Impossible Goal Action

Think from your biggest future, then take the next possible action in front of you.

Your goal can be impossible. Your next action cannot be.

That distinction is where many people get stuck. They set a huge goal, which I love, and then require themselves to take an equally huge first step.

They want to make $100,000 in a year, so they decide they need to make $8,000 in the first month—even though they have never made a dollar.

When that first result does not happen, they give up on the whole goal.

I want you to think bigger without making today's task so big that you stop moving.

Use the impossible goal to expand your mind

When we only set goals based on what we already know is possible, we often create a future that looks like our past.

We decide what we can do by looking at what we have done. We stop asking our minds to go beyond their current capacity.

An impossible goal changes that. Your brain tells you it is impossible, and you can tell it you already know. That is part of the exercise.

Now you have work to do: practicing belief, creating a vision, and identifying with the person you will become.

You start generating excitement about a future that does not exist yet. You ask yourself to think in a bigger way.

Then you bring that thinking back to today.

Bring the future into Tuesday's work

Imagine your impossible goal is $100,000 in your business this year. You practice thinking from that future and believing in it.

But it is Tuesday, and you are not there yet. What do you do now?

You do the next thing that is available to you. You make an offer, prepare something that serves a client, or learn the skill you need for the next step.

With a weight goal, you are not going to create the whole result today. Today you work with your next meal and the plan you have made.

You hold the big vision while taking an action that makes sense in the present.

For my goal of a $100 million business, today's action might be creating a webinar or doing a coaching call. I know how to help the client in front of me. That is work I can do.

I do not need to make $1 million today to prove the future is possible.

Do not require immediate proof before you believe

A common pattern is deciding you will believe in the big goal as long as the first month produces enough evidence.

If it does not, you are out.

That is not the belief practice I am teaching. You are making your belief conditional on results arriving almost immediately.

Instead, set the big goal. Come back to the action you can take today. When the results are not there yet, return to your belief and take the next action.

You may have made $1,500 last month. This month's goal could be $2,000. You are building rather than insisting the whole year's result arrive at once.

The smaller step does not cancel the bigger vision. It gives you somewhere to move.

Fail forward rather than stop

Impossible goals are created on a pile of failures.

That means you need a willingness to take the action and experience a result you did not want.

You can commit to making offers. You cannot guarantee that every offer produces a sale. You can follow your plan and still not see the result on the scale that day.

The action is something you can do. The result gives you information.

A student had made 32 offers without a sale. She wanted to quit. Instead, she coached herself and noticed that the urge to give up was probably familiar to her own clients.

That awareness helped her bring something different to her sessions. Eventually, the sales began.

She did not get there by stopping. She got there by continuing to learn and act.

Know whether you are actually moving

People sometimes tell me they are failing at their goal because they are not taking action.

That is not what I mean by failing forward.

Failing forward means taking action, getting a result, evaluating, and taking another action. Sometimes a different action.

If your daily step is so impossible that you do nothing, you are not creating that movement.

You may need to adjust your plan, change your sales call, or try another approach. You do that based on what is present in your life today.

Ask whether you are continuously taking action toward the goal. If not, have you confused an impossible future goal with an impossible daily requirement?

Evaluate the step without abandoning the destination

Sometimes I create a webinar and get an enormous response. People attend and join what I offer. That is exciting.

But I also need to be willing to create the webinar and have nobody sign up.

Would I still believe in my goal? Yes.

My next action would be to evaluate what I did, look at feedback, and create the next version differently.

The next step is based on what happened. The long-term belief does not have to disappear because this particular attempt did not work.

When I look back at my career, learning a specific skill such as creating a Facebook ad did not seem enormous in that moment. But it was the action I needed then.

Those steps add up.

Make the first dollar

A coach I work with helps clients believe they can make $200,000. If they have not made money yet, she tells them they need to make $2,000 first.

Sometimes they do not want that smaller goal. They want the big number.

But making $2,000 is part of making $200,000. You need the first dollar before you make a million.

A small action is not an insult to a big dream. It is how you begin creating it.

Think about a winning football game. There can be mistakes, fumbles, and turnovers along the way. Every play does not have to be successful for the team to keep playing and ultimately win.

Your goal gives you a reason to continue when an attempt does not work.

Keep the vision. Practice the belief. Ask what the next best action is based on where you are now.

Then do that task. Not the entire dream today. The possible action that is right in front of you.