Assuming we know what is right from what’s wrong – we must always fight on when not feeling strong – we must always rest up when we’re at the bottom – ’cause friends will appear when you think you don’t got ‘em – cause dreams can come true if you put your head down – and grind out the work ’til there’s nothing to do – except watch the moon go down and the sun come up – ’cause every peak has a valley on both sides – and life has an ebb and a flow like the tides – and I’ve never been one to ever take sides, but if I do – I’ll bury my money and heart in any person who – ever needs the most help at the time, and a seed of hope will begin to take root – and as the world turns I begin to make loot, and buy some more seeds that I can sow – because we cannot reap what we do not grow – and we cannot teach what we cannot show – and we cannot learn what we cannot know – and we cannot move forward until we can just go – so next time we’re weak and begging to stop – turn around and look across the valley below – and realize the view of your harvested crop – is a sight to behold from your place at the top.

“So bye, bye Miss American Pie

Rode the Ducati to the party cause the hotties were fly.

And good ‘ole boys were drinkin Sapling and chai,

Singing this’ll be the day that I die…”

                                                                                       ~Greg Dougall

Today, Greg Dougall was named as one of MMTPP’s first group facilitators!  

MasterMind to Personal Power is a unique organization formed for the purpose of people helping people achieve their goals.

MMTPP is an organization that enables and empowers individuals to turn their dreams into goals, and thus turn their goals into reality! It consists of a synergy of highly committed individuals who meet regularly in the spirit of unity, trust, and definiteness of purpose to share with one another their goals in the quest to help one another achieve their goals. This brain trust is played out through a creative thinking process supported by feedback, encouragement, integrity, accountability, and the pooling of various resources.   

MasterMind to Personal Power is derived from a deep and extensive research of history’s most accomplished individuals. It was formally introduced in the 1900’s by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich who described this process as “The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony.”  The wonderfully, intriguing part of this process is the application of a powerful phenomenon that Napoleon Hill observed, whereby as an, “invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind.”

In essence, Master Mind meetings are based on the premise that more can be accomplished in less time by working together.

The mission of MMTPP is to be an integral part of your goal achieving process. To ultimately help you achieve your goals!

With MMTPP, you will benefit through:

· A sense of direction and purpose

· A measurable progress in your business and personal life

· Creative thinking and problem solving

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· Networking Opportunities

· Inspiration

· Motivation

· Feedback

· Encouragement

· Accountability

· The realization and achievement of your greatest dreams

Fill out the sign up form to learn more! 

Coming soon is a special key chain made by the mother of an Autistic child.   All proceeds from this website will be donated to Hope for Autism.  It is a silver puzzle piece that reminds me that we need to solve this puzzling disorder, and I am adding proceeds from key chain sales to my goal of raising $1 for every Autistic child in America. 

To purchase, visit:

www.gregdougall.com/autism

Sponsored by:

“Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”

                                                                                 ~W.D. Wattles

                           I have partnered with the parent of an autistic child to sell necklaces in support of Autism.  I’ve got mine, and you can buy them from me at a discount.  This is a very important step in my goal of raising $1 for every autistic child in America.  Contact me or visit www.gregdougall.com/autism to order!

Thanks again to everyone helping me raise money for autism research and the making of a documentary film!  Support Hope for Autism and follow along on Twitter…

Special thanks to SWOOP magazine and Sangria on Pier Avenue for a great fashion show.  Hundreds lined up to sample Sapling Vermont Maple Liqueur and kick back on a Thursday evening. 

This means you can finally start asking for Sapling drinks at popular Southern California bars, clubs, and restaurants.  It is the best tasting liqueur in the country….

Future Classic Media is prepared for reading books of the future, andLost Teachings of the Last Renaissance Man will be a leader in its category. 

That’s right.  Now you can flip the through the pages of your favorite quotes with the swipe of a finger. 

Leave a comment or contact me if you’d like to buy or sell these iBooks as an affiliate.  ~Greg

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By G.M. Dougall

                The first man of the industrial age to record and study workers was Frederick Winslow Taylor.  Basically, he studied physical laborers by timing them with a stopwatch and recording data on a clipboard.  He observed the “first class man” of the group and found the most efficient way to move heavy iron in a steel mill.  What resulted from his findings?  Higher wages, happier workers, higher production, and happier managers.  Thus, Scientific Management was born.  He wrote a groundbreaking book aptly named “Shop Management” in 1911.  Taylor believed that the best of both worlds was possible, but in his time as well as our time, there is rarely harmonious agreement between managers and their underlings.    Taylor faced an uphill battle selling his great discovery.  These days we have the same problem, but instead of physical laborers we manage salespeople.  They interact with customers, which is harder to measure with a clipboard and a stopwatch.  But I assure you as a former car salesman the goal is still the same: to move metal.

