I wrote this guy. He was opening a night club in town. I wanted to be a part of it. I said, "hello, my name is Paul. I'm a heck of a marketing guy. I don't want any money, I just want to own a piece of the club. I'll do everything for you". I was in Fort Myers, he was in Chicago. He wrote back, "Paul, I know who you are. Your reputation proceeds you. I'm sorry. I can't do that."
A guy I'd never met in Chicago knew who I was. I ended up owning a small piece of the club months later because I got someone to invest a lot of money in the club and I took the finders fee as a stake.
I once wrote this one group - the Goldklang Group, owner of many minor league sports teams - "hello, my name is Paul. I don't have any money, but I would like to own one of your baseball teams and if you would be willing to sell, I'd be willing to talk about it." I never heard from them.
Then a few years later I read a guy from New York bought the same team I was interested in. I thought dammit. But then I looked him up. Wrote him a private message. Congratulated him. And he and I became friends.
Now when he's in town I meet and have an adult beverage with him and talk about everything. Maybe one day I'll buy the team from him and finally get what I wanted to begin with.
That's what I do. I take big swings at things.
I also have the ability to grow things really big. I wasn't lying to the club guy from Chicago who had already heard about me as a marketing guy from Nashville and living in southwest Florida. I wanted to kill it for the club. Turns out, he wasn't so bad himself at marketing events and things where people need to show. But he will swear I'm the best he's ever seen.
Taking big swings at things is interesting and fun because, WHO CARES?! What are they going to say? No?
(I'm not talking politics today - at all - so because I mention this name doesn't mean I am) Back in 1984 I read a book by Donald Trump - his first : The Art of the Deal. Loved it. Every single word.
It was a time of Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. When everything in America was going up, up, up and there was no downside to anything because the Gipper, Ronald Reagan, was in office and America wasn't about to be on the decline or taken advantage of.
Trump said, "If you're going to be thinking, you might as well think BIG". And believe me, I bought into it. Thinking big was going to be my motto.
When I wrote the baseball team, the club, any investor, any prospective client, or anyone else, I didn't write to offer something small. I wrote them to change their lives. Not mine. Theirs. I was ready to move up and help them out as only I could. That's the confidence I have in myself (as I said before I am a commentator to myself: "he's about to kill it for the club" "he knows where the team needs to be" "sales are too low but he has the answer" "he's about to take a big, big, BIG swing at something")
I always thought I could make a difference. I could kill it for the club. I could kill it for the baseball team. There was opportunity everywhere. They were missing out.
Think BIG. Do like Trump. Do YOU. Don't be held back. Take big swings. You're going to die, might as well do something in the meantime.
And by the way, God is good.
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