Your Wealth Cycle

A true warrior sees what others do not see. The key element of being able to see what is going on and realize the real opportunities is the mark of a successful person. As I sit here and write this e-mail, the stock market is down over 100 points, talk of the foreclosure rate going up and the debate continues on whether we are in a recession or not continues.

What most people don’t realize that every time we have had economic setbacks, more millionaires have been created than in other times. With conflict there stands the opportunity for those with specialized knowledge to step up and take advantage and create huge successes. We are definitely seeing that in the real estate investing world right now. If you have ever wanted to buy a new home or a building for your business, now is the time to get serious about getting it done. There are tremendous opportunities for those that understand the basic principle of buying low and selling high.

In the martial arts we are constantly working on the basics and understand that success is a slow and steady process. Why more people don’t apply this same concept to their financial success is one of those mysteries of the mind.

Loral Langemeier recently flew her private plane to Colorado and we had a chance to spend some time together. She gave us permission to reprint the following information from her new book The Millionaire Maker and I felt it would be appropriate right now for all of us to review.

Building Your Wealth Cycles

How would you like to develop the mental, emotional and physical capacity to create and continuously accelerate your wealth for the rest of your life? To do so requires an effective methodology that gets you into and keeps you in a wealth cycle. This methodology, what I call a Wealth Technology, is a specific and proven system for creating financial literacy and success.

There are three components to the wealth technology, each consisting of clear steps that will build your wealth cycle:

1. Your Conditioning
2. Your Foundation
3. Your Wealth Acceleration

Your Financial Conditioning

Your financial conditioning consists of the beliefs, attitudes, and thoughts you carry about money and wealth. Your wealth psychology was conditioned at a very early age by your environment, family, and social network. Any negative or limiting beliefs you’ve carried about money or wealth directly affect your ability to get and keep wealth. These beliefs form the core of your success or failure, and raising your financial consciousness is imperative if you want to build your wealth cycles.

Raising your financial consciousness and eliminating limiting conditioning about wealth involves identifying and changing the paradigms that rule your financial life. A paradigm is like an automatic program installed early in your life that continues to keep you out of a wealth cycle. Identify your operating paradigms by exploring your past. What attitudes or beliefs did your parents or grandparents hold about money? What messages did you receive about wealth or wealthy people? Note how you feel when you see a mansion or expensive car.

Changing your conditioning is a life-long process. As you uncover and resolve one limiting belief, such as “wealthy people are greedy and self-serving”, another will likely take its place. Resolve to identify your beliefs and raise your financial consciousness by taking actions that are in alignment with the results you want, rather than with your old beliefs.

Look for and change:

• Limiting thinking to No Limit thinking
• Limiting language to Decisive language
• Limiting action to Decisive action
• Limiting results to Expansive results

Your Foundation

Any building requires a solid foundation or it will crumble. Financial wealth also requires a good foundation that consists of four components: your financial baseline; your financial freedom day; managing your lifestyle cycles; and, building a wealth cycle foundation.

Your Financial Baseline

Your financial baseline is an honest assessment of your current financial position, including your current income, expenses, assets and liabilities. For many people locating all the information necessary to carry out this task requires intense organization of their financial filing cabinets. Hence, there are three critical steps to completing your financial baseline:

1. Organize your financial filing cabinet
2. Complete your personal and business Profit and Loss (P&L) statements
3. Complete your personal Balance Sheet

Creating your financial baseline can be an emotionally draining, even harrowing experience. Your financial baseline is a reflection of your past financial awareness and conditioning. Once known, you can change course direction and begin creating the wealth and life you really want.

First, you need to organize what I call your “financial filing cabinet.” Most people have a lot of paperwork and clutter around their filing cabinet. You need to create some sense and logic to the flow of your financial information. Create good records of all your legal and personal documents, financial information, banking records, income tax records, and even housing records.

Second, complete a personal and business profit and loss statement, also known as an income statement. Here you list every source of income and every expense. The bottom line is your net income (or loss) each month.

Third, complete a personal balance sheet, which is a list of everything you own on one side (assets), and a list of everything you owe on the other (liabilities). List the equity in your home on the asset side and your mortgage on the liability. The difference between the two is your net worth.

To Your Success,

Terry Bryan, President
Warriorwiz Success Systems

Http://www.streetwiseriches.com

What a great time to be investing in real estate in Colorado!

