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Hi folks,

I'm curious. Has anyone here in this forum really reached their initial goals?

By that, I mean starting with nothing, and deciding "I will do X and earn X in X days/weeks/months/years" and actually achieved it?

I don't know, it seems to me pursuing a goal is actually counter-productive.
There's just too many variables. Too many parameters. Too many things you don't know you don't know.

I'm really talking about starting from scratch.
When you have a profitable business, going from say $1000 to $2000 revenue per month is tangible.
It's merely a matter of increasing speed, efforts, adapting a strategy, to grow 10, 20, or 100%, whatever.

But setting a concrete, precise goal (especially a money one) when you don't have anything going on? Isn't it delusional?

There's this "Backward Law" I came across a few times the last years. Basically it says: the more you're fixated on pursuing something, the more it eludes you.
I heard many people here in this forum with valuable advice say something similar.

And then, there's this video:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI


It drives the point in a rather scientific way.

So I'm wondering, has anyone ever really achieved an arbitrary goal they set for themselves, starting from scratch?
 
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ci qsugovecmi ipuahj vu taqqusv ni


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Us:

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Epf ov ot siemmz et tonqmi et vjev.
 
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Gus e huem moli
neli uwis 10l e nupvj

Fof zua siemmz tvesv gsun puvjoph? Moli zua jef pu catopitt epf vumf zuastimg: "nz huem ot vu neli uwis 10l e nupvj" iwip vjuahj zua jef pu catopitt huoph up?
 
@Guy

Gus e huem moli


Fof zua siemmz tvesv gsun puvjoph? Moli zua jef pu catopitt epf vumf zuastimg: "nz huem ot vu neli uwis 10l e nupvj" iwip vjuahj zua jef pu catopitt huoph up?

Ze O xet e vuvem puuc xjip O kuopif vjiti gusant. O jef piwis nefi e fummes upmopi cigusi epf ov vuul raovi e xjomi vu hiv epz vsedvoup.

Zua piif huemt.

E huem tivt e djemmiphi epf e djemmiphi howit zua tunivjoph vu gudat up. Vjev niept fosidvoup.

O huv gamm opduni huemt neqqif uav 2-3 zies’t gsun pux.

Ji fuitp’v qutv et nadj epznusi cav hu djidl uav @H_Emiyepfis vjsieft. Ji xuamf tiv nettowi ziesmz huemt epf vjip fu iwip civvis.
 
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