First stop was going to by the vineyard wine shop on Lincoln Road, a great little shop with a wide selection of wines and a venue, my plan, ask them if they would like to donate a case or ten, and also discuss the possibility of using their venue for the auction (free of charge of course.) Their carpark is usually pretty empty, but not today, cars everywhere and a wedding taking place in the gardens. There's no way I'm barging in and trying to get free stuff when they obviously have their hands full. So onto my next stop.
A new tattoo place has opened on Lincoln Road. They have transformed an existing property and made it look fabulous, I went in, it was a buzz with activity and tattoo guns.. it smelt as clean and sterile as a hospital, it looked like you could eat your food off the floor, it was a mix of high tech and art gallery, if I was after a tattoo this is where I would have been looking. I spoke to a great guy, he gave me the owners name, he listened to my blurb, politely took my flyer and the letter I'm handing out business' and said to come back at 2:00pm when the owner had a free block of time... promising stuff I thought. And went off with a spring in my step.
Stop number 3 the bike shop in the shopping area off Lincoln Road, nothing to exciting here, receptive, but not a definitive "yes" or "no."
And so it went on in this vain, I went to an Automotive supplies shop, - Manager not in, the new gym, no entry without the swipe card to the gym, just a phone number on the window. None of these things are hard to overcome, they just remind me, this is going to be hard work. If I want items for my auction I'm going to have to work my ass off for them.
“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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