A speaker shares how she kept raising her financial targets from $100,000 to $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and surrounded herself with people earning $5M–$10M to expand what felt possible. Her argument: set ambitious goals because your actual potential is unknown and grows as you reach higher.
$100,000; $1,000,000; $2,000,000; references to people doing $5,000,000–$10,000,000.
I think it's probably the most important thing to obviously set goals. And I think what I've done really well is I don't think I've ever achieved my goals. What I mean by that is that I've always set goals higher than what I thought I could actually do. Like initially that a hundred thousand dollar goal was really big for me. But I didn't reach it in that year that I set it. It maybe took me a year or a year and a half afterwards for me to reach it. And it was the same thing with that million dollar mark. Now it's that $2 million mark. So I'd say that's been extremely important to just set goals. This is a great line that I heard at some point they said, what is your maximum potential? Like, what is your maximum potential? And the reality is we don't know. Like some people say the sky is the limit, but the reality is that you don't know what your maximum potential is until you actually start achieving, achieving at higher levels. I used to think my maximum potential was $100,000. Now my maximum potential is 2 million. Now I'm forcing myself to expose myself around people that are doing 5 million, 10 million, just big things. Because now I don't think that. I think my purpose is a lot bigger than what I'm actually doing now. So I would say it's extremely important to set goals, but not only set goals, but set high goals.
