Jay’s Nana is one of the coolest people I’ve ever met. At 82 years old, she has been responsible for developing a warm and supportive family, who I had the privilege of barbequing with on Saturday.

Jay’s Nana received the Los Angeles Mexican mother of the year award in 2005, which prompted me to ask why she thought was the most important thing in motherhood.

She said the key to being a good mother is to listen. Most of the time we don’t have enough time to listen to children’s simple suggestions or ideas. Nana says we have to.

“That’s why my ears are so big,” Nana says as she points to her ears.

The same lesson can be applied in business. I’ve definitely learned that over the past two weeks of managing four guys in an RV. We have to listen no matter how busy we are, because those ideas have the potential to develop into something much greater.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Just before lunch, a door to door carpet salesman stopped by the screen door of the house we are staying at in Los Angeles. He wanted to do a carpet demonstration in the house, and asked if it was alright if he came in.

I said that he couldn’t do a carpet demonstration in the house, but I knew somewhere that he could. I walked him out to the driveway where our 30 foot RV glistened in the driveway.

For the next thirty minutes, the twenty year old Princeton student showed me how great his vacuum is. He shampooed my carpets. He vacuumed our beds. He sucked up dirt from the floor and shook his head after seeing how much dirt his magical device was able to pull up.

All the while I told him that four college grads living in an RV did not have two grand for his miracle vacuum. He persisted on, and when it was all said and done, the cost of getting the inside of the RV completely cleaned cost me thirty minutes and sternly saying no.

I am probably the only person in the history of book buying who has bought works by Dr. Seuss and Napoleon Hill at the same time.

Yesterday I bought Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich because he did something similar to what I am doing now, and I wanted to see how his findings compared to mine.

I also bought Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go in celebration of the start to tomorrow’s journey.

Both books have a similar message, although judging by the eye brow raise of the cashier, it was a very odd combination.

I’m new to this whole “blogging” thing, so I tend to get excited about the little things. The little thing I got excited about yesterday is when I logged into my google analytics account and saw a serious spike in our Sunday web traffic.

Our previous web traffic high on a Sunday was 50 visitors. Our all-time traffic high we had was 278 visitors.

Yesterday we had over ten times the amount of traffic we’ve ever had on a Sunday. We more than doubled our record for most people to visit our site in a day. Yesterday, we had 576 people visit our site, with 90% of those visitors being led to Pursue the Passion for the first time.

Although this number might not be as high as some sites out there, I take my victories as they come. This was definitely a small victory.

Cheers to more people being exposed to our message.

One thing I’ve always noticed with the successful people I’ve met is that they have two natural characteristics ingrained in their personalities.

1) They are observant
2) They are personable

Yesterday I was in a meeting with a potential sponsor when the CEO popped his head in. I had met with the CEO twice in meetings, but had not seen him since I had a hair cut on Tuesday.

In the midst of running a multi-million dollar company, not only did the CEO stop by to say hi, but the first thing he said was something about my hair cut. He had been the first person to say anything about it (besides my girlfriend) in the four days since I had spent twelve dollars at Supercuts.

Being observant and being personable are priceless qualities a person can have.