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Big goals are a joke...I once set a goal to write 12 books in 12 months... then gave up.

Like most New Year's goals I set a big goal because I wanted to, but had no practical way to make it happen other than sheer will.

I woke up and wrote 6 days a week for 2-3hrs.

In 6 months in I'd written 5 books and gave up... I knew the goal would burn me out and break me.

What I didn't give up was the daily writing habit.

I kept writing but released myself from the audacious goal.

Month 11 I looked up and I'd written 11 books and smiled knowing I'd hit my goal and I did.

Not because of a big goal, but because I'd built the habit to make a big goal possible.

Lesson is this, a big goal without a system, without a habit, is likely just choosing a new thing to fail in.

Don't focus on the goal, focus on the habit that'll make it possible.

If you have a big goal of wanting to write a book, I have a system I've developed across my 32 published books.

Happy to share and answer any questions. But I don't have secrets, I publish what I discover in my Revenue Writer's Newsletter and in my Mini Books on Amazon.

Jan 22
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