Good Meeting

I spent the remainder of last night (until 2 A.M.) and the early hours this morning preparing for my NPO visit. When I got there I felt well prepared and the visit went well. I followed my own suggestions and I feel this was the best meeting yet.

However, let's not celebrate too much yet. I also had a telephone conversation with one of lthe people I had a tentative meeting with tomorrow. He is not convinced that this meeting would be a good use of his time. He left the door open saying that he needed some concrete information to convince him hat something will come of this. I am finding that most NPOs are accustomed to calling people and with one phone call they get a check for 5,000, 10,000, 50,000. What ever they need at the time they ask for and get. We are suggesting something new and different and they don't know what to think.

bzm: I can suggest "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude" which was coauthored with W. Clement Stone. If you are not familiar with Stone, I know you would like him. I will just say this: Stone was the son of a single mom in Chicago--he delivered papers and she scrubbed floors. At the end of each day they pooled their money to so that they have enough to get a single meal which they both shared. It was the only meal they had for the day.

Tom