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After watching the TEDx Talk how to achieve your most ambitious goals, it inspired me. So I made a list of my goals with this whole plan of watching this video once a day for a week and I do that and achieve one of my goals and that was a good plan but soon I forgot all about. The next day I did not care as much. Eventually, I remembered my goal to watch this video today and in my head, I thought I don’t want to watch this dumb video again. I remember thinking how much I wanted this goal so I watched it, as I watched I got reinvigorated to accomplish some of my goals.

 I made another post about this but one of my goals is to make $20,000 for my mission that I want to serve for my church which is around $12,000 and then I want to attend BYU and get a full-ride scholarship and I’ll use the $8,000 for whatever else I need in college. This is my most ambitious goal and I have been working on it. I have been saving since around the beginning of the year maybe earlier. I have around $500. While watching this video it talks about changing a small part of your goal and overtime you will accomplish your goal. 

At that moment I realized I have not been working towards my goal in a very efficient way, sure maybe I’ve more money for college than most people my age but I looked into and to achieve my goal I need to earn $130 a week or $520 a month until August 2022. I rounded up to $150 a week and $600 a month (because let’s be honest I am not saving 100% of what I make) That is $20 a day which is about 2 hours of work for minimum wage. 

I’ve been thinking about it and I have a few options to do this:

1: People in my church. This would probably be odd jobs such as babysitting, pet sitting, lawn mowing, other yard work and who knows what else. However, I don’t know if this is a viable option because I’ve tried advertising this way before for my lawn mowing and haven’t gotten customers.

2: Continue with the jobs I have and seek out more. Right now I’ve got 2 gigs lawn mowing but the summer is practically over that won’t do me any good. In the past, I’ve helped a friend of my moms by being her “personal organizer” which paid 15 dollars an hour however she doesn’t contact me much and usually I have to ask her if she needs help with anything. This winter I would like to do snow shoveling if we get any snow (probably not) also leaf raking. The problem with all of this is that I have to seek out a lot of the work myself, there is no steady income. There would also be a lot of time unpaid looking for the next job however if I get enough reoccurring jobs it might work.

3: There are a few small business owners in my church who I am going to ask and see if there is any work I can do. Another idea similar to this is to be a “personal organizer” for more people or one steady job. The only problem with this is that I am not sure if I can work for a business at 15 years old or if anyone will want me to work for them. I like this option because it would provide steady work and I feel it would be the easiest way to achieve my goal.

4: I am going for option three if that doesn’t work I can try a combination of one and two however as I said earlier it would most likely take a lot of time asking and searching for jobs to do.
I am writing this all just to get it down and to hold myself accountable so that I can achieve my goal. I am going to earn $600 this month and if it seems like something I can do for a for another 33 months then I will probably pursue it. If not I will probably end up selling pest control one summer or go down to a farm and work there for a summer and hopefully make up the difference working a normal job during the school year.

If you have a big ambitious goal the only way you can possibly achieve it is by starting, check out the TEDx talk I mentioned earlier if you need some inspiration how to achieve your most ambitious goals by Stephen Duneier.