You Need To Do This One Thing Before You Can Experience Success

Summary

The author emphasizes the importance of defining success and setting clear financial goals to achieve it.

Abstract

The article discusses the common desire for more success and happiness, but notes that few people stop to define exactly what that means for them. The author suggests that without a clear definition of success, it's impossible to know when it's been achieved. The author encourages readers to set a tangible financial goal for their ideal lifestyle, and to track their progress towards that goal.

Opinions

The author believes that it's important to want more to fuel growth and personal development.
The author suggests that many people strive for more without knowing what they're aiming for.
The author believes that without a clear goal, people may never stop striving and forget to celebrate progress.
The author encourages readers to take the time to define their own version of success and set a tangible goal to work towards.
The author suggests that tracking progress towards a financial goal can help people achieve their ideal lifestyle.

What Are You Aiming For?

Most of us want to be successful and, if we’re honest with ourselves, we want more.

I’m here to tell you that’s ok.

In fact, I believe this is of critical importance to our happiness. It’s important to want more to fuel the growth and personal development on our life journey.

Most of us want more money, more success and more happiness but very few of us stop to define exactly how much is enough.

Many millionaires keep pushing and chasing the next milestone because they believe happiness is at the next financial level. Business people continue to strive for that next promotion. Home owners strive to buy that next bigger house. Car owners dream of that bigger, better car. The list goes on, and on, and on…

What’s Enough For You?

If you don’t define what success means to you how will you know when you get there?

If you’re continuously striving for the next level, where will you find time to enjoy the level you’re at?

The more time you spend pushing the less time there will be for being.

Have you ever stopped to look at how much your dream home, dream car, dream vacations and overall dream lifestyle would cost? Do me a favour and immediately after you’ve finished reading this article open up a spreadsheet and start working the monthly and annual income you’d need. Many people beleive theyd need to be millionaires to come anywhere close to living their dream lifestyle. The truth is, in most cases this simply isn’t the case.

Do this exercise and find out your monthly income goal to sustain your ideal lifestyle. Congratulations! You’ve now completed something 99.9% of us never will. You’ve defined what success means to you.

Working Towards Your Target

You now have a tangible goal to work towards. You may wish to break the goal down into sub-goals that ladder up to your big goal. Either way, you now have a fixed number to work towards.

You can now track whether you are moving closer or further from your goal. You will know for sure when you hit your goal. You will have the opportunity to celebrate when you hit the all important milestones on the way to your big goal.

Without a goal the danger is we’ll never stop. We’ll forget to look back to see how far we’ve come. We’ll never pause to celebrate the progress along the way.

Don’t fall into this trap. Set a goal for you. You can always adjust the goal in future but start somewhere and track your progress.

Believe me. You’ll be glad you did.