Why you need to stop setting goals the way you do...

I think that's good advice. People need to think of their income goal as a long-term idea, but then break down the process of getting there into smaller chunks, as you have suggested.

I also think that it may help to have bigger goals - $50 is not much. Why not aim for $1000 a day? Or maybe think of a number you can believe in easily, and then double it. Stretch things a bit - make it more exciting to create more motivation.

Also, these goals need a time frame. Aim to be making $1000 per day by July 31st 2017, or something similar. Then start breaking it down. What are you selling? Do you have to sell lots of $5 products to reach your goal? Why not find some high-ticket products instead. There's one place I know of which will be offering over $4000 per sale for their top product, and you don't have to buy it to be an affiliate, just make 3 sales to qualify I think. But there are plenty of other high-ticket products around - you can certainly get access to $200 commissions quite easily. Just 5 sales a day gets you $1000....

That sports psychologist is onto something. I wouldn't mind betting he's studied some of the works of Srikumar Rao who writes much about the benefits of investing in the process rather than the outcome. For those unfamiliar with the name, he has a couple of TED talks you might want to check out.

Personally, I prefer the more down-to-earth exhortation by Scott Adams, who in his book "How to fail at almost everything and still win big", states bluntly that "Goals are for losers". His contention is that systems beat goals all ends up.

For example, in weight loss, to lose ten pounds is a goal, but to eat right is a system.

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. One set of people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The other set is feeling good every time they apply their system.

As Adams says, that's a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.

hey kurt good post.


People often only think about the outcome and set a goal that is too high.


They don't have a process and then they lose motivation!


Good job

That's what I'm doing wrong now. I will change my plan again thank you

I do agree with you Kurt..There should be set of steps or processes that first we have to set up instead of targeting on the big without no plan..

Hi Kurt

Very well written and pointed out about the outcome goal and process Goal.

In business process re-engineering . there are different kinds of long term and short term objectives set and what you are talking about here are combined out come of a few tasks ( the bigger tasks broken down to smaller tasks ) and set objectives or milestones.

The smaller milestones are affected by several factors and thus they can be modified to some extent by pulling in resources or changing / re-engineering the work flow and include lesser amount of improbability . where as if you are piling up improbability at each stage . then they may go out of control and magnify to end up anywhere you did not want to.

Cheers

Most people keep their goals in their head which is the first mistake. You HAVE to write them down. The second thing is you need to create daily plans that are going to help you reah your goal.

Yes. That's right. The written steps will make it easier for us to repeat our success