Mastering the Art of Success
turned you on your ear? All of a sudden you were saying, “I can do this
and t ake a new vector.” Has that ever happened to you?
WRIGHT^
The man’s name is Paul Meyer.
HANSEN^
Paul and I are good friends. As y ou know he did Chicken Soup for
the Grandparent’s Soul with us. Paul and I have been at tens of
meetings around the country together and do a lot of business. I think
Paul is just a genius. So did his s tuff do it for you or did he?
WRIGHT^
Actually, he did a lot of things for me personally. He t ook me under
wing when I was a kid. He took me from a million-and-a-half company
to about 40 million in five years. It was basically his advice.
HANSEN^
Can I hear what that advice was?
WRIGHT^
He put me on a goal-setting system. Every time he would write a
leadership program—he had a company called SMI in Waco, Texas—I
would go down twice a year for the executive seminars. In addition to
that, I was on a list that every time something new came out they
di dn’t have to ask, they just mailed it and I paid for it.
HANSEN^
That’s the way I think every person who wants to grow should be
with my stuff, your stuff, and Paul’s stuff. What I ’m saying is that if we
had 7,000 superstar speakers at my level or above, y ou could literally
get to 7 billion people. We could g et the people out of the ghettos, we
could get to the people who aren’t fed and don’t have a glass of water or
a bite of food—which is just ridiculous because we have a planet that
can do plenty. We just have vested political interests and other ki nds of