Do you have a mind hack for motivating yourself to chase "impossible" goals?
Jonni Gani
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Say you have an app that makes $0 revenue. How do you motivate yourself to take it to $10K MRR?
I have one called "EASY FIVE". Here's how it works:
- Start with an EASY goal, say, $100 MRR. Because the target is so low, you'll be motivated to pursue it.
- Once you've reached it, aim to double it
- Once you've met this second goal, aim to double it again
- Keep doubling your goal for a total of FIVE times
Admittedly you'll only reach $3.2K by the end of it. But without the mind hack you might not have tried at all!
This isn't a BS guru post.
I've used this mind hack several times to convince myself to chase the impossible. How I accidentally "invented" this technique:
I had a website with 2400 daily sessions, which was neither here nor there. By my estimate it needed to reach 1M+ monthly sessions to be a serious thing. This seemed hard so I never bothered to try, until one day I told myself just try and double the daily sessions.
What happened next was very surprising:
- Month 2: daily sessions doubled to 5K
- Month 3: 10K
- Month 5: 20K
- Month 8: 40K daily sessions = 1.2M monthly sessions
Not only did I manage to meet (actually exceed) a seemingly impossible target, I also did it in a short time!
I don't know how to post an image here but you can see the proof here -> https://twitter.com/JonniGani/status/1725443593983394031
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