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Imagine Sitting Next to Sir Richard Branson on a Flight!

Fact is often stranger than fiction, and what happened to Jason Murphy as he found himself sitting in seat 1A, the most desirable seat on any plane, could well be the work of fiction, only it isn't!

As you'll read in a moment, Jason was asked to move over and make way for a VIP passenger, and little did Jason know at the time, that he was to share his journey with hyper-successful, billionaire-entrepreneur - Sir Richard Branson.

During the course of the flight, Jason (who was about to start a new business in Australia) had the perfect traveling companion and business mentor who could give him invaluable advice and encouragement.

Here is Jason's own account of that now infamous flight.

This is the story as I recall it...

After many years working in the UK in the direct selling industry, I looked at a failed business in Australia. It was not the business which had failed, but in my opinion, it was the people who had failed the business. They just didn't have the right mindset at the top level.

I was travelling around Australia looking to inspire the people of this failed business to re-launch with a new focus, and was heading to Adelaide. Being quite tall, I asked for a seat with extra leg room and was pleasantly surprised when I found out that they had such a seat, and was consequently allocated seat 1A.

I'd only just sat down when the air-hostess approached me and told me there had been a mistake and asked if I could move seats. No one was sitting in seat 1C, so I enquired if it would be OK to move up. She said it would, so I moved along two seats, and thankfully still had the extra legroom. I remember, just as the flight was almost ready to take off, feeling a little smug, thinking that I'd got the whole three seats to myself.

With seconds left before the stewardess closed the door, a familiar looking man boarded the plane and sat down in the seat I'd just given up. I thought to myself, 'What makes you so special?', but when I took another look, I realised that it was none other than Sir Richard Branson, one of the owners of the airline!

Once I had caught my breath, I wondered what on earth I would talk to him about, if indeed he would even want to talk to the likes of me!

The plane was full of Australians, who are not overly known for their love and appreciation of 'British poms'. But, to my astonishment, the whole plane cheered and applauded once they noticed Richard Branson was on board.

It soon became evident to me why. Richard was confident, warm, cheerful and genuinely interested in my future business plans and goals. He and I chatted away like we had known each other for many years, and I'll never forget the respect he showed me.

This chance meeting has proved to be one of the greatest inspirations of my life. I decided from that day forward, I was going to treat everybody with the same respect, whether I was dealing with a refuse collector, or the MD of a multinational company. Everybody in the company needs to know that 'THEY' are important.

With this new mindset firmly in place, we've turned a failed business into a successful one, and one which is on schedule to invoice some $25m (10m) in the coming year. Our business is called Penny Miller Pty Ltd and we sell household products throughout Australia.

Only in the last month we launched a similar business in New Zealand, and are currently looking to expand into other international markets.

Jason's story was the inspiration for the best selling business book, Millionaire Upgrade: Lessons in Success From Those Who Travel at the Sharp End of the Plane.

Millionaire Upgrade tells the story of Tom McMillan and Michael Redford. Tom is a frustrated employee who gets upgraded on a flight and finds himself sitting in seat 1B. Michael Redford is a self-made millionaire entrepreneur, who throughout the flight shares with Tom his own secrets and philosophy of business success. Millionaire Upgrade is available in over 10 languages and is a regular Amazon top seller in the UK.

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You can claim the book which was inspired by a flight with Sir Richard Branson, and get your own MP3 audio copy of it. In the 3 hour session, you'll be taken on your own individual journey of business achievement, just as if you were sat on the plane talking to the millionaire.

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