I just got off the phone with Lloyd Irvin who is my student in real estate investing and I am his student in internet marketing, both of us members of Dan Kennedy’s International Inner Circle Mastermind Group. Lloyd’s business is doing great, just as ours is, and we are now competing as to who can produce more millionaires in real estate and small business development among our students in the next 12 months. I think I have the upper hand because our research shows that Colorado is at the bottom of the market and starting to climb while in Maryland they are still dropping, but in reality a good investor always makes money no matter what the market is doing.
I am amazed at all the negative pr on the economy and real estate prices and the fear it creates in average people and yet at the same time seeing the huge numbers that the serious investors are making right now. I guess it goes back to the basic 80-20 rule that 80% of the wealth is controlled by 20% of the population, so I shouldn’t be surprised that 80% of the people and the media are preaching doom and gloom for the economy and the entire real estate market while the top people are positioning themselves to really build their portfolio over the next 18 months. Those people that strive to be in the top 5% see nothing but blue skies ahead and profits climbing.
I think subconsciously everyone knows that you create wealth by controlling real estate when prices are low, and then reap the profits when the prices get high again. The top 20% understand this and are getting the specialized knowledge to learn how to put as much real estate under their control over the next 18-24 months using tax free accounts, options, buying property own by the banks and working short sales with the banks before foreclosure. Our senior students are getting properties at 30% to 40% below market and many of them no money down.
With a person being able to control properties at such a great rate and at the same time the rental market is fantastic it is amazing to me that everyone is jumping into real estate investing. If you are serious about building your wealth over the next few years and even how to do that on auto-pilot, then mark your calendar for our next Free Real Estate seminar in Colorado Springs. It will take place at 6:30 PM on the 13th of February at our Wealth Academy training center which is located at 4945 30th Street, Suite 100, 80919. Just take Garden of the Gods west from I-25 until you hit 30th street, then turn right and go just past the storage units and pull into the parking lot on the right and go to the building in the rear – 4945.
We will be talking about the local market, the tremendous opportunities and even the marketing and business systems that our inner circle students are using to build their portfolios right now in this market here in Colorado. Our students are doing great up and down the Front Range right now and several of them will be there so that you can network with them and ask questions.
We are not some national real estate coaching program but a local group of private investors that love to network and exchange ideas on what is really working right now in the local market, the strategies and tactics that are working and the local power team members we use to make it happen. As president of the Colorado Springs Association of Real Estate Investors and director of the Southern Colorado Chapter for the Glazer- Kennedy Inner Circle NO BS business success group, we want to offer a networking and educational center at our local Wealth Academy.
Admission is free to the seminar on the 13th but please let us knows if you are planning on coming because space is limited. You can go to our website and register on-line at www.coloradorealestatesecrets.com or give us a call toll free at 1-800-791-0084. If you want to stop by the Wealth Academy we are located at 4945 30th street or call Amanda locally if you have any questions at 719-955-4280.
I look forward to seeing you on the 13th and sharing with you exactly what is working right now in the local market, the numbers and exactly how we are doing it.

To Your Success,
Terry Bryan, President
Colorado Wealth Academy

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Business Strategies and Stealth Assassins

How a 700 year-old plan of attack can still work for you!

The Ninja of the 14th Century Feudal Japan were known for their unique strategies of stealth, espionage and guerilla warfare. Their methods are traceable to much older Chinese training systems, but the Ninja were legendary because of the contrast between their tactics and the Samurai code of ethics at the time.

Imagine a time where an acceptable means to resolve conflict between rival factions was for the two top Samurai to engage in battle. It was not uncommon for the Ninja to dress up like a woman, sneak into the castle in the middle of the night and assassinate or poison the opponent.

Outrageous? Unorthodox? Unethical?

Maybe… but then again, highly effective.

The key to the Ninja’s success was their comprehensive knowledge of the martial arts combined with the most effective solution to their specific goals at that time, implementing not one, but rather all the tools and resources they had available. Those who understand this dynamic principle have been effective for generations in many areas, including combat, business and investing.

I personally witnessed similar situations many times during my three combat tours in Southeast Asia. Allow me to present one example.

The weapon of choice for the American troops at that time was the M-16 rifle. Although designed for 20 rounds in the magazine, we found that when we used 20 rounds the rifle jammed, which is very frustrating during the heat of battle. The streetwise soldier would instead only load 18 rounds in their gun which tended to decrease the jamming. Those that used 20 rounds would find themselves having to eject rounds and try and get the weapon un-jammed in the middle of a fire fight. The use of 18 rounds instead of 20 is a real life example of using your specific knowledge within a given situation to come up with the best solution, and in this case to stay alive.

