{"id":29,"date":"2009-11-27T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gentlewaybook.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-09-05T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T14:40:53","slug":"benevolent-outcomes-blog-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegentlewaybook.com\/blog\/benevolent-outcomes-blog-4\/","title":{"rendered":"BENEVOLENT OUTCOMES BLOG #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

IN THIS BLOG:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TRIP TO THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/strong>

The Gentle Way Books<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to this edition of my Benevolent Outcomes Blog.\u00a0 This Blog is to help introduce people to the concept of requesting Benevolent Outcomes<\/span> in your life on a daily basis.\u00a0 By doing so, you’ll be reconnecting with your Guardian Angel, who will assist you with the most mundane requests, like a parking space at a busy mall during the Christmas Holiday season<\/span> (which might not seem so mundane if you have driven up and down rows of parked cars trying to find a place to park).\u00a0 Or it can be a much more serious request such as, “I request a Most Benevolent Outcome for my reunion with my family, thank you!” <\/span> This is really good to request if there is much conflict in your family.\u00a0 I use the abbreviation “MBO”<\/span> for Most Benevolent Outcomes<\/span>.\u00a0 You can go to my website www.TheGentleWayBook.com<\/a>, where you can read two sample chapters of my first book, articles I’ve written for magazines, and much more!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In my last Blog I mentioned that on my 45 minute walk down the Croisette (in Cannes, France<\/span>) to the New Port, I would say \u201cBonjour\u201d to a homeless man living next to the sea wall I walked on and he responded. One night I over-ordered at a restaurant and so I had them put it in tin foil (they don\u2019t have to-go boxes, at least not at that restaurant).\u00a0 This morning I took the sack with me and requested a MBO<\/span> for not only my walk, but that he would accept the food, as I could not tell how cognizant he was.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was feeding the pigeons and sea birds as he seems to do each morning.\u00a0 Are they a bunch of beggars!\u00a0 They never left the sea wall or surrounding rocks, but kept eyeing him for the next handout.\u00a0 Luckily I had scooped up all the bread in the basked at the restaurant so he\u2019ll have more to feed them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I gave him the food, and I was to find out in speaking with him that he was from Berlin and spoke pretty good English.\u00a0 He had met Laura Bush<\/span> one time he said before George<\/span> became President<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 He liked her\u2014said she had a good heart, but the Russian president (or? I wasn\u2019t sure) had a hard heart from what I could tell.\u00a0 He also gave me advice about staying warm in Germany<\/span>.\u00a0 Mentioned how St. Moritz<\/span> was great to ski, and how he had been in Northern Italy<\/span>, but I couldn\u2019t tell how long he was there.\u00a0 Said he gets his food from cleaning up after the markets held in Cannes<\/span>.\u00a0 Not sure if he is on a clean up crew or just scavenges, but I did see tins of cookies that I had seen in the Palais building (where the TV market and Cannes Film Festival<\/span> are held).\u00a0 All in all a conversation that I never imagined having.\u00a0 It was a nice Benevolent Outcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>When I booked my hotel to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair<\/span>, I found the only two star hotel available in the main part of Frankfurt was called the Angel Hotel<\/span>.\u00a0 I did chuckle when I booked the hotel and requested a MBO<\/span>.\u00a0 It was in a great location only one block from the main train station and a two minute walk to the escalator down under the street and another one minute to the subway or train to the Frankfurt Book Fair<\/span>.\u00a0 There are two other hotels on the street and they share the street with a whole line of sex shows, peep shows, etc.\u00a0 These are rip-off joints according to the hotel owner Mehra that are out to rob the \u201crubes\u201d who walk in for 1,000 or more Euros (heard as high as 5,000 E).\u00a0 Will those men and women have some \u201cbalancing\u201d (as my Guardian Angel Theo<\/span> calls it) to do in a future existence!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I had requested a MBO<\/span> for the room to be ready upon arrival and it was within 10 minutes even though it was still morning.\u00a0 Another lady that arrived shortly after me was still waiting for her room to be cleaned when I walked out the door headed to the Frankfurt Book Fair<\/span>.\u00a0 I had printed a number of press releases about the books in Cannes.\u00a0 I planned to drop them off at the press office, but wasn\u2019t sure they would let me in as my ticket was not good until the next day.\u00a0 Naturally I requested a MBO<\/span> to be allowed entry, and at first the lady refused me entrance and then let me go in.\u00a0 At the press office the young lady said the charge would be 156 Euros (about $230!) to drop them off.\u00a0 I pleaded with them to let a poor author put them out and she said come back the next morning at 9:00 am and she would ask her supervisor.\u00a0 I was having a hard time finding some place to eat, as the restaurants I passed in the Fair were not yet open.\u00a0 I requested a MBO<\/span> to find some place open for lunch.\u00a0 I came upon the Switzerland Caf\u00e9 and there were a number of people eating inside.\u00a0 I got in line and got my food, and then looked around for a place to pay and saw none.\u00a0\u00a0 I sat down and started to eat, still searching.\u00a0 Finally I asked an Italian lady at the next table where to pay, and she said that was a free lunch for participants in an all day seminar.\u00a0 I wondered why there were so many men dressed in business attire and not casual clothes for setting up the booths (or stands as they are called in Europe)!\u00a0 A really nice MBO!