How to Make 6 Figures on YouTube and Keep Your Day Job

You’ve probably heard of PewDiePie, the most subscribed-to YouTuber in the world, with more than 100,000,000 million people following his channel and an estimated net worth of $40 million. I wanted to find someone in my own sphere who had been successful on Youtube. So I interviewed my colleague Sydd, who works full time at a consulting firm and also makes six figures from his YouTube channel, which has just over 100,000 subscribers.

Here are 5 ways you can make 6 figures on youtube and keep your day job:

1. Know your reason why 

Starting a YouTube isn’t the fastest way to earn money, so it takes commitment to get results. As of 2020, you need to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time in the last year to monetize your channel. 

The reason I started my channel was to have creative freedom after a reorganization at work. I realized I never wanted to rely on someone else for my future and freedom. He says, “I also wanted to hold on to my employer benefits and salary because even in the best of times, my Youtube income fluctuates a lot. So for me, the challenge became how to balance both things.” 

Syd says that habits like waking up at 5:00 a.m. every day for a year to work on his channel are what helped him to grow so fast. To new Youtubers, he recommends posting “3-5 times a week to get momentum.” He still posts 4-5 videos a week and says you must be consistent to make big money on YouTube. 

2. Create a business strategy with multiple streams of income 

Can I let you in on a secret? The smartest YouTubers don’t rely only on Google Adsense revenue to make money on YouTube. If you don’t already know, the main way most Youtubers make money is by getting paid for advertisements being shown on their channel. 

Rates can vary from $2-$10 per 1000 views, depending on the video topic (finance has one of the highest payout rates on YouTube.) Think about your channel topic and other ways of making money that fit with your niche.

For example, beauty channels can make money through affiliate marketing and brand partnerships. Life coaches can make money by promoting a course or 1-on-1 coaching. So think bigger than just relying on Adsense for your income. Better yet, focus on building a few different revenue streams from the very beginning. 

By coming up with a simple business model for your channel, you can start making money before you even hit 1,000 subscribers, and if one revenue stream falters, you’ll still be bringing in income. 

3. Just get started

When I first started my channel, I didn’t expect to be making a 6 figure income in a year. I just committed to making videos almost every day. Here I am, a year later, with over 100,000 subscribers and a six figure income. My biggest piece of advice would be to focus on taking action every day to reach your goal. 

I started out with just my desktop computer and free editing software. Even though my early videos weren’t the greatest, they were enough to get me my first subscribers, and that motivated me to put even more time and effort into each video. 

Now I have a professional editor and project manager on my team, and I focus on coming up with video ideas. I also hired a YouTube consultant to review my business model about 11 months in. As you grow, make sure to get support so that you can keep your creativity going and not get slowed down by administrative tasks like editing and uploading videos. 

4. Learn from the comments (and ignore the rest)

No matter how much time you put into making your video perfect, you will at some point get a cruel or hateful comment. Syd says that “in the early days of my channel, the sound quality wasn’t the greatest. I used to get upset when people would comment on it, but then I upgraded my sound set-up. Guess what happened next? People started watching my videos for much longer and I earned more.” 

It’s hard to not get upset about it. Here’s the thing, you must learn to tell the difference between a comment from a troll and a comment that you can genuinely learn from. If you can find the constructive criticism in the comments, you can learn a lot. Remind yourself that your self-esteem (and success) do not depend on what you read in the comments section of your videos. 

5. Choose the right niche – and don’t be afraid to change course

This is my third attempt at starting a successful YouTube channel, since I got started on the platform in 2014. My first channel gained 3,000 subscribers and my second got 48,000. If I would have quit after my second channel plateaued, I never would have gotten to the point of making a full time income. 

“I looked at other channels in my niche, and looked at what they did well, and what I felt I was still missing as a viewer. Then I tried to fill that void.” says Sydd. Persistence pays off in business. If you can reframe failure as one step closer to success, you’ll eventually succeed. 

You’ll want to find a niche that’s broad enough to offer plenty of video ideas, but narrow enough to attract a specific type of viewer. My advice is to research an area you’re interested in, and see if there is at least one channel with 100,000 subscribers in that category. If this is the case, it’s probably the right size of niche. 

Another decision you’ll want to make early on is if your channel is going to be information or personality-based, Sydd sayd “I made the decision early on that my channel was going to be based around storytelling, not myself.”

