Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.
During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
Dating is for tools.
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.