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One day next
week, probably Monday or Tuesday, I'm going to
publish the last issue of my newsletter, "The
Gary Halbert Letter".
I've been writing
"The Gary Halbert Letter" on a monthly basis
since September, 1986. There were a few months I
didn't write an issue but then again there were
other months when I published more…
I hope you have
enjoyed reading them. I hope you have enjoyed
reading "The Boron Letters". And I hope you
enjoy my last issue which will be published next
week.
However you feel
about the body of writing I've created for my
readers after nearly two decades, I think we can
all agree on at least one thing...
It's Been A Hell Of A Ride...
Hasn't It?!
In any case, I'd
like to thank all of you (and that's from the
heart) for giving me a chance to touch your
lives and vice versa.
That's it for
now.
Sincerely,
Gary C. Halbert
The Alpha
Shitweasel
Then again on April 1 readers who are on my announcement
list essentially received the same e-mail but with slight
changes. It said:
Subject Line: The End
E-mail Message:
Because of spam filters, I thought it a good
idea to send this e-mail message again. For some
of you, it may…
The last chapter
of The Boron Letters (Chapter 25) is now posted
on my website (www.TheGaryHalbertLetter.com).
One day next
week, probably Monday or Tuesday, I'm going to
publish the last issue of my newsletter, "The
Gary Halbert Letter".
I've been writing
"The Gary Halbert Letter" on a monthly basis
since September, 1986. There were a few months I
didn't write an issue but then again there were
other months when I published more than one
newsletter. In any case, that means I've written
approximately 18 solid years of monthly
newsletters.
I hope you have
enjoyed reading them. I hope you have enjoyed
reading "The Boron Letters". And I hope you
enjoy my last issue which will be published next
week.
However you feel
about the body of writing I've created for my
readers after nearly two decades, I think we can
all agree on at least one thing...
It's Been A Hell Of A Ride...
Hasn't It?!
In any case, I'd
like to thank all of you (and that's from the
heart) for giving me a chance to touch your
lives and vice versa.
That's it for
now.
Sincerely,
Gary C. Halbert
The Alpha
Shitweasel
This has created such a flood of e-mail communications to
me, I have been reading them for days (and am still reading
them). They were coming in so fast, I couldn't read one and
go on to the next one before others were stacking up in my
"In Box". In other words…
One of the things about all this is, many of the "lurkers"
did not know I had decided this would be the final Gary
Halbert Newsletter until they read THIS particular
newsletter. All of the announcement people already knew. I
am sure most of the "lurkers" are just finding out about the
announcements I sent out on March 31 and…
OK, now I am going to jump around a little bit. But don't
worry. I'll pull it all together before this newsletter is
finished.
First, many times when I do teleconferences, I ask the host
to "undo" the mute buttons of the listeners so I can have
them all say, "Hi Gary" or something like that in order…
And sometimes when I'm speaking at a seminar, the room is
deathly silent. At first, I thought it was because I was
boring the people to the point of apathy. Then later I
caught on to the fact the attendees were incredibly
silent... because... they were paying such rapt attention to
what I was saying.
In
any case, when I began posting "The Boron Letters" on my
website, I wasn't getting my normal flow of feedback. So I
sent a short e-mail message to my announcement list
basically asking, "Hey, is there anybody out there paying
attention to these letters? Am I wasting my time posting
them?"
Shortly after that, I was having a "bad hair day" and
Theresa (without my knowledge) wrote to my announcement list
an e-mail saying I could use a bit of cheering up. She said
maybe some of my readers could send me an e-mail to brighten
my spirits.
In
any case, these two particular announcements created the
first flood of e-mails to me. And when I say "flood" I mean
a torrent of e-mails.
A
few people even asked me if Theresa's writing about me
having a bad hair day was some sort of marketing trick. That
maybe I was using it to set people…
First, as I said, I had no idea Theresa was sending such an
e-mail. And certainly, it was not some sort of marketing
trick. It was just her way of trying to lighten my load a
little bit.
You know, people seem to watch and read what I'm doing so
intensely and so carefully, they are always trying…
The truth is, many times there is LESS to what people
are saying and doing (including me) than what meets the eye.
Sometimes "hello" just means "hello". Sometimes when Theresa
does something like sending a message that Gary's a little
bit down, it's just a message that Gary's a little bit down.
It wasn't Machiavellian at…
In
any case, this virtual flood of e-mails has resulted in a
lot of questions. I'm going to answer the two most common
questions right now.
The #1 most common question is:
"Am I Going To Leave My Website
Up?"
The answer to that question is:
"Yes."
Many people were so afraid I wasn't going to leave my
website up, they frantically printed every issue on my
website. Rest assured, at the very least for the foreseeable
future, my website will still be there for you to read,
download, re-read and study.
The second most common question was asked a number of ways
but they all went something like:
"What happened to your son?"
or
"How did your son, Bond turn out?
Did he appreciate all those
letters?
Did he take them to heart?