If you don’t get it right the first time, or aren’t seeing the subscriber growth you’re aiming for, don’t be afraid to start over or change course. You’ll take what you learned on your first try, and everything will move along much faster the second time. 

Creating a full time income on YouTube doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. All you need is a computer, some creativity and the desire to keep improving. If you want to accelerate your success, do some basic research on niches and revenue streams, and you’ll find that making a full time income on YouTube is definitely achievable, even while keeping your 9-5 job. 

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What You Can Learn From the Marvel Cinematic Universe About Taking Risks

Growing up, Marvel’s comic books and cartoons were special to me. The characters are — and continue to be — the heroes and protectors of their worlds. They dream big, fight against incredible odds, and always persevere. When I was younger, the journeys and missions of these heroes resonated with me. That fandom has endured as I’ve seen these larger-than-life stories transition to the big screen and other properties.

That shift connects with me on a professional level, along with the aforementioned personal enjoyment. As I’ve grown up and further honed my skills, knowledge, and experience, I have been able to bring some of my biggest professional goals to fruition. Doing so, however, came with some degree of risk.

Risks might seem daunting at first, but smart gambles can improve our lives over time. That element of increased difficulty makes it easier to fail, but it builds your determination as well as your mental and physical resolve.

Bringing the Marvel Cinematic Universe to life involved a massive risk on the comic empire’s part, but that decision worked out in Marvel’s favor. When we’re able to envision our end goals, the outcome of taking risks is almost always worth any added discomfort or fear.

“Every risk is worth taking as long as it’s for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.” – Richard Branson

A Case Study on Risk

A decade ago, several Marvel properties weren’t the household names they are now. These characters were largely overlooked in favor of more well-known commodities like Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. Since then, however, Marvel has taken movie theaters by storm to release more than 20 films while building a cinematic universe to tell these characters’ stories in a new format.

That success wasn’t guaranteed right out of the gate, though. Taking characters from the pages of comic books and bringing them to life in films, tells a story not only about superheroes but also about what you can accomplish when you take a risk.

Marvel used characters that weren’t necessarily well-known at the time. Thor and Captain America might be household names now, but they weren’t always seen as heroes with box office potential. Marvel took a calculated approach to develop and roll these characters out, and they are now some of the most popular heroes in existence. The studio will continue this trend as lesser-known titles like “The Eternals” and “Shang-Chi” debut in MCU’s next phase.

The MCU, like its comic source material, also acts as a mirror to society by reflecting current events and trends through its characters and storylines. For example, 2019’s female-led “Captain Marvel” delivered a stirring message of female empowerment that will click with a new generation of children and moviegoers.

While risks include uncertainties, Marvel shows that taking risks doesn’t have to be a reckless endeavor. Each risk we take should be informed, carefully considered, inspired, and in service of a larger goal. While not every gamble will pay off, the risks we take will teach us how to get everything right in the future.

What Can We Learn From Marvel?

While your business probably isn’t creating movies and telling superhero stories, the lessons from Marvel’s success over the past decade can inspire companies in any industry.

Here a few pointers to remember:

1. Keep the endgame in mind

Risks work best when you have a larger goal in mind. Marvel didn’t take risks for the sake of taking risks — it had a grand vision for what it wanted to create, and it then plotted those risks accordingly. The team behind the MCU had to start building the big picture somewhere, but it knew the larger goal was to connect dozens of movies and tell stories in a new way. When that kind of big-picture thinking guides your risks, they suddenly don’t feel so intimidating.

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

2. It’s a franchise, not a standalone

Taking risks doesn’t usually produce immediate results. Risks can provide cash benefits and a financial return on investment, but sometimes they deliver “soft benefits” that are harder to measure. For Marvel, this involved appealing to viewers of many different demographics and working to provide each of those groups with representation on the big screen via movies like “Captain Marvel,” “Black Panther,” and the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Your risks will only pay off if you get into them with patience.

3. Speak up if you want others to assemble

If you can’t advocate for your own risks, don’t expect other people to do it for you. You need to be your most prominent advocate to bring your ideas to life. For example, everyone now recognizes Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. Before that role, however, he was known as a talented but troubled actor who was considered a risky proposition for studios. “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau fought to cast the problematic actor, and that gamble eventually paid off in billions of dollars at the box office. You must find ways to show others that your idea has merit because nobody is going to do it for you.

