Make Something Out of Nothing, With Goals
douglas hauptman • April 20, 2023
Time will never stop, nor should you.
What Are Goals?
Goals are the method by which we create a new reality, we make something out of nothing. When you have a vision, you are bringing a new idea to the world and that is a beautiful contribution. Goal setting is one of the many artistic facets of entrepreneurship. Goals need to be appreciated because they are the columns to the building of success in business. Without goals and acting on those goals, everything is really just talk and speculation.
Goals are not in everyone’s business plan, but they should be if we want to achieve our dreams. Some people lack courage because they fear failure. Likewise, some people lack the discipline to set goals because they are unmotivated and ultimately, lazy. Aside from motivation and courage, many people simply have no desire to set or reach goals because they picked a vision that they aren’t passionate about.
The Learning Process
There is no specific strategy to accomplishing goals because it’s an innovative process and we are meant to make mistakes. Part of setting goals is breaking the goals and learning from the mistakes that lead to up to the failure. We have to figure out changes, emphasis, focus, adjustments, and reassess our aims and objectives. If we only make small goals then it’s easy to go through life saying we accomplished them all. You can accomplish many goals without being successful. It’s more impactful to make challenging goals that do present possible failure. Failure is not always a negative factor in learning because it’s necessary if we want to grow and expand. To keep momentum in goal setting, all we need is a can-do attitude and more importantly, a never-quit perspective. Both of these requirements run off of courage. Goals are similar to the foot soldiers of war. You can fail and lose money, customers, and so forth but all of these hardships can lead to the gaining of courage which will bring success. Be confident in your capabilities, create a system that works, and never quit.
Time Never Stops, Nor Should You
Goals can also be very illusive because the market in business is constantly changing. Goals can never stay the same and will differ between industries and audiences. Also, if you take too long to complete your goals, then you can outlive the usefulness of that goal. In other words, the goal will pass you by. It’s important to beat the market and extremely beneficial to be the first in anything. I always say, “always be the firstest with the mostest”. You have to be quick and adequate or you will never keep up with the demand and survive a spot in the market because time will never stop for you. Humans often underestimate themselves in capability but I can assure that if you put all your effort in and give it your all, a reward will always come.
Success Never Comes Easy
Self- doubt is a healthy part of the learning process because it requires self-reflection. If we knew that we could accomplish every goal we set, then we would never establish uniqueness within our business or continue to rise up. Even in relationships we can outgrow each other. Organizations are always evolving and changing, just like people. When we choose to stay within our comfort zone, we are assuming that everything is ok, we don’t try very hard, and we struggle to get inspired. If you are having difficulty getting inspired, see my blog on “Faith in God Will Keep You Inspired”.
Evaluating and reflecting will help us figure out what our business is lacking instead of running off or ignoring what’s weighing it down. We must assess the situation, figure out what needs to be done, obtain the resources necessary, make a timeline, and follow through with our plan. If you set your mind to a goal and plan it out with these factors in mind, then there will be nothing you cannot accomplish. Setting too many borders around our capabilities may prevent failures but consequently will prevent growth and in the end, success. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you must remain open minded and willing to change with the market tides when necessary.
The Most Important Part of Your Dream is You
Before we start setting goals, we usually have a dream. I think of a dream as a vision we have where we tell ourselves, “that would be nice”. Dreams could be ideas, desires, services, products, or just about anything else that is satisfying to imagine. Generally, the dream comes about by recognizing that there is a need for something in the market or neighborhood that no one else has provided. After you discover the need, you develop an ethos, a mission statement, and a plan for how you will accomplish the goals. After you plan everything out, the momentum comes naturally. It’s also important to sit down and contemplate what is sustainable and if it will make revenue. Unless you’re a millionaire, which most of us aren’t, we need to make and do things that are profitable.
Goals Require Objectives
Goals and aims will always require objectives. The goals are a part of the enterprise but they are not the dream. The dream formulates a vision and then we make objectives to complete the goal. For example:
Aim: I want to be a good guy.
Goal: I want to feed hungry kids at school.
Aim: I want to feed all the kids in a certain county.
Goal: I need to create a list of schools in the area and do research on the best menu for their diet.
Milestones: I need to think about how many kids I kept from being hungry and how many schools we provided for.
One book I suggest reading in relation to goal setting and achieving dreams is from the Emyth Series, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within. This book has given me life changing momentum behind my goals and I would suggest it to any new or established entrepreneur. I recommend this book to all my clients because it lays out an efficient way to run business in a way that is understandable to anyone and most of all because I know it works!
Quitting Is Losing
The last thing I have to say about goal setting is that a successful entrepreneur never quits. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who quit because if you believe in yourself and believe in your work, then you will accept your failures and keep experimenting until you get it right. I like to tell the story of Warren Buffet when it comes to success and failure. Around 1982, before he was billionaire, he was successful but still experiencing failures. In the first ten years of his career, he opened and closed many businesses and deals. He never gave up and eventually learned to create market value and a significant profit. He lost money until he refined and perfected his process. Today, he has a well-defined process and if you invested 10k dollars in him in 1965, you would be worth 165 million dollars today. He has developed a very specific investing process and is one of the hardest working entrepreneurs when it comes to selecting companies, selling them, and fixing them up. Buffet was never born rich, he went through trial and error and figured it all out with his own confidence and courage.
How I Can Help You
As a life coach, I can provide you with psychological guidance and encouragement as well as tools and resources to perfect the act of goal setting. Once we identify your goals, we can set objectives and timelines and eventually have you on your way to success within the business world. Make the support of a life coach an objective to reaching your dreams of a successful business.
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