Are Being Realistic and Ambitious Conflicting Ideas?

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The Super Affiliate project is designed to enable each ‘chosen’ member bring in a minimum of 300 referrals during 2018. This set me thinking. Should I be realistic or do I pitch myself for a seemingly outrageous goal?

It’s so very tempting to set an extremely realistic target because in doing that we eliminate every chance of failure (and disappointment). Something like a zero-risk venture.

However, in playing our cards close to the chest and being realistic also means we severely limit ourselves and it prevents us from achieving outrageous success. Our fear of meeting disappointment makes us wary and leads us to keeping mundane targets.

They say success don’t happen in vacuum. It’s in the chaos that the most exciting things happen. I’m all for chaos now.


[P.S.: Wanted to write longer but I realised I need to stop talking to myself. I should be conserving my energy.]

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Thanks for sharing my friend.

Getting 300 premium members already seems like an outrageous enough goal for me right now but I am sure to those who have done it already, it isn't.

One thing is for sure it will take a whole lot of effort to get there so if we can do what it takes we will make it.

~Mark

Getting 300 premium members in a year is like 6 referrals in a week. If it's a quality website, that looks like an achievable thing. For a beginner, yes, it the number looks big. I have been here for four months and I have had only 2 referrals so far, and both are starter members. One didn't even set up his profile description. The other who did is happy being at the starter level. But I'm okay with that.

Slow and Steady wins the race.

Success will happen with effort and consistency, may not come when we want it, but it will come.

Yeah, you bet it will come!

Absolutely not as long as the task of what you are doing is related your goal it will make sense. You will be walking closer to your goals.

True. Both could complement one another. One can be realistically ambitious :)

Hi! Sukumarth,
That is right. Known to many, sweet talk and sympathy have never helped anyone though liked, but empathy with actions will help tremendously - always in time for willing souls.

So, do something within our control now through smarter use of the limited amount of capital of life.

Best


Chin

Thanks for the advice, Doctor! Will keep that in mind.

Welcome, and in touch.

It is so true, in spite of being told failure is part of success we still find it hard to come to terms with this.
It could be said the realistic targets once obtained give encouragement to reach for higher targets.
Would it be reasonable to assume that it becomes a matter where you are on the success ladder, how much confidence you have in your own ability to achieve goals?

That is right. Known to many, sweet talk and sympathy have never helped anyone though liked, but empathy with actions will help tremendously - always in time for willing souls.

So, do something within our control now through smarter use of the limited amount of capital of life.

Best


Chin

If we could build up our business website that draws a lot of traffic, then one referral daily seems realistically possible. But being realistic, I think, is not in the target as such, but in the true assessment of one's abilities. And to take the grind. So, I guess it's foolhardy to be outrageously ambitious when one's inadequacies are already exposed. If not all, much depends on one's ability to churn out quality content continuously. The SEO stuff and other technicalities could be learnt in a few days' time.

These are very interesting ideas. Close to the idea of failing. No one wants to fail. But it is the most successful who have failed the most. Talk about conflicting ideas :-).

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