-Your Daily Cookie-
© 08/1/08
By Dahni
Wedge – Certified Organic
Good day, here is your cookie for today, is this ‘The Last Cookie?’
It has been many days since I last posted and this is not the one I had intended, but it may well be the last one or at least for some time.
It is not that I am out of ingredients (content), or recipes (ideas), but my time may be better spent doing something else.
The truth is that for whatever reason, this blog has not attracted the numbers of people desired and few comments are ever left. Perhaps much of this may be attributed to my inability to connect and to communicate.
Perhaps your cookies are just to big to swallow? If that is true, then I sincerely beg your pardon. But if I were in the desert and thirsty enough, I would crawl to get what I needed. If I were starving, I would eat dirt and there are those that really do. If I truly desired financial and time freedom, I would do almost anything legal and moral to get it, even if it meant crawling and eating dirt.
I would at least, listen with an open mind to see if it was true or if it was right for me, before I would make a judgement.
There is also the feeling that people do not care, do not believe and do not trust much anymore. This is alarming and very sad and it is the reason for this entry today.
Flavor of the Day
My wife and I operate a home based business that has many assets and many facets to it. We are blessed with many professional and personal associations from many different fields of endeavor.
Deep down, I would like to believe that all of us would like to have financial and time freedom. To me, “Your Daily Cookie” is like having a miilion dollars in your pocket, but you never reach in to find it. Why would this be? Is this because of fear, mistrust, doubt or just explained by having a closed mind?
I was recently out and meeting people. I was involved in a conversation with a young lady and she was looking to earn some extra money. I am lousy at determining age, but I think she is in her twenties, but most certainly of legal adult age. She was at work and I was busy, so we decided to meet a few days later when it was more convenient for us both.
The location was to be a public place that she chose and my wife Susan was going with me. The lady and I mutually agreed to call each other if the date needed to be changed.
Without going into detail, there were several things I may have been able to offer this young lady, depending on her interest and qualifications. Normally I call to confirm an appointment, but I had temporarily lost her number. She did not call me, so I took this to mean that she would be there. I went and waited and she never showed up. No big deal, many people are untrustworthy. If they cannot be trusted with time or cannot show up for an appointment that THEY HAVE ASKED FOR or they cannot make a common courtesy call if something prevents them from keeping the appointment, they cannot be trusted with much else.
She did me a favor. Now I know her character and would have wasted more of my time.
I met this lady in a store where I normally shop. As it happened, I needed something from this store, a few days later. As I made my purchase, she was the one waiting on me. She had her glasses off and I did not even recognise her and had nearly forgotten her. She looked at me and said, “You’re Dahni, right?” I answered her and then she said, “I’m so sorry I missed our appointment. Did you try to call me?” “No I did not,” was my reply.
The lady went on to inform me, “Well, uhh, er, my parents and my boyfriend all told me not to meet with you or even answer my phone if you called.” I asked her why this was and she said, “My parents and my boyfriend said this was a scam and had levels.”
I did not argue with her or try to defend myself. There was no need to do that. I just told her she knew how to reach me if she ever got around to thinking for herself.
You know, I can appreciate her parents and boyfriend wanting to protect her, I am a parent myself. Her parents and her boyfriend could have accompanied her.
The explorer Magellan had parents too and maybe a girlfriend or a wife. They all probably told him NOT to run off and sail beyond the horizon or he would fall off the edge of the world. 
I’m sure Alexander Gram Bell, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs all had their Nay-Sayers too. These pioneers all had one thing in common. They each had, an open mind. Because of that, we have telephones, televisions, automobiles, airplanes and personal computers and the software we are using to view this very post, over the Internet.
The young lady in question here, admittedly never checked out any of the links or information I gave her, nor did her parents or her boyfriend. This is quite sad to me that minds have become so jaded and influenced by other negative people or past experiences that they can make judgements about something they know nothing about.
WOW, you kind of expect this closed-mindedness from some older people, but it is really distressing and becoming more common with younger people too.
As to my business being a scam or involving levels, I have already dealt with this issue. If you are interested, you to can see 25 reasons why what I do is NOT MLM (multi-level marketing. This to is sad that before you can tell people what something is, you first have to tell them what it is not. See here.
To be fair, just because I say something is not MLM, does not mean it isn’t. And just because something may look like it is one thing (like you will fall off the edge of the earth), does not mean it is as it appears. The point is, how would we ever know if the mind remains closed? We will never know!
There may well be a million dollars in your pocket that you do not know about. You need to reach in to see. Each of ‘Your Daily Cookies’ may truly be “Something you can really take a bite out of.” Financial & Time Freedom may truly be available to to you.
You only need an open mind.
Baker on leave,
Dahni the cookie man
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