If you truly desire to be successful (In a BIG way), setting personal goals for yourself is very crucial. For instance, as at December 2009, I sat down and wrote out all the personal goals I wanted to achieve in the year 2010. Definitely, I may not achieve everything but I would have achieved 75% of them. Setting personal goals are powerful.
Meaning of Personal Goals
Goals are specific desires that you plan to achieve at a specified time and must be written down on paper. For instance, "I would like to buy a car" is not a goal. But "I will buy a car latest by June 11, 2010" is a goal. This is part of the way rich people operate and you too must adapt it into your system. Now, let me ask you a question: What are your personal goals for this year? Remember, "I want to be a millionaire" is not a goal. "I want to have 3million dollars in my bank account by November 30th, 2010 is a goal.
I want you to pause for now (I mean stop reading). Pick up your pen and write down 10 personal goals you want to achieve this year and the time frame for each of them. Do this now before you continue. Do you know why I am taking you through all these processes? It becomes easier for you to succeed in your life when you know all these things.
In short, a goal = target + deadline
How much do you want to have in your bank account by December 31st, 2010? Writing down 20 million is unrealistic. I think you know that. But writing down between 500,000 - 2m dollars is still realistic depending on how far you want to go about achieving it even if you do not have anything in your account right now and you even consider yourself a dummy.
One of the reasons why setting a target is important is that it allows you to know what to plan for. For instance, let us say I have a target of raking in 2 million dollars in the next 60 days. I would know I have to work very hard and fast to meet the target. So, let us do something here. Let us set a general goal for everybody reading this. Here is the goal.
I have 2 million dollars in my bank account by December 31st, 2010. Since we have that goal written down, I want to take you through a step-by-step procedure to meet up with this goal.
Strategies
Writing down your personal goals without a thorough strategy or planning is absolutely useless. Your strategy is how you want to achieve the goal you have set. Now, the first thing is that for the next 30 days, I want you to discipline yourself to say "I will have 1 million dollar in my bank account by December 31st" when you wake up in the morning and before going to bed at night. I want you to force that goal into your mind so that it becomes a driving force.
The driving force is what helps you to jump in the morning and before going to bed at night. I want you to force that goal into your mind so that it becomes a driving force. This driving force is what causes you to jump up in the middle of the night to work even though you are supposed to be sleeping.
Setting plans does not mean that you will make it. You also have to put your plan into action by doing it.
Remember, your goal is to make 2 million dollar by December 31st, 2010. Now, the first thing is to ask yourself: how much do I have right now to even do anything? With this, you put together the amount of money you think you can easily have access to and write it somewhere.
After that, I want you to check out the number of months you have before December 31st...Divide 1million by that number. That tells us what our monthly goal is.
The next question to ask for good planning here is "what business can I do with what I have that will help me to make at least 100,000 dollar in a month so that I will have 1million dollar by December 31st?
Really, there are different profitable businesses that you can do online/offline that will help you. Now, if you want things to happen EXTRA FAST here, the key is FOCUS. Focus on what you want to do. Do not jump from one business to another. No!
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