WHY I POST WHAT’S IMPORTANT

• In 2010, I retired from industry after 46 years in the corporate & technical world.
•  For 10 more years I consulted in industry and mentored some very bright persons.
• Over those years I contributed to many sciences and technologies, leadership, finance and organizational planning and development.
• I was told by experts that my  main skills were problem identification and solutions but more importantly, I could see problems derived from the initial solution and subsequent solutions for those newly created problems. 
• That skill made me an effective creative manager of problems and solutions. This skill still burns brightly in my mind. If you ask all my colleagues they will confirm this skill of mine.
• For 30 years, my wife and I taught our children life skills. My family was fortunate enough to sail the ocean, and we embedded ourselves for 17 years in the island life of the Bahamas, both sailing and living in Eleuthera. 
• Island life and sailing throughout the Bahamas exposed me to the environment and as a resident and ex patriot I was deeply immersed in environmental issues in a 3^rd world country, as well as the bureaucracy that made their “world go round”.
• I slowly became an activist for those persons I came to love and the environment I lived in. (That included personally recovering from Hurricane Andrew (direct hit) in 1992, 4 subsequent smaller hurricanes, storms at sea and pollution affecting both the island land and the ocean).
• After 20 years of living (part time) and cruising offshore from Nantucket to the Florida Keys and Bahamas, we sold our homes and moved to the City of Sebastian in 2007.
• While also in Bucks County, PA.,  I continued to  have my hands full as the founding president of a community organization of 165 home planned development including all infrastructure.
• By 2018 we sold that home and I was done with all that and focused on my life and homestead in Sebastian.
• The next 8 years saw me involved in the Indian River Lagoon, the Mosquito Control District, and the City of Sebastian, a wonderful, well run community.
• I felt that my experience and skills could continue to create contributions to the city, the county and the complex environment of the Indian River Lagoon.
• Obviously I was naive.
• When a very competent city councilperson resigned early I knew it was time for me to move from the audience to the dais. Worst decision I ever made.
• I really like the four incumbents, the city manager, the  charter staff and everyone that makes Sebastian so great!
• Based on past relations I made a stupid assumption and it became a tempest in a teapot.
• That is why I have withdrawn my candidacy for councilperson.
• Clearly I have no business being in this arena