I’m very happy this is a ten year journey. It gives me plenty of time to stray on my path and still reach my ultimate goal. After my last post back in January, I had a couple of obstacles get in my way. One was I got locked out of my website and couldn’t prove I was the owner. Finally as the end of this year approached I finally got a real phone number to call with a person on…
I met Laura at work, shelving books, organizing the cafe menu bar scanner options, and discussing her ongoing OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). As my fifteenth participant, she gave me very specific instructions about her $22 contribution. $1 was for her, $3 to sponsor three other people, and the remaining $18 were to be turned into nine $2 bills to be handed out as I went about the journey. She mentioned that she had a story she would tell me about…
This project deals a lot with trust, the tiniest expression of trust in the $1 being given and in the person listening to my journey. I’ve started thinking a lot about how to build elements of this trust as I go up to people in real life. I avoid going up to people in parking lots. I use shopping carts at Target and Walmart to create space and a safety zone between me and the person I’m speaking with. I…
I’m now officially one week into the $1 Dollar Millionaire quest and so far everyone’s been very supportive and happy for me. But it’s still the early days yet. I do believe that there are one million people out there in the world that would join with me on my journey to become the first $1 Dollar Millionaire. I’m just not certain how many people I would need to speak with or meet through the internet to get there. I…