New Year's Message (2022)

Hi all:

This year I am writing, my New Years Message, from a different prospective – happy to be able to write it!

Not because I still expect an overall market correction, but more due to the massive amounts of money my QLA-bots created during covid! Having personally been involved in 3 transactions, that closed in the last hours of the year, but also implementing QLA principles, against conventional wisdom, works better in corona than ever before! Plus, finishing the last 3 days of the hard core seminar, in an extremely surreal manner – even though, I was told, I was seriously injured & should of gone to the hospital, especially since I apparently lost consciousness! Or should I say – I got the shit completed, against the conventional odds!

THE RUMOURS OF MY DEATH WERE HIGHLY EXAGGERATED!

This you tube message and response says it, as I had hoped!?

Damien W.

With all due respect, ruminating on your possible death after landing on your head seems to have raised your urgency. Where the cowards would take it easy and revert to self-pity, you seem to be determined to deliver every bit of data that could possibly be effective to help the group succeed, just in case you leave them early. A soldier, an officer, and a gentleman, through and through. We're blessed to have you while you're here.

I am happy it came across, on YouTube, as it did, though it was mentioned only a couple times, when I stumbled on stage! Adrenaline kept me going, till the hard core kids left! The last couple days I have been very tired!

I am also extremely thankful, I was not hurt more than I was, Dec 25th - Christmas late in the afternoon! Because I have always been a fully transparent guy, here is a description, of what happened to me to the best of my memory – my memory will be more relevant in a few lines! I am writing to clarify some info on YouTube and the internet!

About 4:45 pm, 25th Dec Christmas day, I broke the QLA hardcore seminar! We were reconvening at 7pm for drinks before dinner! During this 2hr break, they would go to their breakout positions, to work on their b-school cases, around the castle!

Walking from the pavilion to the castle, about 100 meters, whilst walking down a partially paved path, I tripped and fell! The lights on the path were out and it was pitch dark! Yeah, I could have gone around the front of the castle – but I didn’t! Yeah, the trillion dollar man fell like a ton of shit, on his head - lol! It was not a laughing matter, forget I am 76! The next thing I knew – I was scrambling on the ground! Apparently trying to get to my feet and to the castle! My eyes were blurred with blood and I could not see too well! Plus, I could not stand up straight, due to a sharp pain in my right chest area! I didn’t know how much I was injured – but I knew I had to get to the castle, where I could see lights! So if I was seriously hurt, I could get help! As Sally pointed out, after the fact – my blood spatter was about 50 feet from where I recall, I was first scrambling on the ground! Hence, I could have been unconscious, but I don’t remember!?

Upon reaching the castle, I was at Sally’s office window! I yelled (really groaned) at her window, but the only ones that heard me moaning, were our dogs - who went nuts! Sally thought I was fooling around and couldn’t see my spurting blood, from my head, in the dark! When she finally saw, opened the gym door and saw my sorry and undignified state – she went into her “red cross” action! So did other staff members! I truly believe, they saw “their country club” jobs fading into the dust – lol! It was surreal – they were all standing around me, looking down, as I had died!

All this time, I had only?3 thoughts:

1. somehow get down the unlit path to the castle, on my hands and knees, if I had to
2. get the bleeding to stop and patched up
3. get ready to continue my coaching duties, by 7pm – or die trying

I had not one thought about me going to the hospital! Remember, a buffalo had run over me, 30 years before – lol! As you have all heard me say – unless I am dead, I will always get the job done! Always – no matter what! I recall 22 years ago, making a meeting with Klaus Kleinfeld in Frankfurt, 3 days after being very seriously hurt in a dune buggy accident, in Cabo!

Though through the ordeal, I didn’t know how bad I was hurt! I didn’t know I had cut myself, other than on my big head – lol! And I didn’t believe, I had lost consciousness!

