Goals are very important and help you move forward in life. I have found that with out setting goals that you tend to stagger through life and not always achieving what you would like. I do have my page in the menu for goals but after thinking about it those are more ‘milestones’, achievement levels I would like to see. they also depend on a lot of outside factors that are not necessarily within my control. Goals should be distinct items with set time frames and distinct steps to achieve, that way it pushes you to work towards them. The achievement levels are great but are to broad like ‘adsense make $100 in a month’. My goals should be something in my control to perhaps reach that achievement like ‘create 2 micro niche site by end of sept’. It has a time frame and its an actionable item(s) by me and it will lead towards the overall achievement of making that $100 with adsense (I hope). I will also be making daily and weekly goals that lead up to making these monthly goals.
Lets start out seeing how I did last month…
Sept Goal Results
Business/Financial
- Add 2 micro niche sites to the portfolio I did pick up 2 new sites via Flippa and one has already produced a little
- comment on at least 5 blogs a day (making 2-3 backlinking to niche sites) While I have been blog commenting it hasnt been targeting backlinking for the niche sites
- go to 3 library book sales Did attend the 3 but may be knocking this back to 2 that I have found produce
- average 3 posts a week here No problem
- at least 1 post a week at smoothie site No Problem
- get categories completely set up in mint Yep
- get budgets set up in mint Yep
- look into a VA for backlinking and another for content Not so much, still hard for me to pay someone else for this, hoping the wife will help with this
- 2 stock purchases this month Increased positions in SRE and GE
- 15 portrait sessions Reached 17
- caught up on photo orders Almost but was just short a couple
Personel
- Hike cowels mtn once a week (really try to get back to twice)
- Gym once a week
- Schedule Dr. appoint for blood work (and hope cholesterol is down)
- read with daughter 3 times a week
- get a pair of knee-high argyle socks (I understand this must be on everyone’s goal list) Couldn’t find a pair that was me
Really got to work on the personal side and on the Dr appoint, now got to wait a month due to suspension in medical coverage. Ok now on to the goals for Oct!
Oct Goals
Business/Financial
- Add 1 micro niche sites to the portfolio from scratch
- Add new content to at least 3 of the niche sites
- At least $400 in secondary income
- comment on at least 5 blogs a day (making 2-3 backlinking to niche sites)
- go to 2 library book sales
- Explore moving Simple IRA with Waddell somewhere else as a traditional IRA
- at least 1 post a week at smoothie site
- Pay off at least $1000 to Visa
- Get Merchant account links on site
- 2 stock purchases this month
- 15 portrait sessions
- caught up on photo orders
- Start paying myself weekly and using my new money buckets
- Electric/gas bill below $300
Personel
- Hike cowels mtn once a week (really try to get back to twice)
- Gym once a week
Im keeping the secondary income goal low this month as Im figuring on the amazon book sales to be a bit lower this month, first book sale didnt produce a lot of inventory. Personal side gonna keep it simple 
Do you set goals? How did you do in Sept? What are your main goals for the month?
I did pretty well with my goals for September. October, so far, isn't going very smoothly. I've already screwed one of them up. Good luck on your goals for October. :-)
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