Goals - Achieving Greatness

That's the theme of today's A Leg Up Meetup. Co-organizer, Judy Stark, posted this video by Eric Worre, a network marketing trainer. In the video, Eric talks about the importance of motivation, or why you want to accomplish your goal.

Per Eric:

Instead of focusing on setting goals to get, I want to give you a strategy that will help you actually achieve those goals...but with a different purpose.

Eric goes on to talk about how motivations of growth or contribution will help you to achieve your goals better than self-centered motivations.

A quote from my Facebook friend, Ellen Marrs, puts it pretty well "Don't use people to build your business, use your business to build people". If your goal, whether professional or personal, will help build people; whether team members, customers or others, then it will likely be successful.

Eric also talks about income and rank advancement goals. Jim Rohn asked Eric how much he wanted to earn. Eric said a million dollars a year. Jim said that's a good goal but the reward isn't the money but who you have to become in order to earn that money. You have to grow to be a top earner in network marketing. If you can help your team reach their income goals, you'll reach yours. Today's training webinar by Jordan Adler, SendOutCards' top income earner, will be about how to earn any amount of income that you desire in SOC. If you're curious as to how much money you can earn with SendOutCards, then listen to the call tonight at 6:30 PM PDT.

I have a rank advancement goal to be an Executive with SendOutCards by the time of the Executive Retreat in September. The only way I can realistically get to that level is by helping the members of my team to at least get to the rank below that, Senior Manager, if not to get them to Executive themselves.

As far as setting the goal itself, don't get bogged down with SMART goals. Whatever you want to accomplish can be a goal. The when and how much are the objectives you want to accomplish to get you to your goal. Check out my blog post about GOATS to find out more.

Interesting days

Today - Talk Like Shakespeare Day, English Language Day, World Book Night, Lost Dog Awareness Day and German Beer Day

Tomorrow - Pig In A Blanket Day, Firefly Day and Go Diaper Free Week

Next Monday - Honesty Day, Independent Bookstore Day, International Jazz Day and Oatmeal Cookie Day

May 23 - Turtle Day, Title Track Day and Lucky Penny Day