It Begins With A Goal

Studies have shown that of the 3% of the population that succeed in creating  wealth - almost all of them have written goals.

Of the 97% of the population that do not achieve financial independence - almost all of them do NOT have written goals.

If you don't know where you are going in life, you won't know when you have got there.  But more importantly:

If you don't know WHERE you are going in life, you won't know HOW to get there.

So in this respect goals are important.

Let me just say that I am not a big fan of the motivational hype that spews out of many of the MLM companies in particular - perhaps that is also why I have not over achieved too?

But don't confuse goal setting with motivational rah rah. 

If you have a definitive goal written down then it is possible to work out an exact plan of what is required to achieve that goal.

For example:

If you want to buy this house -

 Then you would know that you need $375, 000.00 dollars in total.  Or a deposit amount of $75,000 and a weekly income of $650.00.

That is a definitive goal (it may not be your goal, but your goal should be as equally definitive).

Now that you have a target - $650.00 a week income - you can work backwards.

You know that to achieve that you will need X-number of sales which based on historical averages requires X-number of customers.  To get X-number of customers you need to make X-number of presentations, which in turn you know will require X-number of phone calls or letter box drops.

Or if you are doing Internet marketing X-number of sales will require X-amount of traffic, which requires X-number of articles, blog posts, or other means of traffic generation.

If you really want to achieve your goal you now know what is required and you can write in your dairy the steps required each day to achieve that goal.

Stick to the plan.  It may seem daunting at first, but if you have broken the steps required to achieve your goal into achievable daily requirements - you will get there by following the plan.