Ken McArthur’s “The Impact Factor” Blog

Hey Folks,

Thursday morning VERY early, I’m grabbing the IMPACT ACTION TEAM, getting on a jet and heading for the CIRCUS BIG TOP to do a presentation in front of 2,000 people at Brendon Burchard’s …

Life’s Golden Ticket Super Seminar - Long Beach, CA - September 26th-28th

One critic said this event was “like Tony Robbins meets Cirque du Soleil” because Brendon Burchard has put together an event that is part motivational seminar, part circus and social theater. This is DEFINITELY different than anything that has ever been done before.

The Impact Action Team has been gearing up ever since the Impact Boot Camp, just to prove the point that one person can really have an impact and make a difference in this noisy world.

Now, we need to produce the NUMBERS

Friday morning we will be announcing a THREE DAY CHALLENGE to the 2,000 people that come to the event and YOU CAN TAKE PART whether you are able to attend or not. The challenge will be announced right in the center ring of this amazing circus tent …

BUT …

WE NEED YOU TO TAKE PART, no matter where in the world you are this weekend as we spread the message to SPEAK UP! SAVE LIVES! and tell people about the amazing G-I-V-E message that the Impact Action Team has created to raise awareness, resources and access to help for people fighting to help prevent teen suicide throughout the world.

I would LOVE to have you join in the adventure with this amazing Impact Action Team to save the lives of countless teens who feel that life is not worth living.

You can do this weekend along with everyone who is live at the event by  …

• Spreading the G-I-V-E message to people, in person, via a newsletter, teleconference, article, radio or television appearance or speaking opportunity,
• Giving Dollars to  Jason Foundation or Light for Life to help prevent teen suicide.
• Connecting an Impact Action Team member to a key-influencer who can help spread the message to G-I-V-E and prevent teen suicide.

JUST BE SURE TO LET ME KNOW THE NUMBERS!

One of the sad facts of life is that we don’t thing that what we do really matters and I want to prove that it does, by creating some pretty amazing NUMBERS.

THREE THINGS THAT WILL PROVE THAT YOU CAN DO AMAZING THINGS - JUST GIVE ME THE NUMBERS!

1. Can you let me know HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU CAN TOUCH WITH THIS MESSAGE?
2. Can you let me know HOW MUCH you might be able to GIVE
3. Can you help us spread the word by putting the team in touch with someone that you think can spread the word to thousands if not millions.

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS SIMPLE FORM RIGHT NOW AND LET US KNOW!

Here are a few facts you might not realize.

• The third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds is suicide.
• Every day, more than 80 Americans commit suicide- and 1500 more attempt it.
• America lost more teens to suicide last year than the total number of soldiers lost in the Iraq war

But we can help prevent suicide right now by doing a few simple LITTLE things!

• Greet-say hello, make eye contact, pass a smile on to the people you encounter.
• Include- Include yourself in the world around you, and invite others to be a part of what you are doing. Reach out, especially if you see someone starting to withdraw.
• Validate- This can be as simple as a ‘thank you’ or a genuine complement. Let others know you
  appreciate them.
• Empathize- Be a listening ear. We can’t always relate to the problems or stories of another, but often all you need to do is be fully present as you hear them to truly help the person sharing!

Use this simple acronym to remember what you can do every day to make a difference and perhaps save a life!

And promise today to let someone else know!

The Impact Action Team put a lot of work into making this all happen.  Here they are plugging away at the Impact Boot Camp.

This weekend they will be spreading the message to thousands and YOU CAN TO!

Click here to let us know you can help spread the word!  You can save a life this weekend!

All the best,

Ken McArthur
SpeakUpSaveLives.org
TheImpactFactor.com
KenMcArthur.com
jvAlertLive.com

P.S. For more information on the techniques we are using to create awareness of this silent killer, grab a copy of the best-selling book, Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a
Difference in a Noise World.

