We Interrupt This Posting for a Special Announcement:

Grandma’s Story received the ‘Blog of the Day Award’ on Sunday!
You see the button on the left hand side click on it and it will take you to the Blog of the Day website. It will explain to you how to nominate your favorite blog for the award.

This award was a complete surprise even though I knew my friend Connie Baum had nominated this website for the award. I never gave a thought that it would happen so it was a very pleasant surprise to see it when I got home from a rather eventful weekend.

Now it is time to pick up where we left off with the last post.

After our Hastings Chamber of Commerce 'After Hours' event. We continued on to a restaurant for supper-dinner, for most of you. Mr. Jim Connors joined Sherry and Tracy and my husband, Jerry and me.. While we were getting acquainted, Sherry asked me to share with Jim what my program was all about. I gave him my mind map and a couple of flyers that I had with me that explained it better then I could tell it.

He looked them over and then looked up from the table and looked me square in the eye and said, “Renita, do you know what you have here?” That scared me. I said, “I am not sure what you mean by that.” He proceeded to say “This is huge, this is what is needed, this is going to be big.” I was in awe. I was really scared. I thought, “What have I done? What has this “just a farmer’s wife” gotten herself into?” He then turned to me and asked me, “What can I do for you?”

Jim Connors is a man of high caliber, he is a businessman; he has done many things. I gulped several times and in a weak voice said “I feel like I am going to need a mentor.” Jim said “you’ve got it.” I was stunned beyond believe. Sherry gave me a hug.

Sherry told me that Jim calls her “the most effective train wreck he has ever met” and she said “now you will join me with that.” We all had a good laugh over that.

We had a great meal and learned a ton of information from both Sherry and Jim.

After supper I rode with Sherry and Tracy back to the hotel to pick up my vehicle and Sherry turned to me and said “Renita do you know what you just did?” “NO!” I said.
She said you just received free mentorship from a man who charges $______ for his services to anyone else.” I was really shaking by that time. I knew then that I could not waste his time on frivolous stuff. I would need to glean much good information from him.

Needless to say, I was overwhelmed with what had happened from the whole day.
Here is the recap:
1. Meeting and having the Leading Grant Expert taking me around the Capitol City and introducing me to my Senator and teaching me how to gain information.
2. Meeting with the Mayor of Hastings, NE and the Hastings President of the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Meeting and being mentored by Jim Connors who is Managing Partner of the Governance and Goals Gurus Consulting Team and very influential in his area of expertise.
4. Learning that I have a tiger by the tail as far as ‘That’s It, I’m Going to Grandma’s!” is concerned.
5. Realizing that when you hobnob with the gurus you will learn from them and, hopefully--someday soon become one.

We still have one more day to learn about. So come back and expect to hear about another day with Leading Grant Expert Sherry Watson

Renita Farrall


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