One thing that I find often seems to stop people in their tracks is the failure to meet short term goals. One thing that can make all the difference between if you are successful or not is how you view your own failures. Realistically, if you have never failed to meet a goal then you probably have not set very many of them, or you have never set them high enough to really challenge yourself.
I would ask you though, when failure comes, how do you take it. Is it so disappointing that you loose your enthusiasm for you business and don't try as hard the next month. Or do you view it as a direct challenge to yourself that must be overcome whatever the cost?
Unfortunately most get discouraged and don't try as hard the next time, then when they don't meet the goal again they try even less until eventually they just give up. That's why most never make it. The winners are those who view failure almost as a personal insult or a challenge that they must beat almost as if they have to prove to themselves that they are stonger than the challenge that stumped them the last time.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Great Things Are Done One Step At A Time
I remember a song that I learned when I was a child listening to a christian artist called Patch the Pirate. It had the lyrics
Little by little, inch by inch
By the yard it's hard
By the inch what a cinche
Never stare at the stairs, just step up the step
Little by little, inch by inch
You know you can take alot from those words in running a business. I've watched many people who fail although they set their goals. You really do need to write down your goals and at what date you want to have met that goal. But you also need to write down your baby steps to getting that goal.
OK so you want to be making $100,000 a year in two years. Where do you need to be one month from now? Or how about a week from now? I know in my business if I can do $100 of business a week then in two years that would put my residual income over the $100,000 mark. Also $100 a week is a lot easier goal to comprehend than just a $100,000 a year level within 2 years.
http://www.hartlinefinancial.com/
Little by little, inch by inch
By the yard it's hard
By the inch what a cinche
Never stare at the stairs, just step up the step
Little by little, inch by inch
You know you can take alot from those words in running a business. I've watched many people who fail although they set their goals. You really do need to write down your goals and at what date you want to have met that goal. But you also need to write down your baby steps to getting that goal.
OK so you want to be making $100,000 a year in two years. Where do you need to be one month from now? Or how about a week from now? I know in my business if I can do $100 of business a week then in two years that would put my residual income over the $100,000 mark. Also $100 a week is a lot easier goal to comprehend than just a $100,000 a year level within 2 years.
http://www.hartlinefinancial.com/
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