Today is the day. Tonight is the night. The first 2nd Saturdays Downtown in Tucson will take place this evening. Most of the activity will be on Congress street, at the Fox Theater and on Scott street.
Free Parking is at the Pennington street parking facility. A great concert at the Fox by the Portland Cello Project is expected to rock the house.
Lots of other activities for the evening from a Twitter wall display in a store front window on Congress street to lots of food and street vendors.
Come on down to the first 2nd Saturdays Downtown.
For more information you can check out these two local sites and posts.
I went to the Business Luncheon at Tucson WCR Chapter meeting yesterday. The “motivational” speaker started by having everyone write down their goal for next year.
He defined GOAL as “How much money do you want to make next year” Interesting. Seems to me when most “motivational” speakers talk about goals they are talking about money.
I’m not opposed to money, but it isn’t why I live. It isn’t something I would set an amount of money as a goal. Over the years I’ve found the people that make an amount of money a goal, do so at the expense of other people.
The people are no something, not someone, they are to be “sold” a product, service, widget. It doesn’t matter, what it is, the “GOAL” is to SELL them something.
The speaker was highly motivated to SELL all of us on coming to HIS seminar that is worth almost $3000 on the screen but “For today only” we could get it for $299 and if just 12 people would sign up at this “incredible” price he would donate $1000 to the main charity at Tucson WCR. Well he had 6 at that price.
How many of you would attend if the price were just half that? How about for “Today only” we make the price $149? Would you come then? Now another 6 or 7 were signing up and he was going to write that check.
I’ve been to so many of these sales pitch at a meeting deals that I made a bet with myself. I bet that before I left the room he would offer the seminar to me for FREE.
I listened to the pitch, but wasn’t writing down his keywords from the screen on the handout. After all my goal isn’t money, so why write down all the things I could do to make more money, which meant I had to SELL stuff to people.
Five minutes into the presentation he handed me his sheet so I could continue writing on his sheet. Ah, a nibble on the line. I set it down on the table and continued to listen. A few minutes more and he came back and picked up the paper and pen and handed it back to me, saying “No one just sits in one of his presentations” Ah, a solid strike on the line.
I set the paper and pen down again. Now all I had to do was wait patiently and reel him in. More pitch, more screen shots of testimonials of how great he and his seminar were in the past. An additonal FREE book. etc.
Announcement at the end of the meeting, but he was still popping up making more “Appealing offers” to the group.
As most were leaving he walked over to me, put his hand on my shoulder and said “You are my guest at the seminar for free”. : )
NO, I’m not going. Why do I need to go? I out sold the salesman. I got his $30o0 product for FREE. Do I need more money?
My Goals? Making a difference in peoples lives so they can be more successful.
I know a lot of very unhappy rich people. I also know a lot of people enjoying their life and business because of things I’ve helped them do or implement.
Write down your GOAL.
It might be down, left, right, up, but mine was stuck so it wouldn’t go down. There have been times in the past where it felt like there was gravel under the ball and it would stick.
