to it. It’s a very interesting story. What happened was years and years and years of dating the wrong women and going through girlfriend after girlfriend after girlfriend, a few wives thrown in there in between.
My daughter and I when she was finally old enough to talk with me about something like this—when she was 16 — we sat down. We were on a vacation one time and said you know what, I need to figure out why it is that I keep going through girlfriends and why they don’t just seem to fit and stick.
And so what we did was being two type B personalities we decided we were going to put it on a spreadsheet and graph it—you got it—graph it. And so what we did is we went back and remembered the names of all the girlfriends I had had in the past 10, 15, 20 years and wrote their names down. And we looked up their date of birth and found out what sign they were. And we started comparing signs.
Signs
And what we found out was that almost every girlfriend that I had fell into one of two categories both of which were diametrically opposed to being able to get along with my personality and my sign. At that point it was very obvious that I had been picking the wrong women forever.
So what we then did was we looked forward. And I was dating about five women at the time and had dated five or ten more I was kind of on serial dating situation. We looked at all the women I was dating now and figured out the ones that I liked the most, and one stuck out more than any other—tremendously different. And we looked up her birthday, and sure enough her birthday was the same as ours.
So there it was. We realized the only people that can get along with a Walmsley and have a long-term relationship that will grow and grow is somebody else that thinks just like we do. Wow. I’m dating myself.
