How to set your goals?

How to set your goals? Many outstanding people say that we should record our goals and, ideally, share them with our relatives. I decided to go a step further and my first video and blog post will be about setting targets for 2018. I share my plans publicly, because then I will have no other option than to simply achieve the goals I have set. My goals are written and public — now I just need to achieve them.

Before I go to my plans in concrete terms, I will tell you how the goals should be set correctly. I built my goal-setting principles on my experience, past plans and the knowledge of people much better than me. In many books related to personal development, business, etc., you can find at least one paragraph on how to set goals. Here are a few amazingly simple and universal rules.

How to set your goals and achieve them effectively?

1. The goals should be recorded — this is a basic principle. If you don’t save your goals, you’ll just forget them quickly. Keep your goals in sight so you can return to them at least once a week. I have a large A4 paper sheet that hangs over my desk and reminds me every day of my goals.
2. Goals must be defined — you must clearly define what you want to do and how long you want to achieve your goals. The goal must be measurable because you need to know when the goal is met.
3. Share your goals — tell your friends and family about your goals. Now, if you don’t get them done, you’ll be perceived as someone who make empty promises. You don’t want to be seen like this, do you?
4. Break your goals into smaller stages — that is an incredibly important aspect. If you set a goal for example to release twelve books on Amazon this year, plan to release one book per month — it seems more realistic. Too much work to do results in postponing and giving up the action.
5. Little action every day = a big effect every year — remember that your daily work will give you a long-term, amazing result. I used to release two simple products per day on Amazon (sometimes more), and in the course of the half year I had more than half a thousand, and until today they provide me with a passive income. The first money I received only a few months after the product was released, but after a longer period of time the sales exceeded more than a thousand items every month, and I didn’t have to do anything more. In order to achieve this effect for a long time I had to stick to the daily targets, because going too far forward would quickly discourage me.

My goals for 2018 are as follows:

Create a blog “From Waiter to Millionaire”:

1. Post 50 great videos on YouTube (1 video per week)
2. Publish 50 valuable posts/articles (1 entry per week)
3. Post 50 valuable posts on Instagram (1 post per week)
4. Create and publish at least 1 product/online course for those interested in publishing books on Amazon.

UPDATE of the progress in 2019 and some motivation for you