by Brian Lett
Whenever you jump into your car, with plans of reaching your destination, your destination is your goal. You are one place, and you want to get to another place. Therefore, you have to plan and take action to reach your destination and achieve your goal. The same holds true for those of us who have a goal to make money from home. Similar to when we set our goal and take action to reach our destination, to make money from home, you have to (i) determine your goal; (ii) determine how you are going to reach the goal; and (ii) make sure that you are headed in the right direction. Essentially, this set of criteria holds true for any goal, as you will see below.
1) Figure Out Where You Want To End Up
When you get into your car, you usually do not do so without knowing where you want to ultimately end up. If you do not know where you are going, you will just drive around in circles and go nowhere. Therefore, if you need to get somewhere by a particular time, you need to know how to get there, and how long it is going to take you to get there. Thus, when you set your goals, you need to know what you want the end result to look like. For instance, if you want to make money from home, you have to define what this means. If you are at home, and get paid one dollar to fill out an online survey, you have made money from home. Would you be happy making $1 from home per month? I highly doubt it. Therefore, if your goal is to earn enough money to leave your nine to five, then you have to envision yourself getting to the point where you walk up to your boss and hand in your two weeks notice. Whatever it is that you have as your end goal, put it down on paper, just as you would an address which you were driving to.
2) The Route
If you are driving to a destination which you have been to a hundred times before, you have no need to ask for directions or map out your route. It is just something that you really do not need to thing about, sort of like a habit. Conversely, if you are going somewhere for the first time, you cannot get there without figuring out which streets you need to drive on to reach your destination.
Therefore, when we need to get to a place with which we are not familiar we consult with GPS, a map, or get some good directions. Of course, these things are not foolproof. Sometimes they let us down and we have to take additional steps to figure out where we are going.
When you take action to make money from home, the structure of your actions is similar. You can gain insight from those who have been successful in the past. You read eBooks, listen to mp3s, and watch videos. In other words, you do things which will aid you in achieving your goals.
3) Make Sure We Are Going The Right Way
The good news is that you now know where you are going, and how to get there. Now you are taking action, and driving your vehicle towards your destination. Or wait, did you miss your turn? You wrote in your directions that you are to take a left at 31st Street, but now you are thinking that the person who gave you directions said to take a left on 31st Avenue. How do you determine if you are on the right track? Well, you either pull over and look at the map, stop at a gas station and ask for directions, or call the person back who originally gave you the directions. Either way, you make sure that you get on track to reach your destination. It is highly unlikely that anyone would simply decide to turn around, head back home, and watch re-runs of Will & Grace for the rest of the night. Even if you have to go back to where you started to get back on track, you will have learned something along the way.
When you set out on the road to make money from home, you may become lost here and there. Actually, strike that. You more that likely will lose direction at some point in the future when something does not go as planned. When this happens, even if you have to start all over, you will have learned something along the way. Just make sure that you get to your end goal.
You are the only person who is able to both accomplish and abandon a goal to make money from home. In other words, the accomplishment of your goals is entirely in your hands. Just as you will come across stalled cars blocking traffic, construction, and potholes, while driving to your destination, there is always a detour. These things are minimal relative to what you will eventually accomplish. When things do not work out as you had envisioned, just remember that you have learned something new. When you are waiting longer for results than you had anticipated in the beginning, recognize that the results are imminent. One thing that you should keep in mind, however, is that there is no shame in stopping and asking for directions from time to time.