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Originally Posted by kfisherx
I'll be honest. A part of me cannot understand how you could make the decision that you did. There were an awful lot of your fans who bought tickets and flew in to mostly see you. It was a pretty big let down to them. Personally, I was excited to meet you face to face as well and to see you in action. While not the only reason for my being there, it was definately part of the Summit draw for me and part of the reason I chose to invest my time and money to be there. All around it was very disappointing.
But another part of me thinks it is pretty kick-ass that you have this sort of loyalty to one friend. That is pretty deep.
My hope is that you do commit to the Summit next year and that you can actually make it. I am willing to take my chances and invest again if you are willing to commit again.
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I can understand where you are coming from, hopefully my response will give you and others a better understanding of my view.
Obviously there is more to the story than just what I am sharing, but what I am sharing is truthful. I am very private. Posting this thread alone crosses my boundaries on comfort as it is. So if anything is coming across as sketchy or insincere it is only because I am just not a "tell all" kind of person.
I will say that the person I was traveling with was in no shape to drive herself home and she wasn't getting back on a plane. There was no way I was going to leave her there. To me I had two choices. See if she could do it, or take her home.
I wanted very badly to go to the summit and I hate the thought of disappointing anyone. My readers and clients are everything to me. In a world with autoresponders I still answer my email and talk to everyone I can. I also train people in person daily for a living and it isn't easy juggling all that. Don't get me wrong I love it, but it isn't easy time wise.
You can also ask me any question, challenge my word, my work, and anything else and I will stand up to it instead of running the other direction and getting a big head because I have a blog like a thousand other people in the world.
I paid for 2 round trip tickets, twice, on my own behalf, to go to that summit. I didn't ask for anything in return except for a place to lay my head and the company of good people.
I only put all of that because it seems as if my dedication to getting there or my desire to go is in question, and that isn't the case.
My joke about not going again was in sarcasm. I very much want to go and look forward to do so.
Now can we just go back to talking about custard love and late night booty calls because this serious talk and getting in touch with my feeling is making me uncomfortable.