11.27.07
A Very Interesting Conversation
I received an e mail from a woman who asked me to tell her how to retire. She said her level of motivation was 150%. She was respected in her community, she claimed, and had access to some good people. She would do whatever it took, she promised.
I responded with the following: “I will design a special, 15 minute conversation for you to have with exactly 127 people. These people should be financially secure and they should know you, or at least have been referred to you. I suspect that if you do this well, with passion, confidence, and sincerity, you will be in position where the residual income you generate will be more than you require to live on. That means that you will have retired. How long will it take you to prepare for this? A few days. How long will it take you to have these 127 conversations? It depends on how serious and motivated you are. Proven system. Easy to do. Take your time, do it well, and as long as you’re credible, well presented, relaxed, and serious, it’s a slam dunk. ”
Well, I expected said female to hijack the nearest car, bus, plane or, if she was really desperate, sky train, and to show up, panting, eager, and grateful as all get go on my doorstep. She didn’t. She e mailed me two weeks later to tell me that she had bought a “coaching program” for hundreds of dollars a month from some weirdo who had bought a “Certified Coaching Course” from another, smarter weirdo for thousands of dollars. She felt my generous offer was simply “Too good to be true” and “probably a scam or a pyramid scheme” and her BANK MANAGER had advised her against it. The same bank manager who pays her 3% on her money and lends the same money out at 20%. The same bank manager who barely manages to pay her own bills at the end of the month, sells her time for money, and knows more about nuclear physics than she does about business and money. Believe me. I have had conversations with Vice Presidents of a certain well-known, national bank who were at the same level of understanding.
Did you know that on a bell curve, the average IQ is a mere 100? That is STUPID, and you can’t fix stupid. Or perhaps she was just plain old lazy. So I decided to cast my pearls here on ye olde Blog and see if there was someone out there with more than two brain cells. Time will tell, but I’m not hoilding my breath…
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
