Let me give you the inside scoop on how it all happened. I have been in  GOAL ACHIEVING mode. I have been writting about it all over the place. I even started a website dedicated to achieving goals; www.GoGetterLifestyle.com ,but not only that  I wanted to demosntrate to my students that writting goals down and goin over them daily turns them into reality. Here are my goals: http://www.gogetterlifestyle.com/?page_id=10. I am still working on even streamlining the planning.

So one day in class I decided to go CRAZY, and I asked my most gogetting student what was something that he wanted to do before he died. Joey Ruggiero, of italian heritage, said he wanted to go to italy. I made things a bit more exciting by telling the class we will do this within three months of his announcement and that this had just become one of my goals in my BUCKET LIST. Anyways here is a funny video of Joey:

Personally I thought it would be cool to grapple inside the coloseum ( a modern gladiator fight…lol). I also

I also thought it would be cool if we did some training down tehre check a school out or a tournament I would like to visit Naples, Italy since we are from Naples, FL . I thought it would be cool. I can be a nerd at times !  But for the most part I am just going to play tourist and let Joey decide the fine dining.  Here is what he has planned so far lol:

JOEY’s PLANS

Italy Trip

In January, Roberto Torralbas put Joey Ruggiero (me) on the spot in front of class and asked him what he wanted to do before he died and I said go to Italy… So instead of waiting forever to get something like this done and then maybe never get it done Roberto pushed me to achieve this in three months. So In March me and Roberto will be going to Italy to be able to check that off my my bucket list.

Now that you know the background of where this story is coming from I want to share with you some of the places we are going to be visiting on this awesome trip…

On the top of the list is the Colosseum a place where gladiators fought and many events were help a super important stop on the trip. Were also going to see if they’ll let us grapple inside the Colosseum. Making sure to represent Team Third Law BJJ in Italy very well. Leading us to the next stop on our trip being.

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The city of Rome has a HUGE amount of things that you can do but mainly has some of the nicest spots to eat ever. Then after seeing all that rome has to offer, maybe visit some of the museums to see some of the sculptures, just try to see as much as possible.

These are just some of the things that we plan on doing when we get to Italy doing as much as we can as fast as we can because time is limited. More ideas on plans for Italy and PLEASE!! leave in the COMMENTS some ideas that you may have for us on things to do.

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My friend Marcos Avellan from Team FFA in Miami send a newsletter out where he released 12 goals for 2010. Here are his goals:

1. Fight and Win 3 MMA fights
2. Release two unique instructional DVD sets (one MMA instructional and another business instructional)
3. Reach 200 students in my new Davie gym
   
4. Start an After-School Program in my Miami gym and establish at least 30 kids
5. Coach three fighters in the UFC, WEC, or Strikeforce under the FFA flag.
6. Set up at least 20 fights for my team this year and finish with at least 18 wins (we did this in 2007)
7. Promote a new black belt, two new brown belts, five new purple belts, and ten new blue belts.
8. Write a book
9. Release an audio CD
   
10. Get 50 paying members for my new online MMA video site
11. Get four new members to my exclusive Masters Club
12. Graduate 20 new students into our Instructor Program

At the end of this year I will come back to this list and see how well he did. I decided to make this more exciting and put more challenging goals out there:

1. Fight and Win 1 MMA fights, and receive 3 International BJJ Medals
2. Release three unique instructional DVD sets
3. Reach 350-400 students at my school in Naples
4. Start an After-School Program in my Naples gym and establish at least 15  kids ( he got me on that one lol )
5. Bring Home 3 International Medals from my students
6. Visit Lloyd Irvin to train 12 times this year and travel 3 times to Brazil
7. Become European, Panamerican, World Champion and Brasilero Champion.
8. Write a book
9. Release 2 audio CDs
10. Get 51 paying members for my new online BJJ video site
11. Double the gym space of my school
12. Start my instructors program and double the number of instructors at the school

Ok so its kind of hard to keep this similar since there are somethings that we both are shooting for that are a bit different, but I thought I kept it competitive.  I am going to publicly make it more exciting by putting a:

$1000 Dollar Challenge

Now let me tell you a little secret about Marcos…He has way more resources than me and should be able to kick my butt easily in this contest, but I am putting the money anyways..Why? Because the way I see it is:

• If he gets all this done more than me… I will be happy for him and I should get him a gift
• If I beat him he should be embarrassed and pay me  JK
• $1000 dollars is only $83.33 dollars a month, that will serve as the best reminder ever

We will both benefit. Whether he PUBLICLY accepts my challenge or not I will still do it. The rules are :

Rules: Who ever achieves more goals out of the 12, wins. VIDEO PROOF MUST BE PROVIDED

Now how about you guys FOLLOW along with me in this awesome journey and write down your goals!

