Micheal Savoie

I just sat down on my comfy hotel room chair and I can feel my feet screaming for joy at the removal of my confining dress shoes after the first day of Life’s Golden Ticket Super Seminar!  The weather here has been awesome during the day, just a few degrees cooler than Florida and in the evening the temperature and humidity are much lower than Florida, making it great for walking and riding the public transportation.

My exhaustion will have to wait, because I have to brain dump.  I got so much out of Brendon Burchard in just one day, that I don’t see how he could add any more value tomorrow.  The guy never seems to get tired, although at one point his voice was sounding a little hoarse. 

Picture this, the lights are dim, smoke fills the air and a quiet group of circus performers walk out into the center of the ring.  They suddenly all launch into various routines simultaneously with people walking on balls, jugglers, trapeze artists and clowns.  Watching this action all at one time was very disorganizing and I soon understood the point Brendon was making – running a business is like that, a complete circus all around us, distractions grabbing our focus away from our goals.

All day long Brendon kept the crowd in the room mentally by shouting “I’m Here!” and raising his hand so that the rest of the audience would repeat it.  His style of teaching brings you into the event and does not allow you to leave until your mind has been filled to the earholes.  A couple times I had to put my fingers in my ears to keep nuggets of wisdom from spilling out!

I am looking forward to an exciting Saturday with lots more surprises in store for us!  If you are in the Long Beach Area, stop by and see us!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS – The contest will conclude Sunday Night as we do a live broadcast from the Coast hotel.  I am also going to attempt to get a group of people together today for a broadcast tonight, so keep your eyes open for an announcement!

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Where Did I Go? Wrong!

Punctuation makes 5 words different from a common phrase.

So does our influence on the people around us and how we are influenced by the people with whom we associate. I was on a mastermind call on my way home from work. I was telling everyone what I was struggling with. One of the comments was to not focus on the where, but the fact that I can take action and get past all of that! And that you can… because if I can do it with the load of baggage I chose to carry on my arthritic shoulders for the last 6 years, then you can take this and knock it out of the park!

It is truly a miracle. First of all that I can find people who love me so much that they are willing to put up with me, tell me what I am doing wrong, point me in the direction that I need to be going and encourage me all along the road as I am running, walking when I am winded and crawling at the roughest of times. My last blog post was an example of the winded post, and the post where I was unsure of what I was doing a few weeks back is a good example of a crawling period.

My wife is such a saint that she can live with a person who is in such transition as I have been over the last twelve months. She understands how fragile a person can become because she is a leader of a Celebrate Recovery group at our church, and when I am finally free, I intend on joining her there to take my steps to recovery from my own issues. But I exhibit such a variety of emotions at times that I can’t see how she can take it.

I am elated during successes, mine or my friends’! I can sink into a depression when things are tough… I can be inexplicably comedic at the wildest of times and it amazes me that I don’t scare her away!

But think about it. If I can take a chance at the Internet and make it work, then you should be able to go whizzing past me, too!

Your story is important to me. I want to be able to share with others how it is possible to overcome huge obstacles (mine are probably small compared to yours – hey don’t go there…) because of the dream. What is your dream?

Picture Yourself In A Boat On A River…

Remember, my dream is to have the biggest bonfire in Citrus County with my mobile home as the kindling. I will videotape the entire process, and allow the local fire company to use it for practice in keeping forest fires from happening. Immediately after that bonfire, once the embers have been completely doused and only the faint smell of the charred wood is still in the air, a construction crew will arrive and flatten all of the dangerous pines in the yard, and then begin building a home that will be able to house my wife and I, my three daughters (each with their own apartment so that they don’t have to move out when they are married) and an office where I can have meetings, workshops and seminars.

The garage will be large enough for my cars, my wife’s car and a car for each of my daughters and a workshop for me to mess around in when I want to feel constructive… What kind of car do you like? Lately on twitter, John Reese was discussing a GTX that he was thinking of buying. I think the fun is in the decision to get the car and then messing with the salespeople’s minds when you slap the cash down in front of them and say this is how much I want to pay for this car!

Who cares about slipping through some silly cracks once you are driving a car that you want to be driving, and being able to drive it when you feel like driving it…

Spinning Your Wheels?

You aren’t alone! I have spun my wheels for a long time before I had some friends throw a little sand down for me to get traction. Like Jimmy Morrison said, “Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel!” You have to have the vision to know where you are going and the steady hands to keep your vehicle facing the right direction.

