The Movers Circle

A week or so ago a friend of mine asked me,

“Paul, how do you network & become friends with successful and influential people?”

I thought about one of the most successful people I know and realized I met most of them in The Movers Circle.

I told Van (my friend) that the #1 piece of advice I have for networking with accomplished people is to,

“Be anxiously engaged in a good cause.”

Take for example my friend, Joe Perry, who is near the top of my list of most successful friends.

Joe

• Helped to build 2 companies that did 100 million in sales in their first 3 years.
• Was instrumental in formulating the world’s first milkshake diet back in the 70’s
• Led a company in 2009 to doing 20 million in sales in a 3 year time frame…
• Currently runs a successful company called Natralife that produces one of my favorite products.
• And the list goes on and one…

I think back to how I met Joe.

I was in a company back in 2011 that he was the President of.

I was anxiously engaged in building my team in that company focused on my success.

The company had a cruise promotion that I was grateful to do well in, and that landed my wife Corene and I on a cruise to the Bahamas with people like Joe, his wife and a whole slew of other successful, forward moving people.

On the cruise I had a chance to talk with Joe a few times.

He and his wife even gave up the grand suite on the cruise so my wife and I could enjoy it as a reward for our business efforts.

That was the beginning of a treasured friendship that continues on through today.

How did it come about?

By me, making a decision that I was going learn, grow, overcome my fears, take consistent action and be in The Movers Circle.

I suppose it’s possible to strategically target wealthy people and come up with strategies for meeting them.

I’ve never done that myself.

Instead – I try to focus on…

1. Growing myself and my business
2. Being anxiously engaged in a good cause

It always seems the people I want most in my life are doing those same 2 things and we always tend to find each other in The Movers Circle.  🙂

PS – I’m at an event here in Branson Missouri and a number of amazing people who are here – I met on that same cruise (or in that same company) back in 2011.

I had dinner the other night with Jona Howe and her Husband Kirk (both awesome & successful people), and that relationship started on that cruise in 2011, in the movers circle.

PPS – I also met in one of my new best friends and leaders in our Freedom Crusaders Alliance in that same company in 2011, Mr. Coach J Bradley, who is here crusading for freedom with us in 2018.