“The Seven Million People” Day Five Update

Where we go from here is up to you.

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Heb 11-1)

Seven Million People, 133 contacts around the world and one week to complete the project.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening as the case may be. Ready, for a contest? Me too, but first an update.

In Less Than A Week:

Using technology one can hold in his or her hands, this experiment has reached, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Holland, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, and the USA. In theory, we have reached other countries, but I am only counting the nations I have received interest and support from.

My network has grown from 133 people networking me to seven million people to 144 people networking me to 9,364,067+ professionals. New contacts may offer advice on how we can improve our experiment, and they each received a daily update, but they cannot alter the integrity (133/7,000,000) of the experiment.

Your Day Four To Do List:

1. The clue is in the heading. This is the faith update. When you have good people who are clear on what needs to be done, you get out of their way and let them do it. Have fun, I am.

2. I would like to “kick up the collaboration a notch” so the next update I would like you to write. Send me your thoughts on what we are doing. What have you learned thus far? What has surprised you and what do you think will be the conclusion?

It is time, for THE BIG CONTEST.

As you know whilst I am doing media work for the Laser Disfigurement Trust I am staying in a cottage built in the year Mozart was born. The Near/Far and Wow I’d never have guessed that, but when I think about it, it makes sense contest. Mozart’s cottage is located in a beautiful village in Scotland called Luthrie in the Kingdom of Fife and for our contest Luthrie should now be considered the center of the world.

Category 1. The Internet is everywhere so which job offer will be the closest to Luthrie?

Category 2. Which Job offer is the furthest away from Luthrie?

Category 3. The 7,000,000 people “wow” award. Which job offer takes all the information from my profile and our updates and sees an opportunity that no one else could see? It is the gaps, the combinations of talent and the vision to use our unprecedented connectivity that defines the essence of our experiment.

Last but most certainly not least I’d like to recognize and celebrate my contact superstars. I have immense gratitude to all of you for all of your efforts for our experiment, but I want to acknowledge three people in this update.

As you know this experiment is resulting in a lot of working into the wee hours of the following morning so on Sunday, I had a day off, and I admit it I ate Haagen Dazs ice cream, which was delicious. I also took a peak at my computer and saw that Joanna and Aisha were continuing the experiment with unabashed joy and commitment. Thank you.

On the day, the seven million people experiment began I e-mailed the 133 invitations. One was to my old professor whom I am now proud to call my friend and who replied to tell me that he had a particularly destructive form of cancer. Naturally I wrote back and said the usual things, I’m shocked, how could this be, lets get together and is there anything I could do to help.

Thankfully he replied that, despite an upcoming major surgery, the doctors assured him that he was going to make a full recovery. He also continued to offer and look for ways of supporting our experiment. It was an intense reminder of the fragility of life and the beauty of the human spirit. I’m a huge believer in Education. It is equality, a better present, a brighter future and personal and societal empowerment wrapped up in one vocation. Anything of value that I ever do in life some of the credit belongs to my professors. Professor Scott M. thank you for what you have given me and for being whom you are.

Have fun,

Michael

P.s. Skype update: 11am GMT belongs to Belgium. Do not be shy. We’ve all made a commitment to this, and if because of time zones I’m up in the middle of the night, I’ll make it work.