Hey Folks,

I had a little impact this morning, but not exactly what I had in mind when I wrote Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a Difference in a Noisy World.

Here’s what it looked like:

Actually there is a lot of Impact going on these days — even WITHOUT huge maple trees falling in my back yard.

I spent most of the day preparing for a television interview that I am doing for the “Speak Up Save Lives” Campaign.

Thanks to the AMAZING efforts of the Impact Action Team’s Media Team spearheaded by our dynamic, results-oriented Impact Faculty member Sanyika Calloway Boyce I will be spreading the “Speak Up Save Lives” message to over 15 MILLION people LIVE on Comcast CN8 this Wednesday at 730 AM on the “Your Morning” Show .

I’m hoping to show people that when we work together one person can have a huge impact.

But you can’t demonstrate that you’ve made an impact if you don’t measure it and measuring impact gets a little tricky.

I KNOW that working together we can save lives this week!

YOU can help THOUSANDS by letting us know exactly what kind of impact the Impact Action Team is making around the world and by letting us know exactly how this movement has effected you and your loved ones.

We also want to hear  exactly what you are doing right now to spread the word and make a difference.

More Than 87 Americans will Die Today by Suicide.

According to the World Health Organization, “One million people die in the world each year by suicide,” and to bring that number hauntingly home, “Over 32,000 people in the United States die by suicide every year.” (National Center for Health Statistic)

Even more tragic, twice as many people attempt suicide every day.

Tomorrow is Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day

If this tragedy has touched you, a family member or a friend, it would be wonderful if you could join us in this quest to save lives.

So what can you do today to save lives?

1. Subscribe to our newsletter!

2. Make a promise to yourself to volunteer, spread the word, share this website or give funds to an suicide or mental health organization of your choice.

3. Leave a comment and let us know what you’ve done.

4. Join us live in Long Beach, California at Life’s Golden Ticket Super Conference and meet the entire team!

More coming very soon!

All the best,

Ken McArthur
SpeakUpSaveLives.org
TheImpactFactor.com
KenMcArthur.com
jvAlertLive.com

P.S. For more information on the techniques we are using to create awareness of this silent killer, grab a copy of the best-selling book, Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a
Difference in a Noise World.

Hey Folks,

Twitter is twittering, Facebook is buzzing, blogs are posting, radio shows are talking, books are being written, crowds are forming.

All the noise is about the amazing impact of the Impact Action Team and faculty at Impact Boot Camp.

You won’t believe what is coming next!

The Sheraton Bucks County was at 100% capacity as the Impact Action Team swarmed into the hotel lobby starting Thursday afternoon.  It’s a good thing that we were planning to meet in the lobby since getting rooms was a bit slow, but the hotel was kind enough to throw us a special reception and we all enjoyed greeting friends and meeting new ones.

The networking continued into the night and then the wee hours of the morning and confusion was rampant!

What the heck was Ken McArthur trying to pull off this time!

Hopefully, something amazing!

Early Friday morning we gathered for the initial session.  The Impact Action Team members were seated across the front of the room with over 100 attendees watching to see what would happen.

Little did they know!

As I started the first session, I knew a little more than the attendees, but clearly this event was designed for participation and creative masterminding and even though I knew that amazing things would happen, I had no idea of the scope that this amazing event would take on — eagerly pushed by our wonderful attendees and Action Team Members.

What kind of project would we work on?

One of the key points that I make in Impact: How to Get Noticed Motivate Millions and Make a Difference in a Noisy World is that ANYONE can make a difference if they apply the principles from this book.

So when I decided to create a case study to prove just that, the options were all over the place!

For weeks, I listened to stories of people who were trying to make a difference in a noisy world.  Our own Impact Action Team members each had a story of people who needed to be helped and lives that needed to change.

Over and over my mind kept coming back to the simple story of Deremiah *CPE as he shared it to me sitting in the car one night at jvAlert Live.

So what’s his story?

Coming out of poverty, moving into middle income America to be jerked back into living below the poverty level is quite painful.

