This is a continuation of a series of blog posts.
Here’s part 1.
Here’s part 2.
Here’s part 3.
In a nutshell, I’ve been exploring what changes I want to make in my life.
Today, I’ll be thinking through my financial goals. At the bottom of the blog post, I’ve listed out other topics I still want to think through in future blog posts.
Without further ado, let’s jump right in.
I spent most of my spare time today thinking about what sales goal I would like to set for my business.
I’ve tentatively decided to try increasing my business’ sales by a multiple of 5. It scares me and excites me to have such a goal. It’s likely that I’d need to transition out of personally teaching classes to reach this goal. Or, at a minimum, I’d need to drastically cut back on my personal teaching hours.
Here’s how I decided upon this (tentative) goal.
As you know, I use facts/truths as a lens to make decisions and figure out what I want. Here are the ones I looked at:
Statistics for how much Canadians earn on average in different age brackets and how my current success stacks up
Estimated living expenses associated with the lifestyle I’d like to have
Budget and basic sales plan for quintupling my business based on my current business statistics
Key components to the level of professional success I’ve had thus far
Looking at that data and paying attention to how I felt while considering it guided me to my tentative goal.
Honestly: I’m scared.
I’m partially afraid of failing, but to be honest I’m more afraid of changing my mind. What if I start working toward that goal and then change my mind? What if I try to improve my business success and just end up spinning my wheels? I have this fear about other aspects of my life too. I’m scared of trying, trying, trying, trying and feeling like I’m making progress, only to wake up one day and realize that I was deluding myself the whole time.
I’m nervous to say the least.
Topics I plan to explore in future posts
Am I going for the business goal that I set? Or am I choosing something else?
What would my plan be to hit this goal? What are my first steps?
Dating - am I going on 1 date a week? Is that the plan here?
What is my plan around hiring a personal trainer? What diet do I want to follow?
What product/service would I like to market at the Calgary Language Nerds? Language classes? I would imagine the answer is yes, but I may as well think about this
Am I doing anything to help Gujarati learners? What’s my vision around this? I feel a little guilty that I don’t do much currently to create Gujarati learning resources when, as far as I know, I’m one of relatively few people on Earth who actually can
I spend hours listening to music and watching videos (usually on YouTube.) Why is this bothering me?
Why do I post content? Is it for the attention?
I’m a deliberate person. Should I be more impulsive?
Just how weird am I? If I truly am a pretty unusual person, can I use this to my advantage?