Dreams vs. Goals
It's dreams that draw most of us to a program like this.
I remember back when I was in college and looking at a job opening for a financial advisor position. The salary was almost $80k a year. Back when I was saddled with a ton of debt and working as a short order cook, that sounded like a fortune. It made me dream of a different life.
After school, my dream never really left and, as a result, I got sucked into about every money-making scheme you can imagine. MLMs were just starting to hit the Internet, and I feel like I've done them all (BTW: anyone need any shampoo or granola bars?).
I've wasted a lot of money for the ability not to make any money at all except for the people who "recruited" me. How did this happen? Was I stupider than everyone else? Well, possibly, but one aspect of my failure was that I was buying a dream instead of thinking about goals.
Dreams are good. Dreams motivate us to action. They help us see past our present circumstances to a better world of what could be.
The problem is that it takes quite a bit of incremental change to move your world closer and closer to your dream. I had no goals. I had no concept of incremental growth. All I had to compare my progress to was the dream, and when that's all you've got, you're constantly coming up short. There's a sense in which you've set yourself up to fail, because instead of thinking, "Hey, it's three months later, and I made an extra $100! That's great progress!" You're thinking, "Hey, it's been three months, and I'm no closer to my first million than I was at the beginning."
It's important to have dreams, but it might be even more important to have small goals that move you closer to that dream. If I have no smaller goals than, "Make a million dollars ASAP," I'm bound to be discouraged most of the time, because most of the time, I won't be making that million dollars. I'll give up.
But if I can think of smaller milestones along the way - maybe $10 my first month. $30 over the next two months. $100 by my first six months. Or maybe that's too small, I don't know, but you get my point. If I have smaller goals that move me closer to my dream, I'm bound to stick with it and, instead of having a long slog of defeat and discouragement, I'll have a chain of victories.
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if you made $100 then you are indeed closer but did you drink the shampoo and wash with the granola bar?
Don't give up! Because, then you will miss out on the million. Try reiliating things, do something different that is pertaining to your goals.