Greg's Right FIT #479

Quick notes to help you grow your business in less time with less effort. . . sometime next week. 

In this issue: 

- Thoughts on Interests
- Being Human
- Random Stuff

Thoughts on Interests

• Everyone loves a listener. It takes work to be a good one. It comes with the benefit of making you more interesting too.
• It's warming up. Time for fishing. Fly fishers, practice your nail knots: https://www.animatedknots.com/ (knowing knots is like having scars - you're instantly more interesting)
• Get curious. In Brain Grazer's book "A Curious Mind" he outlines his Curiosity Conversations. Hour-long visits with interesting people. No agenda, just curiosity. It just takes courage to ask for a visit. 
• The first place to look for new business is the source of your current business. Just as interesting people tend to hang out with other interesting people, your next referral is hanging out with your current customers. Attend an event with them and ask for introductions. 

Being Human - Through the eyes of a child

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from multiple points of view." – George Eliot

Part of my visit to Los Angeles included going out to breakfast in the shadow of the Hollywood sign with one of my wife's cousins. She has two delightful little boys. I'm bad at guessing ages, but I'd say maybe 5 and 2? Something like that. Full of energy, questions, and good eaters. They took down a stack of pancakes and a smoothie bowl in no time. 

As the adults visited, they got just a little bit restless. Dad took them outside where they wandered while we finished up our meals. We joined them on the street where we received a report on all the events that took place while we sat and talked. There was car, exactly like theirs, but not theirs, parked across the street. The youngest walked into the dry cleaner next door and not only got to see the clothes conveyor in action, he got to push the buttons to make it work. There was a new street sign, "No Access To Hollywood Sign," and some very interesting rocks, among other events. All in less than 15 minutes. 

As the adults engaged in our long goodbye, the kids continued exploring. The youngest collected a small pile of rocks to stack on the curb. Then he kicked the stack of rocks off into the gutter. Then stacked again. The oldest spied a shiny blue object. It was just to the right of where I was standing, roughly where I was looking as I shifted my weight. I didn't see it until he picked it up. 

This particular rock was going into a shiny rock collection at home. We said our final goodbyes, us heading one way to our car, and them going the other way to their car, but first walking through a stone "tunnel." An arch I barely registered on the way in to the restaurant.

So many interesting things. All in one place. Most of which I only noticed when the boys pointed them out. A nice reminder to stay curious. One of the best parts of being human. 

Random Stuff

“Awful food. Rude servers. Comically over priced. My least favorite restaurant in all of la" – anon reviewer on a place I loved

To start, last weekend I did get into a regular-sized hotel room. It was still small, but felt luxurious compared to the Snug room. My son pointed out that it was a good upsell technique on the part of the hotel. I agree. It worked.

We enjoyed all sorts of activities in LA. We visited a Frank Lloyd Wright house, ate a fine breakfast burrito, walked through fancy neighborhoods, saw our daughter hard at work in the art gallery, watched people take a lot of selfies in Beverly Hills, listened to street preachers on the Santa Monica Pier, had a great dinner in Los Feliz (pronounced many ways), saw a grade school production of "Mary Poppins Jr" that rivaled any community theater, saw lots of cousins, got to know the new boyfriend, had expertly brewed coffee from a master, hiked in a canyon, walked China Town, shopped Olivera street (the oldest street in LA), and many more adventures. The weather was perfect, especially considering we returned home to an actual blizzard! 

Why am I giving you the detailed breakdown? It's being around little kids. They would go into far more detail than I am. It's part of my resolution to be more curious. 

If only I had finished building my Momentum Tool. It could be sending me an automated text every day asking, "Today, did you do your best to be curious?" In a month I'd be past Inspiration and into Continuation Motivation, living with more curiosity. 

Maybe I need to start by getting curious about building that tool again. Teach myself a thing or two. I wonder how I'd start that?

Stay curious, my friend.