Share Knowledge and Experience for More Beautiful Living

Good morning, Live Better than a Billionaire-a-Holics!

Are you feeling motivated this morning? I certainly hope so. I know that I am!

Yesterday, my good friend Randy Gilbert asked me to fill in for a guest who cancelled an interview date. Randy does a weekly Internet radio program called The Inside Success Show where people who have experienced and understand success come and share their candid comments. Listeners get a different sense of how these people approach life than they would by simply reading their books or watching them present.

Most guests treat these experiences as marketing opportunities. In fact, just before I got on the air I received an e-mail from an "expert" telling me to imagine dollar signs on the faces of people listening. What a lot of hogwash that advice was!

I wanted to enjoy the experience as a chance to share my life in a friendly and open way with my friend and listeners with whom I would like to have a relationship -- much as I do with my blog readers every day.

I did something that I rarely do for interviews. I prepared. Randy kindly gave me a chance to suggest questions and he shared the questions that he planned to use. I pulled out all of my books, presentations, notes and drafts of new books . . . and select just the most helpful, relevant and interesting material. A huge area was covered.

When the interview started, I just focused on how to share as much of my knowledge and experiences in creating 2,000 percent solutions as possible. Naturally, an hour doesn't seem like very long to sum up decades of work and thinking.

But I benefited from having just read three outstanding books by master story teller, Stephen Denning (The Springboard, Squirrel Inc., and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling). From Mr. Denning I learned to boil down key lessons into brief stories (usually less than one hundred words) that let listeners fill in the blanks and apply the lessons to their own lives.

During the hour, I had a warm feeling as I had a chance to reflect on the many wonderful people I had had a chance to work with (such as Peter Drucker who insisted that I start writing about 2,000 percent solutions), the many clients who had benefited, the students we have worked with in recent years to improve the lives of millions and accelerate world progress, knowledge and health. That feeling was enhanced when I had a chance to answer a question off the air from a listener. Further, I enjoyed the sense of having learned something as I sensed that my new story telling style was working. Some listeners gave me high marks for that.

But ultimately, it validated my sense of myself to report to new people what I have been working on. It made the day very beautiful for me.

I urge you to think about what you could share in the way of your knowledge and experience with your family, friends, colleagues and interested others. I think you'll find your life to be more beautiful when you do.

Perhaps you aren't sure what to share.

Here's a tip: Think about what you wish someone had told you that you had to learn the hard way. There will be plenty of people out there who will be glad when you share that knowledge.

Could a billionaire do better? Possibly.

Billionaires know that many things they enjoy don't really cost very much or are actually free. If they wanted to share what they enjoy . . . despite the burdens of their wealth . . . they can probably teach us all something. But can you imagine a large ego billionaire being interested in sharing with us that the money is a burden rather than a benefit. It's hard to see happening. That would be a little like Martha Stewart producing a new show about the joys of being in prison.

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N.B. As you can tell, I'm experimenting with color. Let me know what you like and what I should change about my use of color. Many thanks to Linda Grace for her suggestions which I am following!

Please let me know what else you would like to learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog entries.

Here are some upcoming subjects:

Tomorrow, we'll look into how indoor gardening can beautify your life.

Sunday, you will read about how to forgive your enemies to live a more beautiful spiritual life.

On Monday, we'll travel to Jolly Old England to plan your visit to dozens of mansions.

Tuesday, let's travel to Scotland to visit even more mansions.

Wednesday, let's head for Wales for further mansion viewing.

On Thursday, we'll look at how to handle your e-mail to live better than a billionaire.

If you are new to this blog, be sure to check out the updated table of contents entry that I posted on November 30. The table of contents will help you find earlier entries that may be of interest. I'll update this table of contents every week or so for your convenience.

August 31 was the most frequently read blog entry to date. Be sure to check it out!

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Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,

Be More Successful than a Billionaire at http://bemoresuccessfulthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,

Create Your Own 2,000 Percent Solutions at
http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/,

Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,

Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and

Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.

I offer individual on-line tutorials and in-person seminars on living better than a billionaire on five dollars extra a day, creating 2,000 percent solutions (20 times the results with the same effort), developing more profitable business models and designing strategies that work regardless of the business environment. For information, contact me at ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.

I am available to you as a speaker on these subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.

May God bless you.

Donald W. Mitchell, Your Dream Concierge

Copyright 2005 Donald W. Mitchell