The Blog Of Greg Rollett

What’s crackin rock stars? It’s been a long week here and it’s only friggin Wednesday. Was this the life that I wanted to get into doing the Internet Lifestyle stuff?

The video I threw up last week sure didn’t make it seem like I was growing grey hair and stressing like Martin when Gina gets mad (did you pick up on that?)

Listen, as much as I love the Internet Lifestyle and the luxuries in time and freedom, product launches are a pain in the ass, especially when you get into what we just did, software. Anyway, next week I’ll have a pretty good run down of the launch and the things you can do better and the things we could do better (along with what went great - like the pre-launch, which many are calling overrated or dead or lame).

Anyway, so last night was part of the craziness. Social Media Club Orlando asked me to present on Social Media Metrics to a crowd that included local Orlando Sentinel reporters, ESPN Radio hosts, the Sea World social media team and ton of other cool people in the space. I had a great time talking about crowdsourcing contests.

I had run 2 contests recently and both went really well for the branding and bottom line numbers of both instances.

An Epic Change Of Sorts

Anyway, after the event I was approached by Stacey Monk and Sanjay Patel from Epic Change. I had been meaning to get to know them for almost 2 years now and we always seemed to miss each other. We are only about an hour and a half away from each other - both helping to change the world from our little home offices.

I first ran into Stacey while working on a project for Lee Cockerell called Creating Gen-Y Magic - a site where we spoke with Gen-Y’s and saw how they were creating magic in the lives of others through their work.

From there I have seen them literally take over the social media world with their fundraising campaigns for Tweetsgiving and To Mama With Love. Talking with them last night really got me thinking about my life and some of the changes I have gone through and some of the goals I still want to accomplish.

Goals to help more young people become rock stars in their own life. Goals to help more musicians quit their day jobs and perform music that inspires others and get paid very well to do so and well, personal and selfish goals of making a ton of money by helping people and rocking my own ass off through products, live events and coaching.

Personal Motivation

I always believed that learning from others that are doing what you want to do, or living where you want to live, is one of the best personal development tactics you can spend your hours, minutes and seconds on. Tony Robbins was on to something with the NLP strategy of modeling. This basically means that if you want to do something…

find someone that is currently doing it and copy their state, copy their movements, their attitude, their posture, their accents, their stress levels and anything else you can about the person that is achieving those results. If you can copy them and put everything together in the same order, it is like baking a cake and following a recipe. Our minds and bodies behave in the same manner of a recipe - the only problem is that in life we often need to hunt for the success recipe.

That is my interpretation of it at least. ON my own quest over the last 2 weeks I have been reading and diving into a new training series by Karol Gajda called How To Live Anywhere: The Official Guide To Ridiculously Extraordinary Freedom.

Now there have been a ton of product launches in the “do what you want and live wherever and add value and start a business crowd” over the past few weeks and months. Some have been good, most have not. It’s unfortunate because I am sure these people put a lot of time into their products, but many are not living the life they portray. Many are still working towards their goals and have gone on a trip or 2, but are not location independent and rocking an online business doing great.

And then others have this minimalist attitude. Like make your passion your business, throw away all your shit and live of 2g’s a month on some island or 3rd world country.

Sorry that’s not me. I want the Ferrari, the beach house, the girl (check) and some parties that rival P. Diddy in the shiny suit era. I also want to help people, give to some awesome nonprofits and take some trips that you can only imagine but never dream you are there.

You can’t do that kind of shit for 2g’s a month. Even if its on auto-pilot.

Back to Karol. So what I liked about this is that it is multi-engaging through the NLP tactics I stated earlier - modeling. You get to see how he runs his own business, plus look into the businesses of others. If you only look at one dude, you become a clone. I like to be considered a really, really expensive sponge (like the Scrooge McDuck of spunges).

The first thing I did dip into was the guide. In fact, I stopped my pre-launch insanity to take a glance at it and didn’t put it down for like 2 hours. It was that friggin good.

Then I learned he is boys with John Reese. You may know him as an Internet Marketing legend, but I know him as the guy who dropped $1,000 to donate to Rock For Hunger because I was having a bad day on Twitter. (don’t get me wrong I am a member of some of his programs and also an affiliate for his products, but that is now)

Karol has a nice audio interview with the guy that blew my mind. I listened to it on the way to work instead of the leaded Drake record (even though I bootlegged it, I’m still going to buy it). It is the album of the year (unless Em comes all the way with Recovery).

The entire course (more redonkulous stuff than I have time to mention here) is all about this lifestyle that I think we all want to obtain. More time. More adventures. More money. And more life.

This thing we call life is real short. We get caught up in things like work, product launches, clients, weekends, family and all we have left is what we did with our time. I’m glad I spent a few hours going through this course. I’m also glad I got to hang with Stacey and Sanjay. And I’m glad this product launch is making me go friggin nuts (its why this blog post is taking hours instead of minutes).

I get to look back at it all and say I am kicking some ass and rocking out.

I hope that you are too.

-Greg

P.S. Yup, those are affiliate links to Karol’s course: How To Live Anywhere. If you scoop it up, you are helping to fund my rock star life. Which is cool because if we do ever get to hang out, it’ll be like I owe you a beer or something.

P.P.S. Yup, this is Internet Marketing 101. If you buy Karol’s course I am going to hook you up with my new unreleased course called No Limit Networking. No hype today, you will get plenty of that whenever we decide to get it off the shelf. Just email me your receipt to rollettmarketing@gmail.com.

Holler back youngin - woo woo.

top photo by Giampaolo Macorig