Micheal Savoie

If you have been following me for any length of time, you already know that I was selected for Ken McArthur’s Impact Action Team. I was totally floored when I found out, and then I was panic-stricken because I have to accomplish so much to get myself there.

So here is the deal - I will be off the radar for most of the coming weeks except for an occasional post here to let you know that I am still alive and what I am doing to get ready for the Impact Boot Camp in Philadelphia a week from Friday!

If you are in need of information, you can use my help desk, or call me at 352-257-1332 and I’ll do what I can to help you with whatever it is. My clients are making great strides in their marketing, and the buzz that they are generating is amazing! Keep your eyes peeled for Mr. Ebay as he is making the Podcast circuit.

I am offering sponsorships for the next 3 to 6 months for companies that would like to get some extra publicity, since the Impact Action Team will be generating a LOT of buzz over the next 3 months. I will be getting a lot of traffic and making a lot of media appearances as we get the word out about The Life’s Golden Ticket Event in Los Angeles and some of the other projects going on! So if you would like to sponsor me in my travels in return for mention on my blog and on my home page as well as in any speaking engagements, just open up a support ticket or use the Donate button below:

For Donations of $2500, $3500 or $5000 I will be placing advertisements on my home page and on my blogs as well as mentions at the tail end of my videos. I thank in advance anyone who gives anything, because as you will see below, my story is interesting…

I am also working with Rachel Rofe and Jaime Mintun on a way for me to do seminars locally with Brick And Mortar businesses! This will definitely expand the income streams and help bring more new coaching clients into my fold. The goal is to have monthly seminars in towns nearby and help bring more businesses into the online world. With the new training package I am putting together for offline businesses, this combination will be a way to develop more business and help the economy by strengthening the grass roots.

Tell me how I can Impact you!
If you are struggling with something, please, let me know what it is. My mission in life is to help as many people as possible and to be accessible. So whenever you run into a problem that you haven’t been able to solve on your own, leave me a comment. I will find the answer or point you in the direction of the person that does have the answer.

Calls of the WILD…
Teleseminars are coming again! The first call you need to be on this week is the Faster Webmaster Erik Stafford’s call on Wednesday evening! To get on the call, you just have to register here…

Leave me a comment if you want to hear from specific people and I will get them on a call. I am serious when I tell you that I am here for you! We are in this together and I have a lot of amazing friends in the marketing world. If you would like me to schedule a call with any of them, just tell me which one (leave a comment or a help desk ticket) and the most popular ones will get scheduled!

Point Of Impact
The whole reason I wanted to sign up for Ken’s Impact Boot Camp and the Impact Action Team was that for a while I felt really insignificant. Sure I was making a difference with the people at work and my family, but sometimes you get that feeling inside of you that says, “I want to do more…”

So I started praying about it. I asked God what I should be doing to help the world. The answer didn’t seem to come. I repeatedly prayed that prayer and the next day I was faced with the same tasks daily - go to work, come home and work on my business, sleep and start all over the next day.

I attended jvAlert Live in June and as usual, I felt insignificant there, because so many people with such powerful ambitions were already making an Impact, and I was struggling to pay for a hotel room - in fact, I did not even have the means to pay for a hotel room while I was there. I was wandering around with my luggage, not sure what to do when someone offered to let me share their room.

You don’t know how humbling it is when you are at a hotel full of Internet Millionaires and you don’t have the cash to put yourself up for the night. I fought tears for most of the weekend, but I placed myself at everyone’s service while I was there. If someone needed something, I was on it. But inside, I thought, “what the heck am I doing here?”

During that weekend, I made some sales of products, so I was able to eat, but I still felt like I was missing something. I was sitting in the restaurant on Sunday evening thinking I had pretty much hit the bottom and that the only way to go was up, when Ken came by and thanked me for helping everyone out during the event. I thanked him for the opportunity to serve, but Ken looked at me and said, “what do we have to do to get you where you want to be?”

I was dumbfounded. I really didn’t know how to answer that. Short of an infusion of a few thousand dollars, I didn’t see what Ken could do for me that he hadn’t done already. My first thought was to define what I really want to do, and I explained to Ken that I was at a point in my business where I was treading water and that the time I was spending at work was hurting my momentum. So Ken told me to fill out the questionnaire and submit it to his personal assistant and that we would schedule a phone conversation to help me figure out where I want to be.

