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A Hug on the M25

January 30th, 2010 | Author: John Passmore

And then she hugged me. It was all rather weird.

There I was on the M25 going nowhere and, I suppose, rather inattentive while I fiddled with CDs. Anyway I must have taken my foot off the brake because the next thing I knew, there was a gentle bump and I had rolled into the car in front.

Now this was so gentle it could not possibly have caused any damage but I did the decent thing and got out (snarling up all the traffic for ten miles behind me). In the driver’s seat of the car in front a woman sat motionless. Was this suppressed road rage? Was she counting to ten to prevent herself from leaping out and attacking me with the jack-handle?

In the end she got out very calmly, walked over to me and put her arm round my waist.

This has never happened to me before – well not as a result of a bump on the M25.

Wondering what the queue of drivers behind us might think, I suggested she move her car forward a bit so we could look at the damage. It turned out to be a mildly cracked number plate on her car and nothing on mine. I offered to buy her a new numberplate if she wanted one. Obvioiusly I would need to give her my name and phone number and I just so happen to keep a little container of business cards stuck to the side of the Mini.

Clearly so pleased with this, she now put both arms round me and gave me a big hug, standing there beside the growing traffic jam. If you have attended Big Al’s Colours Seminar you will have realised by now that my new friend is a a “yellow”.

“Look I’ve got just the thing for you,” I told her, pulling out a DVD from the door pocket. “Have a look at this. We’re a really happy, smiley bunch. You’d fit right in…”

“Oo, that sounds fun,” she said.

And with that we got back into our cars.

I wonder if she’ll ring me – and whether it will be about a new number plate or the business opportunity… or whether she’ll want another hug.

One way and another, I shall never think of the M25 in quite the same way again.

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What’s it all about?

Here you have a diary written from the coal face. This is network marketing and making money from home in real life... in real time.

I write it because I used to write for a living and find it quick and easy - there is no suggestion that anyone else should do the same.

The daily activity described here deals with what we call in my company The Business Development Plan. This is a sheet of paper detailing the activity we set ourselves to complete each day - with a space to tick it off in the evening.

This activity could involve speaking to six new people, posting 20 leaflets through letterboxes, handing out 50 business cards. You can do anything you like. After all, network marketing is your own home-based business and you can spend as much time or as little as you please on it - just as long as you do something every day and you remember that the more you do the more money you make.

For the fact is that whatever you do, you end up talking to people - which is where we came in.

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About Me

John Passmore
Woodbridge, Suffolk,
United Kingdom

For 25 years I was a newspaper reporter - ending up as Chief Correspondent for the London Evening Standard. Then I gave it all up and, with my wife, set out to live the simple life on a small boat while writing a column for the Daily Telegraph. Five years and two children later we moved ashore - and five years and another two children after that I ran out of money. Nobody wanted to give me a job and I couldn't afford to start a conventional business. Then at a craft fair in our local community hall, somebody showed me network marketing. It was described as a home-based business that would provide a second income for anyone who wanted to work from home. I was sceptical. There were claims of high earnings and something called a "residual income". But what if it did work? And beside what alternative did I have? So I threw myself into it wholeheartedly (which is the only way to succeed at anything). I'm not saying it's easy or that there were never moments of doubt but if you're prepared to learn and determined never to give up, then there is a statistical certainty that you will make money. I started in April 2005. I was broke and embarrassed. Today I have no money worries whatsoever.

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