Do you have people in your life who tell you what you need to know not what you want to know? If so, you are a RICH person. Today, I had a brief conversation with Brian Palmer of National Speakers Bureau. Brian was kind enough to watch my new promotional video I have just completed. He was also kind enough to be honest, to tell me what needed more work, what didn’t work, and what to think about. I get that same kind of feedback from professional speaker friend and branding expert, Bruce Turkel (who, BTW, has one of the coolest websites I have ever seen). I regularly get feedback from Bruce. He’s an incredible friend and supportor in that he tells it like it is (or at least as he sees it). I totally value that kind of friendship and honest feedback.

When speaking with Brian, he told me about a speech he had recently heard given by Tim Sanders, author of Love is the Killer Ap and The Likeability Factor. Tim spoke recently for Meeting Professionals International. Watching Tim’s speech will take you less time than watching American Idol  plus it will be a productive insightful investment in your thinking. Tim is writing another book coming out this year called Save the World at Work. I think he is “Spot on”. Check it out here.

Wishing for you a few good men (or women) in your life.

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund and co-founder of the Jeffrey Roth Cycling Foundation. Click here for more information on professional speaker Tim Richardson.

At my speakers convention, I met a new friend named Dan McCormick. Dan works with Nu skin Enterprise. He is one of thousands of Distributors worldwide who contribute a small portion their income every month towards NOURISH THE CHILDREN campaign. Dan says to go to this site and watch the video’s. Here’s more from Dan’s email:

Five Million children die each year from malnutrition. For $40.00 a month you can feed a child for a whole month; that has a remarkable benefit to our people. I have witnessed people on a stage from China to Russia who earn sizable incomes in our company in tears as they share the joy of this company , because of the feeling they get from being a part of something that has now fed over 86,000,000 meals in the last few years.

It has been received so well that our company just won the 2007 Stevie award for the company exhibiting the Best Social Responsibility.

In his latest book WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE Lee Iacocca spends 3 pages speaking about this great cause and uses it as an example to all other companies. He quotes the Chairman and founder of Nuskin, Blake Roney: “Nourish The Children is only five percent of what we do but it is ninety-five percent who we are.” As The Chairman of this great cause, Lee helps all of us in our goal to end world hunger.

I personally have heard Napoleon Dzombe (our local partner) from Malawi Africa speak of people walking nearly a hundred miles because they heard they could get food there. With all our help we can end world hunger.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLAY SMALL ROLE PLEASE CONTACT Dan to make us all a little richer: danmccormick@cox.net.

(Reading this made me realize how privileged yet over fed we are - particularly after grilling out tonight with all the trimmings and fresh blackberries and ice cream for desert. Dan’s friends would think we were royalty. We are rich indeed).

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies. He is founder of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund. For more information on Tim, go to www.TimRichardson.com

I received an email from my buddy David Dworkski this am. Everyone should have a friend like him. He tells it like it is without sugar coating. He’s also a consummate professional and all around great guy. I could listen to him speak all day long both for his vocabulary and the resonance of his voice (he studied acting with Jack Nicholson in the 1960’s).

He’s been one of the biggest supporters of my project to profile the REAL Richest People in America. He always has time for a conversation and sends thought-provoking resources to challenge my thinking. He sent me a link to an article written by Paul Hawken who is a successful businessman (Smith/Hawken) and an activist for social change. It’s an article I need to read in depth and spend some time thinking about. Regardless of where you are politically, socially, spiritually, etc, take a read with special attention to Hawken’s concluding paragraphs. I really like this quote:

“Inspiration is not garnered from litanies of what is flawed; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, recover, re-imagine, and reconsider.”

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund. For more information on Tim, go to www.TimRichardson.com