For every career or goal we choose to pursue in life, certain steps need to be taken before we become successful. We typically need to attend school or get special training to become certified or to know what to do to achieve success.

Olympic athletes get where they are because they train for hours each day, 365 days a year. They give complete focus and sacrifice many of the common pleasures the rest of us take for granted, all to become the best in the world.

My Dream

In the year and a half of my blogging experience, I have worked to build this website mainly relying on the wisdom of such blogging gurus as Darren Rowse, John Chow and Lorelle on Wordpress, to name a few.

It has become my dream to make PhoneWisdom a success, and I refuse to give up on it. However, to take my blog to the next level I need some extra training that I cannot receive through daily perusal of problogger sites.

The training and focus I want to have every single day is much akin to that of an Olympic athlete. I want to be the best at what I do.

My Opportunity

To be successful one must set and achieve short-term and long-term goals. One of my short-term goals is to make it to the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas September 19-21 of this year. This is known in the blogging world to be the largest blog convention in the world, and many major players give training to hopefuls such as myself.

Fortunately John Chow has given some of his readers that golden opportunity they desire -- free tickets to the BlogWorld Expo, a $400 value. He has asked us to post why we want to go, what we plan to get out of it, and why we deserve to go.

The ability to sit in company of some of the world's best and converse with legends is an incredible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me. What better way is there to learn and grow? I intend to use it to my advantage and work toward my goal of being the best!

I deserve to go because I know what I'm capable of and am willing to prove I have what it takes. While I have far to go before being compared to an Olympic athlete, I have my sights set on the gold.