On the other side of the battlefield were the Vietcong, who we out gunned and under resourced but had the home court advantage. Using their knowledge and resources, they would search around an area where a firefight had gone on; looking for these extra rounds the America solider had extracted from their rifles. When in possession of these discarded rounds, the VC used them in very creative ways. One method was to take a small bamboo stalk with a nail at the bottom and insert the bullet above the nail then bury this device in the ground so that if you stepped on it then it could go off and injure or kill the soldier stepping on it.

Both of these examples depict a person engaged in combat using their knowledge and resources to the best of their ability to achieve their objectives. Modern Elite American Forces continue to use skills in espionage, stealth and strategic tactics to stay alive and win battles, and they find themselves against opponents that are doing the same.

In business, we see these same tactics being effective on a daily basis. The 800 pound guerrilla company has dollars and market share and is a powerful opposition for a small startup company, but by creating a niche for their marketing the little guy can move quickly and take market share and dominate that special niche.

In days of old, if you had a great idea, within 6 months someone out there was copying you and competing for their market share. Now, with the speed of the internet, this time has been reduced to just a few days. Sometimes you even have copycats within hours or minutes. The successful direct response marketer today has mass media working, but the real substance of the marketing is usually done with direct response targeted marketing that may go unnoticed by the general public. Stealth marketing is indeed alive and well, and some of the most successful entrepreneurs are indeed Ninja marketing experts.

Many people still don’t get it. There are only a few key principles of success and by that very definition; these key principles work all the time, in every situation. Once you learn these key principles, and learn to modify them at any given moment based on the resources available and the specific goals you have set, then you can expect success time and time again.

This is the 5 step process that our Inner Circle uses for success:
1. Know what you want
2. Have a clearly defined and written action plan
3. Continually seek specialized knowledge that is based on proven success principles
4. Take action, quickly and with total commitment
5. Review and renew action plans constantly based on new information gathered from testing

There you have it… the key to black belt excellence… in combat, business and investing. It has worked for thousands of years in combat and currently in marketing in over 150 different niches in business and created multi-millions of dollars for our streetwise investors.

To Your Success,
Terry Bryan

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Why I dislike wimps…

Maybe it is my 40 plus years of training in the martial arts. Maybe it is my military background and surviving 3 combat tours in Southeast Asia, or my surviving terminal cancer. Could be I am just getting old and cranky but I am developing a real disinterest in spending time and dealing with people that have a defeatist attitude and are not willing to do what it takes to get things done.

Warriorwiz Truism: “Success leaves tracks and if you follow other successful people you will have similar results”.

Listen, if success was meant to be easy, then everyone we do it, right? Champions have clearly defined goals, obtain the necessary tools and resources they need to succeed and then attack the problem or objective with precise and predetermined strategy and tactics. Winners do their homework, make a plan and take action. Knowing they will not win all the time, they set themselves up to make sure any failures are not life threatening and indeed the experiences was one of learning and forward movement.

Bruce Lee once said that the difference between a glass of colored water and a fine wine could only be determined by its taste. From a distance they may look identical but it is only the tasting that reveals which one is true. Bruce said this when he talked about the martial arts, stating that only by working with an experienced practitioner can you determine and “feel” real martial arts. There are a lot of show people out there that have learned to talk the talk but many of them do not walk the walk.

For years, I have searched out the very best teachers to learn from, not only in the martial arts but in business, marketing and investing. It’s no different in other fields, although sometimes harder to test and experience who is real and who is not. I have met lots of speakers on the circuit that teach investing and have never bought a property, teach business success and never had their own business. So the moral of the story, is do you research and pick your teachers well. Instead of going for the flashy, younger and faster method, many times it is the senior and elderly where the real value is contained, where the wine is genuine.
I like the saying that “if you are not the lead dog them the view is all the same”, but it’s ok to be a follower, if you are following leaders. The problem I see today is that most people are following the followers, chasing goals and dreams not even thought about. There is a reason the bottom 80% of people do certain things and have certain results, while the top 20% do different things and have different results.

Losers give up too easily. They quit too soon. They do not have passion about what they are trying to achieve, don’t have a series of back up plans and do not understand the price of success.

