"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it 
If you can dream it, you can become it."   WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD


The cheese pizza business guide.                   March 27th,  2007


David Caruso wrote to me late last week and said:  "Hi Wayne - Really enjoying your email articles – good luck on your continued fight.
 

I have just released my first book ‘cheese pizza’ and I am keen and passionate to tell the world about it.

I would be happy to offer 5 free copies to your readers/subscribers as part of a promotion.

I would be happy to send you a copy beforehand – for your approval."

Thinking that this would be another "cheesy" fable book I thought I had better read it before recommending it to The Maverick Spirit readers. The books arrived this morning and I read my copy over coffee - that's the benefit of PowerReading - and it one of the best business books I have read in years.

Cheese Pizza is a fictional story with real world undertones on improving business and personal relationships. David could easily have been inside my head with the insight he gives to the struggle that many businesses take each day.

It is simple story with some worldly lessons, advice and inspiration.

If you are a small to medium business owner, or inspiring to be this book is written for you. David has created a book for the weekend. He calls this his Weekend Inspiring Narratives which are designed to motivate and drive the everyday business owner which can be essentially read over the weekend, to fit into the busy lifestyle of each business owner.”

David draws on 15 years of experience where he sometimes found himself flat, unmotivated, and seeking answers or wondering what and why. When he felt like that his business often suffered and conversely when he was on top of his game, ready to conquer the world, his business prospered.

The story is based around, John, a fictional character who has lost his way in the shape of his business and his personal relationships.

“ If one does not know to which port they are sailing no wind is favourable.”

On the brink of despair he comes across an unlikely source of inspiration, a local pizza shop owner and through a number of impromptu conversations, rediscovers a new lease of life. The solutions are inspiringly simple yet are the most often overlooked in times of crisis.

Without giving too much away, the self realisation of the Power of Now, and the fact that we ALL should be enjoying the present this book is well worth the time to read.

You can get a copy at http://www.davidcaruso.com.au

And I have 4 to give away - I am keeping mine - it's that good! All you need to is share a story with me about living in the now and I will despatch a copy of cheese pizza to the first four people who write in.

ACTION STEP: Spend 30 minutes today reading an inspiring book - start with cheese pizza.
 


Be sure to visit David's website http://www.davidcaruso.com.au and download some of the great FREE resources he has on offer.

Enjoy this issue of The Maverick Spirit...  That's it for today, until next time, continue to enjoy being a free spirit in a complicated world... 

Wayne Mansfield

P.S. £2,150 pizza  A chef has flown more than 1,000 miles to create the world's most expensive pizza for a St Valentine's Day meal. The £2,150 treat by Glasgow restaurateur Domenico Crolla will be topped with edible gold, champagne-soaked caviar and lobster marinated in the finest cognac.

Italian lawyer Maurizio Morelli, from Rome, who paid up for the pizza after winning a charity auction on eBay in November flew Crolla to Rome to prepare the 12in pizza as a Valentine's surprise for Mr Morelli's wife, Sabrina.

P.P.S.  Did you know that Tom Monaghan, the founder of the Domino’s Pizza chain sold his takeaway chain in 1998 for an estimated $1 billion


And for something really different:

Visit my daily thoughts and views at    www.waynemansfield.com  
where you can leave comments and ideas
on stuff that doesn't make it to The Maverick Spirit
 


Life's Little Instruction Book

Buy a used car with the same caution a naked man uses to climb a barbed-wire fence.

Make a habit of reading something inspiring and cheerful just before going to sleep.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them.

Source:          H. Jackson Brown, Jr  Life's Little Instruction Book

MAVERICK QUOTE OF THE DAY

A business person who thinks he or she has a money problem really has an idea problem.
Solutions and new ideas remain hidden to negative minds.

David Caruso

Samuel Maverick (1803-70) Texan rancher who, when branding of stock was introduced chose "Not to Brand." Every unbranded horse or cow he then claimed as a Maverick!

Feedback:   I have selected just a couple of comments today from fellow Maverick Spiriters.. and I hope to hear from you soon with your words of encouragement, wisdom and resolve.

Hi Wayne,

I was just thinking of you today and wondering when I'd be back on the mailing list, and here is the Maverick Spirt in my inbox! Great to hear from you. I like Brian's story - thanks for sharing it. I think I'll put it into one of my newsletters one of these days (with credit of course).

Kind regards,

Marlene

Wayne

Your story "LOVE IN A PAPER BAG" brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful message it sends.

George Gianniotis


Oh. My God, Wayne,
what a beautiful story. I am so grateful that you and Brian shared it – here I return it to you, no paper bag but ‘all pink and fuzzy’

Molly's Dads Story:

"It was Molly's job to hand her father his brown paper lunch bag each morning before he headed off to work.

One day, in addition to his lunch bag, Molly handed him a second paper bag. This one was worn and held together with tape, staples and paper clips.


Thanks Wayne.
Molly's Dads Story worked like a litre of eye drops - beautiful!

Pete Hunt


 




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