We often see many threads encouraging us to push ourselves to bigger and better things contrasting with those threads asking for help on how to deal with life's little (or large) interference's and still make more money. Many times the answers are along the lines or work more hours, work a better hustle and work in more places (ie, start a website or clips for sale) but its easy to get in over your head when trying to go from 0 to 60 in a few months so I felt it was worth mentioning that sometimes the best thing to do is just set one small goal for yourself at a time and make it a habit. It could be something as simple as one extra hour a day every day you work. Once that becomes a habit add another.
There is tons of studies that confirm that habits form after 21 days. I find with my more simple goals I can make a habit of doing it in about a week, but for some others I need to push myself for 21 days before I just do it naturally.
I started with wanting to work one hour more a day until I was doing 5 hours min each days. This was easy since I normally did about 4 hours but I really made myself sitck to that extra hour each day until a 5 hour day felt normal. I have also set more complex small goals like learning to be less chatty with freeloaders. I am a friendly type and I like to talk but I wanted to streamline my hustle and focus on the spenders rather then spend 2 of 5 hours just hanging out chatting so I set a goal that I will respond to 3 to 5 lines of their typed text in my chat room and I try to close the sale. If they dont go prvt. or excl. at this point I ignore them. My current small goal is to get on cam one hour earlier each day, I want my day to start at 8am instead of the 12pm start I am currently doing.
Over the last year and a half I have made many MANY great habits out of small goals and I can honestly say that I have doubled my hourly wage over the last year and a half on cam and that is a huge huge deal!
I wonder who else finds working in small goals more effective then just trying to go for everything all at once and what types of small goals you have set for yourself? I would love to hear your success or failure stories.



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