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TRIP TO CANNES, FRANCE
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Hi everyone and welcome to this third edition of my continuing blogs about a simple, yet powerful spiritual tool you can use every single day to make your life less stressful, less fearful, and much more enjoyable! You accomplish this by simply requesting Benevolent Outcomes each day for the mundane things like driving to work each day, for more important things like a business meeting or for having a good day earning tips or making retail sales, to the really important things in your life like requesting the PERFECT JOB for you, the PERFECT HOME for you, and the PERFECT MATE for you. You can read two sample chapters of my book on my website www.TheGentleWayBook.com.
This blog covers my trip to Cannes, France from London in October on a business trip I take two times a year for a world TV and DVD market, as I do international film and TV program distribution. It will show you how often you can request Most Benevolent Outcomes (MBO’s) for all sorts of circumstances.
I’ll start at the first, with my flight from London’s Heathrow Airport on KLM with a change of planes in Amsterdam. I made the mistake of forgetting to ask for a Benevolent Outcome for going through security and was stopped by a security guy and asked to put my roller bag in the metal form to see if it fit. The wheels made it too long by about one inch or less, and he made me run back to check the bag in at KLM; I knew I had a problem because of the combined weight of the two checked bags was at the maximum allowed, even though I was traveling business class.
They said I was at my limit and were going to charge me 130 GBP (about $200) overage. My only option was to run downstairs (along with my roller bag and briefcase) to a store at the far end of the terminal and buy a cloth bag to throw everything into. Naturally by now I said, “I request a Most Benevolent Outcome for buying the bag and resolving this problem, thank you!”. I bought the cheapest bag they had which was 15 GBP (about $24) and ran back upstairs and started transferring virtually everything in the bag over to the cloth bag. I then attempted to check the small roller bag and it weighed a total of 4 kilos (8.8 pounds). The supervisor said that they would have given me 2 kilos, but since it was 4 they were going to charge me 50 GBP ($80) for the overage. I started taking literally everything out of the bag including tissues and putting it on the floor next to the bag. The two supervisors were called away and the lady at the counter told me to quickly give her the bag before they returned and she checked it. That was the Benevolent Outcome to that problem!
Next back to the security line and of course I requested a MBO. The guy who had made me return to the airline counter let me up to the front of the line, even though he said KLM had not paid for “fast track.” I made the flight with time to spare and had a pleasant chat with a lady to Amsterdam (naturally I requested a MBO for someone interesting to talk to). I had a long layover in Amsterdam before taking the flight to Nice, which I spent in a KLM lounge with free drinks and food.
I had requested a MBO for my bags to come out quickly in Nice and they did come out in plenty of time to make the bus to Cannes, which was filled with people going to the TV market. I had requested a MBO to sit next to someone interesting, and I wound up sitting next to the British chap I had sat next to on the plane from London to Nice last March! We still may do some business. He even dragged one of my bags to my hotel, as he was traveling very light (what a great MBO!). I showed him where to pick up his badge on our way, as he did not have his yet, and I was able to pick up my Guide book with everyone listed who was attending the market; this meant I did not have to return to pick it up, a very nice MBO!
One problem I had before commencing my trip was that when the head of the New York Reed Midem office had left in May or June, the new people denied giving me a “Platinum” card which allowed me to have meetings in the VIP Club. After experiencing congestive heart failure (and a MBO of a full recovery) in 2006, my doctor said he didn’t want me to have the stress of having a booth or “stand” as they’re called in Europe. I decided I could use the Buyers Club if needed, but requested a MBO when I twice emailed the head of the TV department at Reed Midem requesting the Platinum card. I never received a response from her, so as I TRUST MBO’s to work PERFECTLY, I knew the Buyers Club would be best, and it was. I met several buyers there that were not on my list of 60 appointments I had for the 4 days of the market and we had meetings either when there were no-shows for appointments, or in the few remaining times I had left. Needless to say I was exhausted each night, as I didn’t leave until about 7:00 pm. I did reconnect with the two young ladies from Canada I mentioned in my weekly newsletter last year at the Buyers Club and they’re still requesting MBO’s.
Monday night I was invited to a buffet dinner at the Majestic Hotel Beach and requested an MBO for someone to talk to. I met an interesting gentleman by the name of Julius who does the PR for the World Music Awards each year in Monaco. He says I should be drinking a glass of water each day with cayenne pepper, so I’ll have to investigate that.
I shipped a box weighing 17 kilos to Frankfurt, so I would not have to pay 10 Euros ($14.70) per kilo overage on Lufthansa. This proved to be a MBO, as I had to roll three bags to my hotel in Frankfurt from the train station. More on that in the next blog.
I did a 45 minute walk each morning after the Cannes Market finished all the way from my hotel to the end of the sea wall at the “new port” as they call it and back. I walked along the Croisette before sunrise, but still daylight. It was interesting to see all the big hotels that line the Cannes beach, but also the cruise ships that lie off shore and all the people preparing the restaurants that sit directly on the beach for the day. I requested a MBO each morning for my walk to be interesting and it varied each day.
Much work and deliveries happens, with the sidewalk washed each morning by the “city jet” crew with a small water truck that went down the sidewalk with them, the garbage men picking up the trash in the bins that line the sidewalk, the crew building a large temporary structure on the beach, probably for a large party for the upcoming Duty Free Market the following week, walkers, joggers, and even a homeless man that sleeps against the seawall I walk on top of heading for the huge yachts at the end of the wall. He’s a real character that feeds the birds and somehow fixes what appears to be tea, in a glass cup and saucer. I said “bonjour” to him each day and he cackled a “bonjour” back to me. He had clothes and lots of other things spread out on the huge boulders that lie against the walkway below the sea wall. More about him in the next blog.
Until then, have a Most Benevolent Week, and a Most Benevolent Thanksgiving!
Tom
Tom T. Moore
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