10/29/2024
Nearing the end of my first time as an exhibitor at the oldest Furniture Market in the US in High Point NC…As a young designer at Gensler & Assocaites in Washington DC I came here with my team of senior designers and clients to find new products to specify on our projects. That was back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. And way back in the day I had written a list of goals because when I would get in trouble in high school my parents would make me attend seminars at our church with them while being grounded for some stupid thing i did and some i didn’t do. But one of those seminars was led by a man, William Lantz who wrote a book entitled The 51% Principle about brain dumping all goals on index cards, prioritizing goals, then setting and attaining goals…well building a product line was actually on a brain dump of goals in an index card i wrote when newly married and in my young career as an interior designer.
I am not too surprised I have had numerous businesses and a variety of levels of success and all from those index cards is where it came from…but I am shocked to re read that 80+list of goals and see the crazy amount of goals that have been attained all while that list and cards being lost in a box of memories i discovered while moving from NJ to Tulsa. I’m sure i was grounded for something i did wrong and had to attend that seminar with my parents at our church and write down goals on index cards and the funny thing…i just attended a Book Camp and Speaker Camp in Dallas and did the same exercise with them on how to write a book - starting with 100 index cards…life is funny and God works in ways we never know until you know! 😎♥️
