Big Goals, High Discouragement.
What is the goal?
Every day, I try to send a couple dozen new members a nice little goal statement. Sure. It’s the same statement almost every time because I paste it to those goal setters that are not stating extraordinary “goals.”
I do actually read these goals and most of the time that I see a crazy goal, I mouse over “their” profile picture and read the blurb of their profile introduction statement. Late at night, you will often notice that many profiles whose names are nonsensical and are all close together actually all have exactly the same profile blurb.
I’ve noticed this trend and I don’t think it’s a developing one. I believe that there are a few members taking advantage of getting credit for new members that simply sign up, create a profile and post a profile picture.
Are they ghosts?
Those users are never seen nor heard from again. I have a few theories on why this happens, but we’ll leave it at that.
What I Really Wanted to Write About
In trying to succeed at anything in life, a person must gain some form of direction.
They can reach out to a community for help in finding their direction, they can study the lives of people who have succeeded at what they wish to accomplish and line out a path to stay on, or they can wander aimlessly through life hoping that they will somehow end up where they want to be.
I will be honest. Until recently, I’ve always wanted to start an online business, but all I’ve done about it was read books about it. One time about 20 years ago, I came up with an idea that made me some money, none to brag about, but it amounted to a drop shipping scheme and it was not sustainable from the standpoint of my profit to exposure ratio.
We’ve all heard all of our lives that setting goals is the first step to anywhere or anything.
It’s true!
When you first read Kyle’s direction to state your money goals, you made a goal to state your goals.
Most of you… almost all of you reading this understand that these goals shouldn't be dramatic or unrealistic. They need to have purpose.
One guy’s goals that I read was simply hoping to earn enough to have his project provide him with beer money! How’s that for a goal?
I think it’s fantastic!
It’s realistic and it is likely to be a goal that guy can reach.
This is something that I noticed almost all the members in my network have done. They have set goals to do things that are REAL such as pay the rent, pay the electric bill, earn enough so they can work whatever job they want, replace their income, create a second income, live a more comfortable life, take a "real" vacation... and there are hundreds of other examples.
You have set a money goal that says you will be happy earning an extra $300 per month, $1,500 per month or $10,000 and these numbers actually represented something to you in your lives BEFORE finding WA. $300 might be diaper and formula money, $1,500 might be moving out of your apartment into your own house or moving to a nicer area. $10,000 might be replacing your income so you can work at home full time or replacing an income so someone can stay home with the kids.
My point is, the none of you wrote that you’d be happy with $10,000,000, ecstatic at $100,000,000 and that you are willing to work 1-2 hours a week to get there.
How do I know that you never wrote that?
Those people give up. They already gave up because they are so far away from this that they feel like they will never reach it.
Little goals
I have a website dedicated to having smaller goals. It’s weight loss related, but the simple truth is that it’s okay to have a big goal in mind, but you need to set little goals to get there.
Take it from me! A 350 pound guy isn’t going to join a weight loss center and wake up tomorrow weighing 195 pounds. Yet, I do now weigh 195 pounds now and it was nearly two years…but I haven’t reached my goal yet and, as you might guess, I’ve stumbled along the way (Heck, I stumbled all the way from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day). I’ve gone through what felt like long periods with no evidence of success.
Reaching personal goals is HARD WORK!
I was just reading a blog here from a woman who set a 12 month, $50,000 per month case study and she chronicles her efforts. The details of her account are intense and will make a good read for all of us. It is an awesome demonstration of setting smaller, more immediate goals toward reaching a bigger goal.
Check it out:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/herinnelson/blog/my-twentiet...
Other Kindred Spirits
Finally, there are the new members that I try to help with a non-pasted reply to their goals statement. These folks don’t apply a number or a purpose to achieve, rather, they use infinitesimal statements like the word, “ANY”, or “The Sky’s The Limit”, or “However much God is willing to bless me with”.
I saw one guy’s goals statement today that said they’d be happy earning ”N/A,” and that they’d be ecstatic earning “N/A,“ but that they would be willing to work 1-2 per day at that.
Now for my action statement
Folks, these new members need your help to understand the importance of goal setting!
Don’t just blindly go through their goals statements pasting your response. It takes an extra second to read them. Don’t ignore them! Gently encourage them to create goals. Actual, realistic goals. While there is a LOT of power in being told what to do and there is a LOT MORE power in telling yourself what you are going to do, these powers combine within a person who tells others what they are going to do.
Trust me on this. It gets us in trouble sometimes, but when we tell someone else what we are going to do next, we are most likely to really try to do it!
Now, if you will simply write below that you are going to go, right now, encourage someone who needs to set some goals, this will come full circle!
But not before I end this with the statement that I have told everyone in my network:
“I wish you the very best in success!”
Now, go!
Recent Comments
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Great post and I agreed with you that goals need to be realistic with the amount of time/work that you are willing to put in.
Have a great day
Tommy
I agree with Tommy too. In fact, it is the same everywhere, online or offline business. To be successful in one profession, a lot of effort and time have to be invested. To be professional in any trade, it takes at least 2 to 5 years. Hence, some people persevere through and made it big, while some left the train and join other train(s).
Have a great weekend! :o)