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The Greatness Machine

44 | Achieving A Goal Or Chasing a Dream? It All Comes Down To A Plan

The Greatness Machine

Darius Mirshahzadeh

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business

5.0135 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What are your goals for your business, and do you have a plan for getting there? A surprisingly large number of entrepreneurs create lofty goals for their businesses, but fail to create a solid plan to achieve them. That's like getting in your car to drive from California to New York without a map or a GPS. It's very likely you'll get lost and never reach your destination. But how do you go about creating a plan that will let you scale your business and turn those goals into realities? In today's episode of The Greatness Machine, Darius is flying solo, offering up some insights on the importance of planning to scale and understanding that the entrepreneurial process is about more than simply setting targets and then doing nothing to reach them. You'll learn why so many entrepreneurs create bold and powerful goals but fail to take the next steps to achieve them. You'll discover the importance of incorporating scale into your goal planning and why many scale systems are complicated and overly cumbersome. You'll learn about revenue, income, size, and ethics (RISE) targets and how focusing on them can make the difference in reaching your goals or simply grasping at dreams. Join Darius as he offers his insight and experience on the subject of growing your business in a way that will generate real results. What You’ll Learn in this Show: Why a goal without a plan is a dream, and why do many entrepreneurs refusal to create plans lead to their failure. The importance of building a plan around scale when trying to grow your business. RISE targets: what they are, and how they can help you reach the levels of success And so much more! To Learn More: www.dariusclass.com Additional Resources: The Real Darius Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And what I find is rise targets really help us think about what does the business need to look like in these different stages in order for us to hit those rise targets?

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