There are patches of ice, curves and potholes along the way, I can attest to that. But the path that those before us, people like John Reese, Jim Daniels, Ken McArthur, Alan Bechtold and Declan Dunn, blazed in front of us! They started with shovels first and when they figured out how to get a bulldozer and they blazed a bigger trail, then they found that earth movers could do an even faster job and the next generation of marketers (like Frank Kern, Yanik Silver, Jeff Walker and Mike Filsaime) started using the earth movers and then they got the pavement laid out so that the path was now an information highway…

Now we have Eben Pagan, Gary Ambrose, Keith Wellman and Jeff Johnson turning it into an information superhighway for a whole new group like Ross Goldberg, Anik Singal, Dr. Mike Woo Ming, Lee and Robin Collins, and Erik Stafford who are showing us how to climb into a car instead of walking so we can zoom along that superhighway even faster. Then Rick Raddatz, Howie Schwartz, Jack Humphrey and Joe Clayton created the tools we need to make our work faster and simpler.

We have it easier than anyone has had it in the last ten years, because we have more tools and knowledge at our disposal than anyone has ever had in the history of the Internet! Our highway is already paved and roadsigns are at every crossroad! You want to get to Teleseminar Street? You need to turn here and see Bob The Teacher and his Teleseminar Formula and grab Instant Teleseminar from Rick Raddatz so you can host some of the most professional calls possible.

What many of us realize as we get started on this vast highway is that it is not a major undertaking to make money online, it is finding the motivation to keep going when the hot water heater falls out of the closet or your insurance gets canceled because you just booked a ticket to an event that you absolutely have to attend…

That is where your dream comes into the picture. It strides in like a cowboy walks into the saloon and everyone stops what they were doing… they can see it in his eyes that he isn’t going to take crap from anyone. Your dream will tread over the bodies of the obstacles it has defeated to clear a path for you back onto the superhighway, so you can drive like your tail is on fire!

I Dream Of Jeannie

You can’t blink and get your dream just like that. You need to search your soul. You need to know who you are and who you want to be.

Who you want to be?

Yep… you may not like to hear this, but you will change.

On your way to your dream, you will undergo some pressure, feel some heat and get sliced and diced. Those are exactly what a diamond goes through to become the valuable gem on the ring on someone’s finger. It was originally some carbon that made a decision to get from Point A to Point B…

Life throws many a challenge on us. As we live life, we settle into habits that cause us the least discomfort as we dodge branches that might have slapped us in the face just a year ago, but now we know that we have to duck when we get here, or we took a more friendly path instead of the one with the slapping branch. Soon we have a comfort zone that we live in.

Jeff Wellman once told me that his comfort zone was actually not very comfortable. But it was something he had been used to, because it hurt him the least out of all the other things he had done. Then his son turned his life upside down by helping him put together a 6 figure launch… It got mighty uncomfortable as he interviewed Heather Vale when she proceeded to answer every question he had written down in the first 5 minutes of what was supposed to be an hour long interview. He felt like he was under serious pressure and the heat was definitely on. He took a step, then another. He followed up on her answers, one at a time and he built up a rapport with Heather, until he was asking her questions that he never planned on asking and he was getting answers out of Heather that he did not even think he knew he wanted to get.

He took action under pressure. Funny thing is, the pressure eventually subsided. Simply because he kept on taking action.

Where Are You?

Are you at the bottom of the pile of crap? Are you swimming around in it? Have you made your way to the ladder and climbed your way out? We are all at different places in our struggle to live our dream. Your location is not important. The only important fact is that you are in motion. Before power steering was invented, turning the wheel on a parked car was difficult. You had to put the car in motion to be able to turn the vehicle. Now that we have power steering, it may be easier to turn the steering wheel, but you still get the same results if you aren’t moving as you got when you were straining without power steering. The motion is what matters, because you can’t turn a parked car!

Where’s Waldo? Who Cares!

Where are you? Don’t worry about answering that. Instead close your eyes. Open them back up, you can’t read this if you close your eyes, silly.

Imagine yourself not having a care in the world, your success has already happened. You have made it to the place you want to be. Describe that place. How does that make you feel?

Before you allow your mind to drift back to reality… remember the feeling you had when you saw your success all around you. Imagine that the feeling you are feeling can be framed like a photo. You place that photo on your wall. Now come back to where you are, but don’t take your eyes off of that photo on your wall. Can you see your surroundings if you are looking at your framed photo? Peripherally, maybe, but the bulk of your vision is that picture in the frame. As you work on your projects, keep that picture of the what you were feeling in your mind.

