Goals are Destined to Fail!
Now that I have your attention let me expand on my title. Goals are destined to fail without a plan to achieve those goals.
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A Plan
Many times I have established goals in my mind or may have written them down on paper. Some goals were achieved and other goals merely were wishful thinking.
As I have thought about the differences between the goals that were reached and those that were not. I see one very common thread, a plan to get there.
When I had a goal of passing the CPA exam, I had a plan which included education, studying and a sacrifice of parts of my social life. I am thankful that the CPA prep course laid out a plan to get to the goal. This plan included a breakdown of weekly small goals which when added all together would get you to your main goal.
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Goals for my Online Business
I have a goal for my online business. That goal includes a dollar amount of passive income each and every month. I am thankful for Wealthy Affiliate for the training and coaching. There is a step by step training with how to build a successful online business. Coaching and encouragement from the WA community also act as a catalyst to the plan of achieving that goal.
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Does the Plan line up with the timing of my goal?
This is my third week at Wealthy Affiliate so I have not gotten through all the training (probably have just scratched the surface). But I can't help but wonder if there is a checklist or a mini goal sheet which would help me find out how the training lines up with the time set for accomplishing my goal.
For an example: If you want to be making $$$ by year-end, here are the weekly steps.
I would love to hear from the WA community about their plan to accomplish their goal for their online business.
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My plan at WA now is to finish the super affiliate challenge course within a year and be financially independent by that time.
My goal is to finish Boot camp to the best of my abilities. It may take me a little while until I'm in the black. I work full time and have kids in grade school.
Thank you for this thought-provoking post Neil. I will accomplish my goals when I have enough good content on my website to pull in the visitors I need to purchase my products.
Derek
Great post, Neil.
But unfortunately, there are just too any factors that could affect the results and there is no set daily task or list that anybody can give you that will be perfect and that will ensure you will make X amount of dollars by year end.
Things that could affect your results are how fast you learn, how much time you dedicate to your business in a day, keyword quality, optimization methods, how often you post, Google algorhythm updates, your posts, competition, audience and audience retention, website load times and so on and so forth.
The best thing to do is to go through the training at your own pace. Some are able to go through it faster than others but as you learn more, new tasks will get added on to the ones you're already doing.
You just have to make sure that you're following the training to the T and just focus on PROBLEM SOLVING when you come across an obstacle. It's all a learning experience.
Wishing you the best!
Reyhana
I agree, often I forget my daily tasks if they are not written down. I need to stick to a schedule more often. Thanks for the reminders.
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NS15 - Everything is different for every person doing this. You cannot have a task sheet in a timeline that will suffice for all persons that need to use it. My suggestion to you would be to take one small part of the training and factor how long you figure it will take and then factor in any other items such as, asking for help, reading posts electra. Make a forecast and when completed compare forecast to actual. You probably want to breakout each function by their time amounts. You do this a number of times and you will begin to judge your rate of completion. Now you should be in a better position to start doing longer goals. Don't worry about how long it takes because every person is different for many reasons. Keep your eye on completing each segment and before you know it you will have climbed that mountain. Wish you the best and Good Luck.