You can add more goals along the way, but go ahead and  send a comment  with 5 goals you have for 2010.  Why ? Couldn’t you just write them down in a personal journal?  First of all, by commenting them in here, you are writing it down, which is a form of commitment… and second, by declaring this publicly to me, you are definitely committing yourself even more!  By talking the talk, now you will have a pressure to back it up!( Marcos I know I copied that paragraph but it sounded good ) Look what I learned from Marcos today:

“Famous inventor Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb) was known to make public press releases on new great inventions before they were invented!  For instance, if he thought of a new gizmo, he would announce that the gizmo will be released any day now… and THEN would begin trying to design the gizmo!  He would do these public announcements to put himself on the spot so that he would have no choice but to deliver on his word.” -Marcos Avellan wrote on an email

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Allright guys here we are on our home stretch 25 more goals to go then we will re-organize them and prioritize them and try to achieve them all within 3 years!

76. Own a Vacation House in Cuba by the Beach.

77. Visit Australia

78.  Explore Cuba the entire island

79.  Visit my roomate from College Jason and fly him out to see me on a continuous basis

80.  Visit my friend Max Arevalo on a continuous basis

81.  Visit Elvis and Wilbert my best friends from highschool on a more continuous basis.

82. Visit my family ( Hortensia, Margarita , Rita Ricky, Nicholas, Silvia y Pepe on a continous basis)

83.  Have  an Intyense BJJ Library room at my gym

84. Develop Crazy Grip STrength

85. Make 12 Visits to Lloyd in 2010

86.  Get Married in 2010

87.  Donate 10 $1000 Dollars Scholarships a year for students with a grade point average above 3.8

88. Establish the craziest Charity Project Ever At Third Law

89. Take out Lloyd to a Super Bowl

90. Take Out Julius to the most expensive restaurant in the world

91. Take Out MArcos Avellan to _______whatever Marcos Avellan likes

92. Buy my Mother a brand new Car

93. Have My  Fiances’s parent living in the same town as me..so they can see their grandchildren often

94. Have Lloyd come to my school to teach a seminar

95. Have the school be able to operate without me for 2 weeks by May 2010

96. Video record each item on the list and post it on You Tube

97. Buy my friend Jose a significant gift

98. Be in the same inner circle that Lloyd is with Dan Kennedy

99. Be in the same inner circle that Lloyd is with the systems guy

100. Do the stability ball instructional DVD series

101. Own a house in Cuba

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Anyways after doing this exercise I have realized that there arent many things out there that I have to do before dying. It has become harder and harder to come with significant activities or goals. So decided to repeat on some of them.

51. Become Brasilero Champion at Black Belt

52. Travel to Brasil 3 times in 2010

53. Repeat as Black Belt World Champ

54. Go Scuba Diving

55. Visit The Grand Canyon

56. Visit The Amazon Rainforest

57. Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
58. Visit The Colisseum in Rome
59. Visit Petra, Jordan
60. Visit Christ Redeemer, Brazil
61. Visit The Great Wall of China
62. Visit Chichen Itza, Mexico
63.  Visit The Taj Mahal, India

64. Visit The Leaning tower of Piza

65.Learn How To Surf

66, Create Team Third Law Space

67. Create UndergorundJiu-Jitsu Lab

68. Film my Own Instructional Series and Distributed

69 Create A website about achieving Goals Where I will documentall these goals.

70. Create The Small Business Super HEro Website

71. Own a Rolex ( will get more specific later)

72. NExt promotion at my school celebrate with Crown Royal or Crystal I forget

73. Have my own office for information Marketing Like Lloyd Irvin

74. Take My Wife to see all the places in her Bucket List

75. Live on an Island for 2 weeks survivor man style

Twenty five more to go after this I will organize it by section and prioritize.

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Please make sure you have read:   Bucket List - A Super Important List of Goals…- PART 1 http://bjjengineer.com/?p=336 and My Bucket List and A Challenge to Everyone - PART 2 http://bjjengineer.com/?p=337

Hey guys instead of a New Year’s resolution how about 100 goals written down to get done in 3 years or less. Yeah not all of your bucket list goals can happen in 3 years…but you know what I mean …do those that CAN! An example of one that can’t be done is one that starts with : “When I am 60 years old…” when you are currently in your 20’s.

