Hi Pedro and all
Time to convert my sometimes “lurker” status to making a post. Crikey – it’s only been 19 months since my last post! And after this I’ll only be 145,231 squillion behind GeoffW in the “top Canberra” poster ranks!
My wife and I also went along to this seminar last night to see what we might learn as we had been to a few other good freebies at the venue.
Pedro, nicely summed up – I was hoping someone else may have been along and well done on standing your ground re the 27 bucks.
Alas, I didn’t get anything out of the evening and frankly didn’t warm to him at all when all he did was skite about his and his families achievements (after saying repeatedly “and I’m not skiting….”). But I couldn’t help think that he was doing a good brainwashing job with his routine and he’d be every chance to nab a few at the end of the night.
Pedro - my wife and I were nos 11 and 12 respectively to exit after 90 mins. As you may remember he was trying to convince ppl that to achieve goals etc you need a plan and not be put off by other ppl’s beliefs, dispel myths and all that – I got annoyed when as an example he used the 4-minute mile barrier and said that once that barrier was broken, 32 ppl did it the following year (you heard it right, go on give it a go, you might surprise yourself! correct answer is <5). Hang on I thought, I can’t let that one go thru to the keeper, so suggested he had his facts mixed up and asked him when this occurred and to name say………3? Reasonable request I thought given that he should be able to back up his claims when telling us that the impossible was possible in breaking down barriers etc. I even gave him John Landy as a starter but he drew a blank with any of the other 31! G said that he was a property man, not athletics and that I had my “beliefs” – he had his. I'd call it more like a factual inaccuracy. And hey, he had the mike so I had to suffer in silence. So it’s fair to say that after that, I took whatever he said with a generous pinch but for what it’s worth – here are some more of those remarkable claims Mr G made. You may even learn something about wealth creation, but I must have missed something:
He owns 7 businesses, has a BP of 120/70, a cholesterol level of 4.3 (oh yes, it’s all relevant folks!), has a 28 yr-old son who is retired and buys written-off cars for $600, then works on them for a couple of months and sells them for 30K, has 2 daughters in 30s who were dux and head prefects at their school but still work, his wife drives an expensive BMW, he has an assistant that he pays a “considerable” salary and she kindly makes out a list for him so he only has to look at a piece of paper each morning to know what he has to do and where he’s going! Surprisingly, she was absent last night so G was meeting, greeting and ticking off names on the registration list in foyer himself! He doesn’t trade shares on the stockmarket because if his shares go up, that means someone else has suffered a loss. Hmmm, very noble!
The other impressive anecdote was when he was on one of his regular fishing trips, having made 34K that month and feeling pretty pleased, he got talking to a colleague who he didn’t think was that smart, but nevertheless had made closer to 200K that same month, but still wasn’t that happy! Oh he was good, and had more proverbs up his sleeve than my last 5 year’s desk calendars.
So I did the quick sums and deducted the combined price of my 2 purchases: Jan’s wonderful book and P Spann’s with the flashy red car on cover, from the $6485 +airfares to spend 5 more days with Gordy and friends. I was just in front - $6425 +airfares in fact, so decided against hanging around and signing up. Pedro – any others take the bait?
My 2 bob’s.
The really tragic bit about all this is that Survivor was a 7.30 kick-off, not 8.30 so I only saw Tribal Council when I got home – D’Oh!
