It's How You 'ROLL THE DICE' After All

 

This morning, I was browsing the TIME Magazine piece datelined a month back, 08.07.2025 titled "HOW MIKE JOHNSON BECAME TRUMP's SPEAKER".  BUT before I delve on this, digging into this piece is more than just WHAT the title is all about.  Instead,  this is the narrative as to how U.S. Congress Speaker Mike Johnson was able to secure consecutive major legislative victories [for and on behalf the Trump Administration] despite being an obscure, low-key undergo WHO was least expected to survive, and much more, to succeed in securing those 'legislative' victories for the U.S. Republican Party [and primarily for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump].  Sharing the link to that TIME Magazine piece here:  https://time.com/7306839/speaker-mike-johnson-interview/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&_bhlid=574b669e01a2013576cc1a43811907ebe53309a4📗📙📘

As the TIME Magazine piece said, QUOTE Johnson became Speaker of the House in October 2023, emerging from relative obscurity to take what one of his Republican predecessors, John Boehner, calls “the toughest job in America.” It requires managing a conference that has for years been nearly ungovernable, while pleasing a President who expects total obeisance and tends to turn on congressional leaders who don’t deliver on his demands. Expectations for Johnson in Washington were low.  But he has defied them. Since Trump’s Inauguration, Johnson has shepherded a series of wins for the White House: thwarting a vote blocking Trump’s sweeping tariffs, passing the Laken Riley Act expediting the deportation of arrested migrants, averting a government shutdown, and delivering pro-crypto legislation that blesses certain digital assets tied to the U.S. dollar UNQUOTE💚💛💜

YES YES yowww, our life is very much akin to the DICE itself and it's all about taking chances [IF YOU WANT TO].  IF you've got three sixes on your first roll,by all means, go for that.  Like WHAT we always hear, if we want to have big returns [in life], we have to take the risk.  True, you may be scared [and you may have to settle for a puny score] BUT the bottomline here is that you tried.  And one day, voila, all those attempts and tries will eventually pay off with the dividends you've been angling for.  YESSS, like the roll of the DICE, life is riddled with possibilities and there's nothing like a crisp white scorecard at the start of a new game.  Thing is, it is all there for the taking💥💥💥

As in a DICEgame, we win some, we lose some in life [and hold on, there will be phases in our life WHEN we'll be either in a winning streak OR losing streak, just to give you a heads-up].  And to forewarn you farther, as you play the game of dice in life, sometimes you will get tired [and bored, seriously and worse, frustrated especially after a spate of failures and frustrations].  BUT as you garner more wins and successes, your own self-confidence can get boosted and one day, WHO knows, you might even develop a bit of a 'swelled head'.  And then, those wins will vanish and a losing streak hits you all over again, deja vu indeed❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  Like that DICE game, there's always rooms for improvement in our life.  And like repeatedly rolling that DICE, life is all about persistence.  The next time you sit down on the hardwood to roll the dice for the 999th time, the wood itself could reflect tons and tons of scratches, reflective both of your wins and losses BUT as we keep our poise on the tips of our fingers before rolling that DICE again, WHAT else are you waiting for?  DON'T look farther.  In that TIME Magazine piece, how U.S. Congress Speaker Mike Johnson has become his own man is indeed a narrative worth emulating😋😋😋