Does your internet business plan compliment your life plan?

In my last two posts (What are your internet business goals? and Balancing your personal and business goals) we talked a little bit about having goals for your internet business and for your personal life. We talked about making your internet business plan working in unison with your life plan.

One thing that I think you need to understand is that if your personal life and your business life are not balanced and your goals are not aligned to work together, you’re probably going to end up in a place that you did not intend to end up. In “Balancing your personal and business goals” I talked about how this imbalance happened to me  during my first internet business venture about five or six years ago.

So, today we are going to talk about my new approach to balancing my personal goals with my business goals, and what you can do on to try to achieve this same type of balance in your personal and business lives.

The first thing that you need to do when considering your personal goals and your business goals are to question:

1. How desirable are these goals to you?
2. How believable are these goals to you?

Your goals have got to be realistic and they’ve got to be realistic when working in tandem with each other.

An example of your goals not working in tandem would be setting an internet business goal that consumes 14 hours of your day/six days of your week while also setting some aggressive personal goals to spend more time with your friends and family.  Either one of these goals can be both desirable and believable to you.   BUT, when you put these two concepts together, as they truly are in your day-to-day life, are these goals achievable?

This is where you have to balance your expectations.

If you are currently working towards specific goals, and you’re not making the progress that you expected during the onset of setting these goals, I suggest sitting down and seeing if your personal and your business lives align.  Or, are you out of balance and trying to dedicate too much time to one or the other and sacrificing that ultimate work life balance?

Work life balance boils down to:  What does it cost you to achieve one goal versus the other?  That cost may end up being a little less aggressive business goals to help you achieve some of your personal aspirations or a little less aggressive personal goals to help you achieve your business aspirations.

If you are having trouble aligning your personal and business goals, then you need to think about running a quick cost-benefit analysis.  What are you willing to give up in one area to help achieve your goals in another?

Not achieving this balance from the onset of your online business planning can ultimately cost you in your sense of satisfaction and happiness in the long run.

Why set goals that are too aggressive in one area when it will cause you to fail in the other?

And if you set yourself up to fail from the beginning, you are and never going to achieve happiness or success.

The ultimate measure of true success is that you maintained your happiness and lived a fulfilled life while achieving.

Read Does Your Internet Business Plan Compliment Your Life Plan Part 2

Related posts:

1. Does your internet business plan compliment your life plan? Part 2
2. Does your internet business plan compliment your life plan? Part 3
3. Does your internet business plan compliment your life plan? Part 5
4. Does your internet business plan compliment your life plan? Part 4
5. What are your internet business goals?