by Cassie Howard | Apr 18, 2017 | Making Money |
I used to think that setting monthly goals was enough. I’d happily sit down and write out my financial goal every month and would confidently proclaim – “This is now how much money I make every month!” But… Then I wouldn’t. Make that much money, I mean. It wasn’t because my goal was unreasonable. It wasn’t because it was out of reach. And it certainly wasn’t because I didn’t do the work. It was because I was focused on the MONTHLY goal, instead of the daily and weekly goals that needed to happen before the big monthly goal could be achieved. I often would set goals and at the end of week 1, be all “oh, I have tons of time, so it’s okay that I’m super far away from my goal!”. At the end of week 2 is when I’d start taking things more serious because “holy shit, it’s already the middle of the month and I am not even CLOSE to my goal!”. By the end of week 3, I’m having panic attacks and beating myself up about being a terrible business woman. And by the end of the month, not only habe I not reached my money goal, but I haven’t even REMOTELY come close to hitting it! … At least, that’s how things USED to be when it came to setting my money goals. Last year, I noticed this patten and decided to shake things up. I made a committment that I would do whatever was necessary to make money EVERY day, which meant it would be easier to hit my monthly goals (I also decided...