Risks aren’t careless and uneducated leaps. While they aren’t guaranteed to work out, thoughtful risks that are inspired by a larger goal can end up being valuable in more ways than one. Take a page out of Marvel’s playbook by looking at the big picture, figuring out where you want to end up, and taking risks that help bring your vision to life.

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Why Cutting Off Toxicity in Your Life is a Must

If you’d like to learn how to get rid of toxic things & people in your life so you can experience how beautiful life can be, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.

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Toxicity pertains to the state of being poisonous. Commonly, it is the term used when someone or something infiltrates your life making living unbearable. There are many toxic things that surround you, which can either make or break your life. These things crawl into your skin and make everything that you do a little less enough. Satisfaction and contentment will be hard to find no matter how hard you look for them. It is because you’ve already gone too deep in toxicity that it is almost impossible to be saved.

Every person has experienced being toxic to someone and likewise. These poisonous things can come in the form of a family member, a close friend, a significant other, and even yourself. However, it can also appear as insecurities, desires, longings, habits, behaviors, and characteristics. 

Regardless of what toxicity looks like, the most important thing is that you learn how to eliminate them before they start to take over you. It is not something that you should cling on for a long time for it will destroy you sooner or later.

“It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.” – Daniell Koepke

Whether it’s you or others who are making your life turn upside-down, the only thing that matters is that you begin to cut the rope for life is not a walk in the park. You should start focusing on the brighter side and realize that not all the things around you are diamonds — some are only poisons disguising themselves as sparkly rocks. 

There are a lot of reasons why you must cut off all the toxic things in your life. It is not just for the sake of living a better life but also for the sake of saving yourself from destruction.

When you begin cleaning all edges of your life and start to enhance them, you will gradually meet confidence and be its best friend. Everything may seem scary before but these fears will start to fade away. Also, you may have been trapped in your shell for a long time, but once you erase one of the biggest toxics in your life — which is your insecurities, you will begin to love yourself. 

Self-love is the most important thing of all for that is where change and happiness come from. Once you begin to learn loving yourself despite your imperfections, such as crooked teeth, big belly, wide forehead, stubborn freckles, uneven skin tone, and more, the fear of being the subject for discrimination and not fitting in will not matter anymore.

Additionally, holding back will not be on your list of options once you begin removing the toxic aspects in your life. There may be things that you did not catch, opportunities that you rejected, and people that you shut down because of a handful of reasons. But now that you are starting over and living with contentment, you will start to embrace the change and will never restrain yourself on what makes you happy. 

There will be no more “what ifs” and “should have beens” that will constantly pop up in your mind making you overthink. You will no longer spend your night regretting the chances that you didn’t take; instead you will sleep peacefully knowing that you are bolder and much more capable now.

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

Being toxic or being drowned in toxicity can become a little too much to handle. There can be instances where you forget your worth for you are focusing on what’s on your plate, but that is not what life is supposed to be. 

The more you concentrate on the things that might break you, the bigger the tendency that you’d overlook the most significant things in your life. That is why wiping all the toxics will help you see how shiny you are. Once you were a rock full of dust and mud but the moment you begin to clean and wipe that rock, you will discover how much of a gem you are. 

You really need to stop welcoming things that will not bring betterment to your life, especially those that only create destruction and chaos. Always focus on the good and if there are instances that will make your life a living hell, strive to cut them off and do not let them get in your head. Open your eyes so that you can see how beautiful you already are.

Toxicity may create a little hole in both your mind and soul but never forget that you are the captain of your ship. Do not let the poison continue to flow through your system, be the agent that stops this ugly thing from streaming so that you can be the best version of yourself. 

How do you make sure you get rid of the things in your life that make it toxic? Share your thoughts with us below!

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How I Helped Businesses Overcome COVID-19 Difficulties Using Facebook Ads And Online Marketing

If you’d like to learn how to maximize your time during the current pandemic so you can improve your productivity, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.

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By now, it should be clear that COVID-19 has affected businesses worldwide. The global economy has been affected and small to medium sized businesses are really suffering. Beauty salons, retail shops, gyms, and fitness centers are closing down. Business owners are struggling with cash flow issues and have no idea what to do next as most of their walk-in customers stay home. Customers are not allowed to go out due to quarantine in respective countries and some businesses are forced to shut down due to preventive measures set by the government.

