Can You Find Your Soulmate Via Networking?
© David Newton
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
When many people think of finding a date or lifetime partner, they tend towards singles activities and anything similar.
The fact is your soulmate can turn up almost anyplace at all.
My Own Very Personal Example: -
In the late 1980’s I was asked to give a talk at a couple of business breakfast groups ran by a professional speaker who lived at Frankston in Melbourne. At the time I jumped at the chance. It was a great way for me to gain new business.
This guy had a business newsletter which he gave out to many on his list not just those who went to his breakfast seminars, but also his clients and almost anyone who rang up for a copy. One of his staff rang me up and asked to interview me for the next issue – so she could outline my topic for the talks and my biography and experience.
Sounded fair enough and when the newsletter came out I thought it was a good read, before I even spoke at the events, I was getting calls from business owners wanting me to help them with lead generation – which was one of my niche specialties I was talking about.
The Turing Point
Well naturally after I gave my talks and yet gained more business from both breakky seminars I was feeling good. As you might expect. Was that all there was? Not so I discovered. Early on the following month after my talks I got a call from a lady with a lovely voice from Adelaide. She heard the speaker who ran the business meetings on her local Adelaide radio station and yes, she got a copy of the same newsletter that I was featured in from the month before.
She rang me up and asked me questions about how she could improve her business, I answered as best I could we spoke for around 20 minutes and after the call I was still felling mesmerized by the sound of this woman’s voice and her lovely manner. She was selling beauty products and I guessed she would be as pretty as the sound of her voice.
She Stuck In My Mind
It wasn’t for another 2 months before I found myself calling her again. This time I called her on a Sunday afternoon. She told me she got out of the shower to answer my call. As shed just been digging in the garden and doing some house cleaning. So I had to call her back, we chatted again for around almost an hour.
At that time I had a lot going on and the city of Melbourne was busy as it was around Melbourne Cup time by then. After all of that, I called her again and we chatted, you know this went on and one for 2 more weeks and we eventually exchanged letters and photos – yes I was quite happy as her photo was very pretty. At the end of November I went to Adelaide and met her.
We really connected and later became lovers and soulmate friends – which lasted many years. We were close soulmates. Amazingly close soulmates despite the distances sometimes in our relationship. Sadly she died of cancer in 2002. When I flew over to Adelaide for the service – all the memories came back and I knew that our relationship was not for nothing. Her name was Julie and she was a very important and a very significant soulmate in my life.
It All Began From Meeting One Guy At A Professional Speakers Business Meeting
Imagine, that amazing soulmate connection all via networking at business events, giving a couple of talks and being featured in a newsletter that was widely read. You know I don’t think it was just any accident I met that guy who asked me to speak at his breakfast seminars. All those chain of events is what networking is all about. Sure the business I got was great at that time, but the friendship I had with Julie was an unexpected huge bonus.
Dating Possibilities Are Everywhere
Often business events are overlooked as a way to connect with people who might be much better suited to you as a potential partner.
Here is where you can look at as potential places to mix and mingle
• Toastmasters International meetings – you’ll find these held all over the world www.toastmasters.org.au
• Business Swap breakfast meetings – held all over Australia – www.businessswap.com.au
• Terri Cooper business breakfast meetings – held in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast locations www.terricooper.com.au
• Chamber of Commerce meetings – these meetings are near where you live
• Rod Moores business networking super size meetings – often held in Melbourne www.meganetworkingevent.com
• World Internet Summits – business seminars where you learn about internet marketing
• Entrepreneurs Sydney – business meetings (which I run here in Sydney) www.entrepreneurssydney.com
When you open up your mind to it, these are places where you’ll meet people who are used to meeting other people. Business networking events are where meeting people is a fact of life and they aren’t shy over doing so. Sure the conversations can often be about business matters, but can also be diverse on many issues and never ever dull. These people are keen and upbeat about life and its possibilities for the future.
Over the last 3 decades, I’ve been fortunate to meet MANY EXCELLENT PEOPLE who have become lifelong friends via meeting at networks I’m engaged with.
Can this happen for you? I feel it can – if you get yourself out there and start going to meetings and don’t limit yourself to just what’s local. If you live in a big city, be willing to travel to other parts of your city to engage with local business owners in other areas. You never know what you may find. Keep an open mind and fill your diary. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at what you may find in the suburbs.