What a Weekend!

I'm BAAAAaaack! Wow... what a weekend! Incredible!

Let me describe it:

July 22:

2:30 am - Alarm goes off (Had only finally gotten to bed at midnight)

2:50 am - Hear a knock on my front door - it's one of my team members here to pick us up. She was supposed to arrive at 3:15 am... turns out she couldn't sleep so came over early, was planning to sit in her car and wait while drinking her coffee... until the cops knocked on her window! Sounds like one of my neighbours was up, saw the car on the street with a shadowy figure in it and called 911! Glad to know my neighbours are so vigilant! LOL!

4:00 am - Got to the rendezvue point... no bus! Final departure time is 4:30... so I was told! A number of very sleepy people are wandering around the parking lot...lol!

4:45 am - Bus FINALLY arrives.. we load up and roll out at 5:00 am. Most of the passengers are asleep in minutes, but I can't so I watch the sky slowly get lighter as we roll towards the border.

OK... this is going to take 3 days to write up! LOL Anyways, it was an early start, and we didn't get to bed again until 3:00 am Saturday morning! I got up around 8:30 and scrambled to get ready as I was "working" Saturday for the General Session from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. Got to announce the hosts as well as the non-keynote speakers. The hosts announced the keynote speakers. I was told I did a very good job and the "professional voice" I was working with said that the chair beside him was always open for me! He also told me his wife told him that she found my voice very clear, and full of optimism - which is very high praise indeed! I ended up announcing the Sunday afternoon leadership seminar all by myself (no real challenge as there was only two times I had to turn on my mic). Between announcements, I wrote pages of notes as every speaker was full of information that was very applicable to my current situation. We had seminars on marital relationships - very key because many couples build this business together, financial awareness - one of my weakest areas, and the psychology of fitness, which is a product line we distribute. One of the speakers was former Congressman Bob McEwen, who I heard could be entering the next Presidential race! I got to chat briefly with him afterwards which was really cool! I found a number of the missing pieces to my puzzle, and now am processing the information to see where and how they fit. We left Reston, VA (a suburb of Washington, DC, I found out) at 4:30 pm on Sunday and arrived home at 4:30 am Monday morning! Total hours of sleep? 8 hours in 3 days! Needless to say, I slept most of Monday morning, and again today!

Watch out world! The Phoenix is on FIRE!!!