In Deremiah’s case, it was coupled with gang violence, welfare, government cheese and a move to one of the wildest high schools on Chicago’s South Side.

Struggling with depression and crying profusely for weeks on end Deremiah lost hope in everything including his self.

His dreams were destroyed. It seemed he had nothing to live for and with his father now stationed on the other side of the planet and his mother still struggling to maintain her emotional stability Deremiah gave up.

He no longer wanted to live.

And then Deremiah changed.

Deremiah found his faith and his hope for the future was replaced with a bigger mission to help hurting children and Deremiah has been reaching out ever since to at-risk children and making a difference in their lives.

I decided that we would take Deremiah’s project and make it our own.

It’s an amazing project!

Someone attempts suicide every 39 seconds and it effects everyone.  Sitting around our table at lunch ALL of us had been touched and 2 out of four people had someone actually commit suicide in front of them.

It’s a problem that is silent but deadly, so now we have a project … what’s next?

Let’s get some training!

Boy did we get training!

Dr. Ron Capps, the Niche Prof led the charge by teaching us how to use social media sites to build real relationships and visibility.  Frank Sousa talked about the importance of having an impact and the power of video. Sanyika Calloway Boyce showed us how to use the power of getting on TV and radio to enhance our messages and build credibility.

Then the Masterminds Started!

Breaking into mastermind groups, we covered a wide range of topics to see how we could work together to generate …

• Awareness of the problem of suicide
• Educational Materials
• Access to Help and Resources

Each group was assisted by members of our Impact Faculty and Impact Action Team Members as we worked together to make sure that we created a master plan, timeline and great ideas to put into action. Here are some of the areas we covered.

• Blogs
• Branding
• Credibility and Publishing
• Photography
• P/R, Radio and Television
• Research
• Social Media
• Speaking
• Sponsorships
• Videos

Our master plan involves spreading the word about the fact that ANYONE can make a positive difference, Deremiah *CPE’s unique story and the importance of creating awareness, education and access to help and resources in the area of suicide.

On September 26th, 27th and 28th the Impact Action Team will travel to Brendon Burchard’s Life’s Golden Ticket Super Seminar where we will enlist the aide of over 2,000 people live at the event as well as people and organizations around the world as we get noticed, motivate millions and make a difference in a noisy world.

Throughout the event the attendees and Impact Action Team members were coached by our exciting faculty including, Donna Fox who talked about marketing to women, Warren Whitlock who talked about using books to gain credibility, Mary Mazzullo who taught us how to take impactful photographs, Carrie Wilkerson, the “Barefoot Executive” who taught us about building lists and Felicia Slattery who talked about creating a “Signature Speach.”

Throughout the event, we practiced and planned and the groups were able to come up with amazing resources that will help Deremiah *CPE to create his own book, facilitate radio and television appearances, gather sponsors, leverage existing research and resources, interface with existing organizations and leverage their platforms to amazing reach throughout the world.

On Sunday, we were dazzled by an entire morning with the dynamic best-selling author of Life’s Golden Ticket, Brendon Burchard who shared his vision and showed us exactly how to use existing organizations to reach millions with our ideas, products and services.

So what’s next?

Each of our teams has an amazing assignment to create impact over the next month and onward until the end of the year.

Here are just a few ways that you can get involved right now:

• Click here and grab over 100 hours worth of free training materials and discover how to create massive personal Impact.
• Click here and register to experience the Impact Action Team’s adventure “Speak Up Save Lives” as together we fight the silent killer of suicide.
• Click here to see what’s happpening right now on Twitter, by following me and the other Impact Action Team Members as we make a difference in a noisy world.
• Come join us LIVE September 26th, 27th and 28th as the Impact Action Team travels to Brendon Burchard’s Life’s Golden Ticket Super Seminar where we will enlist the aide of over 2,000 people live at the event as well as people and organizations around the world.

