One of the 
goals I’ve been working towards for a long time that I haven’t made any progress on is being able to get 1 month ahead on my social media posts. It seems like all content creators have a content calendar where they fill out the content so they don’t have to scramble to post each day. But I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this. This morning it just dawned on me that this is a big goal that I could just break down into smaller chunks.
It seems so obvious to me now that I should try to get 1 WEEK ahead, then once I have that set up, I can work to get 2 WEEKS ahead, then 3 then 4.
I honestly don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner.
Getting one month ahead on bills
If you have been struggling to get 1 month ahead for your finances, you could also make your goal smaller and just try to get one WEEK ahead of your bills, then 2, then 3, then 4.
Saving one week worth of expenses is easier than trying to save one month worth of expenses. Smaller goals are easier to achieve and give you a bump in motivation sooner since you can achieve them faster.
Preventing overwhelm
I think one of the biggest reasons that I haven’t been able to get a month ahead with my content calendar is that sitting down with the goal to do 31 posts is overwhelming to me. Breaking down our goals into smaller chunks helps it feel more manageable and increases the likelihood that we will actually do the thing.
Scaling up
It’s hard, or maybe impossible, to scale up
a system that doesn’t yet exist. We have to start building the habits required to achieve that goal before we can scale it up to the big, beautiful end goal we want to achieve.
But starting small isn’t good enough, so what’s the point?
For example’s sake, let’s look at fitness goals. Why do one push-up? One push-up isn’t going to get you to your fitness goal, it’s not going to get you to your goal weight or lifting goal.
But we have to do 1 push-up before we can do 10, before we can do 20.
It’s so easy to discount the benefit of tiny progress towards our goals, isn’t it?
Maybe it’s because we feel rushed to get to what we want quickly, or maybe it’s because it doesn’t feel impressive, or maybe it’s because we know we could and should do more. But a lot of habit research shows that people have MORE success if they start small, truly establish the habit and THEN scale that up until they hit their goal.
Save small
Why save $.50 on carrots? Because we have to first save $.50 before we can save $1000, before we can save $10,000.
Why send $10 to savings? Because we have to first have $10 in savings before we can have $1000, before we can have $10,000.
When I worked near the minimum wage, the only kind of progress that was possible for me at the time was small progress. If I hadn’t been satisfied with small progress, I would have never made any progress.
Be open to the idea that the little purchases matter. Be open to the idea that a little progress might be the best you can do today.
Little steps will get you to your destination just as surely as big leaps.
FOR DISCUSSION:
Are you guilty of setting goals that are too big?
How have you scaled 
DOWN a goal to increase your chance of success?
What have you done to try to get 1 month ahead of your bills?