When you set a goal for yourself -- and you absolutely should set goals -- there are many wrong ways and a few right ways.

Here's an example of a wrong way.

Do not say, "My goal is to lose 100 pounds."

Of course, you can be rooting for yourself to lose 100 pounds. But precisely how much weight you lose is not in your direct control. What is in your direct control is how much and what kinds of food you eat, and how and how much you move your body.

So make those things your goal: I will do X three times a week, and in terms of my diet I will limit my consumption of Y to twice a week.

Same with income. Of course we all want to earn an extra seven or eight figures next year, but how much money people are going to voluntarily hand to you is not directly in your control.

What is directly in your control is what you do. So you may make your goal to recruit ten new affiliates by such-and-such date, or launch two new training programs next year, or add a higher-tier level to your membership program.

When you focus on things outside your control, you can find yourself frustrated, shaking your fist at the world.

When you concentrate on what is in your direct control, it is much easier to stay on the path, because your focus will be on what you yourself can do, as opposed to obsessing over how forces outside your control are disappointing you.

Whatever you do, though, don't make the typical "New Year's Resolutions." Those are well meaning, and they're better than the nothing that most people will do, but they're practically designed to fail.

My way, by which I have built the life I want piece by piece, has not failed me yet, and it's helped many, many of my readers.

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