Growth and Networking

Hopefully everyone realizes the power of networking [here I'm talking about connecting human to human] with regard to business and career. I love LinkedIn.com and have over 500,000 people in my four degrees. Over the weekend I made contact with a former Toastmaster in Thailand through a guy in Vietnam who I've never met face-to-face. This morning a woman from the Netherlands added herself to my first degree. Wondering about "degrees"? It's related to Six Degrees of Separation, the idea that virtually anyone on Earth is only six degrees from you. Example: You know Jane next door who knows Bill in Arizona who knows me in California who knows Patricia in the Netherlands who knows Stephen in London who knows Angela at Cambridge who knows Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the U.K. And, if this were real, you would actually only be 4 degrees from Tony Blair because you know me.
I recently met a guy while pumping gas who I introduced to Tony Dohrmann at Lasershield.net and he is off and running as a Regional Distributor with that company. I met him on Sunday evening and by Wednesday he had signed the paperwork and had his first salesperson on his team. If we don't meet, it's very unlikely that he meets Tony. You can be this helpful to people in your life and vice-versa - more often than is currently the case. LinkedIn helps you do it fast, but you need an invitation to be connected to someone. I'm very sincere when I tell you that this opportunity to network online with your entire network's information at your fingertips is powerful. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Let's talk through the net or the phone. Remember this [unrelated] book, too, at Permission.com.


There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God should be
ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever

Mahatma Gandhi from ThinkExist.com