Forget the "6 figure" goals and focus on something doable
Channel: George Kao
Date: 2017-04-19

The most common goal for solopreneurs is to make "6 figures." 

(Or once they've gotten there, they now focus on "7 figures.")

Here's why it's *not* healthy to focus on such goals:

"6 figures" is somebody else's definition of success, and through all of their marketing to you, maybe you too have started to believe that it's your goal too.  

Every month, every year, you keep looking at your income, and if you're not yet at "6 figures" it creates some level of anxiety, discouragement, maybe even self-blame.  You are allowing some business guru's definition of success to infuse negativity into your life.

By selling you that dream, business gurus can then sell you on less-savory tactics.  By having that singular focus of 6-figures, it becomes easy to compromise your values, your heart, by engaging in some business/marketing tactics that you don't really feel right to your conscience.  

You may need to detach from that brainwashing by doing this -- *redefine your own success everyday.*  

What if instead of "6 figures" you set a more doable goal now, e.g. "Increase my income by $500 or $1,000 more per month?"  Then you can make a realistic, achievable plan to get there sooner.  

Once you reach another $1,000 per month, you can of course set the goal for the next increase of $1,000 per month.  

Here's the key distinction -- you get to celebrate a lot more along the way!  Instead of celebrating when you get to '6 figures' you can enjoy the journey, find success a lot more often, by focusing only on the milestone.

By having a truly *doable* goal at the forefront of your consciousness, you will tap your creativity in a very productive way because you can really "see" and feel the possibility of achieving that goal.  

This will inspire you to engage in authentic, realistic ways to get there.

As you keep reaching each doable goal, you are building your confidence along the way.  You are having more fun in your business.  

And before you know it, you may actually reach 6 figures or more.  But don't use that as the ridiculous singular focus until you're actually close to it.

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