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Yesterday we talked about goal setting for 2017.

Today we continue on that theme with the discussion of your wage.

Here's the deal. with a discussion of your wage.

Here's the deal. If you followed my advice or if you're following my advice,

very likely you are going to write down some income goals.

You're going to write down an amount of money that you want to make in the next year.

Great, it's a good place to start. Many people don't start there.

You'd be shocked at how few people have a goal for an amount of money that they want to make.

Now hopefully that income goal is tied to

something else because income goals that are just round numbers are probably not

going to have the teeth required to get you through the hard times. I know for me in years past when I would

set an income goal that wasn't connected to something that mattered beyond money. I've never hit one of them. But if an

income goal was connected to something that mattered to me, I've done pretty well. So you set an income goal. Well that's great. So what's your next step? Do you sit

around and hang out in your easy chair, close your eyes and imagine that amount of money in your bank

account?

Well, I guess you can do that. Some people do that. but the next step that I'm going to suggest

you take is I believe far more effective than you're sitting around and

imagining that amount of money in your bank account.

And that's to make a plan.

You've got to make an actual plan for how you are going to earn the income.

And today's show, I'm going to share with you how to make that

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