Stay tuned for more updates and amazing news!

We have just started this adventure!

All the best,

Kenneth A. McArthur
jvAlertLive.com
TheImpactFactor.com
InfoProductBlueprint.com
jvAlert.com

P.S. jvAlert Live is October 17th, 18th and 19th in Las Vegas.  Lock in the dates now and click here to get on the pre-notification list!

P.P.S. Hint, hint … Want to learn everything I know for less than $15?

Click here and get my latest hardcover book!

Hey Folks,

Imagine that I’m younger.

My son is a toddler and I’m gently swinging back and forth dragging my feet in the gravel as I sit suspended in the comfortable seat of a swing watching him explore the playground around him.

All around the swing are small bits of gravel and I’m fascinated as I see the smile in his eyes.

He sees such amazing things in simple ordinary bits of rock.

A smile crosses my face and I tell him that I’ve spotted very special stone.

“Do you see it?”

His eyes instantly light up and he rushes to the edge of the gravel and picks up a small black piece of stone bringing it proudly back to me.

Carefully, I wrap the small stone and put it in my pocket.

One special stone.

Now fast forward a dozen years.

I’m speaking to a group of people and hand them a small clear plastic bag filled with small pieces of gravel.

A smile crosses my face and I tell them that I’ve spotted very special stone.

“Do you see it?”

Around the room the baggie goes and which rock is special only I know.

What makes me so special?

Why am the only person that knows which rock is so unique?

I know …

.. because my son picked out that rock a decade ago and I could tell it anywhere.

There’s a lot to be learned when we pay attention to the way we look at things.

Which brings me to this morning …

This morning two of my clients were dealing with time issues and one was clearly frustrated with me.

Part of the frustration was the simple fact that …

People need to know what to expect!

People are coming literally from all over the world to the Impact Boot Camp in Philadelphia and no one is really sure what’s going to happen.

At jvAlert Live Events, people — at least the old-timers — know what to expect.

They expect to find great joint venture partners, top-level instruction and a wonderful sense of family that we’ve developed over the years that results in millions of dollars in profits and life-time relationships that benefit people for years.

That’s what you pay for and that’s what you get.

But, Impact Boot Camp isn’t so structured and that can be frustrating.

What do you get when you put on an event that’s never been done?

Well, in my case … a headache.

For about the last 5 days, because …

When you do something new — EVERYTHING has to be done for the first time!

Plus … Guess what!

Sometimes people can let you down — hard to believe I know.  But luckily …

I’m annoyingly calm

It never fails to upset my wife, when in the middle of a crisis, I act like it’s no big deal.

The truth of the matter is …

I’ve come to realize that getting upset is rarely the most effective way to deal with problems.

And it gets worse …

I’m very frustrating to people who are organized

That’s mostly because I don’t really WANT to be too organized.

Even I have to admit that’s pretty upsetting.

You see …

I love the fact that we don’t HAVE to put limits on what happens.

And … as soon as you organize too much — you start placing limits.

Don’t get me wrong …

I LOVE organized people!

That’s one of the reasons that I appreciate Michelle Alvarez so much.  Because she is so organized that she makes even ME look organized.

That’s a GOOD thing!

I love order — but I crave freedom.

So here’s the rub …

Both of my clients are VERY busy people and it is very important to each of them that they spend their time doing things that are well … important.

THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE WASTING THEIR TIME DOING THINGS THAT AREN’T EXCITING AND AMAZING!

I’ll bet that’s a lot like you.

You don’t want to waste your time either.

The one guarantee that we have is that there is only a limited amount of time in our day.

And our days are limited.

So by default, if you want to do amazing things, you don’t have enough time in your day or enough days in your life to waste.

As it turns out, both of my clients are doing amazing stuff …

That’s because they are both compelled to do amazing things.  In fact, looking from the outside you could be tempted to call both of these individuals driven.

They both KNOW that their time is limited.  They know that life is amazing and they want the most out of it.