Things Get Better, Right?
So I flew home. Still worried (one thing about worry… it will defeat you - the more you worry, the more energy you devote to the negative event and the more of that negative event you end up attracting) about how I was going to get my car out of the airport parking garage when my flight got home, I sent a quick email out to my list about a product I had promoted for the past month, and sales had dropped considerably. But I had the amount in my mind that I needed to achieve to be certain that I could pay for tolls and the parking garage.

Miraculously, I arrived at the Orlando airport to find the exact amount I needed to pay for the parking garage in my Paypal account. Excited, I hurried home! But things at home had gotten worse. Our mobile home had been ravaged by hurricane Frances in 2004 and the $3000 we received from FEMA to help fix it up was barely able to fix a 28 year old mobile home. Back in the ’80s, most mobile homes were created with particleboard flooring and the humidity from having the underside of the mobile home exposed for that short time was enough to start a chain reaction and over the last 4 years the floors have begun to rot out from under us.

New holes had formed in the bathroom, the hallway and even in front of the front door. Suddenly, our home was a hazard to live in. Since June, the weather here in Beverly Hills, Florida is rainy, hot and humid. With all this rain, we soon discovered that the roof has sprung a couple leaks and is hastening the floor disintegration. Now I think to myself that I have really hit the bottom.

Your Mission - Should You Decide To Accept It…
That is when I hear back from Ken’s office that I have been accepted to the Impact Action Team! They tell me that I have to be able to travel to Philadelphia again for the training and then to Los Angeles to attend the Life’s Golden Ticket Event! I am excited, but my wife sprinkles a huge dose of reality on me… “What about the floors and the roof? And have you seen where mold is starting to grow in the wood around the leaks? I think we are allergic to it.”

Smack! That dropped me to my knees.

To think that my dream is about to be achieved, that I could be able to help make a difference in the world, but my own world is about to engulf me. That is why I am telling you this story. I am living proof that dreams can get drowned in reality if you let them. But, I have a life jacket.

Surround Yourself With Winners
I am fortunate to be friends with hearts bigger than Texas. They also have attitudes that tell me that nothing is going to block me from my dream as long as I focus on it. I have never revealed any of my circumstances to anyone before, but last night as I was tossing and turning and listening to the sound of the air conditioning fighting against the influx of warm air through the floorboards (floormush?) and other unidentifiable sounds (my imagination at 3am can really take me to strange places, so I tried to think about something else) that it hit me that I need to write down what I am going through. This is going to inspire someone. It isn’t very inspiring to me, since I am living through it, nor to my wife and three daughters, who have almost lost hope in their father’s ability to make good decisions because I choose to follow my dream.

We all start somewhere. I am here in this semi-shelter planning on the day when I can get a burn permit from the county and set fire to it as we start construction of a real home. I have a plan mapped out, now. I did not let my dream get dowsed by the rain dripping through the ceiling. I navigate through my hallway a little differently than most people, but I have a plan in place to make this a temporary situation. So with the descent into the depths of despair, I found that sometimes that is the only time we can actually listen to God’s whispers to us. It seems like when you have hit your lowest point, your ears finally open.

Of course, it is going to take a hell of a lot of convincing to get my family on board for this wild ride, because they are the ones having to fight the fight while I work at my job and work on my business plan. Thankfully, if I don’t have a family I can get encouragement from, I have mentors and best friends who are where I want to go and they encourage me, give me ideas that I can use to sidestep potential roadblocks and potholes (I am getting good at avoiding those with the practice I get in the house).

So the moral to this story is don’t ever give up. Last week, I wrote an email to Ken McArthur’s personal assistant to tell her that I was quitting. I told her to tell Ken that I was going to have to concentrate on my problems here, instead of helping others with their problems and possibly impacting thousands more people. I had reached my own limit of endurance.

The email I got back from her was like a jolt of electricity. It was like she had charged up the paddles of the defibrillator and applied them to my chest and yelled, “clear!” and then poured on the juice! My lifeless dream took a sharp intake of breath and its heart started beating again! I no longer cared about the critters in the walls and the floors disappearing under my feet, because I know that with just the right amount of massive focused action, I can get rid of any obstacles in my way. And if my wife doesn’t understand right now, I feel for her, I love her and I want her to know that I will make this work no matter what she thinks or tells my daughters. The impact that this will have on their lives will be more immense than they will ever know. The people who will be touched by my story will one day make a difference in the lives of my grandchildren!