My injuries: gashed and battered upper right lobe of my head (forehead); 2 deep cuts to my right hand; 6 inch cut along right shin; 2 severely sprained wrists, right wrist with torn tendons/ligaments; what I thought was broken ribs, turned out to be torn rib cage and pec muscle; whip lash neck; plus general feeling of being worked over with a cricket bat! I have not felt that beat up feeling, in a very long time! And I used to say – you should have seen the other guys! But I would admit – I am not the same guy, I was, when a buffalo ran over me in Australia, in 1991, and ran him down and killed him, at point blank range, with a 454 consul hand gun!

7pm on the dot, I walked slowly into the pavilion seminar room. I had a very large bandage covering my right forehead! No one said anything! I started to talk, perhaps a little slower – when a guy from Australia said – “Mr Pe?a, you’re bleeding!” Unbeknownst to me, I was bleeding from the head! Later during his testimonial, he said, it was surreal - like Christ bleeding from his crown of thorns! WTF!

I stopped for a few seconds, wiped the blood away and kept talking/screaming, as usual, albeit somewhat slower! Everybody got very quiet! But in my mind, I was just running towards the gunfire! I knew, I had to get through the rest of the night – a step at a time! First my short talk before dinner, dinner – then my after dinner speech! After my final talk – Sally assisted me out of sight to the attendees, back to the castle, continuing to tell me - I should go to the hospital!

The seminar went on thru the 26th, 27th, and 28th of Dec with no changes! I honestly believe the attendees paid more attention, after my fall! The 29th all went home as scheduled! I went to the hospital on the 29th, about 3 ? days, after the incident! They checked me over and took Xray’s and asked me 20 times – did I lose consciousness? I said, I don’t think so! Of course, Doc Sally says, I must have - based on the (NCIS) blood splatter! They asked what kept me from going to the hospital, right after it happened! I said you would not understand – dedication to goals, purpose, focus, commitment to being all I can be, no matter what the circumstances, or inconvenience!?

I never ever quit!

Fast forward to graduation night! I cried a little https://youtu.be/Oxhs77OpQ-g?t=453 giving them inspiration and thanking God for allowing me to complete my task, apparently seriously hurt! I never let on, except when I almost fell, again twice during the week, prancing around the stage, as I do! I could of died graduation night, knowing I had done my very best – just as usual – injuries, or not!?

Little did I know, I would get 3 testimonials from the group! Perhaps not strangely – they came from the 3 most successful of the group! Guys who had done 25 deals since their 1st exposure to QLA and me! 2 were at dinner and 1 during my after dinner talk, which is on film – Abdul!! https://youtu.be/JN2C8v8yBQE

I have received countless accolades in my long and infamous career, but I have to say, I was moved by all 3! I fought back tears during all 3 speeches, honouring me and my efforts that week and my long career, of assisting others achieve their dreams! Sally also received, well deserved, accolades for her constant presence/support and her efforts to put on a world class event, during corona!

BTW: During this physical havoc, I was assisting 3 deals, I am chair of, getting across the goal line, as well! Of course, all made it!

Humbly I can say, I have always been a consummate professional, my entire career – since my days as a young hard charging, twisted steel and panther piss, army officer!?

In recent years, I always believed, lacing my talks with 4 letter words, didn’t detract from my mission, or message! I always believed, if the audience, got thru my bluster and did not shoot the messenger – I would succeed! Talks at Oxford, the US Naval Academy, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh and soon to be Princeton University, amongst many others, plus history, shows I was correct!

I am not sharing the details of this event, to illicit sympathy, love, or any kind of pity! I am merely clearing up any misunderstandings! Yes corona willing, with your demand, I will be speaking at universities but, giving fewer castle seminars, in 2022!

Most reading this, or following me – never met a high performance man that always gets the job done - no matter what! Death will someday stop me – but no fucking time soon!

Happy New Year!

God Bless you all!

Many thanks for your long time support!

This is our time QLA-bots!

Hence, go out and rip their fucking heads off and shit down their necks!

Dan Pe?a

The Trillion Dollar Man