Scott Smigler's BlogFounder of Exclusive Concepts and Conversions On Demand

If you had:

- Unlimited time
- Unlimited money
- Unlimited abilities

How would you change the world?

A year or so ago I received a random call from a high school teacher asking me to come speak at her school. I said I would be happy to, and I asked her how she heard about me. It turns out she teaches a class on entrepreneurship, and some how my story had made it in the textbook without my knowledge.

The funny thing is that it just happened again. I was browsing Amazon, and I decided to do a search on my last name. I came across a book called Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out by Michael Masterson.

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I logged in, took advantage of Amazon’s “search inside” feature, and sure enough I found a passage that tells my story of entrepreneurship. The story was 3 years old, but it was pretty accurate.

What’s strange is that people are using my story without calling me for it directly. It’s kind of fun… but i’m always happy to get a phone call about something fun like this:)

Once, someone asked me what my favorite day of the year is. I thought hard about my answer. New Years is great, because with the passing of a single day you start a brand new year with a blank slate. Growing up on the Jersey shore, the 4th of July has always been up there as well.

For me, however, my favorite day of the year is Election Day. And yes, I know that sounds very geeky, although I’ve always thought of myself as kind of a civics geek.

I like Election Day so much because it is really a day of substance. It’s a day when the people of America have an opportunity to take control of their democracy and cast a verdict that will influence the direction we move in for the next few years. So many people have dedicated their lives to causes that allow us to vote, and many more have died in battle to preserve the rights that allow us to shape a more perfect democracy. To me, voting is not about patriotism though… rather, it is about fulfilling a responsibility to a country that offers its citizens limitless opportunity, and to the people who made that so.

I know where i’ll be the night of November 7 – i’ll be watching the results stream in, eager to learn the direction the people of America have chosen for us. Don’t forget to vote.

I was at a party this weekend and towards the end I started thinking about something that has always bothered me… It takes way too long to say goodbye!

When I am ready to leave a party, or a social gathering, or even a business meeting – the only thing that I can think about is leaving. Either I’m tired, or I’m bored, or I have somewhere to go to, and I can’t think about anything but leaving.

My desire to leave is generally not a commentary on the party itself. I had a good time this weekend with people that I like a lot – but the fact stands that when I’m ready to go, I’m ready to go.

Well, this time, when I was ready to go, I turned to one of my friends and I predicted that it would take our group 28 minutes to leave after initiating the “goodbye” process. Fortunately, my estimation was a little bit off. The goodbye process only took 24 minutes.

I think the longest goodbye process I’ve experienced was at my high school reunion. It easily took 2 hours to say goodbye. I’d make it to the door and then one of the people I was with would get pulled into conversation. Then she would make it to the door and I would get pulled into a conversation. After an hour, when I thought I was free and clear, the husband of one of my teachers pulled me aside… he said, in a skeptical tone, I hear you have your own Internet business. Of course, I answered, “yes.” He then asked me to explain the world of Internet marketing to him, after which a one-hour Q&A session followed. Normally I love to be asked about what I do… but not once the goodbye process starts.

The next time you’re at a party time how long your goodbye process lasts.