Don’t you just love “coincidences”?

Common usage has the word meaning, “remarkable things happening purely by chance.” But we just added that “chance” part. The word itself simply means, “two or more things happening together.” Do you believe in chance? I don’t.

In any case: On Sunday, March 2 (in just a few days, that is) it just so happens that my great friend and You Call the Shots coauthor, Cameron Johnson, is going on national television as one of ten contestants in the new prime-time reality TV show, “Oprah’s Big Give.” (ABC, Sundays at 9 p.m. Eastern.)

The point of the show is to give away as much as possible — to be as creative and ingenious as you can in doing the most good and helping people with the biggest impact.

And this just happens to be happening mere weeks after the launch of The Go-Giver.

Bob Burg and I wrote The Go-Giver three years ago, in the early months of 2005. Cameron and I hadn’t even written his book yet, and the “Big Give” was but a twinkle in Oprah’s eye. The show was shot a year ago, and originally meant to be aired by June, but was repeatedly postponed for various reasons . . . until now—with The Go-Giver just making its initial splash in the marketplace.

Don’t you just love coincidences?

P.S. The entire cast of “Oprah’s Big Give” will be featured on a special segment of the Oprah! show this Friday afternoon (March 29).

P.P.S. Here is Cameron’s “contestant page” on Oprah’s site. Cameron’s official web site is www.cameronjohnson.com.

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