Today I’m chatting about how ideas can either be the DEATH of your business or bounce it light years ahead!! This is a huge topic for any entrepreneur online… old or young… in business for years or just months.

Learn from me about action planning your ideas and picking which ones are the best to act on now. I’ll show you how to do this in the video below…

Enjoy!!

I wrote a check to myself for $100,000.  AHHH!!!!

Unfortunately at this point I don’t have the cashflow to cash it in (unless someone breaks into my house and steals it!)

I just shot a quick video telling why I did this and how it could help get your mind straight in the internet marketing business.

Enjoy!

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A couple of weekends ago myself, Matt Wolfe and Josh Bartlett attended Frank Kern’s List Control seminar together at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego (just about a 5 minute drive from my house).  Let me tell you, that thing was awesome!!

Here are a few cool pictures from the event…

Josh Bartlett, Shoemoney, Me, Matt Wolfe

Birthday boy Frank Kern & Myself

That’s just a couple from a ton of pictures that we got with some really awesome people who attended.

So what’s really cool about going to these seminars anyway?

What a lot of people think when it comes to seminars is all of the content and information they’re going to go off and use in their businesses.

Well that’s a great reason to attend these things, but not always the only reason.

At Frank’s seminar there were a variety of awesome speakers, including Frank himself. You never know exactly what you’re going to get when going to these events, but you always seem to walk away with a brand new way at looking at your business and how you could do things better.

This seminar was no different. After hearing Bill Glazer and Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street) speak, my mind was thinking a whole new way. Not only that, but I was pages and pages deep into my custom List Control notebook with my chicken scratch.

Jordan Belfort and Me

Just as you might have thought, the other (and sometimes more important) reason why I love attending seminars is because of the amazing people you can meet. Not only can you meet some of the speakers and big names in the industry, you meet a huge variety of attendees, some of which could turn into potential business partners.

While at the event and after hearing the speakers and talking to some of the attendees, I’ve been able to gather my thoughts and focus on what is most important in my business and what will further me the quickest.

One of my goals for this year and those to come is to attend a variety of seminars so I can accomplish these two things. Not only are you going to gain some “insider” knowledge, you could meet people who have the potential to change your life!

Here are a few more pictures from the List Control seminar…

Mike Koenigs (Traffic Geyser & Main St. Marketing Machines) and Me

Jason Moffatt and Myself

Me, Josh Bartlett and Matt Wolfe at the Padres game

I got over the basics of what mind mapping is for those who have no clue.  I’ll also cover the benefits and some simple steps to get started.

It’s a little different than what I’m used to, but let’s give it a shot…

As I said in the video, look for a followup video showing you where to get your free mind mapping tools and exactly how to use the program.  This quick tutorial will take away the learning curve you would have if you dove straight in!

Tell me what you thought about the video!!

What if you had the choice of writing down these two vacations for the end of the year: a 16-day long Transatlantic cruise that stops along multiple beautiful classic Mediterranean towns, stops at the pink-sand beaches of Bermuda, and finally ends at the base of seemingly endless skyscrapers in New York City, OR you could choose to take Friday off of work (I hope the boss doesn’t kill you) to spend an “extended” weekend roadtrip to San Francisco (barring you live anywhere near).  There, you’ll choose to see the city sights, go to a nice dinner, and then, sooner than you know it, you’ll be back on the road headed home.

I don’t know about you, but the sound of an all-you-can-eat cruise with shows, a casino, awesome sites, and pools is too good– I’m sold.

Now just take a moment to see the differences between these two goals.  These options don’t need to be ones you’d like to have, but you should clearly see the difference in the amount of planning, time, and effort it would take to achieve going on that Transatlantic cruise.

And that’s the main difference!!

See, there are two types of goals: believable and unbelievable, or big and small, or simple and difficult–I think you get the picture.  These differences will directly correlate to the effort you’ll spend trying to make them become a reality.

If you choose to write down simple and easily achievable goals, chances are you’ll be able to check them off your list, but you would need to scrap and fight to do it.  The small and easily achievable goals are almost POINTLESS in planning because once you head that direction, you do so at a mediocre pace.  Simple goals are almost immediately attainable and just don’t have any meat on the bone.  In short, they just don’t cut it.

The big and “unbelievable” goals contain a story within them, something that took a great number of steps and processes to reach the finish.  You could even classify these big goals as being a 300-page novel; On the other hand, easily attainable goals could be a short story you read yourself in bed at night–they could be fun, but they never present a real struggle.

The bigger and more unrealistic the goal may seem, the more it will drive you to succeed once you start heading that direction.  Because these larger goals are so far away, you will need to perform your due diligence to plan out your action steps that will be needed as incremental successes towards your ending target.

Now if this were me, I’d fight to the end to achieve my Transatlantic cruise goal!  If there are failures along the way, just keep your eye on the prize and think back to all of the planning time you’ve already spent to get you to your target.  Don’t let ANYONE stand in between you and your goals!