1.5 Short-Term Goals

FINANCIAL

• Sell 100,000 books/workbooks
  
• Buy a house or 4-plex

• Constant, high-energy through out the day through raw, vegan diet (mostly) and yoga.
  

• NYU Social Venture Competition
  
• Expertise (Entrepreneurial Mindset, eBook Publishing Industry, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth Entrepreneurship)
  
• Best-Selling, award-winning author
  
• Published research
  
• Award-winning, highly sought-after, international speaker with $10,000+/speaking engagements and standing ovation from 1,000+ person audience.
  
• Syndicated Columnist
  
• Top-Tier Media (Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Business Week, Newsweek, National Public Radio)

• Acquire champions (top leaders in their field) in the areas I want to be an expert in
  
• Have constantly and rapidly evolving relationship with girl friend and business partner, Sheena
  
• Create and grow dream team of very close friends/colleagues
  
• Add value to more and more youth with fewer and fewer resources

• Master sales person
  
• The will-power to consistently be any way I want to in the present-moment

• Travel the world (Basque region of Spain, Africa, India, remote regions of the world)
  
• Go on a spirituality retreat

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2.6 Growth SWOT

Strengths

• Commitment to asking myself core questions like "Who am I? Why am I here?" and looking for answers
  
• Commitment to following, but consistently evolving my goals, values, belief, and vision
  
• Willingness to drop everything I know or ever have known for the TRUTH
  

Weaknesses

• System for organizing my growth is too complex
  

Opportunities

• Pursue life-changing experiences that change my perspective on everything I know or ever have known about the world

Threats

• I may be over-analyzing everything and getting in circular thought patterns

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2.5 Development SWOT

Strengths

• Ability to synergistically bring diverse systems of thought together
  
• Creativity
  
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and pursue my vision
  
• Writing
  
• Entrepreneurship

Weaknesses

• Synergistically working with people in a team
  
• Lack of simple routines
  

Opportunities

• Learn more about blogs, book publishing, and online marketing
  
• Get new perspectives on health
  
• Perfect public speaking
  
• Confront limiting beliefs and areas of my life I have resistance to
  
• Solve core problems

Threats

• Possibility of spending my time trying to leverage the wrong opportunities and solve the same problems

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2.4 Network SWOT

Strengths

• Diverse, talented, 600+ person network organized in ACT
  

Weaknesses

• Over extension of relationships and not focusing enough on building existing ones
  

Opportunities

• Leverage NYC location to meet new and interesting people
  
• Establish mailing lists of different groups of contacts
  
• Focus on building long-term relationships
  

Threats

• Possible lack of people very close to me because I'm too focused on building new relationships or maintaining large amounts of acquaintance relationships

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2.3 Health SWOT

Strengths

• Commitment to find reach and sustain levels of peak health starting now and lasting for the rest of my life
  
• Willingness to consider arguments from different health networks
  
• Willingness to test arguments that I agree with on myself and keep what works and throw away what doesn't.
  

Weaknesses

• Eating to quickly and eating to much food during meals
  
• Constantly thinking about the next meal
  

Opportunities

• Become an expert at listening to and reacting to my body's various feedback mechanisms
  
• Test the raw, alkaline-forming, vegan diet
  
• Do yoga, walks, and meditation daily
  

Threats

• Getting caught up in circular arguments of a particular movement
  
• Permament damage to the body because of sustained lack of nutrient(s)
  
• NYC air pollution
  
• Terrorism

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2.2 Brand SWOT

Strengths

• Commitment to truth, honesty, integrity, and sincerity
  
• Willingness and ability to think from an abundance perspective
  
• Willingness and ability to think big and go after dreams
  
• Tall & handsome (so my mom and girl friend say)
  

Weaknesses

• Fear of expressing how I really feel about issues because I'm afraid somebody will disagree
  
• Difficulty expressing my full enthusiasm in front of audiences
  

Opportunities

• Spread empowerment message to audiences internationally
  
• Stay within the youth entrepreneurship support framework
  
• Use the power of technology to spread messages
  
• Join the board of advisors for youth entrepreneurship support organizations

Threats

• Grades might be more important than I thought (right now, I have about a 2.9 GPA)
  
• The word, 'entrepreneur', might turn prospective customers off who are interested in leveraging the entrepreneurial mindset in a company or organization, but not by starting a business

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2.1 Financial Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT)

Strengths

• Focus on passive income through real estate and entrepreneurship
  
• Will-power not to purchase stuff I don't need (alcohol, candy, fancy clothes, gadgets, etc.)
  

Weaknesses

• Lack of will-power to save money as my income exceeds my expenses
  
• Making impulse buys when I get particularly excited about something new (book, seminar, conference, etc.)
  

Opportunities

• Consulting on issues related to youth entrepreneurship and employment
  
• Syndicated columnist
  
• Highly-paid speaker
  

Threats

• Lack of saved money to protect against downturns and capitalize on new opportunities
  
• Bad markets in the US and abroad for an extended amount of time
  
• NYC real estate market may be in a bubble

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1.6 Long-Term Goals

• Financial: To have over $1 billion in wealth.
• Brand: To be one of the major catalysts in one of the largest, sustainable, individual potential movements ever.
• Health: To live over 100 years in years in vibrant health.
• Network: Access to any leader in the world; incredible relationship w/Sheena; extremely close, enlightened, and powerful dream team.
• Development: Incredible power to be the change I want to see in every moment.
• Growth: To reach an enlightened level of spiritual awareness.

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August 30, 2004

3.1 Development Strategies

1. Read Books. Well-written and researched, provocative books can completely change one's worldview. There's nothing like getting access to the smartest people in the world and getting an organized summary of their thoughts in 10 hours for $14.95. Furthermore, reading books and scholarly articles gives one an 'in' to their authors. It still amazes me how much this resource is under-utilized!
2. Get Current Events & Culture Through Osmosis. Rather than actively learning about these through newspapers, magazines, and TV, keep up-to-date on them through my network.
3. Main Areas of Interest.
   • Religion
   • Philosophy
   • Psychology
   • Sociology
   • Quantum physics
   • Neuroscience
   • Technology
4. Practice Vipassana Meditation. This is hands down one of the largest growth experiences I've had. I practice this daily and hope to go on 1-3 10-day retreats/year.
5. Niche News. Keep up-to-date on people, publishing, technology, online marketing, companies, and blogs through bloglines and Google News Alerts.

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