So take a moment and define your dream. Really put it out there for the world to see instead of keeping it close to the vest. Because if you don’t let anyone know that you have a dream, you don’t really have one. Until you have been laughed at, made uncomfortable, told you are crazy for thinking that you can make something of yourself because of where you came from, or threatened with divorce - you don’t even know if your dream is worth fighting for! This is my dream for you!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - I am drained after writing this. It is rather cleansing… I also know that this is a time when I could have been writing a blog post to try and make some money by selling you something.

But I am selling you something. I am selling you on your dream! You need to buy into it. Until you have, nobody else will buy into it, either!

Impact Action Team video produced by Paul Richardson - another one of the 18 Impact Action Team Members chosen!

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I learned a valuable lesson over the weekend. You see, I had been losing my “positive attitude” because of a lot of little things building up in my life.

Little things, alone can easily be crushed by a positive “can do” attitude by just driving over them. I call them speed bumps. Sometimes, the speed bumps are pot holes. They are barely visible and when you drive over them, they engulf your wheel…

Individual potholes of life are not so bad, but when a bunch of them accumulate to form a crater in the road, you can get into trouble unless you have people surrounding you that can help pull your car out of the muck.

You may remember that in November and December of last year, I had to be out of work for two month for surgery and at the same time, my wife was also out of work (almost 4 months) because she was having back surgery. So the income slowed down during that time and I set into motion a few businesses that were designed to keep a steady flow of income even after I returned to work.

My plan was to be retired from my job by now.

The potholes came in the way of bank fees and the proverbial snowball effect that those had on my account. Over February, March and April, I ended up falling victim to my own stupidity and an unforgiving banking system to the tune of over $2000! Add to that the medical bills we had accrued and the time I was spending away from my business as I had returned to my full time job and you can see that the pothole was getting really deep!

As I careened headlong into the pothole that engulfed my tire, half the axle and part of my fender, I cried out for help (it was not a very loud one - pride is also a digger of deep holes) and one person heard it. Tom Beal emailed me and asked me what was wrong. After empathizing with me he immediately showed me how to tie the chains to the undercarriage of my car and how to get myself out of the pothole. Then he showed me how to fill the pothole and get past it without further damage.

Sometimes you need to confide in someone. Sometimes the people that are close to you don’t hear you. Sometimes it takes someone who doesn’t know you to look at your situation and recommend a solution that you might not have heard if someone close to you had said the same thing.

I have made a decision to document my struggles and how I overcome them so that I can help others with the same thing. I will be setting up a debt reduction membership site complete with step by step action plans and software to calculate which payments you should be attacking first. During the summer, I will be having the software designed and helping a dozen people as we tackle the debt problem that many Americans have struggled with. These 12 people will be involved in Mastermind calls, a members only forum where we can develop an action plan together and encourage each other in the slow process of overcoming debt.

In the course of this year, I have heard many people tell me of their brushes with foreclosure and bankruptcy! I don’t want to leave them in the dark alone with the weight of the world squeezing their last breath out of them. So if you want to be a part of this Debt Busting Dozen, I will choose the top 12 stories from comments on this blog. Together we will work out a way to beat this and become financially free. I will get some experts in credit repair, debt reduction and wealth building to join some of our calls to give us ways out of the debt cycle and how to add assets to our portfolios and finally how to protect those assets from future potholes!

Warning, this will not be free, even for the dozen who will be a part of the case studies.

One thing that I learned is that you are more likely to be committed to something you have to pay for than if you get it for free. But the price of the membership will be one quarter of the price that I will charge for it after we officially launch. I want success stories before the launch and testimonials to show Americans that they aren’t alone in their quiet desperation and that there is a way out. During the summer we will be doing things to increase our income, pay down our debt and learn from top experts in the debt reduction field! On launch day, each of the dozen will have a share of the profits from the launch of the product resulting from this membership! Not only will we have our own JV links, we will be getting a percentage of overall sales to compensate for the time we invested in this project during the summer!

Interested?

Comment on the blog here or contact me on my help desk. Interested in being one of the expert speakers? Contact me via the help desk or my cell phone or direct message me on Twitter!

Together we are going to cut a huge chunk out of the debt in this world and help people drive out of their potholes!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

PS - I don’t know if you heard, but Willie Crawford and Bishop Anders have quietly assembled a suite of traffic tools that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and do a happy dance!

I created a Hub Page to tell more about it. If you could go check it out and vote it up for me, I would be grateful!

http://hubpages.com/hub/Stealth-Traffic-Machines

I will even return the favor for you if you leave me a comment telling me where your blog or hub page is located. If you don’t know about hub pages and would like to discover the benefits of creating a hub page network, just grab my video training course on the subject!