Simple Step to Accomplish Your Dreams: Work Backwards

The best way that we can truly strive after, and reach our goals is to work backwards from that goal.  Too often, we pursue our goals in an erratic fashion, without too much purpose and concentration, hoping that eventually it all just “works out” and we end up where we want to be.  This just doesn’t happen.

Rather, we really need to think differently.  As highly-driven entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk says, we need to reverse-engineer, meaning work backwards to plot our steps forward.  Take a stab at what your end-game is – what do you hope to achieve.  Then, with that goal, and timeframe in mind, map backwards all the steps you’ll need to take, and milestones to achieve, in order to reach that goal.

The bottom line is, that if we ramble through our weekly activities haphazardly, we hurt our chances of success, and will likely not reach that esteemed goal we have.  But, if we work with the end in mind, our success rate drastically goes up.  Take advantage of this reverse-engineering in your life!