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I had walked to the book fair, but there was some construction to pass through and cobblestone walks, so since I was dragging a roller bag filled with books, plus my briefcase, I took the “S Bahn” train to the fair grounds.\u00a0 At 5 minutes to 9:00 am they started letting the large crowd of people inside.\u00a0 They later reported that the first day attendance was 39,000 + people!\u00a0 This is the largest market I\u2019ve ever attended, with 15 halls each holding enough stands for a normal convention, with over 7,300 companies exhibiting!\u00a0 This is 10 times as many as exhibit at the world TV market in Cannes<\/span>.\u00a0 At the press office they said not only could I not pay the 156 Euros, but I could not even put press releases out as I\u2019m an author and not an exhibitor.\u00a0 Keep in mind I requested a MBO<\/span>, so I accepted what happened wondering where my MBO<\/span> was.\u00a0 I almost trashed them, but took them with me.\u00a0 The MBO<\/span> was that my publisher had not put in a sell sheet with the books, so I was able to use the press release as a sales sheet!\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t have had anything to give to the people that just wanted a card and some literature to refer to about the book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naturally I requested MBO\u2019s<\/span> each morning that the results of my meetings would be even better than I could hope for or expect.\u00a0 I also requested MBO\u2019s<\/span> each morning as each afternoon to be led to call on the right companies, as there was no way I was going to make it through all the halls I had listed to visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have already come to a verbal agreement with a publisher in Greece<\/span> that also publishes the Kryon books\u2014nice synergy.\u00a0 Plus I have many more that I hope will close in the coming weeks.\u00a0 I met with my German publisher<\/span> on Friday, and they said they thought the book will be released in May or June.\u00a0 And I had chance meetings or was compelled to stop at certain places that should prove fruitful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As one example, on Friday I was in Hall 8.0 where all the Americans and British have stands, and I stopped to have an orange juice to rest my weary legs.\u00a0 I sat down at one of those high tables with bar chairs and a young lady sat down there too as it was quite crowded.\u00a0 We started discussing my book and it seems she works for the largest publisher in Croatia<\/span>.\u00a0 She took a book with her and I\u2019ll follow up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I was concerned about getting my three roller bags to the train track and requested a MBO<\/span> for someone to assist me.\u00a0 Before I could ask, Mehra volunteered a young man by the name of Handi to assist me with the bags.\u00a0\u00a0 He took two of the bags all the way to the spot on track 7 where my car was supposed to stop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I arrived at the Munich<\/span> train station, as I mentioned above, I had only 14 minutes to get from track 1 to track 22, which sounded like a long way.\u00a0 It took me a couple of minutes to attach two of the bags together and I requested a MBO <\/span>for assistance in finding the track AND assistance with my bags, as the signs said nothing about a track 22.\u00a0 I asked a lady passing by and she pointed me towards the \u201cS Bahn\u201d<\/span> sign, which I was quite familiar with from Frankfurt.\u00a0 As I started down the escalator with my 3 bags, I noticed a couple with medium size roller bags headed in the same direction and asked if they were going to the airport and they said yes.\u00a0 I followed them, and the German couple was quite nice and told me which train to take, as there were two that stopped before the airport train.\u00a0 He even helped me on board with my bags (a nice MBO<\/span>).\u00a0 They were headed to Kenya for two weeks for some sort of government work that they had a hard time explaining in English.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the 40-minute ride I tried to phone the hotel to see about the shuttle van, but the phone would ring and no one picked up.\u00a0 I requested a MBO<\/span> for finding the shuttle.\u00a0 At the airport station the German couple again assisted me in getting the bags out (nice MBO<\/span>).\u00a0 I proceeded to the Information counter, where they called the hotel, and told me to sit down, as it could be 10 minutes before pickup.\u00a0 Less than 2 minutes later a German lady from the hotel called to me and off I went to the shuttle van, which was filled with people whom she had picked up from the train.\u00a0 I was the last on board and sat up front.\u00a0 This gave me the opportunity to go in and check in to the hotel instead of standing in line (another MBO<\/span>).\u00a0 They gave me my own portable alarm set to 4:30 am, and I requested a MBO<\/span> to awaken just prior, which I did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I requested a MBO<\/span> to sit next to someone interesting to talk to on the flight from Amsterdam back to Dallas-Ft. Worth, and my MBO<\/span> was that the Dutch man who sat next to me never spoke to me for 10 hours\u2014only in Dutch to a friend across the aisle.\u00a0 This saved my throat, as I had picked up a chest cold.\u00a0 I requested a MBO<\/span> for customs and went through the passport check OK, but the customs guys wanted to check my bags because I listed books on the form.\u00a0 The MBO<\/span> was that I got to hear an angel story from one of the customs officers and gave out two business cards for them to go online and read about the book at www.TheGentleWayBook.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is really simple to do, folks, so give it a try.\u00a0 Start by requesting a Most Benevolent Outcome for your drive to work, or for a seat on a busy train or subway.\u00a0 Easy steps that will give you immediate feedback that your requests are being answered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a Most Benevolent Week!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom
\nTom T. Moore<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

copyright 2009
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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