What Revealed

This week's completed books:
[*]When You Can Walk On Water, Take The Boat[*]Handbook of Big-Money Selling Strategies - Charles B Roth[*]The Lazy Man's Way to Riches

Next week's list includes, at the moment:
[*]Morning has been all night coming[*]The Lazy Man's Way to Riches (Yes I'm re-reading it again)[*]Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson's autobiography[*]Retire Rich Retire Young - Robert Kiyosaki's new one[*]The Entrepreneurial Hotsheet

But possibly more important than WHAT I am reading will be WHO I met and will meet.

This week some of the people I chatted with were: A partner in an accounting firm, a mail-order millionnaire's sister, an auctioneer, an ice-cream franchise owner, a manufacturer's rep/agent, a production lighting guy, a video event/seminar production guy, an electrician, a plumber, a teacher, an unhappy highschool student.

Next week: Apart from a woman who describe's her business as "buy real-estate and rent it out" and the guy who applies cement to the outside of brickwork, I have no idea. I haven't LISTENED to their story yet.

It is truly amazing what people will tell you when you lend a genuinely interested ear.

To look at these people you would never have realised what a diverse range of interests they have. And I never realised what a diverse group I had met until I was made to think a little to write this - to me they were just all normal people with problems that needed solving, and each with their own story.

Michael Ross.

Michael ~

You made three interesting points below - especially the "WHO I met and will meet." I think many people meet a diversity of people and never remember it. I remember some posts Dien made a while back about conversations he would have with various people throughout his day and how interesting they were.

Which brings to mind a thought I've long had. Like many of you here I've had an "interesting" and varied "career" path. I've also always looked at the sum of my experiences, knowledge, and contacts as a large "whole". Everything affecting everything else. I think Jim Rohn uses that phrase in relation to habits but I've expanded it.

How does sleight-of-hand relate to computer programming for instance? Many ways.

But back to your point about the people you met. How many people chase after the interesting and glamorous stories of people on television and the tabloids when the real deal is all around them? Just for the asking - or smiling. And people in general are very interested when someone takes an interest in them.

~ Dan Butler

> The Entrepreneurial Hotsheet But possibly
> more important than WHAT I am reading will
> be WHO I met and will meet.

> It is truly amazing what people will tell
> you when you lend a genuinely interested
> ear.

> they have. And I never realised what a
> diverse group I had met until I was made to




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