Rod E. Smith personally called me on the telephone to congratulate me on my one year of blogging. Not an email or a comment. He called me at home.

I don’t know where he called from as he is a world traveler and helps conflicted families who fly him around the world to assist them in resolving seemingly insurmountable domestic or family-business dilemmas.

He is a family therapist, a writer and a professor.

He is also one of the top personal growth bloggers on the planet. He has 55,485 readers on his blog, Difficult Relationships.

But he made the time to call ME! To say I was thrilled is an understatement.

I was a blogger for only about two weeks when he sent me an email. He liked one of my articles on marriage and asked if it was OK to put it on his blog. I don’t even know how he found me. Of course I said yes even before I knew what a famous person he was.

It was the first time Google knew about me. I was too new to list.

I have to tell you I have run into this phenomenon before with the famous people. When I had a TV show -

Deepak Chopra arranged an interview for me with Wayne Dyer -

Wayne Dyer referred many authors to me -

Marianne Williamson promoted my new book by inviting me to speak at her huge church -

Andrew Weil came to his interview early and just hung out with my crew on the set -

Judith Viorst wrote to say it was the best interview on her tour -

All famous and busy people like Rod.

On the other hand, some new authors would hold up our production trying to renegotiate a standard release form. The big authors just signed it.

Maybe - that is how some of the big people got so big. They started helping people from the beginning and never stopped.

Rod gave me some advice when he called.

He said, “Forget about the stats on how many people come to read your blog.”

Then, he added, “Personal Growth bloggers are there to help people. The numbers will take care of themselves!”

Thanks, Rod, for the call.

More thanks for the good advice.

Sometimes we need to be reminded of our original intention.

Take a look at his blog. But be prepared. This was the first “Straight Talk Express!”

Difficult Relationships

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