Step 2 Where do you want to be?

Where do you want to be?
Where do you want to be financially in the very near future? This is probably the most important question you need to ask yourself right now and to answer right now. Because this is your first goal and you need to be reasonable. We all want to make a bazillion bucks, but that's not going to happen overnight or even in 12 months, probably not even possible. -Is a bazillion a real number?

Okey, then what do you mean?
What I mean is for you to step back and take a look at your present situation, and consider what improvement would you like to see. For example, say you make $300/week at Walter's Big Box Mart. You already know that you are limited to what that job pays and you are not getting anything more than that. But are you really satisfied with that, can you meet your expenses and still have money left over for the things you really would like to do? Probably not.

So, you currently make $300/week but would really like to add another $300/week to that. Okey cool, so how are you going to do it, and how much time do you want to do it in?

This is your first goal. So we decided on an extra $300/week and think we can get there in 30 days. So now we have set our goal of adding $300/week in income within the next 30 days.

So now that is out of the way, we will check our progress as we go along to see if we are getting to our goal or not. Remember, I said to be reasonable? I said that because so many people starting out set very unrealistic goals, like the bazillion dollars, and when the reach their checkpoints they are no where even close to their goals. And as a result they give up and quit because they don't see it happening.

Set your goals very low, you can raise them if you have exceeded them early.

You met your goals now what?
Now you set a new goal. Remember the $300 goal? Let's say that after 30 days, not only did you reach your goal of $300/week but you actually reached $450/week. Set your next goal to maybe 1.5X what did achieve. So if you reached $450/week that would mean setting your new goal to $450 X 1.5 or $675 over the next 30 days. By do this you will find that you are really in control of your income, and not at the mercy of your employer.

But what if I missed my goal?
Now you are at the 30 day mark, but haven't reached your goal of $300/week? Don't quit, step back and look at the situation. Did you make any money at all, and how much? How much time to and effort did you really put into achieving your goal?

There is no get rich secrets, what you make is proportional to your efforts. Put only a little effort into achieving your goal and you will only get a little close to your goal. Put a lot of effort into achieving your goal and you will reach your a whole lot faster and probably exceed it.

Time and effort is the key. What time and effort is what your devote to learning, researching new ways to promote what is your products, even new ways to reach people that you are not using at the moment. Say for example you are only posting to a blog, how many are you posting to and what could happen if you doubled that number? Or what if, in addition to your blog, you add a link to your product's website in your email or forum signature so every time you send an email to someone you are sending a link to your product or every time you make a post or reply in a forum you are also showing a link to your product. How much closer to exceeding your goal would you be then.

Think about this while checking out one of the products listed to the left and don't forget to feed the fish at the bottom of the page.

Cheers!