Friday, July 11, 2014

What long-term goal(s) should an affiliate be setting for themselves?


Goals are inspirations and guide posts that can serve as guide as you progress in your SFI journey. Example, if you will be happy with $2,000 income per month then make it a goal. If buying a new car is what will make you happy then earn the price of the new car. So, what will make us happy and satisfied is a worthwhile goal. 

Our long term goals is something that will give us satisfaction and will make you happy, therefore it will differ from person to person. 


Now what is important is how to reach that goal. Usually, our goals here at SFI can be translated into monetary form. We should therefore disect the factors that will lead us to earn our goal. 

Here at SFI there are three major success factors that we can translate our monetary goal to each of these factors. 
1. Active affiliates - Active affiliates are the once that will give us income and build our organization. We need at least 5 to 10 active affiliates to start the explosion of our business. But in reality, only 1 to 5 percent of our total affiliate might become active. so therefore we make it a goal to have 500 to 1000 PSA's. 

2. Personally Earned VP - This will give us the rank that will enable us to partake in the executive pool. Each of the rank has its corresponding VP needed. So, make it a goal to earn those points as your active affiliates starts to increase. 

3. Duplication - Make it a goal to spend time to your enthusiastic affiliates to the point that he is doing exactly what you are doing. 

So we create a chain of goals from goals of satisfaction and happiness to monetary goals then to success factors goals. 




ALSO
Long term goals are going to be as individual to each affiliates. When we each signed on to SFI we were asked what our #1 goal was for joining. I have seen affiliates answers vary from “to get out of debt” and everything in between “to be rich.” The thing we need to remember is SFI is an international company, where affiliates come from a vast array of different cultures, economic background and needs. Therefore, their long term goals will be individual to them. 

However, there are some basic goals in SFI which will help affiliates to grow within SFI. Goals we are reminded of through the forum and other ASK SC answers. These goals/tasks are the daily log-in to complete the tasks of reading the tabs, which help us learn about SFI and become familiar with the workings and “how to” of SFI. Then there are the monthly goals we can set, which is one of the daily tabs we review to help us keep on track with our goals. These monthly goals can help us to learn how to do advertising to bring new affiliates, who in turn will help us to build our teams and grow our own SFI business, along with advertising TripleClicks. 

Through the monthly tab, we see our long term goals listed that we set when we signed up wit SFI, which we can always adjust. Goals are fluid. We can adjust goals as needed. As we work on a goals we may find it is not exactly what we need to work on, but there is a more appropriate goal we should work towards. It is okay to set or reset our goals. Another thing about our goals is the time limit we set may have been to lenient or strict. This is a benefit of goal setting. We can learn from them. This is what I mean by goals are fluid; they are adjustable. Sometimes we need to give ourselves more or less time on a goal. 

It is important to review our goals, see where we might need to adjust them and reset our goals which will help us reach our long term goals. The importance of the daily, weekly and monthly goals are to help us reach our long term goals. They are not separate from our long term goals. They should all be working together to help reach our #1 goal for joining SFI. 

Another important thing to remember about goals: They can be helpful or hurtful, depending how we use them. Goals are to help us accomplish our desires, NOT to beat us done when we failed to reach them. We should never feel we have failed when we do not reach our goals. We should use it as a learning time and build from it. 

So, now that I have written a lecture, I will return to your question once more. The long term goal being set by an affiliate will be as individual as each affiliate is individual. You need to decide what it is you want, where you want to go with your SFI business and how you will determine to get there, then set your goals. It is your long term goals you should set first, then break them down into the smaller goals of yearly, monthly, weekly and daily goals. But remember, we can always change our goals, including our long term goals, because our needs and desires will change.