Every Monday I’m going to blog about the Pwning Life system and answer any questions people have. The people that interact with me on this blog are going to be the people that help me iron out all of the “bugs” in the system. I’ve been testing and refining the system on myself for going on a year straight, I’ve had some friends and family who have been successfully using it for months and now I want to extend that success digitally to you, wherever you are.
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This is a quote I recently heard at a conference for marketers a couple weeks ago and, to the best of my knowledge, it’s from this guy:
The guy on the left, I’m the guy on the right. 
His name is Joe Polish, he’s a master of marketing and if you’d like to know more about him check out his website. All I really wanted to do was share this quote:
That quote hit me like a ton of bricks! It’s a little ruthless, but it might have needed to be ruthless to get the point across. If you want to be excellent and want to surround yourself with excellence, you need to get rid of (destroy) anything in your life that isn’t excellent.
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“Pwning Life” started out as just an idea that came to me one night. It makes PERFECT sense to people from the gamer generation/culture. The challenge, ever since having that idea, was building a system of my own around it. I’ve read a number of books on personal development, but none of them have been “the one” for me. The Pwning Life Project has been an attempt to develop the system that’s just right for me and people like me (lets call them gamers).
Looking back on my old posts makes it clear to me I didn’t know exactly what I should do with this blog. At first I thought I’d write articles about how to “pwn life” but… I wasn’t exactly an expert. Eventually I was determined to come up with a system for pwning life and thought I’d give regular (daily/weekly/monthly) updates. That didn’t last long.
The new focus will be sharing the progress I’m making with the development of the system AND the (worldwide!) offline meetups.
Diagram of the method for pwning life.
I’m slowly developing and testing the pwning life system. Most of the system is based on things I’ve picked up from listening to or reading content from Brian Tracy. The system is so simple that I should include it in every post. 
Step 1. Write down (at least) 10 goals in the first person present that you would like to complete in the next 12 months.
Step 2. Pick out the one goal that would have the largest positive impact on your other goals and brainstorm how you could accomplish it on another sheet of paper.
Step 3. Repeat step one and step two every day.
That’s it in a nutshell. The only thing that fluctuates is Step 2. Sometimes you might write a list of things to get done for the day, sometimes you might brainstorm and sometimes you might have a little dialog with yourself about progress you’re making.
The only thing to add to the above is to make sure you do at least one thing everyday to move your main goal forward.
Since the end of January my main goal has been “I make $5,000/month from E.LF. (easy lucrative and fun) businesses and work.” After doing a brainstorming exercise one day in late January I came up with “Get a commission based sales job.” Then my main goal transitioned from making $5,000/month to getting a commission based sales job.
In March I found a commission based sales job and started working. Once I landed the job my main goal went back to making $5,000/month. During the three weeks of training I kept up my daily goals (as best I could) and after brainstorming the $5,000/month goal one day another main goal popped up.
“I am a masterful salesperson.”
After getting the job and continuing my brainstorming about how to make $5,000/month I realized that in order to make that happen I would have to be an outstanding salesperson. So now THAT’S my main goal. It’s interesting how obvious this all seems looking back at my notes (get a job, master sales, etc.) but… it took me writing out my goals on a daily basis and brainstorming regularly to uncover those new goals and stay focused on them.
I wish I could tell you mastering sales has been and will be easy, but I can’t. My first week on the road alone was TOUGH. I seriously wanted to quit three or four times. I recovered on my off day, continued to study and was ready to tackle another week. Got my first sale that week on my own. It felt good, but there’s still much to learn.
The good news is, even though I can’t tell you that mastering sales (or any discipline) will be easy, I can tell you that it’s simple. Constant practice, constant refining of basic skills and constant growth. Plus it’s a lot easier to stay focused on your main goal when you understand how it relates to other goals you’re trying to accomplish in the short and learn term.
In my next post I’ll explain one of the brainstorming techniques I used for my current main goal of mastering sales.
Since I like making videos and I like pwning life, I should do a video about pwning life every week. I’m going to start working on tomorrow’s post. It’s going to be epic!
A couple meetings ago we decided to each make a personal public goal for the week and the following week tell everyone how we did.
Here are the goals for this week:
Mass Effect
I got back from my trip to San Diego January 25th and all I’ve done since then was play Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. I didn’t just wake up and decide to check out of life for a week and play video games. No, it was a series of steps that led me here.
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I took away a REALLY good lesson from last week. The two things I got done:
Are also the same two things that I set a completion date for. That’s no coincidence. Actually, I only had a date set for one of them (the Tai Chi site). On the day I was suppose to finish the Black Horse Tai Chi website I told myself I wouldn’t start it until I finished The New Loud’s website (since I already got paid for that).
I thought about the other two things a lot, but never sat down to do them.
I didn’t do it for the plan I posted yesterday but, moving forward, I’m going to set a date for everything I’m planning on getting done for the week.
I’ll have to come up with a snazzier titling system one of these days… Not today.
I made another slight change. I’m going to post the plan for the week on Mondays and the results from the previous week on Tuesdays. Since I’m still on vacation I’m going to make this short and sweet.
“I make $5,000/month net after taxes from marketing, selling, teaching, coaching, consulting and organizing.”
I’m going to be doing something EVERY DAY to bring me closer to this goal. Things for this week are:
I’m going to do one of those three things every day this week. I have my first interview this Thursday, I’ll let you know how that goes next Tuesday.
I should have had this done last night but… I’m on vacation! Plus I won’t be back until Wednesday so… I only have a few things that I came up with.
) )lolI know there’s more but that’s good for now. I’ll do a better job planning next week when I don’t have 70 degree weather and beaches calling my name… lol
Brian Tracy is awesome. The exercise in the video awesome. Do the exercise above and investigate Brian Tracy to see if his style of pwning life resonates with you. It resonates with me!
I discovered Brian Tracy through an interview he did with Joe Polish and the above goal setting exercise has been the single most useful thing I’ve found to date for achieving your goals. I even have a story to share from this morning!
On Elvalentino’s suggestion I picked up the “No Excuses” audio book to listen to on my plane ride to San Diego. One of the topics I scribbled notes about was the “any one goal in 24 hours” and I was SUPER excited to try it.
The goal I chose was “I make $5,000/month (net, after taxes) selling, teaching, coaching, consulting and organizing.”
As soon as I got done with the mind/brainstorming exercises I… TOOK ACTION! I figure the best thing for me to do right now is get a job in sales so that I can:
Even though I’m “on vaction” (I’m never on vacation ) I hit some job boards, saw a job that seemed like a good fit and applied. 30 minutes later I got a phone call and now I have an interview next Thursday. Bam.
I’m going to profile or highlight someone pwning life (or who was pwning it back in the day) every Friday. It might be something short like this, long that goes in depth or an interview if I can get one. Let me know if there’s anyone you’d like to see.
