No matter if you’re in network marketing or not, if you want to be successful in your life, you’ve got to establish goals. Without goals, you have no direction. Goals define what you are working towards. Another way to think about your goals is to think about the “vision” for your business.
And if you’re familiar with Scripture, you’ll know that somewhere in that great book of wisdom is the following passage:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Or, to put it in my simple Kentucky terms, if you ain’t got a vision for your business, your business is dead.
Dead. Done. Finished.
You’ve got to set your goals and keep them in front of you. But how do you do that? What’s the best way to keep those goals in front of you all the time? How do you keep driving for them?
Here’s 5 steps you can take starting today to help you start achieving your goals in your network marketing business.
Step #1 – Write down your goals. This should be really obvious to most of us at thing point, but we sure don’t act like it. And I’m just as guilty as anyone else is. Write down what you want to happen in your business. Be specific, don’t use vague projections and generalizations. If you want to make $10,000 a month in your business, write it down.
Writing your goals down is extremely powerful and gives them “substance” and gets them out of your head and in the “real world.”
Step #2 – Read your goals, outloud, daily. Yep, you read that right. I said to READ your goals EVERY day, OUTLOUD. Right now I know you’re saying, “That’s crazy. People will think I’m a lunatic.” Let them think whatever they want. When they see you still sitting at Starbucks every morning enjoying your latte while they have to rush off to their J-O-B, they won’t think you were so crazy.
Get fanatical about saying your goals outloud. They’ll start to get into your head and you’ll figure out more ways every day to push towards them.
Step #3 – Make 2 sets of goals, short-term and long-term. Look, I know that we’d all like to make six figures a month in our businesses starting tomorrow. But the chances of that happening are not that great. But, why can’t that be a long-term goal for you?
Make a set of short-term and long-term goals for your business. However, all of your short-term goals should be building up to help fulfill your long-term goals. Use them as a stepping stone to bigger things.
Step #4 – Find an accountability partner. It’s all fine and good that you write your goals down and keep them in front of your face. But if you’re the only one holding yourself accountable, the chances of failure are much higher.
Get a partner. Join a mastermind. Or, and I know this sounds crazy, talk with your spouse. Revolutionary, I know, but your spouse or significant other should be your biggest supporter. Talk with them and get them involved in your goals. You’d be surprised what awesome motivation that can be for you.
Step #5 – Measure your progress. When you first set your goals, there may be things that come along that you don’t plan for. And just because you’re working toward your goals as hard as you possibly can that you’re going to achieve all of them in the exact time you originally put down.
Remember, these are goals you’re pushing towards. No basketball player makes the shot 100% of the time. No hitter bats a thousand. But they never stop and they always evaluate where they are with their skills.
The same goes for your business. You’ve got to sit down every now and then and take stock of where you are. Review your goals. Some of them will have been accomplished very easily. Some of them were completely off and need to be changed.
But if you have to change them, don’t despair. You’re still working, you’re still pushing, and you will see them completed.
You alone control your destiny and the goals that you strive for. Keep them in your focus at all times and your dreams will be yours.
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