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Allow the World to Live as It Chooses, and Allow Yourself to Live as You Choose.
Posted by Robert Lorsch | Filed under Posts by Robert Lorsch
After nearly 14 days of straight travel, I have been asking myself a lot of personal questions. Where do I live? Where am I going? What am I doing? It’s amazing how the answers change almost daily. Add that to the retrospective that comes with facing another birthday in less than two weeks and I sometimes wonder why I chose the way I live my life. However, the point is I get to choose it. And I get to follow the inner voice that allows me to keep placing one foot in front of the other. Living and “loving” one’s life keeps people young. I am not sure what it would be like to not have such an active business life.
Today’s answers feel right; I like what I do, I love my wife, I love my life, I love my home, I love Charlie Brown, Mindy, Meatball, Diego, Priscilla and Momma Kitty, I love my best friends and I love my job. They say keeping the mind stimulated keeps one vibrant and young. I guess that’s the trick to my 18-hour days, yoga lifestyle and my fabulous relationship with Kira.
Every day I get to feel the excitement that comes with being CEO of a company that I get to build in a way that I believe is best for the employees and investors who believe in me and MMRGlobal (OTC: MMRF).
No team is successful unless they are all pulling in the same direction; however to pull in the same direction, the team needs to know the playbook. Unfortunately, the lawyers keep me from sharing the inside scoop and what keeps this “Energizer Bunny” going, but I can share the big picture from the last several weeks.
I have been to Orlando twice in the past two weeks. The first trip was to attend invitation-only key customer sales meetings as a guest of Kodak, where we negotiated our annual purchase commitments to cover the next 15 months of MMRPro sales. We also were the only customer to receive two sales awards for the past year. Click here to view photo. Then it was back to Los Angeles for three days to put the finishing touches on our HIMSS adventure.
Then once more on a plane to Orlando, where at HIMSS we networked for eighteen-hour days with more than 30,000 healthcare professionals taking advantage of the explosive world of health information technology. From Lucent to Microsoft and Google, we shared MMRPro solutions and our MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record with more than 180 qualified distribution partners.
After the show, I spent two days in Boston. On the first day, Sunil and I made investor presentations to more than 30 individuals and small cap institutional investors. Then on Friday, we spent the day with a document distribution company we met at HIMSS. They provide document distribution systems for more than six hundred hospital systems.
Before I left Boston we agreed to initiate beta testing of a deployment program to offer MMR Personal Health Records to a select group of this company’s clients. Watch for this very exciting announcement as we begin this stimulating test program, which for the first time takes us directly into hospitals from an existing third party vendor.
Saturday, Kira and I took the train to NY, where I caught up on nearly a thousand emails dealing with everything philanthropic, personal, and mostly MMR business.
Yesterday, I met a second HIMSS lead. This company is a research purchasing syndicate that matches their 1200 hospital-network with selected vendors in private regional trade shows. After nearly three hours together we agreed to begin the process of having them introduce our Personal Health Record services and, in particular, the MMR Stimulus Program to their customers, making it the second time in two days we have established working relationships that can access hospitals through third party vendors. Meanwhile, Richard Lagani was in Canada, where he was working on an expansion of Chartis domestic sales in North America.
I used the rest of yesterday afternoon at meetings with Chartis Global Marine and Energy. I lost an hour when I had to shut off my Blackberry because Kira and I were VIP guests of CBS (our daytime Emmy Awards partner) at the Late Show with David Letterman. Be sure to watch this Thursday; Charlie Sheen gags run through the entire hour of Dave with his guest, the great Robin Williams. Then it was back to the hotel for more emails and a business dinner.
Today I left at 7 am EST on my way to Verizon headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. This is where the lawyers tell me I have to be quiet; however, this is the first day of the most exciting days of the rest of my life.
Tonight I will take a redeye home excited about the things that are happening around me and looking forward to being home with Kira, Charlie, Mindy, Meatball, Diego, Priscilla and Momma Kitty.
Robert H. “Bob” Lorsch, CEO, MMRGlobal