You can now agree that it is a challenging period, not just for business owners but for everyone. That’s why I want to help as many people as I can. I am a digital marketing expert who has helped several businesses during these tough times. I managed to help the businesses shift from offline to online completely through webinars and zoom appointments, driving traffic to their portals using Facebook Ads and other means.

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

I started out when I was only 17 and right now am an entrepreneur setting up my very own advertising agency to help out businesses during this tough period. Today I’d like to share with you what I’m encouraging my clients to do:

1. Make use of Advertising Portals like Facebook Ads 

Right now there are more users on Facebook than even before COVID-19 because they are stuck at home. Some see this as a trend while some see this as an opportunity to enter as an advertiser.

If you are a business owner who has not leveraged the power of Facebook Ads, I really would encourage you to do so because this will allow you to get the reach that you want and help you to get more sales even during the tough times.

I’ve used the Facebook advertising platform to reach out to at least 1 million users during the quarantine period, generating at least 6-figure results in the process. If I can do it, so can you!

2. Resonate and Empathize With Your Audience (Especially when times are tough)

Everyone is going through tough times now and it’s not easy for everyone. I would like to suggest that you be more generous and give out offers that could help someone. For example if you are an F&B outlet, give out more promotions for those who are going through rough times now like seniors. This will help you gain more awareness in the market.

One of the reasons why this will help you more is because you are able to get the correct target audience. If you are running a fitness business and you target people who are struggling to get fit at home and empower them with the idea that they can get fit at home, they will resonate with your message. By doing so, you are able to build a connection and eventually build a thriving community by having connections with several people with similar interest.

Make use of this period of time to connect with those in need of help and you may emerge stronger than before. Look at how technologies evolved since the 2008 crisis, at that period of time Facebook only had 100 million users. Facebook now has at least 1 billion users. 

This current crisis will allow a shift in technology – a simple example is how everyone is going on Zoom and this has changed how people communicate. Instead of working from the office, they are now doing tele-commuting.

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

3. Use This Opportunity To Upgrade Yourself

If you are stuck at home because the government has told you that you cannot go out or operate your business due to quarantine, this is the best time for you to upgrade yourself and learn a new skill set. It will help you to gain a new perspective which may allow you to come out stronger and better after COVID-19.

What are some of the ways you can upgrade yourself? You can pick up a book regarding the topic that you have always wanted to master, say for example Marketing. I would recommend books like Russell Brunson Dot Com Secret for a start, as it’s one of the easiest ways for you to understand the world of Internet Marketing from there.

Another way you can upgrade yourself is by diving deep into platforms like Udemy where knowledge is abundant. You can learn about coding, gardening, or any new knowledge with a click of a button online! 

Quarantine isn’t so bad. You have the access to the internet where it’s transparent and you can learn just about anything online. Almost everyone has this chance right now so make full use of this opportunity and become a master of your subject!

How have you made sure to stay productive during the coronavirus pandemic? Share your stories with us below!

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3 Questions That Will Immediately Ramp Up Your Creative Flow

If you’d like to learn how to ramp up your creative flow so you can produce your best work, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.

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While creativity has long been co-opted by the arts, anyone that’s been in business, built a new product, or pitched a new sales deck knows that creative thinking and execution aren’t only for the painters and poets but for everyone that wants to or–as so often the case as an entrepreneur–needs to think and work differently. At the heart of creative work is not talent, inspiration, or the hope of an epiphany; it’s flow.

Flow is that state of performance in which we do our best work. Free from distractions, ultra-focused and challenged, our brains engage our work at its deepest level; ideas come, time flies, and the world around us seems to disappear. This is the zone to which athletes aspire, and the Groove for which artists hunger. 

Flow is a state of creativity and productivity that exists in the liminal space between work and play and if you want to think better and produce stronger results in any context, it is to Flow that you must look at.

Flow is not a hack or a trick. You can’t just turn it on or off, but you can create it, anytime and anyplace. In a 1996 article in Wired Magazine (Go With the Flow), writer John Geirland quotes Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as describing Flow as “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.” He should know; he discovered the idea.

A prolific and creative man himself, Csikszentmihalyi was the man who first identified this phenomenon. His 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, introduced and explained it to the world, and it deserves better than a short article boiling it down to essentials. But there are conditions in which Flow occurs, and if you can get there intentionally, you will get to that state of optimal performance faster.

