  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. -Thucydides Another phenomenal BEA meeting! These BEA meetings, run by local urlLink WISE members, are so great. Tonight I worked more on my administrative scale, which is a simple formula for lining up what you want and what you need to do to get there. The time went by so quickly. Each night, I get one-on-one help from Rob Spick, who is highly trained in management, ethics and justice tech.
And there's nothing like being surrounded by successful businessmen to give me the boost of confidence that YES I can create my own busines and live as comfortably as I want to, do as well as I want to and produce as much as I want to! And I think just by showing up they take me seriously as a businesswoman who is starting up her own company. It's an incredible feeling! And that's not even my most exciting news of the past couple days! Yesterday evening I went and met Peter Paulus (finally), the director of Westcoast Tutoring. We met for 2 1/2 hours and discussed his tutoring practice (he's been doing this for over 20 years), he answered a ton of my questions on diagnostic testing and pin-pointing exactly where the student is having trouble. He also let me sit in on a tutoring session, in which he tutored a ten-year-old boy, and it was great! I saw how he slowly drew the kid out of his shell and got him more involved and interested in the session as the time went on. And that kid was BRIGHT! I couldn't believe how quickly he was catching on to what Peter was showing him. At the end of the meeting I left my resume *patting me on the back* and Peter said "Oh, so you think you might like to work for me?
" I said "I'd love to work for you. " And he said he'd keep that well in mind. He also said that anything he could do to help me would be of interest to him as well. There's just so much goodwill out there IN the business world... I just had to find it. And I did!
And I'm rolling along and learning so much from these kind, successful people. Now I just need to keep stopping by his tutoring centre, which he's more than happy to have me do, and keep doing that and casually bring up working for him, and then I'll definitely get a job! I know I can. :) Plus, I talked to Doug this afternoon at the BEA meeting about writing about his company and he's excited to get started on that right away, so we're going to meet Saturday afternoon at his office to go over what exactly his company does and what their management practices are, which will be a whole other learning experience for me! Wow! 
