One of the biggest things I see people struggling with, whether I’m coaching or even just people I meet in general, is that they know what they *should* be doing to improve certain things in their life… but they don’t actually *do* it!

In some cases, these people have read and studied a wide variety of self improvement topics. So lack of knowledge is not the issue. The issue is lack of follow through. And in my opinion, the reason there is a lack of follow through is because there is no real forcing function.

I am just as guilty as anyone else when it comes to not always following through on the things I know I should be doing to reach my goals.

I also learned something important a few years ago….

When achieving a result is important enough, there are things you can do that ENSURE you will take action. One of those things is declaring your intention publicly. That is exactly what I’m doing today and I hope it inspires you to do something similar:

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MEMBERSHIP SITE I AM WORKING ON FOR THIS CHALLENGE

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MEMBERSHIP SITE I AM WORKING ON FOR THIS CHALLENGE

This is a serious technique for serious success seekers.

Use with caution and monitor your own energy levels to determine how often you need to use this method:

The post I refer to in my video is here:
http://www.igniteyouressence.com/videos/how-to-pull-yourself-out-of-a-rut

In my blog post last week I talked about the fact that we are always choosing how we spend our time and focus our energy. Each moment of our lives we have an opportunity to do something and make something happen.

This is a follow up and it is a new video I created originally to get myself motivated. It turned into a pretty big project and I am sharing with you today in hopes that it gives you some added motivation/inspiration for the things you are working on in your life right now:

Today’s post is a tribute to my wife and a discussion about the importance of having people around you who support your goals. Thankfully, my biggest supporter is my wife which has made my transition from employee to entrepreneur much easier that it would have been otherwise.

She has been there to encourage me when my morale was down. She’s been there to offer advice when I didn’t know what to do next. And she was always there whenever I made mistakes and blunders to remind me that I was still on the right track. How awesome is that?

Who is supporting you? Perhaps you have some supporters in your life that you are not showing enough appreciation for? I know my work schedule has sometimes impacted how much time I spend with my wife and I am making efforts to ensure we invest time together… it is WAY too important not to.

Here is my video about our 6 year anniversary which happens to be today!

I have recently started arriving at the office shortly after 5am!

I find that I am most productive in the early morning before distractions kick in. It allows me time to focus on goals and train my mind.

This video shows some of my morning routine.

Please leave a comment and share your routine or what you took away from this vid…

Here is a short video I made with a challenge. Please watch the video and then comment about what you saw. Did you figure out the answer? Did you see the solution ahead of time? If you had seen this scenario before, how did you respond the first time. I am very curious about perception and the way each one of us sees the world.

Has this opened your eyes up to new ways of thinking?

Can you use this as inspiration to solve a new problem in a new way?

I have learned so much about Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) from this guy, Brad Gosse.

In preparation for an upcoming seminar series we are running together, I had a chance to sit down with Brad and ask him to clarify some of the major myths that are floating around regarding SEO and Internet Marketing in general.

The following 3 videos give you a very informative and insightful view of how things to avoid when you are trying to drive traffic to your business website or your blog.

If you like these videos, check out my live interview with Brad on Monday November 16th at 9pm EST

MYTH # 1

MYTH # 2

MYTH # 3

I would like to invite you to the most exciting event of my coaching career…

1 year ago, through a series of seemingly random events, I was introduced to a very successful online businessman named Brad Gosse. At the time, Brad had been a full time Internet Marketer for 12 years. He had sold millions of dollars worth of products and services online and was one of the pioneers of the industry.

He was just putting the final touches on his groundbreaking Internet Marketing Course called “Money Rake”. He was looking for a focus group of technical business owners to put his system to the test and make it world class. I was one of his initial students and I was literally blown away by the content.

Within a month of the course, not only was my website doing fantastic traffic numbers, I had also gone into business with Brad mostly because of our mutual passion for teaching and coaching.

In the past year we have run a number of successful online campaigns together and I started coaching and teaching his internet marketing clients alongside him. After running the course privately for local business owners, we started getting some amazing testimonials. People were noticing major improvements in their online marketing initiatives. We decided to enhance the course and bring it to a public setting.

On December 1st and 2nd, 2009 at the Hilton Doubltree in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Brad and I will be teaching the 2 day “Accelerated Internet Marketing Course”.

It is very exciting to be teaching this course with Brad. One year ago I was simply a student looking for guidance. A year later I have successfully implemented all of the strategies and now I have a chance to help others do the same. As a Success Coach, I could not have asked for a better opportunity.

We have a total of 30 seats available for this course. We have a number of affiliates in Canada and the US already promoting the event for us. If you would like to attend this event, please contact me directly or visit the main sales page for our course at

http://www.moneyrake.com

Additional Information about the course:

Both Brad and I have coached a number of people and we know the value of being held accountable. There is nothing more harmful to personal success than attending a seminar or training and NEVER implementing the information that has been learned. For this reason, we have created more than just a course. When you attend our Accelerated Internet Marketing Course, you also receive the following…

• Access to our internet marketing secrets newsletter ($500 value)
• Unlimited access to video updates for LIFE ($2,000 value)
• SEO poster for your office ($50 value)
• Full DVD set of your course delivered within days of attendance ($1,000 value)
• Easy to follow workbook and action plan for IMPLEMENTING what you have learned ($500 value)
• 1 hour phone coaching session after the course ($300 value)
• Professional Youtube commercial for your business ($500 value)
• 1 year access to our private marketing forum Unique Wealth ($1200 value)

Like I said, seating is limited to 30 students and tickets are already selling locally and in other cities. If you are ready to take your online presence to the next level, take this course and work with us to explode your results.