Winners on the other hand, have clearly defined goals, understand the cost of success and make the commitment towards success. They have character forged under trial by fire and guided by streetwise knowledge, not the kind of superficial knowledge and theories learned in traditional education.

Now I rambled on about choosing your teachers and mentors well, but it is equally important and harder to do to choose “yourself” well. You know… the person you are, the person you are becoming, and how that is either taking you towards or away from your personal, family and business goals.

Are you developing what the Japanese call Tamashii, or “Indomitable Spirit”? No matter what happens that you understand that you are determined to win. I know that hanging around those people make me stronger and yet hanging around people that wine and complain take energy away. That is why I guess I am getting cranky and watch the time I spend with others and what they are doing to me. That is why I choose who I association with carefully and avoid wimps, negative people and people that do not have goals for their future.

No winning…at any time, any place, about anything…

Until next week…
Terry Bryan

Ingaritsu – The Law of Cause and Effect

There is a Japanese word which means cause and effect which is “Ingaritsu”. I think everyone has heard statements like for “every action there is a equal and opposite reaction” and “what goes up must come down” or maybe even “garbage in, garbage out”. The basic knowledge that the universe is based on natural laws and that all actions have consequences is a reality is indeed common knowledge. However, most people have a hard time seeing these natural laws in action in “Their” life.

That is probably why more and more people ate finding success coaches and joining mastermind groups in the areas they are seeking success in more and more often. The military and martial arts have had teachers and seniors sharing their success secrets and over seeing the development of warriors for thousands of years and recognize the importance of that training. The main key to success is to have respected senior’s eyes watching your progress.

All successful athletes has coaches and many times several coaches like a strength and conditioning coach, as well as a skill specific coach for the specific game they are training for. The Olympic level athletes include have a sports psychologist on their team in order to get the very peak performance they can.

Even in the business world, this concept is not new. People have been forming alliances to brainstorm and utilize teamwork for generations. In today’s world of creating niches, more and more people are learning to seek specialized knowledge from coaches and mastermind groups in order to propel themselves to a dominant position within their niche.

Why is it do you suppose that most people don’t do the same? They don’t hire the best consultants and coaches they can to help them achieve what they want to accomplish in life? They see it is a basic foundation for all true winners in all walks of life… and yet they don’t do it themselves. Amazing!

Who is your power team that helps you succeed and handle the daily battles that come your way? Do you have a financial planner? Do you have a health coach, personal trainer and a great doctor that advises you what to do to live longer and happier?

All actions indeed have consequences and it is those daily activities that shape your future. Seeking out the specialized knowledge and right coaches to help you get there is huge in the process of achieving what ever you want in life. Once you have decided your goals and identified the right coaches to help you get there, then the process is much easier. All you need to do is learn to ask the right questions…. But that is another topic all together, isn’t it?

Respectfully,

Terry Bryan

American Are Working Harder And Making Less!

The annual U.S. Census Bureau data released this week shows income gains for the median household and a decline in poverty.
But, those numbers only tell half the story.
Analysts at the Economic Policy Institute say the reality is that wages are lower and that many working Americans are “just working more.” Annual earnings by full-time workers were down for the third year in a row. Another of the bureau’s key findings was that nationally women made 77.3 cents for every $1 earned by men. The key, more hours on the job not higher wages are generating the higher income.
Who has sold them on that plan? Everyone should know that working more hours has limitations… there are only so many hours a day!
On the other hand, working smarter and not harder is a better solution!
Listen, Brian Tracy once told me that everyone is compensated as a problem solver. Whether you clean windows or are a surgeon, when you work you are solving problems. It is just that some problems are perceived as bigger problems and the compensation is larger.
So what does this mean?
If you want to make a lot more money, solve bigger problems!
Think of the creative real estate investor. There are lots of people losing house to foreclosure. There are a lot of banks that are getting a lot of properties back to their REO (real estate owned) division. Sub-Prime lenders are all but disappearing.
These are big problems, and an opportunity for the smart investor to make life changing money.

I hope you get a chance to come by this Thursday night for our free real estate investing seminar where I will share with you many of the strategies we are using to make money, while other only see problems. I will share with you the strategies, the real numbers and even introduce you to some of our inner circle members that are just kicking butt right now so you can ask them directly how they are doing it.
The seminar starts at 6:30 and will be at the Academy Hotel in Colorado Springs. Feel free to get there a few minutes early to network and get to know some of the successful investors in the area.