Notice how you feel like you already possess that goal, that victory?

Obstacles can no longer affect you because they can not make you feel like that picture on your wall makes you feel. You only have to glance up at that framed image in your mind to feel the victory surge back into your body and you can take action, regain focus and keep on working when you know you need some rest. Or maybe it is calling up that person you met at the seminar last month to see about cross promoting to each other’s lists. You can take action now because your obstacles are powerless over you!

So from now on, don’t worry about where you went, forget about worry in general, just enjoy the journey and your life will be much more enjoyable as you create your dream one step at a time.

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS – By taking action in a big way, you defeat inertia and you build yourself up. Find the people who are a natural fit with your beliefs and join them in a mastermind. With 5 or 6 people in various levels of success surrounding you, you can achieve much more than trying to use the shovel when a backhoe would make the job a little easier. A strong mastermind group is like having the backhoe, because you have the people to increase your levels of energy and attitude with the added benefit of having someone point out what works and what to avoid.

So let me help you find the right people to work with. Leave a comment, letting me know what you would want to accomplish if you didn’t have to worry about where the money came from to make it happen. Also, include who the top three people with whom you would like to mastermind. Finally, list what day of the week and time you are most likely able to get on a call for on hour.

PPS – Tuesday at 7:00PM Pam Ragland will tell us about shifting our thoughts from the negative to the positive in a way that gets you succeeding much faster than you believed possible! Sign up now for the thought shifting call so you can get a reminder.

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I purposely left the title ambiguous and seemingly grammatically challenged. Because I refuse to be the crack slipper…

In reading Impact: How To Get Noticed, Motivation Millions and Make A Difference In A Noisy World I found that I saw myself as one of the people who never spoke loud enough to get the attention of the people I really wanted to reach. Seemed like someone was either louder than me or a distraction would interrupt the person who could make a difference for me.

In fact it came to a head in January of this year in Las Vegas. I was at the Masters Seminar and I was helping Ross Goldberg with the operation of the seminar. Among that crowd of intense personalities I pretty much blended into the shrubbery, because my focus was getting stuff done or escaping to get a few notes taken during some of the many amazing speakers.

If you read my previous posts, you probably know that cashflow has been a challenge for me, and that I give my word to people that I am going to be there and then I get there no matter what. I had maxed out most of my credit cards by the time I arrived, so food was challenging, but I would make a sale here or there on my website and then I would have the money, or one of my friends would invite me to come eat with them, and then would buy. They always made it seem like it was part of the plan, but I hated the imposition that I felt I was being.

Dr. Mike Woo Ming was speaking and I managed to get a seat near the front and I took copious notes, because Dr. Mike really delivers some good content. I mean actionable stuff that you can use and make money with. Since I believe in helping the speakers get audience participation, one time when Dr. Mike said “Who thinks $4500 is a good price for this package? Raise your hand if you would buy this product for $4500!”

I raised my hand instantly to get some social proof going for Dr. Mike, and I saw others start to raise their hands, too. But being near the front, I caught Dr. Mike’s attention.

“For taking action, you can have the package for free!”

I was floored, because that coaching program that Dr. Mike was offering was worth the $4500 easily! And the software bonuses were worth easily twice that much! I was fired up! I was going to finally get some coaching from someone who could show me how to make money in quantities that would eliminate the worry about where my next meal would come from.

I made sure I filled out the form with the required information… and I slipped through the cracks.

I don’t know what happened, but the email never arrived…

Slipping through the cracks has happened in numerous situations where I know something funny had to be going on… a blog comment that ends up being approved but on a totally buried post instead of the one I commented on. A phone call I was supposed to be scheduled for with a different mentor never happened, and I feel like a dork for speaking up. In fact I almost quit a coaching program because of it. People who say one thing in front of people about you, but their actions convey the opposite (like they totally forget you exist). In any case, I am not revisiting this as therapy for me, but for prevention for you!

I think you reach an age and a point in humility where you shred the final pieces of pride that you have left and you decide to speak up! You risk appearing negative, but you get your point across, dammit!

Speaking up must be positive. You can’t hurt others, because that is not speaking up. That is spiteful. You tell people how their behavior made you feel. You tell them that you think it was probably an oversight on their part, but that they should have done this.

