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Taking Action on Your 2016 Goals

January 17, 2016

Okay, so the New Year’s shiny-ness has worn off.  We’re just about to the middle of the month, so what’s your plan this year?

I mean, how do you plan to be successful this year?

What is success for you this year?  Define it for yourself.

Are you writing this stuff down?

How will you know you’re successful if you haven’t decided what success is?

Seriously, are you writing this down?

This is 2016, by now you likely know nothing good is just going to be handed to you. It’s going to take some serious thought, strategy and execution – aka work, hustle, grinding away.

You’re not opposed to putting in the work, but you still have to decide and prioritize where to put your effort each day, each week, each month – all year.

If success for you this year is a particular dollar amount earned from your endeavors, then pick an annual amount you want to earn (try to be realistic, but also stretch yourself) and work backwards to break down that number into what you will have to earn each day, week and month to reach that goal at the end of the year.

Then start brainstorming (on paper) with your team, your spouse, your mentor, your coach, your business colleagues, or just yourself to determine how you can obtain the dollar amount goal per day, or per week or per month and simply strive to hit those smaller milestones each day, week and month.

When you hit the smaller, daily, weekly and monthly goals at the end of the year you will have reached your annual goal and potentially more.

If you're wondering, beyond my goals for my marketing day-job career and growing my freelance marketing business (

) I'm building another marketing income stream on

, which is a freelance marketplace where those seeking various services can find service providers and the starting price is $5.

Fiverr is a very straight forward and simple concept. However, freelance projects on Fiverr can have add-ons that cost extra money, so total projects can quickly escalate to reasonable rates for the work provided.

I'm interested in using Fiverr as a way to offer new clients a low-cost, minimum risk trial of my marketing services. If they like the work I provide there -- and are ready to invest in higher value, more in-depth marketing services -- they can graduate to what I offer at GrowLoop.com.

My goal for Fiverr this year is obtainable but may prove to be a stretch, I'm not sure just yet. I want to bring in $6000 this year just from my Fiverr work. That's $500 per month, $125 per week or $25 a day (only working Monday through Friday - $17.86 if I base it on a 7 day week).

For me, I am less concerned with the per day or per week revenue amount and I am shooting for the $500 per month amount as a monthly goal.

I know if I hit that monthly goal all 12 months out of the year I will reach my goal of earning $6000 annually from my Fiverr income stream. So far in the month of January, just a little over halfway done with the month, I'm over halfway to my goal for the month.

This concept can also be true if your goal is to simply workout more regularly to lose 25 pounds by the end of 2016.

Or, if you want to acquire a new skill by the end of the year. If you want to be a graphic novelist and struggle with drawing people, then set a schedule for yourself to practice drawing people everyday.  Draw people at the park while sitting on a bench, from magazine photos, from your favorite comic books.

Just work on it everyday! 

Don’t forget to write out a basic plan of what you want to achieve by the end of the year. Include the smaller chunks (mini-goals) you'll need to achieve along the way to gain some small victories. Those little wins will keep your momentum and confidence up enough to push through the end of the year, where you'll see big results.

This whole planning part -- writing things down and being critical to decide what you want and how to get there throughout the year -- is the hardest part. The daily work is far easier in my opinion than the initial planning.

However, if you take the time to do the initial planning and then execute on that plan throughout the year, I guarantee you will be 80% closer to reaching your goal as soon as your initial plan is written just for having written it.

This will give you a huge advantage over everyone else. Everyone doesn't plan.

Don’t be everyone else this year.  Catch the dream you’re chasing.

Here's a basic framework you can use to help you plan:

  • What is do you want to achieve by the end of this year?

  • What do you need to achieve each month in order to reach your annual goal?

  • What will you need to achieve by the end of each week to hit your monthly goal?

  • What must you successfully do everyday to hit your weekly goal?

  • What systems or efficiencies can you create to help yourself reach your daily goals?

Feel free to hit reply and share with me what your big goal is this year.

Have a great week!

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