Rediscovering Goals and Vertical Movement - Alternative Small Office Home Office

It’s easy to move horizontally once you forget about your goals and desires. And it’s easy to forget your true goals and desires if you don’t revisit them often, and revise them as each one is accomplished to your satisfaction.

Much of that is what happened to me in the past 6 months or so. I became busy, and I was able to use that as an excuse not to progress and soon, I found myself not enjoying my days as much as I used to. That, of course, is changing as I revisited my passions and am refining my goals.

Thank goodness for Belle, who I swear is in my head some days (with her impeccable timing), because she turned me on to the 90 day challenge. The 90 challenge is the brainchild of Aaron Potts, an exceptional blogger proving to be in the league of Steve Pavlina.

Are you committed to making your dreams come true in the next 90 days?

No, I mean REALLY committed – as in “Failure is Not an Option” type of committed.

If you are, then you should be nodding enthusiastically at this point, ecstatic that your dreams are already a reality, and that the short amount of time between now and you meeting those dreams is nothing more than a logistical issue. You should know in your heart of hearts that you attaining your dreams in a very short amount of time is only a matter of working through some minor details.

It’s exciting when you really think about it. An opportunity to revisit your dream and start moving, full steam ahead, in its direction. Plus, he’s willing to give anyone who makes their goal known and has (measurably) accomplished it within 90 days time $100. To me, that’s a guy who really wants to see you succeed and it’s commendable.

However, while I’m positive I’ll reach my goal at the end of the 90 days, I won’t be collecting. Though the money is nice motivation, it’s not my only motivation. My motivation is recapturing the glorious spark that should exist in everything I do, plus to regain some of my sanity.

Knowing my own self, I’ve actually decided to plot out a day-by-day for the first 45 days. Once I get to roughly day 40, I’ll spend some time mapping out days 46–90. Now, some people may be bold and decide to add tons of items to their day-to-day lists, but common sense won this time. Each day, there is only one task to accomplish — at most, two.

Each task builds upon the previous and each move forward toward my ultimate goal: taking an existing site, building it into more of a community site which requires only passive management from me. This will free up much of my time to work on other projects I’ve been itching to get to.

Day one (which has already passed for me) was about refining my blog binder after reading the entry at ProBlogger. There were a couple things mentioned that I didn’t have in mine already and thought it would definitely streamline my organization. Day one was also about refining one of the scripts that helps power the website — something I’d been putting off for months.

I was so pumped yesterday that I actually finished one of the tasks from day two (which is technically today): organizing one aspect of the design which had also been put off for a month.

The other task for today is working on a sales letter that I dreaded writing — not because I don’t love the product (I do…I actually love all of my products), I just didn’t feel like writing a sales letter. But, to get this task done, I’m changing my perspective. Instead of looking at it like dirty work that needs to be done, I’m looking at it as an opportunity to explore my product even more and find out all the ways it can help other people, then communicate it in HTML form.

Since my plan is to reinvigorate this blog, I figure it would be fitting to do so starting with the 90 challenge. So, that means I’ll be documenting my progress here as I move along.