Goal Setting for the Home Business
March 28th, 2009
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Lorelie Held asked:
Copyright (c) 2008 Lorelie Held
Making money at home on the Internet is an exciting thing. The fact that you can earn money without leaving your front door is something many people dream about. Unfortunately for them it is nothing more than a dream because they never take action.
In this article we want talk about taking action by setting home business goals that will help you become more successful in your own Internet business.
1. I think the first thing a person should do is set and meaningful goals. Famous personal development trainer Jack Zufelt talks about understand your why for doing something. You need to find out what drives you to be really successful in goal setting.
This is the reason you must set goals. We are not talking about action items, but rather a couple of really big goals such as quitting your job and working at home full-time, sponsoring a missionary in Africa, or putting your kids through college.
2. Next we want to talk about immediate action item goals. Action item goals are things that you write down on a list and then scratch them off as you complete them. If you blog as a way to make money in your home business an action item might be to write a 200 word blog post four times a week.
Another action item might be to post comments in 10 other blogs related to the niche of your website or blog. Still one more might be to write and submit one quality article every week to the top 10 article directories.
When setting action item goals that you can actually achieve, you will get in the habit of successfuly completing your goals. The idea is to set a goal that is action related to attaing your end result.
3. Set three different types of goals. First you need to understand that you need to have a goal to start now or immediate,one to meet the short term and then to reach your long term goal. An immediate goal is something you want to accomplish right now or maybe this week. Mid range goal could be a monthly goal or even a goal one year from now. When trying to set long term goals they are usually one year and up to several years away.
You can meat your goals by just working on them one at a time if neccessary then you can reset them as needed. You will be surprised at how much more you successful your home businesses is when you become successful at goal setting.
Davian
Copyright (c) 2008 Lorelie Held
Making money at home on the Internet is an exciting thing. The fact that you can earn money without leaving your front door is something many people dream about. Unfortunately for them it is nothing more than a dream because they never take action.
In this article we want talk about taking action by setting home business goals that will help you become more successful in your own Internet business.
1. I think the first thing a person should do is set and meaningful goals. Famous personal development trainer Jack Zufelt talks about understand your why for doing something. You need to find out what drives you to be really successful in goal setting.
This is the reason you must set goals. We are not talking about action items, but rather a couple of really big goals such as quitting your job and working at home full-time, sponsoring a missionary in Africa, or putting your kids through college.
2. Next we want to talk about immediate action item goals. Action item goals are things that you write down on a list and then scratch them off as you complete them. If you blog as a way to make money in your home business an action item might be to write a 200 word blog post four times a week.
Another action item might be to post comments in 10 other blogs related to the niche of your website or blog. Still one more might be to write and submit one quality article every week to the top 10 article directories.
When setting action item goals that you can actually achieve, you will get in the habit of successfuly completing your goals. The idea is to set a goal that is action related to attaing your end result.
3. Set three different types of goals. First you need to understand that you need to have a goal to start now or immediate,one to meet the short term and then to reach your long term goal. An immediate goal is something you want to accomplish right now or maybe this week. Mid range goal could be a monthly goal or even a goal one year from now. When trying to set long term goals they are usually one year and up to several years away.
You can meat your goals by just working on them one at a time if neccessary then you can reset them as needed. You will be surprised at how much more you successful your home businesses is when you become successful at goal setting.
Davian
