After creating your business mission statement, goal setting becomes a lot easier.

You can create big picture goals to help you to decide how many hours you want to work.

For example, if you are a mom of 3 small children working from home and wanting to earn enough to pitch in for groceries and spending money, your major goal will be to grow happy healthy kids, working part time.

This will immediately give you an idea how many work hours to plan into your schedule.

If your kids are grown or you have none and your goal is to replace your corporate salary – obviously it will be clear that you will be scheduling a full work day.

That is pretty much cut and dry.

TARGET YOUR GOALS

But you can use goal setting with a different spin to help you to decide what tasks to plan during your focused working hours.

• How about subscriber goals?
• Web traffic goals?
• Product specific sales goals?

Setting goals for specifics like this give instant focus and motivation to your efforts.

You already know that you want as many targeted subscribers as you can get.

You know that you want as much traffic too.

And you know that you want maximum sales for every product.

So you don’t need no steenking goal, right?

Wrong.

Guess what that knowing gives you?

Mush.

There is nothing specific to motivate you, to keep your eye on, to pick you up and carry you forward.

CREATE SOMETHING TO SHOOT FOR

But put a reasonable number to it and suddenly you will find yourself pushing to achieve it.

For example if you are selling 5 reports per month on how to wash your dog, try aiming for 7 next month, and then 10.

You will find yourself asking, ‘What can I do to create these extra sales?’ emphasis on the phrase what can I do.

You’ll decide for instance that you can write an article for your blog or for distribution, or be sure that your newsletter goes out on time.

You will look at that number – it’s a good idea to place it where you can see it – and you will get to work, rather than surf another site or read someone else’s newsletter.

Do you think moving from 5 to 7 sales is small potatoes? It is but it’s doable and thinking in percentages, it’s not so small.

Keep at it and over time you will be playing with larger number’s, especially as your confidence grows.

If you already have larger numbers you can use the same concept.

Or you can set a goal to repeat the process and have 2 products creating an income for you.

Setting specific goals, incrementally, allows you to continually raise the bar until you arrive where you want to be.

A FEW RULES…

The only rules are to tie your goals to your mission statement, never take your eyes from the goal and don’t spread yourself too thin.

Create a working plan for every goal, create a realistic space in your schedule to work on doing what it takes to reach that goal.

Don’t forget to delegate, automate or delete what ever you can in the process.

Work on your goals consistantly, believe in your ability to hit them, even if it means doing new things – it probably will.

Remember that goals are just goals, the power is in your ability to find out what it takes to achieve them and then, to put motion in the notion.

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