                Like an amateur astronomer using new methods to find and old planet, I have stumbled across the marriage of modern data analysis with old scientific management.  I think I’ve found our modern day Frederick Winslow Taylor, except the stopwatch and clipboard have morphed into a laptop.  It’s the best of both worlds, and everyone comes out happier, including the customer.  The first question that might pop up is why haven’t we figured this out already?  The answer is rocket science. 

                Running a dealership is very complicated.  There are several business components to contend with just within the sales department.   They include advertising budgets, walk-ins, salesperson consistency, inventory management, car cost, financing, and overhead expenses.  There are thousands of sets of data.  How do you keep track of these variables?  More importantly, how do they relate to one another?  Finally, how can managers make better decisions using modern technology?  The answer is called Probabilistic Business Engineering^TM, a new system that has trickled down from the aerospace industry.   

                I hope your brain is warmed up, because it’s time to lay down some heavy three letter acronyms.  The easy ones are I.T. and Q.M.  Quality Management and Information Technologies are well understood and fairly well utilized.  However, within these are old and newer schools of thought.  The problem is that for every piece of a known system that is not fully utilized, money is left floating around out there in the bliss of ignorance.  First, the old school…  Statistical Process Control, Operations Research, Business Process Re-engineering, and Six Sigma have all been around for decades.  You can Google them later, but they are the kind of tools that model and organize complex problems.  Want an example?  How about calculating the effects of an Electromagnetic Pulse from the detonation of a nuclear weapon on the instruments inside of a bomber flying a mission at 60,000 feet?  Right.  The new school tools will help cool your brain back down.

                Enterprise Resource Planning and Employee Engagement Planning are extremely critical to the car dealership that plans on staying in business.  ERP manages the flow of data, and EEP manages the flow of people.  Not the flow as in traffic, but the flow of communication and agreement.  The buzz of the business.  Have you ever walked into an energetic business that has noticeable charisma?    What about a business that makes you wince and want to slowly back out the door?  Car dealerships have the whole spectrum.  They all do things differently, from how they greet the customer, to how they present the deal, to how they send you off down the road.  But the problem is that variations in the process mean that somebody is doing it wrong.  They’re all doing it wrong, to some extent.  That’s why the average closing ratio is tirelessly treading water somewhere between 12 and 22%. There is a major problem with the consistency and quality of car salesmen.  There is a major problem with defining and logging walk-ins.   There is a major problem with comparing the numbers that never lie from the monthly report to the sales managers that lie for a living.  There is a problem with dog eat dog salesmen stealing business from those lower on the food chain.  Furthermore, a recent study by Better Bytes Business Systems found that dealership management uses less than 50% of the mature and readily available technologies mentioned above.   

                The worst part is that these problems have been solved and there is one system that does it today for a fee that earns back the cost in less than one year.  It has already saved companies $30 million dollars, and it could single- handedly turn around the fate of car dealerships in America if only everyone knew about it.  Better yet, the system and software under development will someday be applied to various other industries, creating a ripple effect in the world economy.  How big?  Ten years from now, the ripple from probabilistic business engineering will be one and a half billion dollars by my estimate.  The inventor is an 81 year old retired aerospace engineer from Southern California.  His company is The Paradigm Group, and his name is Edward Horgan.  I have interviewed him and was pleased to learn that he is indeed a first class man. 

                Dealers need only to submit their data reports for analysis.  To qualify for an application they may call 310-545-3707.

I may not be the best salesman in the world….I just pick the best products to represent.  In my opinion, this is the best tasting hard alcohol in the world.  With that in mind, you should try it.  I don’t always drink cordials, but when I do, I prefer Sapling Vermont Maple Liqueur.  Of course, I am partial to it since my sister’s husband makes it.  I have delivered Sapling on the snowy roads in Vermont.  I have bottled it, sealed it, and spread the word.  The latest news from the Saxtons River Distillery was that Sapling reached the top 6% of sales in December of 2009.  It’s that good. 

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What’s it good with?  Milk, Coffee, Diet Coke, Root Beer, Vanilla Ice Cream, On Ice, Pancakes…. It doesn’t really matter!

For more drink recipes visit www.sipsapling.com

 P.S.  Leave a comment with your own drink recipe idea!     ~Greg

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