It is really difficult, though, speaking up. Even as I type this sentence, I am plotting to delete this post before publishing it. I may have to publish before even reading it all the way through, because I don’t want to drag people through the mud…

But if you are reading this, then somehow this post slipped through the cracks…

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS – I am launching a new website. It is powered by Rapid Action Profits… but with a twist. I supply the website, the bandwidth, the script and the affiliates and you pay me with a percentage of the sales and an up front setup fee.

Why would you want to do something like that?

1. You don’t know how to set up a script on your website.
2. You don’t want to spend that much money on the software.
3. You don’t have time to spend with the set up and deployment.
4. You don’t have time to gather new JV partners.
5. You just want to create products.
6. It is worth the smaller up front fee and percentage of commissions to not have to worry about the support and costs of running an ecommerce site.

So if you want to have one of the first products on my new site, send me a direct message on twitter – and let me know how much it is worth to you to have affiliates selling your product for instant commissions while building your list for you…

Prices are going to range from $37 to $127 and percentages will range from 10% to 3% depending on the up front payment. I would like feedback on this to know for sure that I am not being an idiot…lol.

Check out the first product up so far:

Target: Adwords – a step by step video training site that shows you how to set up site targeting campaigns on Adwords.

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Tears are welling up in my eyes as I type this, the sheer force of the first movement of Beethoven’s 4th Symphony (in B-Flat major for those of you who care) as I try and drown out the negativity that my mind keeps attempting to pour into my soul…

Music is amazing.

In my case, I like instrumental music because I lose concentration when I hear words. In this case, maybe words would be good, so long as they sang positive affirmations. I am a firm believer that what you listen to does affect you. I once wanted to write a comic book series about a hero who would gain superhuman strength whenever he heard music. It would have made for a really cool movie. I like the way it gives me strength (not superhuman, but it does energize me in instances when I feel particularly down).

Like right now.

I check my bank account balance last night immediately after my direct deposit hit and my 2 week paycheck had just brought my balance back to $23. I wasn’t excited, but I thought I could make it so long as I canceled as many of my bill payments as I could.

After canceling what I could, I figured out that I needed to deposit $240 to cover the bills that weren’t covered yet, so I made a plan and worked until 4:30AM getting my site set up.

I tested it and then went to bed. I awoke and started mailing and promoting the product, which, ironically enough, is designed to help you increase cashflow by offering a coaching program. Paypal decided to do some sort of upgrade and Instant Payment Notifications were delayed by up to an hour, so a lot of customers were not shown the one time offer that was supposed to convert really well…

Still, Beethoven was breaking me out of the funks that all of these issues were tossing my direction. It was still going well, until I logged in to my Bank of America (BOA) account… They lived up to their acronym, because they squeezed the wind right out of me.

I really had to debate whether to finish this post. I have had the habit of revealing too much of the personal in my personal posts. My PR friends say that honesty is good, but too much honesty will take you right out of the game.

Seriously, though, my thoughts today as I examine my next 6 months and plan how I am going to retire from my job on October 31st… I sometimes don’t see how it can be possible. Vision is sometimes seeing what isn’t there yet. So I am going to do what I can with my current situation and work on setting a firm foundation for my business.

But I don’t intend on doing it alone.

Don’t ever plan your future and only consult with yourself. Surround yourself with higher income earners than yourself and let them help you with the brainstorming and the potential for your plans. They can help you see obstacles that you might not have planned for and help you steer clear of them BEFORE they become a problem.

So now that I am at peace with the world of finances, I can again focus on the world of product creation and social media! Together, the two disciplines are very powerful because of how quickly you can align yourself with your audience. I used Wowit software creator to put together a really cool player for an audio interview I did with Felicia Slattery and it floored her. The player gave instant access to the audio and also links that people could click on to get to the products she mentioned in the interview.

I am planning a software product like that for traffic generation and social media. In fact, I have an idea for a software social media card that will give your links to every social media platform so that you just send a person to download your software and then they can sign up as your friend on all of the networks. I also plan on making it brandable.

This post has really meandered today, so I am going to let you get some much needed rest for your weary eyes. Just remember to tell people about the contest, because we need more people trying to get the word out about SpeakUpSaveLives.org… The contest URL is http://speakupsavelives.org/impact
and you can sign up and win some awesome prizes!

When you feel down, remember that others are thinking about taking their own lives and that you should be out there helping to bring the orchestra to the thousands who need some music in their souls!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

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