During the 19th and early-20th Centuries, intellectuals and community leaders shared their ideas and thoughts in the form of a parlor game that spoke, truthfully, about the innermost them. This week, we speak CANDIDLY with Carl Marzola, who is a licensed Real Estate Broker, the President of the Fort Lauderdale & Wilton Manors-based Atlantic Properties International and member of the Wilton Manors Economic Development Task Force.
Your favorite virtue.
Patience, of which I possess ‘zero,’ but I’m working on it.
Your favorite quality in a person.
Honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and being able to make a hell of a Carbonara.
Your chief characteristic.
Organization. Also, the ability to find someone else’s strengths and talents and help them to make the most of the gifts with which they’ve been gifted.
Something you appreciate most in your friends.
Kindness and understanding (I need them both in large helpings). Being able to forgive, and, if not forget, at least to give me more latitude next time. (I’ll do the same for you: we’re only human, baby.)
Your main fault.
I have an excess of energy, and I like to be busy all the time with numerous projects, but it can drive the people around me crazy trying to keep up because of the ninety irons I have in the fire at any given time.
A fault you can’t tolerate in other people.
When a person thinks he or she “knows it all.” When you stop learning, they put you into six feet of cold ground. Buh-bye. We should all continue to learn and grow and to help others.
Your favorite occupation.
Exactly what I’m doing now, but with an extra fifteen hours in the day to get it done!
Your idea of happiness.
Being at the peak of health and at the top of my professional game, surrounded by friends, family, and the people I love: not too much different from the reality I’m blessed to enjoy in this life.
Your idea of misery.
The absence of love.
A person you would be, if not yourself.
Someone who wanted to be just like me! (Immodest?)
Your favorite food and drink.
With a last name like “Marzola,” do you even need to ask? (Hint: foods that end in a vowel– Italian!) And I do enjoy my Grey Goose martinis with stuffed bleu cheese olives.
Your ideal place to live.
I think that home is where your heart is, and your heart is full of the numerous blessings you enjoy at any given moment in time.
Your favorite color.
Is chartreuse a color or an ice cream flavor? I’ll stick safely with “royal blue.”
Your favorite author(s).
Anthony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Joel Osteen, Donald Trump (sometimes), Carlos Castaneda. I also like Shakespeare, but gave up a while ago trying to get my “thees” and “thous” straight.
Your heroes in film.
Indiana Jones, Rhett Butler, Tom Cruise in “Top Gun,” and the character Charles Bronson played in all his movies.
Your heroes in real life.
My parents and grandparents—remember I’m Italian: it’s all about family. Also first responders (fire fighters, police officers, ambulance drivers, and paramedics). And everyone who gets up every day and works to support themselves or their family with a smile on their faces and a song in their hearts.
Something you hate.
Hate is a strong word. But I have no
tolerance for intolerance.
Your present state of mind.
“I like to think sane and happy, but not quite content: there’s still so much to accomplish.
The natural talent you’d like to be
gifted with.
The ability to time travel, so I could squeeze an extra seven or eight hours out of the day.
How you’d like to die.
At the age of 155, in the arms of a 70-
year-old “younger guy” at the hands of his jealous boyfriend.
The reform you admire the most.
I admire any person who makes the conscious decision to reinvent himself, whether getting a higher education at 50, or shedding some pounds to improve your health or the way you think of yourself, or deciding that a new career for a new year is just what the doctor ordered. (And if that’s the case: call me! I’m always looking to meet smart and enthusiastic men and women who are looking to make their career in a field that makes success stories every day—God isn’t making any more real estate!)
Your Personal Motto.
Daddy’s buying…this time only, boys!
