I just wanted to emphasize how important it is to “INVEST” in the right live events. It’s very important to learn as much as you can at these things, but at least as important to spend time with other attendees and instructors.

For me, I have to have 3 or 4 goals that I focus on during the event.

1) Take home something I can use from each instructor.

2) Get to know (or at least meet) every instructor. I was able to eat at least one meal with each instructor at E1KAD.

3) Meet EVERY single attendee. At NAMS 7, on Friday morning, I challenged myself to learn all 300 names (and faces) of each attendee and to have at least shaken hands with each one. I did that by Sunday night and everyone was impressed. But mostly, the attendees helped me because they knew that was my goal. If I hadn’t met them, they came up to me and introduced themselves.

One of my other goals – always – is to look for new partners, people that have great hearts and great products. They must have both, not one or the other. And if an instructor only shows up for his presentation, but doesn’t make himself available for the rest of the event or support the other speakers, then he doesn’t have the heart I’m looking for.

See you at NAMS 🙂

dp