What a surprise I had this morning when I checked my email.  As many of you know, I wrote several weeks ago about a plane trip my children and I took with my father on a B-24 that was here in Chicago.  This morning I got an email from the son of the pilot, Michael Halbach.  I never thought by writing on my blog that a connection like this could be made - call me old, but I am amazed.

Michael gets to Chicago every few months so we are going to get together and trade stories about our fathers.  That will be a very nice meeting.

So, what does this have to do with networking?  It is all about being out there.  Being yourself.  Letting people see who you are and sharing your history with them.  In business relationships this takes time, but if you don’t share, who knows how many connections you are missing out on.

Share - it could mean the next great surprise in your life.