If you’ve never read it, Tim Ferris’ book The 4 Hour Work Week is a fantastic book and had a moderately profound impact on my life and the way I see things. My mammy always said I marched to the beat of my own drum…
Unfortunately I’ve been less successful at implementing some of these tactics. But, that might be due to my lack of practice, not a fault of the principle.
So, I sat down today and went about dreamlining (get an excel worksheet here) – a practice outlined in the aforementioned book, and came to a realization… for the second time.
Having what you want in life really doesn’t COST that much.
Emphasis on cost there, because it really doesn’t. In order for me to live like I want to live right now, according to my dreamline, it would cost me about $350/day.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking… $350/day is a whole lot of money, and I suppose you could be right depending on how you looked at it.
Enter -> perspective.
$350 a day is $10500/month. That sounds like a lot. It’s $126,000/year… that sounds like a WHOLE LOT!
It’s also only 7 instances of a $50 income stream.. 17.5 instances of a $20 income stream, pick your poison.
It’s all about perspective. The goal of making $126,000 is quite a feat. Take one look at that goal and you might feel overwhelmed and quit before you even try. “How in the world could I do that!? It’s so much money!”
What if you were to break that down into increments, though. How could you make $20 without investing an entire day? Would it be possible to do it 17.5 times?
$20 sounds a whole lot more attainable, wouldn’t you agree?
The question then becomes:
So, how can you make $350/day in $20 increments?
For my business, $20 represents one sale, or one lead, or one CPA offer completion…
Figuring out how I can make $126,000 a year just turned into figuring out how I can make 17.5 sales a day… That’s a whole lot easier to wrap my mind around, and it becomes closer to real for me.
What’s your equation?
