You student rings - again - cancelling another session.

You organise a workshop, and only 1 person turns up. Or no-one at all.

You try to explain Alexander's work to a biz owner, who starts looking increasing disinterested and confused.

These are all experiences of being poor.

How about this scenario:

Your student rings and you apologise because you have no free time for them.

You organise a workshop and must fight to keep the numbers down so you can preserve the quality of your service.

I missed yesterday's Daily because I lost the urge.

I lost the urge because suddenly - without warning - my partner left me. When you want to express your anger, you always have the nuclear option. A curt little text on LINE - while being blocked on Facebook - that ends with a polite "thank you for all" discordant note.

I'll get straight to the point - if you want more work, get into business opportunities.

In just a week, here's a little sampler of what we've been up to in ATSuccess (and the course hasn't even started yet).

Marjorie Barstow loved to ring through from Nebraska at 3am Sydney time…

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CHANCER: (Stumbling out of bed, gruffly) Yes?

I am not making some people happy this week.

I've had one writer object to his perceived criticism of the International Congress in Chicago, so let me set the record straight.

Having a Congress, meeting your friends, developing your teaching skills, meeting new people - these are all pleasant things to do. And if it pleases you - and you can afford it - what's wrong with that?

WARNING: If you resist the idea of marketing, you won't like this email.

Here's what I recommend you do - unsubscribe. Because some distinctly disturbing ideas may soon enter your mind steam, making it impossible for you to ever think in your old way again.

Here, I will even make it easy for you by putting the link below.

Yesterday, I wrote about being in your teaching space faced with a "mystery."

I told my story of a professional singer asking me a tricky question of performance quality - which zoomed way past my pay grade.

Your challenging situation can be:

- an angry pupil

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Mr Micawber, from Charles Dicken's David Copperfield