Day 6

Today it’s time to move on to the next place of residence with my friend in Downtown Los Angeles. However, first, I’m off to meet a girlfriend in Manhattan Beach. While en route I lead a successful conference call which is full of progress and excellent feedback. Then I arrive earlier at my coffee date, so I decide to write some notes as there are mailboxes 5 feet from my car. Its right there, so why not make use of the time. I love sending people cards that are little surprises that make them smile.

Earlier in the morning I had challenged myself to reach out to nine random people from my phone book that I haven’t spoken too just to catch up. At first I wondered why I wanted to do something like that, but then I just started dialing. First person I called actually answered the phone, I hadn’t spoken to her in quite a few months, and it was so nice to just touch base and catch up about what’s going on in our lives. Well apparently, she was in a transition period and looking to get into a new career path in the food industry. Funny, because the next thing you know, I’m at my computer reading an email about an event that’s all for the food industry and in NYC where she lives. So of course I send it her way, and maybe it will be of use, or maybe it won’t. I just find it interesting how that opportunity popped up, and had I not called that email would have ended up immediately in the trash.

As, I continue to make my calls, I have all sorts of self talk about why these people that I call friends wouldn't want to talk to me, or maybe I don’t really want to talk to them, but remember this was a challenge so I continue. I end up calling people I normally wouldn’t, and by the time I’m talking or leaving a voicemail, I’m super excited and curious about what’s going on in their lives. I mean normally it’s all about me, my closest friends, and business. So it’s really nice to step outside the circle, and reach out to people that I don’t normally talk to. I should be talking with them more than once a year right vs purely through Facebook right??!?! In fact calling these random people actually brightened my day and gave me energy.

LESSON OF THE DAY: If people hold real estate in my phone book, they are important to me and calling them isn’t scary it actually pumps me up full of vibrant energy.

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