My thoughts:
It was my first time there and overall I thought it was awesome.
Highlights and nugget gleamed:
* Set a life mission statement (tick, now done)
* Li wrapping up his speech talking about a scenario where we’re marking our own life score card on our death bed. How bitter a pill it will be if on our death bed we look at our lifes report card and realise it says: “Could have done better”.
* Li: How much are you prepared to sacrifice?
* Li: When obstacles appear (and they will), you have to believe in yourself even more. How much courage do you have?
* Pat: If you fail once, keep going. If you fail twice, keep going. If you fail three times, keep going. If you fail four times, keep going. If you fail five times, keep going YOU’RE ALMOST THERE!!!!
* The auction of “a day with Steve” (and quick thinking Steve converting it from a single $21K plus bid to two £20K bids). $40K for charity – how awesome. Did you see the director of the charity’s face! Priceless!
* WWW doesn’t stand for world wide web – it stands for Wizdom Without Waiting (get a mentor people and surround yourself with property like-minded people). I joined the RESULTS programme. Glad people are saying good things about it.
* Steve praying for everyone. That was great because he’s not ashamed to hide his beliefs.
* Lawyer dude was good and knew his stuff. He wasn’t selling DVDs or a system – just getting it out there that he’s smart in this area by sharing his knowledge with his audience. I will be calling him next time I need quality documents (so his silent selling worked – so what!). Steve you can definitely invite him back.
* Steves Q&A and final wrap-up. Motivational.
* Networking was great. I started a friendship with a bloke I met who is much like me (45, married, kids etc) starting out in PI etc. We’ve decided to keep in contact and try to motivate each other.
* Splash marketing: Good presenter. She made digs at both men and women (not sure why someone didn’t like her). Keywords “imagine” and humour.
* Pat M: Wow. What a personal story. What an live wire! He deserves a place in the conference. Guy was awesome (and very funny). He made each of his “points” very powerfully (name written on that kids stomach: “where you focus your thoughts is where your future is”). I couldn’t afford his stuff because I joined RESULTS but I may buy some of his stuff next year.
* Mr Daniels: Man he had so much good stuff to say. Encore!
Neutral-lights
* I actually bought the memory system from Dan White (great demo of memory). He ran out of time and had Peter Daniels (I think) coming on after so I filled in the form while thinking about whether I was going to actually hand it in. I intended to pause and give myself 45 seconds to answer this question: “Are you actually going to make time to use it”. Then they really ran out of time and demanded the forms off everyone really quickly(Steve: lesson is, a soft sell becomes a really hard sell when under time pressure). I was OK ish with this but the next day I went to talk to Ron (and he remembered my name!). He was very decent about it and gave me a full refund. Good bloke!
Low-lights:
Aussie Rob was a really good at presentation. I don’t know what his wife did on stage (got nothing against her). He said she was trading and then asked us to decide if she’d done well but I couldn’t see that she’d actually done anything (except look at some graphs – did she trade?). I only went to his presentation in the main hall. I spoke to someone who went to the 2nd presentation in the smaller rooms. I’m told that he explained a 2nd system that was more complex and allowed daily(?) trading. What happened if you’d already bought the monthly one!
I can’t see how you can possibly trade by only looking at your trades once a month (sounds insane – they could be down at zero by then!). The thing I have against the system I saw presented was that he made it look so simple that even a 6 year old can trade. Maybe it is that simple but this is also a simple trading system “roll a dice each day and only sell if you get a 6” (what’s the risk verses how good the system is). Steve: I’d suggest you investigate this (the bit I just wrote in brackets) before getting him back.
Overall
Way more Pros than Cons. Well done to Steve, his partner and the rest of the team for bringing it all together. I’ve already booked for next year. I’m feeling motivated and have already taken yesterday off work to visit my targeted suburb for the first time and will go back at weekend for inspections.
On your marks, get set. GO!!!!!
