Comments on: Meet Larry http://www.toninewman.com/blog/meet-larry/ Touchpoint Innovation that helps you attract, keep and engage more customers more often so that you can grow your business Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:25:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth http://www.toninewman.com/blog/meet-larry/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Elizabeth Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:00 +0000 http://www.toninewman.com/blog/?p=140#comment-24 I have been working since I was 5, babysitting my siblings and working in retail on weekends and after school. After graduating high school, I went straight to university (and still worked on weekends), and was recruited from university into a professional services consulting company. After 7 years, I moved out on my own and have been consulting independently ever since. I obviously inherited my parent's genes, because they worked all their lives but unfortunately never really enjoyed the fruits of their labor before they past away. This past Christmas, at the peak of my career, I made a spontaneous decision to take the rest of the year off and backpack the world. You are right. It's never the right time, you will never have enough money, and if you think about the decision too long, you will never do it. So take that jump into the unknown every once in a while because you will regret never having tried. I have been working since I was 5, babysitting my siblings and working in retail on weekends and after school. After graduating high school, I went straight to university (and still worked on weekends), and was recruited from university into a professional services consulting company. After 7 years, I moved out on my own and have been consulting independently ever since. I obviously inherited my parent’s genes, because they worked all their lives but unfortunately never really enjoyed the fruits of their labor before they past away.

This past Christmas, at the peak of my career, I made a spontaneous decision to take the rest of the year off and backpack the world. You are right. It’s never the right time, you will never have enough money, and if you think about the decision too long, you will never do it. So take that jump into the unknown every once in a while because you will regret never having tried.

]]> By: Lili http://www.toninewman.com/blog/meet-larry/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Lili Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:16:37 +0000 http://www.toninewman.com/blog/?p=140#comment-23 I recently gave a workshop at a big chain grocery store and on their wall they had this poster with a great quote saying something about how everybody dreams, but only a few wake up and work hard to attain those dreams. Loved it!! I truely beleve everyone has that potential to achieve what they may feel they can't. And I know too many that stay put in the mundane. Hopefully people like Larry, you and other great motivators will inspire more people to become the "why not" types. I recently gave a workshop at a big chain grocery store and on their wall they had this poster with a great quote saying something about how everybody dreams, but only a few wake up and work hard to attain those dreams. Loved it!! I truely beleve everyone has that potential to achieve what they may feel they can’t. And I know too many that stay put in the mundane. Hopefully people like Larry, you and other great motivators will inspire more people to become the “why not” types.

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