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.” – Lao Tzu

Here are three questions I ask myself to get to Flow:

1. Am I Focused?

Flow depends on focus and that’s an increasingly rare commodity. Our attention is a resource and among driven people and high performers, it’s often put into overdraft by the belief that we can multitask. Of course we can multitask, but study after study shows we don’t do it well and if you want to get to Flow, it’s not about doing as much as you can while paying as little attention as possible. There’s next to no return on investment for paying that kind of attention.

Flow is about peak performance and doing your best work, not a hack driven by a desire to accomplish the mediocre. If you want to do your best work, the work that will distinguish you from others, it must be given your undivided attention. That means turning off the distractions completely, making yourself unavailable, and doing one thing only for longer blocks of time. 

Flow requires attention and time, and won’t be placated by half-measures. The emails and texts and social media can wait. The upside is that those can also benefit from Flow. Save them for blocks of time in which you can give them your full attention and you’ll make fewer mistakes and do more than just distractedly mail them in.

2. Am I Challenged?

One of the more interesting ideas is that Flow occurs most reliably when you are operating at the vector where skill and challenge meet. Our best work is not done when it’s an easy match for our skills; that rarely holds our interest long enough for Flow to occur.

Our creativity needs challenge, it needs something to push against and a problem to solve. But one must not overpower the other. If the challenge, relative to our ability to pull it off, is too great, we start freaking out and we’ll lose the focus that’s so important and burn through our attention resources long before we get into the zone or groove. If the challenge is insufficient, we’ll get bored and then too we lose focus and start looking for something that feels more significant.

Asking ourselves if we are sufficiently challenged is a good way to re-calibrate. If the answer is no, find a way to add challenge to the project. How can you make it even better, take it deeper, or accomplish it in half the time? When challenged, we focus and bring out the best of what we know, and what we can accomplish. Want to bring out the big guns? Pick a bigger fight.

“You’re thinking too much, just let it flow.” – E. Paluszak

3. Am I Nervous?

In The War of Art, a book about fighting the resistance that is always present in any creative work, author Steven Pressfield talks about the presence of fear in the creative process, reframing it from a negative to a positive: “Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”

In other words, fear is a compass and anyone doing work that matters should be suspicious if there’s no fear and nothing at stake. Years ago I was a comedian, performing routinely for audiences of 1000 to 2500 people. In those 12 years I learned to identify the fear as a reliable indicator of the possibility of Flow. My best shows were not those in which I felt perfectly comfortable but those in which I had the most to lose. The nervousness focused my thoughts and energies and put an edge on my performance that wasn’t there when I was just going through the motions. I thought faster, I improvised better, I put more in and expected to get more out.

When I find myself outside the riptide of Flow I ask myself if I’ve really got skin in the game, if there’s a way I can increase the risk, be more vulnerable, or put a little more on the line. It’s not for the sake of risk, but to draw out the best of me that otherwise need not show up when there’s nothing to lose. If there’s nothing to lose there’s also nothing to gain.

You don’t need to study Flow or know how to pronounce the name of the man who brought such clarity to the idea. But you do need that state of optimal performance if you’re going to do your best work, the work that sets you apart from those who think they can get along just fine without it, distracted, unchallenged, and without the nerves that come from taking on something a little bigger than themselves.

Flow brings focus and draws out the best of our skills and pulls us toward innovation, unexpected results to bigger problems, and the kind of results that make our work stand out from a crowd too willing to settle for half-measures and the good enough.

Have you ever been in flow? If so, share how it felt with us below!

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Stack The Deck: 3 Ways To Ensure You Actually Reach Your Goals

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Most people get goal setting all wrong. Goal setting is not a complicated thing. In fact, once you know what you’re doing, it’s quite straightforward. However, somewhere along the line, people seemed to confuse goal setting with resolutions. They can also confuse goal setting with daydreaming or with wishful thinking. That’s not goal setting. Saying I want to:

• Lose weight – isn’t a goal
• Run a marathon someday – isn’t a goal
• Start a business eventually – isn’t a goal

These are aspirations and yes, they are fantastic. But they are not goals, or at least they aren’t goals that you are going to achieve. Why? Because they lack the correct structure.

Weight loss

Years ago, I made one of those classic goal setting mistakes that I just touched on. I set a goal to lose weight. In fact, I declared that I would lose something like 30 pounds in six months. A very noble endeavor.

Jump ahead to the end of the story and, wow, I ended up losing those 30 pounds! Congrats to me! Better yet, I’ve been able to keep that weight off all these years. But…I didn’t do it within six months. Instead, it took me roughly three years.

