Setting Goals: Short Term, Long Term, Thinking Small, Thinking Big
Everyone should set both realistic goals and ideal goals in order to manifest their desires. When you have a goal, you have a dream. When you have a dream, you have a desire. When you have a desire, you have will.
Here’s one of my goals: Make a million dollars.
How do I reach that goal? I won’t just wake up one day and go, BOOYEA, I’m a millionaire! That is, unless I uhm… win the lottery ( which I’m working on 
) , or something.
How do I get to a million? Make several hundred thousand.
Short term goal: Make $120,000 in a year. I picked $120,000 because that would give me the nice even number goal of $10,000/month.
I don’t think $10,000/mo is a very realistic goal for me right now, so I’ll lower that to something that I feel is do-able, $1,000 a month.
Whether or not I reach that $1,000 a month is not a live or die moment to me, it’s just an indication of where I’m at and where I am going in terms of my goals. If I make $10 the first month, I damn well better pick up the slack if I’m ever going to be on my way to the goal!
However, that won’t mean that I’ll start to slack off if I make $1,200 in my first month. It just means that I’m going to revise my short term goals to reflect what I’ve made. So I’ll say instead of making $1,000 next month, I’ll make $2,000.
That’s the act of progression, and is seen and taught everywhere in everything. For example, weight lifting is progressive — you up the reps and weight as you get stronger, otherwise you don’t get anywhere.
Short term goal: Make $1,000/mo. (increase to $2,000 if I pass the $1,000 mark the first month.)
Long term goal: Make $10,000/mo. (This’ll take a while.)
Thinking small: Make $120,000/yr. (I wonder what color my hair will be.)
Thinking big: Make $1,000,000/yr. (That’s a lot of zeroes.)
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