First let me preface this post with my reaction to an article I read on Lifehacker.com – The article is titled “Goal Setting for Skeptics: Why ‘Goal Setting’ Makes you Cringe”. In this article, they talked about why some of us (ME!) have a hard time setting goals. They explain the paradox of choice, fear of failure, and procrastination. Worth a read if your interested. My reaction to reading this article was, “HEY! How’d they get in my head like that???”

I have never been much of a goal oriented person. I hated when they were trying to force me to do goal setting in middle school, never did much goal setting in high school, never needed to set goals in the Army (except to pass the physical fitness tests!) and have skated by without doing much goal setting since. Awful, I know.

As a part of this IM Journey of mine, I decided that it was high time to set some goals. After all, if I don’t set some goals, what am I really working toward? I don’t have those goals set just yet, but I’m pretty seriously considering posting them here for the whole world to see when I finally set them. If I post them here, perhaps I’ll be more likely to strive to achieve them. Perhaps I’ll set all the wrong goals and get a bunch of help from those of you reading in re-focusing my goals. Who knows. What I do know is that I need to have some goals in this business if I want to be successful.

So after all that build up, now for the “this might sound dumb” part. I had mentally set a goal when I got started on this blog. It might sound corny, but what I really wanted to have happen the most was to have four specific people check in on the blog and leave me a comment or two. I really wanted to do that without ASKING them to read it. I wanted them to come to my blog of their own free will because I was posting on their blogs or whatever.

Today, that goal was finished! After only three days, all four people have commented on my blog (which would lead me to believe that they have visited it!)

I know you are probably my only four readers right now, but if all goes well, in the future there will be a whole lot more, so I feel that I ought to at least name the four of you.

You are (in order of appearance), Anna Williams, Normal Joe, Davin Ogden, and Holly Mann!

For the benefit of any future readers who may come across this post, I met all four of these GREAT people on Holly’s blog. As I began to inch toward making my first steps as an Internet Marketer, I decided that these four people were people to know. The fact that each of them has already been a part of my blog makes me feel incredibly blessed! There is an alliance forming there, if you will, called the Honest Marketing Movement and I hope to one day be a proud member myself!

My next goal is to finish Holly’s e-book “Honest Riches” and start implementing her methods. So I’ll let you all know when the next phase begins!