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Starting a new kind of club. 3 years ago

I wish there was a better word for it than club. I’m thinking of something halfway between a group of friends, a company, a self-help group, an investment club, a book club, and a sports team. The more I think about it the crazier it gets and most likely nobody will be stupid enough to join. Here are some of my first ideas though:

  1. The mission of the club will be to make all (or as many as possible) of its members insanely famous, wealthy, and rich (or whatever combo you want to go after).
  2. I don’t know if the club should ever meet. Maybe it would only meet to celebrate successes and drink to failure, and most of the real activity of the club would occur through email or phone or whatever.
  3. Several tiers to the club: there will be a board of directors, a team of investors, and members (not necessarily mutually exclusive). The board of directors would be the visionaries, in charge primarily of making people famous. The investors would help make us rich. And the members… guinea pigs? Not sure how to go directly after power… maybe we’d need to bully people around or something.
  4. There will be a Book of Rules that members will need to opt in to in order to be members. Not sure what goes in the rules… things like “You must like sushi” perhaps. Not sure how Rules get made… voted on by the Board of Directors perhaps. This is where it all starts getting crazy I realize.
  5. I want to capture some of the spirit of salons, of hanging out after school, of endless happy hours, of sleep overs, and the things like these things which take us back to a day when we all had time and energy to think about life and the universe and do crazy things. I’m sort of on that track myself, but it’s always more fun in a group.

This idea is still in progress. Am I losing it or would this be fun?



Comments:

you are losing it, AND it would be fun.

Carrick is working on getting fit

What would motivate the visionaries and investors to share the fame, fortune, and power with the members?

In a way it sounds like you’re describing a gang or mafia. If so, count me in.

Seems to have merit. I think you should add “required movie night” to the list of rules. That might be one of the few exceptions to the meeting rule.

Must love sushi?

The club hasn’t event started yet and I already am disqualified.

What if I want to be rich but not famous? Am I doubly disqualified?

ditto

I don’t like sushi or want to be famous either.

we’ll see what happens ;-)

milkbox is happy! is even happier still :D

i heart sushi

And movie nights sound great.

Sounds like a club I’d like to join. :)


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