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“Did you hesitate or go straight toward

them?”

“HESITATE!”

“Was there tension in your body or

were you relaxed?”

“TENSION!”

Tony asks us to repeat the exercise,

but this time to greet our partners as if

the impression we make in the first

three to five seconds determines whether

they’ll do business with us. If they

don’t, “everyone you care about will

die like pigs in hell.”

I’m startled by Tony’s emphasis on

business success—this is a seminar

about personal power, not sales. Then I

remember that Tony is not only a life

coach but also a businessman extraordinaire;

he started his career in

sales and today serves as chairman of

seven privately held companies. BusinessWeek

once estimated his income at

119/929

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