You Don’t Achieve Your Goals — you Qualify Yourself Instead
If Your Goal Is To Be An Olympic Swimmer, You Do Certain Things…
I woke up one time without a job.
At that time, a 4-year old was in tow. No job with a toddler to feed. I scrambled to connect with my previous co-worker and ask if they have openings.
Luckily, my wife was still working. But sooner or later, she will also be let go. The company we were working was going belly-up.
I was handed the pink slip. It wasn’t the best feeling in the world. You work hard for the company to grow the company but then, somewhere down the road, money wasn’t coming in one by one, people were let go.
Luckily, I got a job as an Adjunct Chemistry Professor at a relatively large community college (I’m a chemist by the way). There was money coming in but it wasn’t enough to support us. This was the time when I have to cut credit cards to cut monthly expenses like Netflix, Amazon Prime and gym membership.
I called the credit cards company and told them I lost the card and I don’t need replacements. It was a new start.
This is here then that I realized, in order to be out of the mercy of companies and shield myself of corporate lay-offs, you should own a business. And I always wanted to own a business, and dreamed of working without a boss, and call my own shots.
In the early days, I would study stocks and bonds. I even put money in the treasury (treasury direct). As a side note, I just realize I need to check if I withdraw my money there.
Then later on, I went to study stocks. Honestly, I invested on Intel, Chesapeake Energy and other bunch of stocks. It was however frustrating because I thought I will make money, the money wasn’t enough to live the laptop lifestyle I been dreaming of.
It never happened. I even lost money with the CVS stocks.
I wanted to learn business that I went to the extent of studying options, and Forex using volume analysis. The other thing was I researched the idea of going to bitcoin mining.
All failed.
The most devastating was my business of doing Amazon Private Label (PL). In the end, I thought I was in control but I was losing money.
But here’s the thing, I realized something as I was putting up my 6th, or 7th attempt of starting a business. The thing I realized is that you don’t fail. You learn.
This put me to the second point of this article, and that is:
You Don’t Achieve Your Goals, You Only Qualify Yourself to Achieve Your Goals.
I’m in nth try of a business idea. Currently, I’m using sales funnels to sell my information product.
The speaker in my car was blasting a business podcast I was listening to. It was talking about not achieving goals. One of the very reason too people don’t achieve their goals was that they quit to early.
The podcast host was telling a story of a guy starting a business. After 4 months of no profit, the guy quit and went back to school.
The story hit me like a bolt of lightning. I asked myself, “how long have you been in this internet busniess?”
After asking that, I quit to early in all my business attempts. I would gain momentum, break even, or profit a little, but in the end, I told myself, it’s not working and then quit.
It’s not working because I’m in the game only for a few months. Businesses takes long to grow and scale.
I was watching my son’s soccer team earlier. I can see they dominate the league (I wrote the piece here.) The reason they were champions because they stuck together for 3 years and qualified themselves to be champions. But to tell you honestly, they were very horrible in the beginning.
They qualified themselves to be champions.
Olympic swimmer qualify themselves to be champions by putting the required hours in the pool. If you add up the total distance Olympic swimmer swims, the distance they put in is enough to circumnavigate the world, and then they race for 45 seconds.
I brutally asked myself , am I qualified to be a massively successful entrepreneur?
I will honestly say I’m not yet. Not there yet. Yet, is the keyword, not YET. But I will put on the hours to learn the business skills to be qualified.
My goal is $2000 per month revenue in the end of this year. So follow me as I am starting to grow my sales funnel business. I will share the ups and downs as I journey to my first thousand dollars.
I will share to you how I will qualify myself in achieving a $2k per month revenue.