If you haven’t registered, go to www.coloradorealestatesecrets.com so we no how many people are coming because seating is limited.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night.

To Your Success,
Terry L. Bryan, Streetwise Real Estate Investing

PS. We will have some Free Audio CD’s at the event if you haven’t received yours yet. We had trouble with our fulfillment company, but that has now been resolved.

PPS. We will also be giving away so free prizes at the event, so make sure you check in at the front table for your chances to win.

“Yu” - Japanese For Courage, Bravery

Having The Courage To Manage Your Time

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it’s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
*Lin Yutang {1895-1976 Chinese Author}

The Samurai listed seven virtues of bushido, or the way of the warrior. One of those virtues is “Yu” or courage and bravery. These key virtues are just as important in personal and business success today as on the battlefield in ancient times.

Standing face to face with another warrior, razor sharp sword in their hand and knowing that in minutes, one of you would be dead, required a special type of courage and ruthless mind control.

The modern warrior however, has different worries and fears that they must face, overcome and conquer. Not better or worse, just different.

Anyone that achieves success in any area of their life understands the key fundamentals and makes them a part of their personal and business mission statements. Success that is achieved is usually based on overcoming fear and taking action. If you are contemplating doing something different or moving on a faster track, the first step is having the courage to make the decision to take action, and one of the best ways to overcome fear is to take action very quickly. Not sitting around and waiting for the right time, or putting things off shapes success and allows the average individual to accomplish more in a short time than most people do in a lifetime. Life is short, no time to waste.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

My mentor Dan Kennedy talks about time vampires, the people around you that suck the productivity and your valuable time right out of your life. Time is your most precious resource. It is all you really have. It is your life. As long as you have lots of time, you can do almost anything. But if your time is cut off for any reason, all of your possibilities are cut off as well.

Most people don’t have the courage to ruthlessly guard their time, and therefore allow others to control what they accomplish and achieve. Of course a modern warrior needs to have the courage to face obstacles and over come forces they identify as keeping them away from their goals, and people that waste your time should be high on your list of enemies.

There is a Japanese word called “kime” which means maximum efficiency with minimum energy. For the successful person today, spending maximum time on the most important actions is the key to success.
The path to black belt excellence always factors in what the most important thing to be doing at this very moment, and does not allow distractions or time vampires to keep them form reach their goals.

To Your Success,
Terry Bryan

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The Streetwise Investing Squirrel

I love this time of year in the Rockies. The animals are out and the forest comes alive with chatter and productivity. We call it breakfast at the Bryan’s, where we have coffee and feed the birds in the morning. It is humorous as we watch the Blue Jays and Squirrels argue over the peanuts and sun flower seeds.

I must tell you about one squirrel that has a great plan of action and I have labeled him the Streetwise Investing Squirrel.

This particular squirrel has learned that he can walk right up and take a peanut directly from Diana and then run off to stash that trophy in a safe place for this winter. He then come back and eats for a little while before coming over and getting another peanut to take to his depository and long term savings plan.

There are other squirrels there and they seem to be eating everything they can get their hands on and not putting anything away for the winter. I must admit, I see that with investors in our Streetwise Inner Circle as well.

One of the great things about real estate investing is that if you do it right, you can create 3 different income streams. Cash down when you buy, monthly cash flow while to maintain the property and cash when you sell it down the road.

Our senior investors wholesale and retail properties, as well as get lease-option down payments for cash now, create on-going cash flow from monthly rentals and tenant buyers as well as building long term appreciation and wealth through holding properties, 1031 exchanges and building equity with real estate through their IRA’s.

We have a great up coming event you may be interested in. Next Tuesday, on the 28th we have a special guest speaker from Nashville coming in to talk about investing in real estate in Costa Rica. Ed Clay is a Platinum Inner Circle Streetwise Investing Member and he and his team are doing incredible numbers right now. He has agreed to come out and share exactly what they are doing right now with our Colorado members. The meeting will be at 6:30 at the Academy Hotel.

Also on Thursday we will be hosting a free real estate investing seminar on how to make money in real estate right here in Colorado Springs. The meeting will start at 6:30 and will last around an hour and a half. We will show you exactly some of the numbers we are doing and exactly how we are making money right now in this market.

