- Nice to Meet you Tommy and Qin FONG’s Garden Chinese Restaurant
Do you love your business as much as I do? I get just a tad bit happier every day. I meet the most interesting people. Just last weekend I met Tommy and Qin Lin who own Fong’s Garden Chinese Restaurant in Oconomowoc. By the way, Qin, thanks for the extra take home egg drop soup! Tommy made me remember, asking questions is the best way to get to know someone else. The second way is to listen to the answers.! It is a synergistic formula, that asking and then listening. You know, like one plus one is more than two. As Tommy sat and talked with us at his restaurant, I was impressed with the moment. Does that ever happen to you? For me it is like I am living in a novel and life is being written at that very moment. It is like the Will Ferrel movie…”Stranger than Fiction” where Ferrells character’s life is being written as he lives it. I can relate to that and at times …unlike Ferrell’s character, I enjoy it, I suppose because I feel blessed rather than crazy when it is happening.
It also reminds me of the Native American tradition of using a talking stick. The person holding the stick is the one talking. Listening is so valued in that culture, that not until the stick is passed is anyone even supposed to begin to take their thoughts off of the speaker. When the stick is passed and only then is the listener to transition into a thinker of their own thoughts. Then and only then can they begin to speak. 
Now that is listening with the full mind, body and spirit. It is an aspiration of mine.
I love my business because I have the privledge of not only meeting but, more importantly building relationships with people by listening to their needs and intersts.
Tommy is an estute business person, a thoughtful human being and a wise investor. He is also a listener.
Enjoy the card I am sending you Tommy and Qin. We hope it makes you smile. You have my warmest regards and thank you for spending some of your prescious time meeting me.
www.sendoutcards.com/getconnected
