Cash Creation Conference Phoenix Az

Hello Everyone, Jane and I are back from Phoenix. We were at the annual Piranha marketing conference last week. It was an incredible event. Every year Joe Polish and his team out does the previous one. We were able to spend some quality time with Lisa Wagner who is the CEO of Piranha as we drove to and fro to Sedona. Jane and I were finalists in Piranha's Better your Best contest which incidently was won by Steve Nash ,who is a remodeling contractor from New York. A brilliant guy who turned his business completely around this past year. Do you believe that there is a recession going on? Not our group. Well, Joe, in his truly giving way , has invited all the finalists to go to LA in November to participate in his 25K group. This is a group of high powered entrepenurs who spend 25K per year to mastermind with each other under Joe's tutelage. We will have an opportunity to meet Sir Richard Branson, Paula Abdul, and many brilliant people from the business world. Thank you Joe. We learned many cutting edge marketing stratagies this year that will enable us to increase our business substantially. Next week Jane and I are off to Palm Springs where we will be attending the Master of Influence program that is put on by T.Harv Ecker and Peak Potentials. We will come home for two days because Jane is speaking at the annual meeting for the VSBR group. Vermont Business for Social Responsibility. Then we go to La. Awesome. Thanksgiving week will be spent on the island of Veiques off the coast of Puerto Rico. We have friends building a home on the island and it is a beautiful place. If you see more than four people on a beach it is considered crowded. Looking forward to the sun as it snowed here in Vermont last night. Well that covers our recent travels and activities. Until we meet again. May God spare your life. Peace Don

Life Transformation

Hello all, what I'm about to share with you today is the journey that Jane and I have taken so far to transform our lives. In 1997 I was introduced to Joe Polish , the owner and creator of Piranha Marketing. I was a struggling business owner who was looking for the magic solution to all my problems. I bought Joe's boot camp in a box and went through it and then set it on a shelf. It sat there for about another six months before I was desperate enough to actually implement some of the marketing strategies that Joe had reccommended. Low and behold I started making money with these ideas and a great ROI as well. We continued using the strategies for the next couple of years and we saw our income grow. In 2001 Jane said that we were going to Joe's boot camp in Phoenix and we were off. We became platinum members that year. Platinum is a select group of entrepenurs that want to be the best they can be and want to keep on learning and staying on the cutting edge. It was a sizable investment and it was still another two years before I finally left my ego at the door and decided to get with the program. It was the best decision I have ever made, with the exception of asking Jane to be my wife. The people that Joe has introduced us to have changed our lives forever. Joe is like a world class conducter who brings people together, this is his special talent. We were introduced to Robert Kyosagi who got us involved with real estate. To date we have acquired four homes and a beautiful piece of property that we will be building our summer home on. Our life transformation took a GIANT leap when we went to T. Harv Ecker's Enlightened Warrior Camp. Harv is the owner and mastermind behind Peak Potentials Inc. We first attended his Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar and that changed the way we viewed money in our lives. The Warrior camp was the most intense thing that I had ever gone through and it was truly tranformational. We met people there that will be friends for life. Later in the year , on a field trip to San Diego with the Platinum group we were introduced to a program that was created by John Butcher, the owner of the Precious Moment collectibles company. We signed up for the program called Lifebook and we attended it in Chicago. It to was a life transformational experience. The Warrior camp gave us the courage to do and tackle anything with no fear and the Lifebook gave us a blueprint for accomplishing things in our lives and really finding out what is truly important. The following summer we went to Peak Potentials Wizard camp. This was the feminine side of the Warrior camp. So now we have the balance in our lives. This was a very , very spiritual event and to this day I flashback and re-live things that we experienced in those very intense days of Wizard. Again we reconnected with friends from Warrior and made new friends as well. Two of them that are going to St. Martin with us in April. Jane and I are off to Bali on Friday to spend time with John and Missy Butcher and three other couples. This would not have been possible without Joe's introduction. Joe also introduced us to Garrett Gunderson , the author of "Killing Sacred Cows and The Jackrabbit Factor and Portal to Genius. Garrett runs a program called Freedom Fast Track which we are currently involved with. This program gives you all the tools we will ever need for understanding our finances and our soul purpose. Once you are aligned with your soul purpose life is fun and magical. You can't wait to get out of bed every day to stay involved . We have truly been blessed and are able to manifest what we want. We continue to invest in ourselves and will always be part of Joe Polish's program no matter where we are in our lives. I will give you an update on our Bali trip next month. I hope you have found this post informative and enlightening. Until next time . Peace Don

