The Champion of Choice Challenge 2.0

All right, we've had a day off, and its time to charge forward with the Champion of Choice Challenge 2.0.

If you are new, the basis of this blog and the Challenge itself is to show that all that separates us from the success we desire are the choices we make. You can check the archives to see how the first Challenge went, but today, we begin anew, and with a new format.

I will be making three major changes.

The first directly involves YOU, the reader. I really want you to be able to set up your own challenges, tell us about your progress and victories, and reach out to inspire and support others. To facilitate that, I have created ChampionofChoiceChallenge.ning.com, a site that allows us to interact by mail, blog, video – basically a mini-Facebook designed specifically for you to reach the goals you set through the power of choice. Sign up for your own free profile here.

The second will be by creating broad Challenges with smaller, self-contained Challenges that have separate time-frames, designed to build upon each other to the greater goal. One Challenge may be over a 90 day period, another over 7 days. This will allow for stronger tracking and accountability, as well as create victories in a rapid-fire fashion.

The third is that this is now open-ended. I will check in every 3 months with an overall review, but as opposed to another 91 day challenge, this will simply be my lifestyle, and you will have a window into what I am doing, even as you throw the shutters open on your own challenges in the Ning community.

This blog is still home base – but will be posted simultaneously in the Ning community. There will be extras for those who participate there, including podcasts, teleseminars, special reports, sneak previews and product discounts as I release various programs in the coming months.

And now, the Challenges themselves.

I. A Financial Life completely supported by my career as a speaker and a coach. The specific amounts are for me alone to know – suffice it to say my goals are high.

1. Multi-page speaker brochure by August 31
2. 4 scheduled speaking engagements in September
3. Two sets of business cards – one for speaking, one for coaching, by September 4th
4. 100 proposals to speak sent out by September 30th
5. Speaking e-book completed by September 30th
6. 5 articles up on e-Zine Articles by August 31st
7. Coaching specific website up and operable by August 31st
8. 25,000 Twitter followers by August 31st (15,200 as of August 16th)

II. Support my wife with her Thriving with Neurofibromatosis campaign

1.Finish her book by August 31
2.Create posters for free disbursal by August 31

III. Reconnect with Toastmasters. The choice was made several weeks ago for me to take a year sabbatical. That choice was a bad choice. I receive so much support through the Toastmasters organization that leaving left me feeling without family. While I have a large family at home, a professionally supportive family is very important.

1. Complete TM DVDs and deliver on Monday, August 17
2. Reconnect with District Leadership by August 18
3. Return to Spokane Falls TM by August 27
4. Earn CL by June 30, 2010

IV. Create a Healthy Physical Body for Me to Inhabit. (No, I'm not looking for a host body!)

1. Lose 60 lbs by February 15, 2010 – 6 months, 10 pounds a month.
2. Daily tracking of food intake – to be publicly posted on the NING site.
3. Daily exercise – to be publicly posted on the NING site.
a. 100 push-ups program by Sept. 30
b. 100 sit-ups program by October 2nd
4. Finish dental work by October 31st

V. Create stronger mental discipline

1. Daily work in the Secret Abundance Files
2. Daily min. 30 minute exposure to positive reading or audio learning – to be posted publicly on NING
3. Read Atlas Shrugged by October 31st
4. Daily reading in the Bible – to be shared publicly on NING
5. Wake up by 6 am daily
6. Watch only 10 hours of TV per week (except football in the background as I work – lets be realistic.)

VI. Create a stronger family unit

1. Spend more one on one time with each child, guilt-free, each day
2. Build family-time in the evening – 30 minutes minimum to check in, read from the Bible, and pray – starting tonight.
3. Spend more fun time with Kristi, away from the kids, the financials, and the house.

The BIG CHALLENGE – the one that all of the above challenges are designed to add up to, is the ultimate victory:

To help as many other people change their lives through the Power of Choice as possible. Living to my full potential means helping YOU reach YOUR full potential.

Check in here and at ChampionofChoiceChallenge.ning.com daily to get updates, access new resources, make new connections, and set and reach your own Challenges. The Champion of Choice Challenge is here to stay, and its here for YOU.