Rich, Happy, and Hot

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{My video entry for Rich, Happy, and Hot Live}

I woke up this morning inspired to write about goal setting.

I’m taking Laura Roeder’s Creating Fame course, and to put it honestly, she rocks. Like, seriously rocks. Last night, we had our goal setting session before the course actually begins.

I went into the session thinking that there wasn’t much I could learn on the topic of goal setting. I’m pretty good at setting goals and accomplishing them. I’ve found a rhythm that seems to work for me—but I learned so much from her in this one hour session.

The one tip that I’ll share with you that really made me sit up and say, “Holy cow Laura—I heart you and where have you been all my life,” is to figure out how to reach your goals by pretending like you’re giving advice to your friend. Many times we don’t know how to reach our goals—we don’t know what steps to take. To figure out the first steps on the path to reach your goals, pretend like you’re talking to a friend.

For instance, one of my goals is to launch my first information product in November, but I’ve been struggling with this. Not because I don’t have the content. I do. But, because I want to make it an amazing product. I don’t want to produce crap. Plain and simple. I want my products to rock your world.

If I was giving advice to a friend on how to reach her goal of launching her first information product, I’d tell her to make a product that she’s intensely passionate about, to learn marketing from people who really know what they’re talking about, and to take at least one step each day to make this goal a reality.

When I think about it like that, it becomes much more understandable and clear.

Try it. Think about a goal that you have but don’t know how to reach. If your best friend was sitting in front of you asking you for advice on how to reach that goal, what would you tell her?

Have I mentioned how much Laura rocks? You need her in your life.

So, I was going to keep writing about goal setting, but then as I was typing this post, two things happened to disrupt my train of thought:

1. My 3 dogs got up on the kitchen counter and ate the homemade raisin muffins we baked for breakfast {they’ve never eaten anything off the counter before}. If you’re not a dog person, raisins are really bad for dogs. So, I frantically called our vet who told me I would have to induce vomiting using hydrogen peroxide. With three 65-100 pound dogs, that’s a lot of vomit.

2. I found out that I was one of Marie Forleo’s Rich, Happy, and Hot Live contest winners which means I’m going to New York this November to hang with some awesome people including Marie Forleo, Laura Roeder, and Danielle LaPorte. And, how in the world am I supposed to concentrate on finishing a post when I found out this kind of news????

Marie’s generosity of offering 12 people tickets to Rich, Happy, and Hot Live inspired me—A LOT. When she ran the contest, she said that she was only giving away one ticket, and if that had been the case, I wouldn’t be going to New York for this conference that I’ve been dreaming about!