How to Make Life Work For You
The Plan
You must have a plan to get what you want. The actual planning can come after you've defined your goals, after you've made a decision to achieve your goals, and after you've selected your vehicle. The plan is the path, the way to measure your progress. If you've decided to get a million dollars within five years and do nothing about it, in five years you'll not have it. You must plan your future.
As an example, let's suppose you decide to take a vacation to Hawaii twelve months from now. You figure it will cost you $3,000, and you must earn it all above and beyond what you already earn. Then you decide you will earn this money by washing cars on the weekend.
(That is your chosen "vehicle")
You see now you've got three ingredients of your success package:
- You've made the decision:
- You've defined your goals:
- You've selected the vehicle:
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"I'm going to get that vacation, period."
A Hawaiian vacation next year for $3,000
Washing cars on weekends
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Now you're making the plan.
You calculate you must earn $300 per month for ten months. You must earn about $75 per weekend. If you charge $5 per car you wash, then you must wash 15 cars per weekend. You can use 15 hours to wash 15 cars. That's how you're going to make the money.
Next you must get customers, enough to get you 15 cars per weekend. Some people want their car washed once a month. Others maybe once every two weeks. Others, not at all. Forget the ones who don't want their car washed. You can't waste any of your 15 hours with those who don't want the service. The entire 15 hours per weekend are devoted to those who do want the service. You want to find 60 people who will be steady customers.
Is this too much work? Don't forget, the decision has already been made. "Too much work" has nothing to do with it. You've already Counted the Cost and decided you'll Pay the Price. You're going to get your Hawaiian vacation no matter what.
Now you're going to find 60 people. Friends, or friends of friends, or their friends. You may post notices. You ask people to ask people to ask people. You continually work and try until you find 60 people who will come to you monthly for one year. During the year you'll find others to replace those who drop out.
You set up appointments, they come to your house, your wash their car good and they are gone within the hour. If you have a family, you may even enlist your spouse and children to help you. After all, they're going to Hawaii too.
To get your dreams, to make your goals, you make a plan. You identify it, you work it out, you get it done.
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