Oh....yeah!!!!!!
Good stories! Love the voicemail story.
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At 09:22 PM 7/30/99 -0600, Ted Black wrote:
From: Ted Black <tedblack@...>
Example 1:
I came to Denver on January 1, 1995, seeking people who could teach me the
principles of deliberate creation. I was familiar with Science of Mind, but
I knew there was much that I didn't understand. I wanted to find people who
had achieved a high level of mastery so that I could model their thoughts,
feeling, beliefs, and so on. I knew not one person in this city, and I was
baffled concerning how I would begin my quest.
I focused on three immediate objectives: 1) To obtain voicemail service in
exchange for work. I had plenty of cash, but I just wanted to practice
expanding my possibilities. I wanted to see whether I could do it. I
thought it would be fun to practice my communication skills by asking for
the service in exchange for work.
2) I wanted to meet many people who had succeeded in small businesses or in
other creative endeavors. I especially wanted to meet people who were able
to create anything they wanted with ease. 3) I wanted to meet someone who
would become a mentor in a small business.
I devoted myself to this quest, and I had nothing whatsoever to distract me.
I read, walked in the mountains, meditated, and played until action was the
next logical step. I picked up the Yellow Pages, searching for the first
voicemail service to call. I felt the fear begin to come up, but I called
anyway. I told the owner what I wanted, and he said, "No. Either pay or go
away." I told him I would pay, feeling a little like a failure for giving
up so easily. Just when I had finished giving him all the information he
needed to sign me up, he said, "You know, I've been thinking. I like what
you're doing. The service is free." I protested that I would work for the
service. "No," he said. "For you, it is free."
Then for the next several days, the owner of this voicemail service left me
messages with names of people I should call. A week later, he brought me a
free pager as well and refused to accept payment. He then had me over for
dinner at his house every week for several weeks in a row.
Following my intuition and other leads, I met over 100 people my first 5
weeks in Denver. During my 4th week, I met the mentor I was seeking, and he
taught me how to run a carpet and upholstery cleaning business. Within 6
weeks, I was earning $500 to $1,200 per week in my own business, and it has
been that way ever since. By my 6th week in business, I had landed as
clients one of the most famous attorneys in Denver (he used to represent
John Denver) and a top plastic surgeon with an 8,000 square foot mansion.
Both clients came to me through a wonderful series of coincidences, and
coincidentally I worked for the attorney on Wednesday of this week and will
be in the home of the plastic surgeon next Wednesday.
During my second week in Denver, I met someone in a multi-level company
called Light Force. I decided that I wanted to find one of the top people
in this company to find out how he or she thought/felt/believed. I opened
the business section of the Denver white pages and found an 800 number. I
dialed the number expecting to reach company headquarters. Instead a woman
in Hawaii answered--Lyndia Storey Leonard. Within a matter of
seconds--after we sorted out the confusion--we were into a high level
intimate conversation about love, reality, and deliberate creation. During
the next few months, she revealed intimate details concerning how she had
changed her way of thinking, feeling, and believing. She told me about
Abraham, and how she really resonated with these teachings. At the time,
she was living the life of dreams, and she and her husband were building
their own yacht on which they planned to sail the world. Well, the yacht
has been finished for a few years now, and last I heard they were sailing
down the West Coast of the United States before heading off to Hawaii and
then the South Seas.
Well, that's enough for now.
Love,
Ted