I am currently involved as a coach for a private Internet Marketing members forum. The purpose of the forum is to help online entrepreneurs build their businesses and achieve their goals.

There are a number of personal development challenges that everyone is going to be taking part in. One of them is to define a list of 100 Life Goals.

The point of the exercise is to assume you have access to all the money/resources you need to do anything. If you had this, what would you do with your life?

Here are my answers in no particular order:

1 – Grow my personal development company to be internationally recognized.

2 – Own a 10,000 sq ft home on a 3 acre property with a built in recreation facility

3 – Own a house in the Rockies in British Columbia

4 – Own a house in PEI

5 – Take care of the financial needs of everyone in my family

6 – Get 100,000 followers on Twitter

7 – Attend the TED conference

8 – Create a largely publicized fundraising event for Sick Kids Hospital starting with my personal donation of $400,000

9 – Create a largely publicized fundraising event for the NICU at William Osler Health Centre

10 – Have dinner with Bob Proctor and receive personal mentoring/guidance from him.

11 – Meet Jack Canfield and be personally mentored by him

12 – Spend an entire summer touring Northern Ontario

13 – Teach financial and business education to kids in schools

14 – Help my wife open her own  school

15 – Attend a professional level basketball coaching program

16 – Hire a professional personal basketball trainer

17 – Compete in an eco-challenge or a similar self challenging physical expedition

18 – Own front row season tickets for the Toronto Raptors

19 – Own season tickets for the Jacksonville Jaguars

20 – Write a self help book based on the principles that applied to my successful life

21 – Learn to play the guitar

22 – Become a unique comedian

23 – Walk around downtown Toronto handing out $1000 to homeless people

24 – Start a non profit organization

25 – Drive across Canada

26 – Take all of my closest friends on an all expense paid trip to Vegas

27 – Record an inspirational music album

28 – Invest money into the “dream businesses” for all my close friends to live their dream

29 – Own my own private jet and hire personal friend as full time pilot

30 – Take my family all over the world as children to learn about the world from a young age

31 – Have 3 personal assistant(s) for my business

32 – Have my own personal gourmet chef

33 – To teach my son the life principles I have learned through studying self help industry

34 – Visit a new world destination every year

35 – Become an expert skier and ski at the best destinations in the world

36 – Obtain professional sports training for any sport my son is interested in

37 – Buy my wife a baby grand piano

38 – Participate in a meditation retreat

39 – Get personal mentoring from Tony Robbins

40 – Adopt a child from a developing country

41 – Go on fly in fishing trips all over northern Canada

42 – Perform all major upgrades on current home

43 – Get 2 dogs, a weineramer and a black lab

44 – Own a BMW M5

45 – Have dinner with Dave Chappelle

46 – Create my own unique youth basketball league.

47 – Fund a world tour for my sisters to travel the globe

48 – Dunk a basketball

49 – Be a world class public speaker

50 – Take golf lessons from a professional golfer

51 – Build a young achievers organization

52 – Build a millionaires club for people who want to become millionaires

53 – Create a 90 day habit creation program

54 – Direct an inspirational movie

55 – Become a Millionaire Mind Instructor

56 – Have lunch with Tim Ferriss

57 – Host a radio program about personal success principles

58 – Climb a mountain

59 – Travel Europe for a year

60 – Cycle across Canada

61 – Participate in a Rick Hansen motivational event

62 – Spend a day interviewing Wayne dyer

63 – Create a unique summer camp for kids

64 – Bench Press 250lbs

65  – Get my black belt in kung fu

66 – Tour all of Alaska

67 – Sponsor the re-implementation of the football program at my old high school

68 – Learn how to scuba dive

69 – Design my own cottage on a lake in Northern Ontario

70 – Go on a fly-in fishing trip in northern Labrador

71 – Get a golf coach and learn to play at PAR level

72 -  Buy my own sporting franchise

73 – Sponsor an organic vegetable farm and make organic food more readily available

74 – Meet 5 new people per day

75 – Broadcast a Toronto Raptors basketball game

76 – Attend the summer Olympics

77 – Attend the winter Olympics

78 – Attend the Masters

79 – Attend Wibledon

80 – Attend a Superbowl

81 – Sit front row for an NBA finals game

82 – Learn how to surf

83 – Spend an entire winter learning to ski at Whistler

84 – Open a facility to provide free training to new business owners who need help starting

85 – Rent out an entire theme park for a day for children with illness

86 – Attend a live Chris Angel performance

87 – Take an outdoors survival course

88 – Attend a world cup soccer game

89 – Experiment with the latest computer AI robots/programs

90 – Take my wife to New York City to see all of the attractions for a week

91 – Fund the development of a recreation facility in an under developed area

92 – Learn how to play the drums

93 – Learn to drive a race car

94 – Travel to India

95 – Take a snowmobile trip across Ontario

96 – Camp at Yellowstone

97 – Learn to white water raft

98 – Learn how to memorize a book (I hear its possible)

99 – Create an organization to help teens start their own businesses

100 – Go parasailing