It’s great that I achieved my goal, eventually, but it would’ve saved me so much struggle and frustration if I had been aware of the right way to set things up from the beginning.

“Begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey

Reading more

This year I set a goal to read two books a month. This is a huge goal for me because I am a notoriously slow reader so reading one book a month is tough. Getting two done is a real stretch, but nevertheless, that was the goal I set for myself.

Applying the lessons I’ve learned over many years of goal setting, I planned out my goal.

• I formulated my strategies for how I would read more (like speed reading and listening to audiobooks)
• Decided when I would read each day (mostly during lunchtime)
• And created better systems for myself (especially in regards to note-taking)

And… how am I doing? Well, as of May I’ve already completed 17 books. I’m reading way more than just two books a month and am doing it all while growing my business, being a devoted first-time parent to my teething six-month-old, and pursuing 10+ other goals. If I can do it, so can you.

That said, I’ve learned a great deal about goal setting over the years. And what I’ve found is that, among other things, there are three rules you need to follow to set goals that you actually achieve:

1. Set goals that you can control

The first rule of effective goal setting is to set ones you can control. Control is important because many people give up on their goals when things don’t work out for them. But more often than not, those things that don’t work for them are outside their realm of influence.

Sure, you can set a goal to make $1,000 more this month than last month, but you have no control over whether or not someone buys your product. What you can control though is how many sales calls you make. So instead of setting a goal to – make more money this month – you should set one to – make 50 sales calls a day.

You have no control over the former, but you have full control over the latter. And because you have control over it, whether or not you achieve it is on you. You either make the calls or you don’t. Success or failure is within your grasp and no one else’s – it’s a good thing.

2. Don’t overdo it

Rule number two is to only set one goal per each area of your life, max. Your time is finite so if you set numerous goals for your job, you are going to constantly feel pulled in every direction. This strain will eventually cause you to either burn out and quit or make mistakes. 

Instead, set just one goal per area of your life. Have just one fitness goal, one education goal, one career goal. That way you increase your focus and decrease feelings of stress.

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar

3. Make adjustments as needed

Rule three is to never get “locked-in” with your goals. Another common reason people give up on their goals is because they either set ones that are unsustainable or they miss a day and decide to quit.

For example, let’s say you set a goal to run 30 minutes a day, seven days a week. Great! Now, you may do that for a week or two, but by the end of the month you’re exhausted. You may have even missed a few runs here or there.

You’re ready to give up. You feel burnt out on running and want to quit because you didn’t do all the runs you set out to do. Resist that urge! Instead, celebrate the runs you did complete and recognize that you simply need to adjust your goal to make it more sustainable.

Seven days a week might be too much, but five is just enough to push you without burning out. Much better! With that in mind, don’t be afraid to adjust your goals when you find yourself getting exhausted or coming up short.

Your turn

Follow my three rules when setting goals moving forward. Remember to set ones within your scope of control so that you can be in charge of the progress you make. To avoid spreading yourself too thin, only set one goal per each area of your life. And above all else, if you find yourself giving up or burning out, feel free to adjust your goals so that they are more sustainable.

You will achieve your goals. Just keep taking one positive step after another.

Do you have a process for setting goals in your life? If so, please share it with us below!

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Decluttering Your Life

Working from home is difficult at the best of times. But right now with partners and children at home, along with a heap of other distractions, it can be difficult to be as productive as you need to be.

Before the pandemic hit, WD Storage was working on some content to help the workforce find a better work life balance because it’s something that seemingly no one can perfect. They looked to the most successful entrepreneurs for tips and advice on how they were managing their lifestyles and we thought now would be a perfect time to share with you their findings.

We aspire to be as successful as some of the top industry names. Larry Page, founder of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon who is about to be a trillionaire. But to be at that level, many will assume they work all hours of the day and don’t have time for a social life.

In fact the reality is a little different. There’s no doubt these entrepreneurs are hardworking but they find the time for daily exercise, 8 hours of sleep at night and to sit down with their family for the evening meal, all without burnout. So how are they managing it?

Simple steps to decluttering your life help maximise your productivity and achieve more in the day. With lots of us furloughed at the moment or some struggling with the work/home life balance, it’s worth taking some time to consider what we can change in our schedules to help make things run smoothly.

Below is an infographic from WD Storage full of tips:

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