Well, where to start.....The weather continue to be close to a real Fall season. The nights, except for one of them, have been cool and requiring a sweater (like 50 degrees or so), which I know you just rolled your eyes at that thought considering if you live in the Homeland! If you think about it, it gets hot during the day time...like mid 70's 80's and then the temps drop down with DAY LIGHTS SAVING time, makes a quick change in temps. Speaking of which, day lights savings is killing my motivation to do anything after work because I feel I should be home sleeping or something! I mean. I might have to resort to taking sudafed to keep me up and active so I don't hibernate. I'm not kidding!! LOL.
That being said, it is nice that the sun is out at 6:00 AM when I'm getting ready to actually consider getting out of bed, and that has lead to at least one productive thing--early morning gym time!
So, the weekend was full of work for the corporation I provide services to. It's not my normal weekend of work cause I usually have Sunday and Mondays off as of late, but this weekend I had duty on both days. I was happy to leave last night and get in some food, a few songs for karaoke at one of the local hole-in-the-wall pubs, and just sleep. Accept today, I only got to sleep in a little bit (6:45 AM) cause I had an important meeting with the Italian in Malibu! Yes, I've resorted to calling my principle Malibu client 'The Italian'! This is because A. He is Italian. B. He's from Jersey. C. His friends are all 'mobsterish' in the way that they relate with each other. I say this because in one of our preliminary "meetings'' I met with his business partner at a location that kept changing till the very hour of the meeting time. People came up to him and hugged the man like he was one of their lost uncles or fathers, and magically a few of his buddies were in from NYC, and the next thing I know I was at a table of Italians, their wives, and we were talking business. People shook my hand as if to welcome me into the 'group' and pat me on the shoulder saying things like, "You did good. This guy must like you a lot to have you here." It was not at all intimidating more than it seemed the scene out of some movie. Hahahaha.
Today seemed a little similar to that initial meet up. We met at Starbucks where the barista spelled my name wrong! But, as my client arrived he was greeted by pretty much everyone else around me. It's Malibu, and everyone that's 'Malibu' knows everyone one else that is 'Malibu' it seems. But we talked...he said he liked my style, the feedback from the regular patients I had worked on during a shadow day was good, and he felt I had something different than most docs he knew....especially the 30+ applicants that had originally responded to his ad. "You got a name. It has notoriety that comes with it...lol. 'Dr. Fil of Malibu.' You have good hands, and more importantly, you handle people really well, and that you can't learn. You either have it or you don't." We went on talking and made a few decisions on what all that was worth to him in real dollars or percentage of business increase. In the end, we shook hands like old men used to do signifying you just made a deal that you intend to deliver on or die trying!
I don't make many deals. In fact, I've only make a few in my life time. I can actually count on my finger still the number I've made and delivered on of which the last prior to today's was with a short blonde gal. Unfortunately, not everyone keeps their end of the deal, and that's not good for business or your reputation in any industry. So, I don't make many deals unless I know I can deliver, and rest assured I'm gonna deliver if I give you my word and shake on it. I won't shake your hand on the deal if I'm not sure about it or I'm not sure about you because I have expectations of you once a deal is struck or agreed upon, but the rest of that is a completely different blog! What we agreed on was me working into his clinic in the very near future. When I get the timing and details of our deal, I'm gonna fill you in!!! Hahahaha.
On a completely different note, I'll be home shortly to attend some family health related stuff. When I'm not busy with that, I do hope to catch up with a few people, and do a few things while I'm in the Home land. I'll keep you up to speed with those details in the Friday week review!
The picture on the left is of a big, fluffy orange and white cat that showed up on the fence outside my door a couple of days ago. The next day he was sitting out back in the middle of my yard waiting. I was a bit taken back because it looks like LEO--KC's cat that passed not so many months ago. I thought it was odd seeing one that looked exactly like him the last few days because I've been closing out that chapter of my life so that the upcoming book run is clean. But know that I've seen him, I've been thinking again about him and her. I guess I'll tuck that strikingly similar looking animal into the recesses of my mind..cause you never know it could be a sign and a reminder to stick with one of the original reasons I came back to Cali. That's it folks.
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