Contacting Elvis - The MEX

Well folks, Xmas is officially xed off the calendar and the new year is quickly approaching. The marathon is in less than a week's time and a new goal is in order. So a new MEX it is. MEX if you are new to the concept stands for a Monthly Experiment. I've done two so far, a vegetarian lifestyle experiment and a 6AM early rising experiment - each lasting for 30 days at least.

For the next experiment I've put a lot of thought into - perhaps too much. It's about time that I chose one of those many thoughts. After doing a sleep and diet experiment I thought I'd like to try an experiment in something else, an experiment in communication. And not just any kind of communication - contacting a celebrity/famous person and interviewing them. I was inspired by Tim Ferris' book "The Four Hour Work Week" where he urges participants to try this out to practice resourcefulness, bravery and communication skills, not to mention mentoring from a super successful person from the heavens.

I say from the heavens because that is usually where these people are pictured to be - in a world far far away from "our" own. It won't be Elvis as my psychic powers aren't quite that good yet, that was just to make the title more splashy. So who will it be? That is the question that I'll have to solve for the first part of the MEX.

Here are the rules:

1.No local wannabe celebrities - I'm going for somebody that is world renowned like Bill Clinton or Oprah. Although I don't think it would be either of them. ;)
2.I will ask them at least one well researched question that I am curious about.
3.If the first person I call doesn't work out I will continue to try others until I hit success. Call it an exercise in persistence.
4.Be both eloquent and charming in my approach.

I imagine the MEX will go something like this:

1. Find somebody I really admire and want to talk to.
2. Use my resourcefulness to find their phone number.
3. Call them up and use the script provided from the above aforementioned book.
4. Ask them my question.
5. Ask them if in the future I have any (very infrequent) questions if I could contact them by email.

I imagine the person I would want to contact would be a famous speaker, personal development coach, or entrepreneur.

So there is the first installation of the new MEX. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions on how to get famous people's contact info.

The next post will reveal my target.

Ou.yang.