They know both know the value of a balanced life, the value of family, the power of action and the importance of being financially stable and the joy of following your passion.

Which brings us back to this morning …

One client was very excited and one was very frustrated.

Both were looking at the same pile of rocks.

So what’s to be done …

• Sometimes, we need a fresh pile of rocks to change our perspective.
• Other times we need to look at the pile of rocks in front of us with new eyes.
• We may just need to realize that we just don’t need any more rocks on our plate.

But, usually …

• We just need to look for the special rocks.

They are always there and usually right in front of our eyes.

All the best,

Kenneth A. McArthur
jvAlertLive.com
TheImpactFactor.com
InfoProductBlueprint.com
jvAlert.com

P.S. Hint, hint …

We don’t have time to do everything, but isn’t life amazing?

Want to learn everything I know for less than $15?

Click here and get my latest hardcover book!

Hey Folks,

Not all that long ago I was sworn into the Army in Baltimore and piled on a bus which all too soon arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey for Army Boot Camp.

Talk about a life changer!

It wasn’t at all what I was expecting.  I learned a lot about life — not all nice by the way — but I was definitely IMMEDIATELY ENGAGED IN THE MOMENT … Even when I didn’t want to be.

That’s what’s about to happen to everyone that comes to Philadelphia next weekend, August 22nd, 23rd and 24th for Impact Boot Camp.

Yes, for YOU it’s FREE

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Hey Folks,

Headlines and E-mail subject lines are pretty amazing really — If they are good.

Today my inbox was filled with variations on Frank Kern’s email subject line, “Bad News.”

Why?

Because Frank mentioned that headline in his “Rubber Neck Effect” Video.

Frank said that it was a really good headline, so everyone piled on.

Here’s another sad truth. If you pile onto the latest great idea ….

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Hey Folks,

Tracy Repchuck posted on her blog today about the death of Randy Pausch.

He died of complications from pancreatic cancer at age 47.

It’s worth noting that no matter how short, life is worth living full out and Randy did that.

Here’s a video of Randy’s last lecture. It’s worth your time.

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Hey Folks,

Ever meet anyone who could make a real difference if only someone would notice?

Meet Deremiah *CPE

Deremiah spent the early part of his life on the South Side of Chicago. Born into a black culture with a Jewish name with strong European cultural overtones, He lived in thirteen cities in the United States and two in Europe.

Deremiah says that living in Europe after coming out of the Chicago Housing Projects is like being Eddie Murphy in the movie “Trading Places”.

By living in diverse communities Deremiah strengthened his appreciation for humanity and his tolerance for people across cultures, places, music and religions.

Eventually, Deremiah and his family were able to settle in Oklahoma, where he became a rising young star on the football field, headed for the state championships. Life was feeling good for the young teenager.

Unfortunately life wasn’t perfect. His mother was having emotional struggles, which didn’t help her marriage. After she came out of the hospital — the victim of yet another nervous break down — she ended up in divorce court.

In Oklahoma they ask the child which parent they want to stay with and Deremiah was forced into a “Solomon type” decision to choose between his parents.

Deremiah decided to stand by his Momma. With her emotional problems, she needed his support.

That’s where the struggle began.

His emotionally troubled mother decided that they needed to move to the South side of Chicago.

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Hey Folks,

My buddy Michael Angier shocked me with this one! I had no idea! Read the rest of this entry »

Hey Folks,

Your impact is being felt!

Already Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a Difference in a Noisy World has hit three best-seller lists along with a coveted number one ranking and new members of The Impact Factor are pouring in by the thousands.If you don’t have your copy yet, you can grab one almost anywhere including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

If you would like to help spread the word, just log into your personal account at The Impact Factor and grab a referral link from the members area. That way you can earn some great commissions on any sales that we make to people you refer.

Now that books are out there in the hands of the public, I would love to hear what you think about the book. Please post comments and let me know! Read the rest of this entry »