Goals There Not Just For The Rich
But All The Rich Have Them
30/90 Day Plan
So you are still here, what’s the matter you don’t have anything better to do than hang around and read all this. Well then, in that case, I guess I had better get to work. You may be wondering about all this but let me assure you I have it on good authority that if you continue to dream your dreams you will go nowhere. WHAT WAIT A MINUTE… well it is true, anyone can have dreams, and as long as they are only dreams, they will remain only a distant dream. That is what I want to discuss with you today.
Turning dreams into something else, that is what we are looking to do here. Dreams are wonderful things and without them, we would never accomplish the things that we do but it is only when they move past being dreams that we start to include action into making them come true. When we begin to apply action to our dreams with the intention of making them come true, we are doing something that you have heard about before and have even used even if you didn’t think about it at the time. You were using GOALS!!! That’s right you have used goals anytime you decided to do something and then did it. You may never have been in the habit of setting long-term goals but you do already know how to use them. Here we are going to go a step beyond that and set definite goals with specific desired results.
Now you are still here because you want to change things so let’s get started.
- 1) Write down the biggest thing you would like to accomplish (do not worry at this time how you will accomplish it)
- 2) Write down the second biggest thing you would like to accomplish (again do not concern yourself with the how for now)
- 3) Continue doing this until you have a list of no less than ten items (the more the better)
- 4) Take that list and lets divide it into the
following groups;
- a) Things to be accomplished in the next 30 days
- b) Things to be accomplished in the next 60 days
- c) Things to be accomplished in the next 90 days
- d) Things to be accomplished in the next 6 months
- e) Things to be accomplished in the next 12 months
- f) Things to be accomplished in the next 2 years
- g) Things to be accomplished in the next 5 years
Now the first thing to do after you have got your goals down and have set up your groups is to take a closer look at your goals to see which ones have the greatest chance of happening the soonest and which ones have to happen to allow the others to happen. Then place them into groups based on these. For instance, some of mine (I not going to create the whole list here but will give you some examples) were to start this web site you are currently at. That at first would seem like an immediate goal (30 day) but the reality of it is that that was a goal that was actually months in the making. The order was something like this;
- 1) Write down the desire to have a web site.
- 2) Research the needed items to create my site
- 3) Decide on which hosting company to use.
- 4) Have a place to host my web site
- 5) Create my web site
Now all of that was one goal but it was in many different categories. It was also necessary to accomplish the earlier parts of the goal before moving on to the later parts. These were placed as follow (numbers correspond to numbers above)
- 1) Immediate
- 2) 30 day category
- 3) 30 / 60 day category
- 4) 60 day category
- 5) 90 day category
This needs to be the same method you use on every dream that you intend to turn into a reality. Dreams MUST become goals before they will become a reality. I have other goals that are longer out than these are but this gives you an example of what I have in mind for setting up your goal list. Before leaving this subject for now at least let me say that there are times that, you will place a goal in one category and later realize it should have been in a different one. This is ok as long as you don’t allow reordering of you goals to become an excuse to put off the efforts needed to accomplish these goals. Remember this Goals are NOT JUST FOR THE RICH but you can be sure that all of the rich have them!