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David Thomas showed the crowd at annual convention what it takes to stand out. Can you remember?
By Monica Feid
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Memory expert David Thomas provides franchisees with tips they can use to improve their memory during Annual Convention.
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If you got back from Vegas and can’t remember what a great time you had, you may have missed David Thomas.
A memory expert, Thomas thrilled the crowd with a certain talent he has used to his benefit to attain a career he loves, financial freedom, and the chance to live the life of his dreams. But it wasn’t all designed for entertainment. Perhaps the International Grandmaster of Memory isn’t that different from you and HVA after all.
In his presentation and later in breakout sessions, Thomas showed franchisees how to use the tricks he has developed to tap into their latent and infinite memory ability.
According to Thomas, by developing their memory to its full potential, franchisees should be better equipped to:
- Speak to investors, sellers and buyers without the use of notes
- Recall business details from meetings and phone calls at will
And Thomas said he is an example that anyone can do what he does if they just put their mind to it.
A self-confessed lover of food (note the midsection he showed off on the convention stage), Thomas explained in his English accent that he was once one sad “Ginger.” The son of an alcoholic mother and himself a failure at school, Thomas set out to be a firefighter and spent years in a job where he didn’t excel.
Then a hobby took over instead of his career. And eventually that hobby became his career.
Thomas discovered a knack for memorization. In fact, the knack was so outstanding, that with very little effort he was soon gaining fame for his abilities among a crowd of nerds, as he described.
It was the attention that he got for doing something so well – something that he found fun – that propelled him to go even further. From his 4th place finish in the World Memory Championship, Thomas soon found a desire to be the very best.
That would be his aura! He would have the most incredible memory, and that would be his niche.
So Thomas set out to memorize more than 22,500 digits to the mathematical equation of Pi (3.14159…). And the "Guinness Book of World Records" was there to record it.
Still, nobody is perfect. And hours into the first attempt, after reciting more than 20,000 numbers, the unthinkable happened….literally! Thomas lost his place in the sequence. He had to start again.
The second time was a charm, and now so is Thomas on the international speaking circuit. He has turned his gift for memorization into a career as a motivational speaker, a published author, a happy family man, and world traveler.
Today, life for Thomas is drastically different from how it began. He overcame poverty, an alcoholic mother, an unimpressive school record and a poor performance as a firefighter. He found an aura – his ability to memorize. And now we’ll remember him for it.
So what’s your aura?
For more on David Thomas and how his memory retention tricks can better serve you in business, go to TheMotivationSpeaker.com/resources where you can listen to his audio program or download it to your MP3 player. Three e-books are also available to download.
. . . Monica Feid is vice president of BizCom Associates, HVA’s public relations agency.
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