I am getting ready to drive to the airport and catch a plane for Alex Jeffreys workshop in Las Vegas. The event is for the students from his first coaching program that started in November of last year. Once I found out he was having the event, I started saving money and added it to my list of goals for 2009.

I created my list of goals as a direct result of Alex Jeffreys coaching. The first module of the course was all about planning and goal setting which in turn makes you more productive. I set goals in 4 different areas: personal, entrepreneurial, business, and income.

The first goal was to take the wife and kids on a vacation to Venezuela. My wife is from there and has not been home to see her family in 5 years. I am proud to say that the tickets are purchased and we will be departing on June 22nd for 6 weeks of South American fun. This was made possible becuase of the things that I learned from Alex Jeffreys.

One of my business goals is to build an email list of 7500 people. I am now at about 2700 but have not even hosted my JV Giveaway yet. I am hosting one with my fellow students Garry Parkes, Gary Simpson, and Carl Barton that will be taking place within the next week or two. I intend to follow with one of my own and probably several others after that. Once again, Alex Jeffreys is responsible for prompting me to use JV giveaways to build my list.

I set my income goal for the year at $100,000. I know that seems like a lot but I like to set my goals high. I don't think that I will be disappointed if I fall a little short. Even though I am almost halfway through the year and have not made even close to that. I am still optimistic.

You see, most of my plans will not come into fruition for a few months. I have made over $5000 this year, which paid for the plane tickets to Venezuela. This was from affiliate promotions that I sent to my newly built email list and from links in my ebook that I published and gave away for free.

I had the money for Vegas set aside a month or so ago but Murphy's law reared it's ugly head. Any one not familiar with Mr. Murphy? His law states: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

It wasn't just one thing, it was a bunch of things. I won't go into it all because a lot of it is personal and I don't want to bore you more than I already am. Suffice it to say that all of a sudden, I was not going to make it to Vegas. But it's funny how things can work out when you want something bad enough.

If you have never read Napolean Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", then you need to. He talks about the power of auto suggestion. Basically, if you want some thing and truly believe that you can acheive it, you will acheive it. What you think will come to pass, but only if you beleive it will with all your heart and desire.

When I read this part of the book, the first thing that came into my mind was prayer. When some one prays for something to what ever deity that you believe in, it is usually with very strong desire and emotion. If you want something bad enough, you will pray for it every night for a long period of time.

The act of wanting something with such deep emotion transmutes into action on a subconcious level. With out knowing, you will begin to take action that will eventually resolve itself into the very thing that you desired in the first place. That is the power of "prayer" or "auto suggestion" in scientific terms.

Well I guess I wanted it bad enough because

"I'M GOING TO VEGAS BABY"

One of my entrepreneurial goals was build joint venture partnerships. I have created a few so far but hope to "up the stakes" in Las Vegas. There are going to be several other large events taking place at the same time as Alex's. Hopefully I can make some profitable connections while I am there.

That goes without saying that Alex is going to show us step by step how he plans his business and I am sure he has alot more planned for us. All through our coaching program he always surprised and over delivered. I expect this to be more of the same.

Well, I am running out of time. I have a plane to catch at 4:45. I will make some posts from Vegas and let you know what's going on. I am also taking my video cam so I should get some choice footage to share as well.