crazy past two weeks

Hi all, The past two weeks have been unbeilavable. First I went to Michigan and spent a week with my old business partner Tony. This is a yearly event where we play golf in a nice resort area with 14 other guys and hit the casinos. I had my first hole in one at Moose Ridge golf course. 138 yd par three. My team won the scramble event and we split $1200. I also made about $400 at the casinos. I flew home on Monday and the next day Jane and I were off to Phoenix, Az. to the Rich Cleaner Conference and trade show. Every year Joe Polish who owns Piranha Marketing gives away a car to the company that betters it's best. This year our friends Rick and Sandy Raskob won and they won a new Land Rover. The car next year is a 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra! We are going to be competing like crazy to win next year. We were close this year as Jane won the essay contest and recieved a silver locket from Joe with his picture in it. I turn it around at night. LOL It was so cool to see how many people entered the contest this year. It is not about winning the car but if you complete the package you are a winner. Joe gave everyone 2 to 4 nights in a destination of thier choice. He always gives way more than he recieves. It has been an incredible association for Jane and I. We have met people that have totally changed our lives. This year we are working with Garrett Gunderson the author of Killing Sacred Cows. A must read if you have money in a 401K plan. While in Phoenix I played a round of golf with Dave Kieter and I shot a 78 in sandals and with rental clubs. It was the lowest round I have shot to date. It is so true that once you open your self to the universe that good things just seem to come your way. We also heard from Hugh Downs and Sean Stephenson both of whom are very inspirational speakers. If you don't believe me go to you tube and look up Sean Stephenson , he will absolutely blow you away. We have a lot of cool things planned for the near future , so stay tuned. Peace Don

Piranha marketing and St Martin

Hi all, Jane and I are off to St Martin on Friday. We will be missing all our friends from Piranha in Arizona this week because of the scheduling conflict. It seems it happens every year. Jane's birthday is April 25th and we will be celebrating it on the island again. This is her favorite place and I am quite fond of it to. I get up at first light every day and put towels on our beach lounge chairs, then I go fishing for snook or tarpon until about 8:30 or 9. I then take a short walk to the french bakery and get great croissants and go back and have coffee and breakfast with my beautiful wife. We then get ready to go to the beach , either the one at the resort or one of the many great beaches on the island. Nights begin at the tiki bar happy hour where drinks are two for one from 4 to 6 and then we have dinner at one of the outstanding resturants or eat in. We may go to one of the many casinos at night or just walk on the beach. It really is a magical place and time. Do I miss seeing our friends from Piranha? Sure I do, but I cannot pass up this adventure. Maybe next year Joe Polish will have his meeting in St Martin. LOL Peace CatmanDon

another snowstorm with sleet and rain and a pedicure for me

Hello all, We just got about 8 in of nasty mixed bag of snow,sleet and freezing rain. It has not been above freezing for over a month. I am missing the sun. My wife jane and I went to the gym and worked out for an hour , then had lunch and then we both had a pedicure. This was a great experience. Joe Polish our marketing mentor suggested to the guys in our group that we have a pedicure so that we can relate to what woman like to do to feel good. He was absolutely right. I will probably have one every other month. Woman are the decision makers as far as our business is concerned and it makes perfect sense to try and figure out what they think about. Here is a link to having a clean healthy home. http://go2468.com/allergyrep. Well thats it for now. Do your self a favor and have a pedicure. I videoed it and it will be on youtube soon. I will provide the link. By the way , we saw Slumdog Millionaire and it was an awesome movie. Kept your attention for the duration. Highly recommend. Peace Catmandon