I started thinking about this when reading the Hustle Mistakes thread. I was going to post this in that thread, but thought it's kind of its own topic.
How do you feel that setting financial goals effects your hustle?
For instance, I work at a club with an open schedule. I set my financial goal at $XXX per shift. I'll stay on for 8 hours or until I hit my goal. Sometimes I hit my goal really fast, in like 1-2 hours, other days I'm there for 10-12 hours just hanging in there hoping I won't go home in the negative. I find having a financial goal will motivate me to stay longer if I'm not hitting my numbers.
However, a "per-day" financial goal is harmful to my hustle because I feel like I can just leave once I hit that goal. BUT...If I don't have a per day financial goal, I tend to give up quickly on the slow nights. I've hung in often enough to know that you can still bank even if the club is about to close and you've made next to nothing all night.
A potential solution:
So I guess the hustle mistake that I continually make is to leave before I've taken the opportunity to make as much money as possible. Maybe I should have a "push-goal" for every shift as well as a realistic goal. If I hit the realistic goal, then I go for the push-goal. The push goal has to be possible, though. I mean, there's no way I can earn $10,000 in a single shift (or at least highly, highly unlikely. Like one in a million shifts) but $1,500 is definitely possible, as I've done it before at this club, but numbers like that in Portland are very rare.
Has anyone tried to hack their own psyche this way? I can't work at a club that insists on a schedule (which would be the ideal situation here) because I need the schedule flexibility for my real estate business. I'm just wondering if there is something I'm not doing to motivate myself more.



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