Here are goals 26-50:

26. Take a cruise around the Caribbean and pigout like never before

27. Master a new skill

28.  Have a private home  pool where always warm where I can just jump after practice when I ma all sweay

29. Have a Hot tub too

30.  Belong to yacht club or own a nice boat that all i have to worry about is driving it.

31. Write an autobiography book

32.  Do something that shows my gratitude to my mentors

33.  Donate A Large Sum of Money To Cornell University…or donate a building

34.  Swim with Dolphins

35.  Drive on Highway 1

36.  Own a Real Estate company

37.  Visit Hawaii

38. Visit  Fiji Island

39. Visit Maldives

40. Visit Phi Phi ISland Thailand

41.  Develop a physical product, patent it, produce it in china, and sell it with infomercials

42.  Produce one of the best BJJ instructioanl Series ever produce

43. Have an online BJJ class room

44.  Do a documentary of the school and career

45. Become a public speaker  and success coach for others specially ( highschool, collegees, universities and those with less opportunities available to them)

46. Afford airline traveling like I can afford to fill up my car with gas every week

47.  Own a Porsche ( cayan, carrera, or turbo)

48.  Do field trips with my team to nice places in the school van

49.  Own a school van ( 15 passenger with dvd player and a martial arts library)

50.  Know that at the end of the day I was my mentors top student

Hey guys I hope you are keeping up with this exercise. Once its finalize we will prioritize them

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I hope that you read: Bucket List - A Super Important List of Goals…- PART 1 ( http://bjjengineer.com/?p=336)

In that article I spoke about the importance of writing your goals daily and to really take a while to think of the things that  are important to you, things you want to do before you hit the bucket. I asked you to put your comments below and share your own. I see one person has already done so. His name is Joey Ruggiero and he is one of my students. He wants to go to Italy that is one of his life yearnings. I said: Joey I will push you to have you and your girlfriend visit Italy and we will get this done before  3 months from now.

Here is my bucket list:

1-) Go to Cuba and visist 99% of my family that still lives in the island and I havent seen in 15 years since I left.

2-) Pay for my mother to also see her parents in Cuba.

3-) Buy a house for my family and my mother so that they are always comfortable and financially independent

4-) Travel 3 times to Brazil in 2010 and do the Brasileros.

5-) Visit the Galapagos Island

6-) Travel and visit Thailand to train muay-thai

7-) Fight in an MMA Event

8-)  Become a Purple Belt World Champion and Panamerican World Champion in 2010

9-) Become a Black belt world Champion

10-) Become and ADCC Champion

11-) Make $10 Million Dollars in one year.

12-) Have Kids and a Happy Family

13-) See my kids grow up to be healthy, goal oriented, strong minded adults

14-)  Do Splits

15-) Travel to Italy With Joey and Katy and Joey’s GF

16-) Follow the Legacy of my instructors and develop the best athletes in the world ( MMA, and BJJ). To be more exact at the very least 1 Black Belt World Champ , 1 ADCC Champ, and 1 UFC Champ.

17-) Visit  a list of beautiful places in the caribean and ecuator

18-) Run Three Successful Businesses at Once to demonstrate I understand the process regardless of industry.

19-)  Start an afters school program in my Jiu-Jitsu school where we can even push kids higher

20-) Try to achieve a correlation where the kids taht attend my program end up at top universities.

21-)  Have a school with over 1000 students

22-) Have over 20 black belts

23-) Become a philanthropist once I am 60

24-)  Have a Third Law house for athletes of the schools.

25-) Own the building for Third Law  8-12000 sgft foot facility

Alright guys every day I will release 25 items to this list. I  really want to make sure that I put lots of tought into it.

Let me see your bucket list by posting it in the comments section below.

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Ok now that we are done watching this emotional movie trailer…lets get talking about some serious stuff.

Not too long ago we spoke about goals in Goals For Athletes (http://bjjengineer.com/?p=328)> You definitely need to read this. Anyways one thing that we discuss was the importance of writing your goals daily to embed them in our subconscious. We also spoke about how writing goals down ends up being the best tool for achieving goals. I dontw ant to talk about what has already been discussed in Goals For Athletes (http://bjjengineer.com/?p=328) . Please read this.

Anyways I am a true believer in writing down goals and telling others to make yourself accountable for them.

Without having my citizenship done or passports or anything . I said to my coaches and my students. in 2010 I will travel to Brazil 3 times to train and compete.

Not too long after I had my citizenship and passports done and I am traveling to Portugal to compete in the IBJJF European Championships. Since I just told you guys, no I have an even bigger accountability factor pushing me to accomplish this goals.

I did the same with an attendance system I wanted at the school and now is done! IT WORKS……

So I said lets take it to a next level….What are the top 100 things I want to do before I die and apply the writing your goals every day method.

So tomorrow I will be releasing my Bucket List and I want to see yours too. I want to see comments flowing all in the website! Then in part two not only will I release my bucket list and make me super accountable for achieving each of those goals, but will release a video of a goal exercise and challenge I am doing with one of my students.

THIS WILL BE A FUN ARTICLE!

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