WHAT HAVE YOU ACHIEVED?
2024 just split in half!
June ends in a few days.
2024 just split in half.
6 more months to go.
Take a look at the goals you had set for this year.
How much progress have you recorded?
Be honest with yourself. 10? 20? 50%.
Can you list 3 solid achievements you have obtained since the start of the year?
For me, I have bought my first car, gained admission into the Moonshot Young Leader’s Camp convening in the Czech Republic this July, and Completed the first phase of the Global Citizen Scholarship Program.
If you honestly analyze how much you have achieved since January, you will realise just how much you still have to do.
GET BACK TO WORK.
One of the key lessons I have learned that has significantly changed how I approach my goals is that it takes more work than you imagine to do awe-inspiring things.
Every ambitious person goes through three phases in their journey towards success.
Uninformed Optimism,
Informed Pessimism and then
Informed Optimisation
When you set a goal, you don’t know what it takes to achieve it. Even if you have head knowledge of the steps to follow, you dont initially understand how nuanced the process is. This is why many people start new things. It’s called Uninformed Optimism. Optimism that comes from a certain amount of ignorance about what it really takes to win.
As you start working on that goal, you start to realize just how difficult it is. You realize that it’s a nuanced process, with requirements you had not initially foreseen. You start to feel like quitting. It’s getting hard. This phase is called Informed Pessimism because now you know just how difficult it is to achieve that goal. This is where many people quit. But you, you cannot stop here. Maybe you are at this phase.
If you make it out of that phase, you enter the next. Here, you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve your goal. Because you know just what it takes, you are willing to work smarter and harder at it. You accept that you need to make sacrifices to achieve your goals, and you become more willing to make them. It is at this stage that true champions are born. This is called Informed Optimism.
Are you here yet?
You have the rest of the year to find out. I will check in on you in 6 months. See you then!
After the first Fundraising Masterclass, we got several requests to organize another session. Here is a testimonial from one of the participants of the first session:
As such, we have decided to organize another session of the Fundraising Masterclass.
If you want to raise money to start or scale your business, you cannot afford to miss this second session, from the 20th to the 25th of July 2024. We will share battle tested and proven strategies that we have used at Softech Ltd and e-Mentor to raise significant funding.
We will only accept 5 participants for this iteration, so take action now to save a spot. Click here to let me know, or reply to this email.
See you on the other side.
Cheers!