Respectfully,
Terry Bryan, President
Streetwise Real Estate Investing

The Reason Traditional Education Will Keep You Broke – Part 1

If you are not going to be a part of the 97 percent of our population that are not going to be able to retire without any significant wealth … in fact broke and dependent on the government or relatives, then you are going to need to do something different from everyone else.

The 97 percent of the people that end up broke, do so because they have fallen for a few myths. They have been taught that there are truths about success that just are not true and so it is not their fault, but the results are just as devastating as if it was all their fault. People are still taught today to find a good school or teacher, get a good education, in order to get a good job and save for the day you can retire and enjoy the quality life. Well lets look at the truth.

Myth 1:
Get a good education and get a good job

Our current education system was developed for a specific reason and during a time of growth for corporate America. As corporations grew, they needed employees and the promise of going to work for a good company and then taking care of you after 20 years of service was a win-win proposition for both the company and the employee. As times changed, the business world became more competitive, employees started shopping for different jobs in a search for upward mobility.

At the same time, companies learned that they could outsource to other countries, they could let senior people go and hire younger and capable employees that would increase profits. And that is the bottom line, isn’t it? More profits?

So the myth of getting a good job based on getting a good education, just doesn’t work today.

Going to school for 4 years in order to have a piece of paper that says you understand how to do a specific task so that a company will hire you as an employee doesn’t have the thrill that it once did.

Many people today have learned that being an employee is not where the truth is and have taken the path of becoming an independent contractor or self employed. While indeed this may be a better path than being an employee where all taxes and expenses are taken out first and you live on what is left over, being self employed had disadvantages as well.

The main disadvantage is time. Whether the self employed person is compensated hourly or by commission, there is a time factor involved and face it, there are only so many hours in a day.

Today the top financially successful people understand that the only way that you become wealthy is to own your own business or to become an investor. In our mastermind groups around the country, we are finding that the top 3 per centers usually do both. Putting a business on autopilot using systems and investing the profits in the market or real estate seems to produce the best results.

If that is true, why is that not taught in school?

Well we just haven’t changed from the old school of thought of getting a good education and getting a good safe job. Well folks… there is no such thing as a good safe job and traditional education is not the path to wealth.

The truth of the matter, it is all about specialized knowledge. Its about learning the principle of wealth creation and wealth management which is not taught in school.

The Key To Success - You Got To Be Different

Just Watch Everyone Else And Do The Opposite!

As you know, specialized knowledge, knowing what is working for the really successful people, is priceless and you get that specialized knowledge for books, tapes, seminars, mentors and mastermind groups. For the beginning business owner, sales professional or investor that hasn’t made the decision to invest in their personal development I have a great suggestion for you, just watch what everyone else does, and do the opposite.

This is based on the 80-20 rule and that a full 80% of the people out there in business don’t have a clue so if you watch them and do the opposite, you have a good chance of doing it right. Let me take my recent trip to Cleveland for a private consulting day with Dan Kennedy and my experience with airline customer service, or lack of.

Diana and I arrived two hours early at the airport and as we got close to flight time, found out the plane had mechanical trouble and hadn’t even left Chicago yet and it looked like it was going to be at least 3 hours late. They requested that everyone go back outside to the ticket counter and rebook their connecting flights. When we arrived outside at the counter, we stood in line for over an hour and not allowed to proceed to the counter, they wanted to take care of other people flying to other destinations and even when there wasn’t anybody else, they just ignored us.

Diana started looking for other carriers and even at the fly now outrageous prices there were no seats that would get us back to Denver in time for our seminar. (Imagine that - an airline overbooking their flights!) We finally went back through security and found an agent at one of the counters that would actually talk to us, to only find out that there were no more connecting flights to Denver if we missed that flight. He did rebook us for a later direct flight to Denver although we would miss our seminar and you would think, that would be it right? Wrong.

Once we arrived in Denver, we were held on the runway for a while because it was raining and the crew had gone inside. Another 30 minute delay once we got to Denver.

I recently saw that Jet Blue and Southwest Airlines were doing great in the rating polls so I guess the small economical airlines have figured it out… watch what the other airlines are doing and do the opposite.

What did I learn form this experience?

1. Always book two flights, the second one an hour later and refundable to counter the airline industries policy of over booking and to have a back up plan. If I get on the first plane, I will just cancel the second one.
2. Figure out how to afford to fly private and avoid all the security lines, waiting times and other time delay issues.

To Your Success,

Terry Bryan